Sansom, C. J.
Summary: It is the winter of 1537 and England is divided into those faithful to the Catholic Church and those loyal to the King and the newly established Church of England. Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII's feared vicar-general, crusades against the old Church with savage new laws, rigged trials, and a vast network of informers. Queen Anne Boleyn has been beheaded and monasteries are being dissolved--their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SANHart, Dolores
Summary: "Dolores Hart stunned Hollywood in 1963, when after ten highly successful feature films, she chose to enter a contemplative monastery. Now, fifty years later, Mother Dolores gives this fascinating account of her life, with co-author and life-long friend, Richard DeNeut. Dolores was a bright and beautiful college student when she made her film debut with Elvis Presley in Paramount's 1957 Loving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ignatius Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HART, DOLORES HARDiCamillo, Kate
Summary: In a time of war, a mysterious child appears at the monastery of the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing. Gentle Brother Edik finds the girl, Beatryce, curled in a stall, wracked with fever, coated in dirt and blood, and holding fast to the ear of Answelica the goat. As the monk nurses Beatryce to health, he uncovers her dangerous secret, one that imperils them all, for the king of the land...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC DICStephenson, Neal
Summary: Raz, a mathematician, is among a cohort of secluded scientists and philosophers who are called upon to save the world from impending catastrophe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEUss, Christina
Summary: Left at the Mostly Silent Monastery in Washington, D.C. as a toddler and home-schooled by a retired nun, twelve-year-old Bicycle rides cross-country to meet a famous cyclist who she hopes will be her first friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret Ferguson Books, Holiday House 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC USSHoffman, Paul
Summary: Follows the adventures of sixteen-year-old Thomas, one of thousands of imprisoned youths being trained in combat by warrior monks who becomes aware of his secret destiny after a daring escape.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOFDiCamillo, Kate
Summary: We shall all, in the end, be led to where we belong. We shall all, in the end, find our way home. In a time of war, a mysterious child appears at the monastery of the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing. Gentle Brother Edik finds the girl, Beatryce, curled in a stall, wracked with fever, coated in dirt and blood, and holding fast to the ear of Answelica the goat. As the monk nurses Beatryce to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Products, LLC 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ ALONG DICSykes, S. D.
Summary: "In 1349, Oswald, the third son of the de Lacy family, was an eighteen-year-old novice monk at Kintham Abbey. Sent to collect herbs from the forest, Oswald comes across a terrified village girl. Frenzied with fear, she runs headlong into a swollen river. Oswald pulls her broken and bruised body from the water and returns her to the local village, only to discover that several other women have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime, an imprint of Pegasus Books, Ltd 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SYKPapp, Lisa
Summary: When Madeline Finn attends the Blessing of the Animals with Bonnie and Star, she finds herself thinking about the gifts each of us have to offer, and looks for an opportunity to share hers with the animals at her local shelter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Publishing Company Inc. 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PAPDiCamillo, Kate
Summary: "We shall all, in the end, be led to where we belong. We shall all, in the end, find our way home. In a time of war, a mysterious child appears at the monastery of the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing. Gentle Brother Edik finds the girl, Beatryce, curled in a stall, wracked with fever, coated in dirt and blood, and holding fast to the ear of Answelica the goat. As the monk nurses Beatryce...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC DICSummary: Click, clack, moo: A bunch of literate cows go on strike after Farmer Brown refuses to give in to their typed demands of electric blankets when the barn gets too cold. The day Jimmy's boa ate the wash: Jimmy's boa constrictor wreaks havoc on the class trip to a farm. The Pigs' wedding: all the pigs must get cleaned up for the big wedding. Hendrika, a Dutch cow, wants to visit the city. Charlie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CLIJenoff, Pam
Summary: 1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Krakow Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother are forced to seek refuge in the perilous sewers beneath the city. One day Sadie looks up through a grate and sees a girl about her own age buying flowers. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC JENSpark, Muriel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Pub. 1995
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Summary: Inside the abbey of a Benedictine monastery on tiny Egret Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, resides a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and dedicated to a saint who, legend claims, was a mermaid before her conversion. Jessie Sullivan's conventional life has been "molded to the smallest space possible." So when she is called home to cope with her mother's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KidKidd, Sue Monk.
Summary: Inside the abbey of a Benedictine monastery on tiny Egret Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, resides a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and dedicated to a saint who, legend claims, was a mermaid before her conversion. Jessie Sullivan's conventional life has been "molded to the smallest space possible." So when she is called home to cope with her mother's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIDBrown, Rita Mae.
Summary: The peaceful town of Crozet, Virginia, is turned upside down by a statue of the Virgin Mary that begins to cry tears of real blood, as Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen and her sleuthing pets search for the truth about a local unsolved mystery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROBrown, Rita Mae.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M BROAllen, E. A.
Summary: An unbreakable cipher, a dead priest with expensive shoes, a hermit who converses with saints, an angry French girl, and much more might stop an ordinary fifteen-year-old safe-cracking genius, but not Percy St.-John. He's out to prove he did not steal a mysterious ancient book that may hold the key to mankind's greatest hope and greatest danger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Histria Kids 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ALLDonoghue, Emma
Summary: "In this beautiful story of adventure and survival from the New York Times bestselling author of Room, three men vow to leave the world behind them as they set out in a small boat for an island their leader has seen in a dream, with only faith to guide them. In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC DONKoontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray)
Summary: St. Bartholomew's Abbey sits in majestic solitude amid the wild peaks of California's high Sierra, a haven for children otherwise abandoned, and a sanctuary for those seeking insight. Odd Thomas has come here to learn to live fully again. But trouble has a way of finding Odd Thomas, and it slinks back onto his path.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KOOReichs, Kathy
Summary: "Freed from a heavy work schedule, Tempe Brennan is content to dote on her daughter Katy, finally returned to civilian life from the army. But when mother and daughter meet at Tempe's place one night, they find a box on the back porch. Inside: a very fresh human eyeball. GPS coordinates etched into the eyeball lead to an equally macabre discovery. Soon after, Tempe examines a corpse and her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC REICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC REIDiCamillo, Kate
Summary: "There is one creature that the monks of the Chronicles of Sorrowing fear above all others: Answelica the goat. The monks fear her sharp teeth and her hard head and her wily ways. And so imagine Brother Edik's terror when he goes to feed Answelica one morning and finds a child in the pen with the demon goat. The child does not know where she came from. She does not know who her people are. She...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC DICStevens, Nell
Summary: "An unforgettable debut novel from an award-winning writer: a lively, daring ghost story about a dead teen girl who falls in love with a female writer who has no idea she exists. In 1473, fourteen-year-old Blanca dies in childbirth in a hilltop monastery in Mallorca. Nearly four hundred years later, when George Sand, her two children, and her lover Frederic Chopin arrive in the village, Blanca...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEOsborne, Mary Pope.
Summary: Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to a monastery in medieval Ireland, where they try to retrieve a lost book while being menaced by Viking raiders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1998