Summary: Chancellor of England, Sir Thomas More, is placed in a difficult position when Henry VIII breaks with the Catholic Church over its refusal to annul his marriage to Katherine of Aragon so he can marry Anne Boleyn. Henry demands More's endorsement of this act. Torn between his conscience and duty to the crown, Sir Thomas chooses to say nothing.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MANSummary: Ten more cases that pits Father Brown, his secretary and Bunty against a range of criminal minds in the English parish of 1950s Kembleford.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Fa 6Cooper, Glenn
Summary: Harvard Professor of religion and archaeology Cal Donovan has been summoned by Pope Celestine to investigate a seemingly impossible miracle. Three Catholic teeange girls, from different corners of the world, have fallen pregnant. All three girls have been proven to be virgins. Are they really all bearing the son of God? Before Cal has a chance to visit all three girls, one of the Marys...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Publishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COOSummary: Based on a true story, a 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedetta's shocking religious visions that threaten to shake the Church to its core.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BENPérez-Reverte, Arturo.
Summary: A hacker breaks into the pope's computer, asking him to save from demolition a 17th century church in Seville. The Vatican dispatches handsome Father Lorenzo Quart who quickly attracts the attention of an aristocratic beauty embroiled in the affair. By the author of The Flanders Panel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace & Co. 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERSummary: Welcome back to the village of Kembleford, where Father Brown uses his personal blend of intuition, psychology, compassion and justice to solve another series of gripping crimes. Assisted as always by parish secretary Mrs. McCarthy, glamorous socialite Lady Felicia Montague and her accommodating chauffeur Sid Carter Father Brown faces threats to his town, his friends and his faith. An...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Fa 3-2Summary: Father Brown cycles back for another season of more mysteries in the sleepy Cotswold village of Kembleford. This season, a Duke and Duchess visit the village at Christmas time, but the community is thrown into chaos when the couple's baby boy goes missing. When a female author is murdered, Father Brown turns to her novels for guidance. And when a boxer is found dead in suspicious circumstances,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Fa 5Chidgey, Catherine
Summary: "Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic new teacher and longs to be her pet. However, when a thief begins to target the school, Justine's sense that something isn't quite right grows ever stronger. With each twist of the plot, this gripping story of deception and the corrosive power of guilt takes a yet darker turn. Justine must decide...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETCooper, Glenn
Summary: While browsing the Vatican libraries, Harvard professor Cal Donovan uncovers a secret that could bankrupt the Catholic church. Unearthing evidence of a 200-year-old loan which the Vatican owes to a Jewish bank, Cal deduces that, with centuries of interest behind it, the sum now amounts to a crippling 25 billion Euros. With the future of the Vatican at stake, Pope Celestine asks Cal to intercede...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Cooper 2019Summary: Father Brown continues to investigate various mysteries and criminal activities in and around his Cotswold village of Kembleford.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Fa 8Summary: The fictional story of a newly elected pope, the youngest in history and first-ever American, whose audacity, independence, and arch-conservatism wreak havoc within the Vatican.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV YOUHamill, Pete
Summary: An American priest assigned to the Vatican discovers a plan to kill Pope Paul.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMJance, J. A. (Judith A.)
Summary: Ali Reynolds and her team at High Noon Enterprises must race against the clock to save an archbishop as he faces mysterious death threats.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JANSummary: In Season Two of Evil, Kristin struggles with her darker nature after killing a man, while David suffers temptation as he gets closer to his ordination. Meanwhile, Ben is visited by night terrors that prey on his greatest fears. Includes all thirteen episodes plus over 20 minutes of deleted scenes!
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV EVISummary: Say your prayers and freshen up on your science because Evil returns for a third season. There is plenty to take in including Kristen and David's escalating attraction, creepy toys, some new demons, and the return of everyone's favorite night terror, George. This three-disc collection comes with all ten episodes and deleted scenes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: When the body of young novice Sister Camille is found garroted in St. Marguerite's cathedral, Detectives Bentz and Montoya are called in. For Montoya, the brutal crime scene is disturbingly familiar: his aunt, also a nun, was murdered. And the connections don't end there. More nuns are dying, brutally slaughtered by someone who seems to know their darkest secrets.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JACSilva, Daniel
Summary: Gabriel Allon has slipped quietly into Venice for a much needed holiday with his wife and two young children. But when Pope Paul VII dies suddenly, Gabriel is summoned to Rome by the Holy Father's loyal private secretary, Archbishop Luigi Donati. A billion Catholic faithful have been told that the pope died of a heart attack. Donati, however, has two good reasons to suspect his master was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SILSteel, Danielle
Summary: "Abandoned by her mother at age seven, Alexandra Winslow took solace in the mystery stories she read with her devoted father -- and soon she is writing them herself, slowly graduating to dark, complex crime stories that reflect skill, imagination, and talent far beyond her years. After her father's early death, at fourteen Alex is taken in by the nuns of a local convent, where she finds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STESummary: Return to the sleepy Cotswold village of Kembleford where the lovably quirky Father Brown is facing another round of seemingly unsolvable murders. Assisted by parish secretary Mrs. McCarthy, the glamorous Lady Felicia Montague and her chauffeur Sid Carter, Father Brown will face some of his most challenging cases yet. Unexpected death on a film set, a poisoned executioner, a kidnapping, voodoo...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Fa 4Summary: It's 1953 and Father Brown carries on investigating various mysteries and criminal activities in and around his Cotswold village of Kembleford.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FATBatacan, F. H.
Summary: "In northeast Manila's Quezon City is a district called Payatas--a 50-acre dump that is home to thousands of people who live off of what they can scavenge there. It is one of the poorest neighborhoods in a city whose law enforcement is already stretched thin, devoid of forensic resources and rife with corruption. So when the eviscerated bodies of teenage boys begin to appear in the dump heaps,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BATSilva, Daniel
Summary: Gabriel Allon is called to investigate the death of Pope Paul VII, as some insiders believe the death was actually a murder after the pope found a long-suppressed gospel in the Vatican secret archives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SILSummary: In Ireland in the 1960s, four women were sent to the Magdalene Laundries, an institution for "fallen" women, where they will atone for their sins through a regimented life of work and prayer. They all had to work in the laundry, where the strict nuns would break everyone's wills through sadistic punishment. Based on a true story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2004