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Gordon, Cambria

Summary: Isabel Perez is a sixteen-year-old who dreams of writing poetry, love, and being with the young nobleman Diego Altamirano; but in Trujillo, Spain in 1481 such a love is forbidden by the boy's family because Isabel's families are conversos, new Christians,but in the privacy of their home they still practice Judaism--a secret that could destroy them all when the Inquisition reaches Trujillo and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GOR

Harrison, Kathryn.

Summary: The interwoven lives of two doomed women during the Spanish Inquisition, both accused of being witches. One is Francesca, a merchant's daughter who had an affair with a priest, the other is Queen Maria Luisa who has failed to produce an heir. One will perish at the stake, the other by being poisoned. By the author of Exposure.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1996

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAR

Wilson, G. Willow

Summary: From award-winning author G. Willow Wilson, The Bird King is an epic journey set during the reign of the last sultan in the Iberian peninsula at the height of the Spanish Inquisition. G. Willow Wilson's debut novel Alif the Unseen was an NPR and Washington Post Best Book of the Year, and it established her as a vital American Muslim literary voice. Now she delivers The Bird King , a stunning...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2019

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIL

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WIL

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIL

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Wilson 2019

Carr, Matthew

Summary: "In this gripping historical thriller set in sixteenth-century Spain, a Catholic priest is murdered by a mysterious Muslim avenger as the Inquisition continues to force Moriscos to live and worship as Christians. In March 1584, the priest of Belamar de la Sierra, a small town in Aragon near the French border, is murdered in his own church. Most of the town's inhabitants are Moriscos, former...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAR

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