Andrews, Julie
Summary: This creative nonfiction book introduces readers to the remarkable story of Guido d'Arezzo's development of musical notation. Guido longed to find a way to write and teach music. Eventually, he created the musical scale, using the words Do-Re-Mi-Fa-Sol-La-Ti-Do...one syllable for each note. Though the other monks thought it was a waste of time, Guido's music couldn't be silenced. His discovery...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GUINelson, Marilyn
Summary: Through the power of faith, a monk named Abba Jacob and his loyal rat terrier, Snook, are reunited after being separated by a ferocious storm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2010
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JE FIC NELSmith, Katy Simpson
Summary: "Spanning two thousand years, The Everlasting follows four characters whose struggles resonate across the centuries: an early Christian child martyr; a medieval monk on crypt duty in a church; a Medici princess of Moorish descent; and a contemporary field biologist conducting an illicit affair. Outsiders to a city layered and dense with history, this quartet separated by time grapple with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMISykes, 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 SYKBeebe, Katy.
Summary: After painstakingly handcrafting a replacement copy of a library book, a medieval monk tries to protect it from a hungry bear with a taste for literature. Includes historical note on illuminated manuscripts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Pub Co 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BEEBarry, Quan
Summary: "From the acclaimed author of We Ride Upons Sticks-a luminous novel that moves across a windswept Mongolia, as a pair of estranged twin brothers make a journey of duty, conflict, and renewed understanding. Tasked with finding the reincarnation of a great lama somewhere in the vast Mongolian landscape, the young monk Chuluun seeks the help of his identical twin, Mun, who was recognized as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARPenny, Louise.
Summary: When a peaceful monastery in Quebec is shattered by the murder of their renowned choir director, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir of the Sûreté du Québec are challenged to find the killer in a cloistered community that has taken avow of silence.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PENBrodrick, William
Summary: They came for me in November nineteen fifty-one and took me to Mokotow prison. Cambridge, the present day. And out of the past, a cry for help: Father Anselm, the brilliant Benedictine, receives a visit from an old friend with a dangerous story to tell - the story of a woman betrayed by time, fate, and someone close to her ... someone still unknown. As a young woman, Roza Mojeska was part of an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Overlook Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROPattison, Eliot
Summary: "Shan Tao Yun, now the reluctant constable of a remote Tibetan town, has learned to expect the impossible at the roof of the world, but nothing has prepared him for his discovery when he investigates a report that a nun has been savagely assaulted by ghosts. In an ancient tomb by the old nun lies a gilded saint buried centuries earlier, flanked by the remains of a Chinese soldier killed fifty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATWeber, David
Summary: Not yet thirty years old, Cayleb Ahrmahk has won the most crushing naval victories in human history. He's smashed a hostile alliance of no less than five princedoms and won the hand of the beautiful young Queen Sharleyan of Chisholm. Cayleb and Sharleyan have created the Charisian Empire, the greatest naval power in the history of Safehold, and they've turned Charis into a place of refuge for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEBFarrington, Tim.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FARPreston, Douglas.
Summary: "Pendergast has taken Constance on a whirlwind Grand Tour, hoping to give her closure and a sense of the world that she's missed. They head to Tibet, where Pendergast intensively trained in martial arts and spiritual studies. At a remote monastery, they learn that a rare and dangerous artifact the monks have been guarding for generations has been mysteriously stolen. Pendergast agrees to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PREDonoghue, 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: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DONCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Display, Call number: FIC DON1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DON
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DONCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DONFollett, Ken
Summary: "It is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages. England is facing attacks from the Welsh in the west and the Vikings in the east. Those in power bend justice according to their will, regardless of ordinary people and often in conflict with the king. Without a clear rule of law, chaos reigns. In these turbulent times, three characters find their lives intertwined: A young boatbuilder's life is turned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FOLCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Follett 2020Kidd, 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 KIDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KIDCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIDPreston, Douglas J.
Summary: While on a grand tour Pendergast and Constance learn that a rare and dangerous artifact the monks have been guarding for generations has been mysteriously stolen. Pendergast takes up the search which leads them to the maiden voyage of the Queen Victoria.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PREEisner, Michael Alexander.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EISCarlson, David
Summary: A teenage girl has vanished in Santa Fe. Nearby, in the Trappist monastery of St. Mary of the Snows, a beautiful young nun is stabbed to death. Father Nicholas Fortis is on sabbatical at St. Mary's, and when Lieutenant Christopher Worthy of the Detroit Police Department is flown in to help find the missing teenager, the Orthodox monk asks his friend to delve into the nun's murder as well. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffeetown Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARDonoghue, Emma
Summary: "In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two monks, young Trian and old Cormac, he rows down the river Shannon in search of an isolated spot on which to found a monastery. Drifting out into the Atlantic, the three men find the island now known as Skellig Michael, an impossibly steep, bare rock inhabited by...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DONKidd, 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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KidSansom, 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 SANDonoghue, 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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC DONBogart, Jo Ellen
Summary: After spending a night studying his books, a monk reflects on his life and finds that he and his cat live equally simple lives, both in constant pursuit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BOGHowatch, Susan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1988