Tremayne, Peter
Summary: "Ireland, A.D. 671. An Anglo-Saxon delegation arrives in Cashel to debate the new religious rules that have been handed down from Rome. The Abbot of Imleach leads the Irish delegation, which is hostile to the new rules from outsiders. Among the Anglo-Saxon group is Brother Eadulf's own younger brother Egric, whom Eadulf hasn't seen for many years. When the debate quickly becomes acrimonious, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M TRETremayne, Peter
Summary: "Ireland, A.D. 671. It is the beginning of the summer season and the Kingdom of Muman is preparing to celebrate the Great Fair of Cashel. It is an extravagant nine days of contests, food, and endless entertainment. Circumstances have led Fidelma and Eadulf far and wide across the kingdom, and they have been absent from the Great Fair for many years. But, for once they haven't been called away...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M TRETurner, Dennis J.
Summary: "The book is a fictional memoir based on actual events. The inspiration for the book came from hundreds of letters and other accounts written by Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur who were living in German-occupied Belgium and Italy during World War Two. Turner created a composite character, Sister Christina, who is described as an Ohio farm girl, who joined the Sisters of Our Lady of Namur to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cincinnati Book Publishing 2018
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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 CARJackson, Lisa.
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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JACQuinn, Anna
Summary: "A moving, lyrical, melancholy, and spiritual novel by the acclaimed author of The Night Child, in which Sister Angeline, unwillingly sent to a radical convent and confronting her tragic past, asks the deep question, follow your heart or follow the rules? After surviving a tragedy that killed her entire family, sixteen-year-old Meg joins a cloistered convent, believing it is her life's work to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUIClark, Cassandra
Summary: "Hildegard, no longer a member of the Cistercian order of nuns, has returned to the priory after more than a year from her pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Still unsure whether she'll rejoin the Order, the Prioress suggests that a visit to Handale Priory might help provide some clarity. While walking about its grounds, Hildegard discovers the corpse of a young man in the morgue. His...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLAGroff, Lauren
Summary: Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GROTremayne, Peter
Summary: "Ireland. AD 671. Sister Fidelma has a mission, and she is sworn by oath to reveal her purpose to no other. The secret investigation leads Fidelma and her companions to the abbey of Finnbarr to question the abbot. But before they have a chance to speak to him, the abbot is found murdered - and the young girl suspected of the crime has fled the scene"--Publisher's website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TREWillan, Jane
Summary: The sisters of Gwenafwy Abbey have cherished their contemplative life--days spent in prayer, reflection, tending the Convent's vegetable gardens and making their award-winning organic cheese, Heavenly Gouda. Life seems perfect, except for Sister Agatha, a die-hard mystery fan who despairs of ever finding any real life inspiration for her own novel. That is, until the Abbey's sexton is found...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WILJones, Darynda.
Summary: "Charley Davidson has enough going on without having to worry about twelve hellhounds hot on her trail. She is, after all, incredibly pregnant and feeling like she could pop at any moment. But, just her luck, twelve deadly beasts from hell have chosen this time to escape onto our plane, and they've made Charley their target. And so she takes refuge at the only place she thinks they can't get to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JONGenhart, Michael
Summary: Follows the reaction of a neighborhood of birds, from a congress of crows to a gaggle of geese, when a flamboyance of flamingos moves in.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magination Press, an imprint of the American Psychological Association 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GENAlinas, Marv
Summary: A child attempts to find the owner of a lost nut. This simple story for beginning readers teaches the "ut" sound through rhyming text and bright, original illustrations. Additional features to aid in comprehension include a word list for review, a note to parents and educators, and an introduction to the author and illustrator.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN ALILitwin, Eric
Summary: Hazel Nut wants to sing and dance, but Mama, Papa, and Wally Nut are too busy, so Hazel calls in a special family member to get everyone moving.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LITPett, Mark
Summary: A poop-loving dung beetle learns not to hide the quirks that make him special.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PETVignocchi, Chiara
Summary: It all begins with one tasty nut, hanging on the highest branch of a tree. A little Mouse looks at it longingly - he wants to eat it, so very much. But how can he get it down? By shaking the tree, of course! Can you, the reader, help him? Shake the tree - a little to the right (shake) ... and a little to the left (shake shake). But - uh-oh - something else is falling from the tree, and it's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books 2018