Harris, Robert
Summary: 1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artefacts--coins, fragments of glass, human bones--which the old parson used to collect. Did his obsession with the past lead to his death? Fairfax becomes determined to discover the truth.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HARDelaney, Frank
Summary: In the summer of 1922, Robert Shannon, a young American hero of the Great War, lands in Ireland. A Marine chaplain, he was present at the frightful Battle of Belleau Wood, and he still suffers from shell shock. His mentor hopes that a journey Robert had always wanted to make--to find his family roots--will restore his equilibrium and his vocation. Unbeknownst to Robert, a safety net has been...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DELO'Connor, Joseph
Summary: In German-occupied Rome during World War II, as diplomats, refugees and escaped Allied prisoners flee for protection into Vatican City, a small band of unlikely friends led by a courageous Irish priest risk everything, including their lives, to help thoseseeking refuge.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC O'COScott, Jeremy
Summary: Crooked Creek, Indiana, 1980s. As both the town's sheriff and the priest at the community Catholic church, Father Solomon Lancaster finds himself on the forefront of an investigation into a series of murders. As the FBI analysts and profilers take over the town, he must justify his law-enforcement credentials. But Father Solomon is hiding secrets of his own-- secrets that threaten to rise to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Keylight Books, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SCOGreenwood, Kerry
Summary: When she falls in love with Jason, the leader of the Argonauts, and helps him steal the Golden Fleece, Medea, Princess of Colchis and priestess of Hecate, Thee Named, Lady of Phantoms, sails with him to claim his throne, but things turn tragically wrong and she must attempt to reclaim her humanity through abandonment, murder and grief.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREHarris, Robert
Summary: "From the internationally best-selling author of Fatherland and the Cicero Trilogy--a chilling and dark new thriller unlike anything Robert Harris has done before. 1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artifacts--coins, fragments of glass, human bones--which the old parson...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HARAndrews, Mesu
Summary: "After four-year-old Asenath's mother is murdered by Egypt's foreign rulers, the child is raised to be a priestess by her overprotective father -- high priest of Egypt's sun god. For fifteen years, Asenath is sequestered in the upper levels of Ra's temple, convinced it is her destiny to heal the land by becoming queen to the next Egyptian pharaoh. But when Egypt's foreign king instead gives her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction AndrewsCarroll, James
Summary: A priest and a Holocaust survivor find their perspectives and senses of identity reshaped by their shared investigation into the classic romance between discredited religious scholar Peter Abelard and his intellectual paramour, Héloïse.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAREl Rashidi, Yasmine
Summary: "A young Egyptian woman chronicles her personal and political coming of age in this debut novel. Cairo, 1984. A blisteringly hot summer. A young girl in a sprawling family house. Her days pass quietly: listening to a mother's phone conversations, looking at the Nile from a bedroom window, watching the three state-sanctioned TV stations with the volume off, daydreaming about other lives....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tim Duggan Books 2016