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Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Atheneum Books for Young Readers hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
xvi, 187 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When young Tenar is chosen as high priestess to the ancient and nameless Powers of the Earth, everything is taken away from her-home, family, possessions, even her name. She is now known only as Arha, the Eaten One, guardian of the labyrinthine Tombs of Atuan, shrouded in darkness. When a young wizard, Ged Sparrowhawk, comes to steal the Tombs' greatest hidden treasure, the Ring of Erreth-Akbe, Tenar's rightful duty is to protect the Tombs. But Ged...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
8 compact discs (9 uur)
Language
English
Description
Mexico, the late 1930s: A paramilitary group has outlawed the Catholic Church and been executing its clergy. Now the last priest is on the run, fleeing not just an unshakable police lieutenant but also his own wavering morals. As he scraps his way toward salvation, haunted by an affair from his past, the nameless "whiskey priest" is pulled between the bottle and the Bible, tempted to renounce his religion yet unable to ignore the higher calling he's...
Author
Language
English
Description
""The newest legal thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham. This masterfully plotted, perfectly paced novel confirms that Grisham remains America's favorite storyteller. In the small north Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no clues behind. There were no witnesses, no real suspects, no one with a motive. The police soon settled on...
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Sheila McGann is estranged from her complicated family. But when her older brother Art, pastor of a large suburban parish, finds himself at the center of a scandal, Sheila returns to Boston, ready to fight for him. Her strict mother lives in a state of angry denial; her younger brother Mike has already convicted his brother in his heart. But most disturbing of all is Art himself, who persistently dodges Sheila's questions and refuses to defend himself....
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"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 used to collect. Did his obsession with the past lead...
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a world between wars, a young man on the cusp of taking priestly vows is suddenly made a fugitive. Fleeing the accusations of police who blame him for a murder, as well as more sinister forces with darker intentions, Vango attempts to trace the secrets of his shrouded past and prove his innocence before all is lost. As he crisscrosses the continent via train, boat, and even the Graf Zeppelin airship, his adventures take him from Parisian rooftops...
Author
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With his cherubic face and unworldly simplicity, his glasses and huge umbrella, Father Brown is one of the most unforgettable characters in literature.The Complete Father Brown Stories brings together all the stories featuring G. K. Chesterton's amateur sleuth—plus two additional cases, "The Donnington Affair" and "The Mask of Midas," that were discovered in Chesterton's papers after his death. An introduction by Chesterton scholar Michael D. Hurley...
Author
Series
Ishmael trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
325 p. ; cm.
Language
English
Description
Father Jared Osborne is on a mission to discover if the elusive B is a heretic or the Antichrist sent to seduce humanity with ideas better than those of traditional religion.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 108 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A pastor of a small church in upstate New York starts to spiral out of control after a soul-shaking encounter with an unstable environmental activist and his pregnant wife.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
361 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Description
From the bestselling author of "Tracks" comes a dramatic sequel--a story of suspect miracles, tests of faith, and the corrosive and redemptive power of secrecy. Over the years, Father Damian has seen the reservation through its most severe crises, yet he is more than a heroic priest. He has lived with and served the Ojibwa people as a man of the cloth, and also as a woman. However, where does fact end and reality begin? NPR sponsorships. Deals with...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
333 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Former trial lawyer Tate Collier, regrouping in Virginia after making some disastrous mistakes in the realms of love and the law, reunites with his ex-wife Bett in a desperate attempt to find their daughter who has been chosen by psychopathic psychologist Aaron Matthews as a target for the revenge he seeks against Tate who he believes ruined his life.
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In San Francisco's seamy Tenderloin district, a teenage street hustler has been murdered in a shelter for boys. And the dedicated priest who runs the struggling home stands accused. But despite evidence that he's a killer, and worse, Father Thomas Martin stands by his innocence. And attorney Peter Donley stands with him. But a ruthless DA seeking headlines and a brutal homicide cop bent on vengeance have their own agendas.
15) To the wonder
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Neil is an American traveling in Europe who meets and falls in love with Marina. After visiting Mont Saint-Michel, Marina and Neil come to Oklahoma, where problems arise. Marina meets a priest and fellow exile, who is struggling with his vocation, while Neil renews his ties with a childhood friend, Jane.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 347 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Father Michael, a Catholic priest presiding over a Northern urban parish who is Modern, maverick, and reassuringly flawed, must be a confidant, counselor and confessor to a congregation struggling to reconcile its beliefs with the challenges of daily life.
17) On Magnolia Lane
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
389 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling author of The Convenient Groom (now a beloved Hallmark Original movie) comes the final book in Hunter's Blue Ridge Romance series"--
Pastor Jack McReady has secretly carried a torch for Daisy for two long years. Shes a member of his congregation, after all, and shell never see him as more than a trusted counselor. Jacks best friend Noah has taken every opportunity to encourage his lovesick friend, but when Noah catches...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 100 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
A Poe-like study of guilt and revenge, the Demoniacs (Les Démoniaques) concerns a band of "wreckers" who rape and murder two young sisters, the survivors (Lieva Lone, Patricia Hermenier) of a ship they have lured into coastal rocks and plundered. The ghostly sisters haunt the Captain and obtain help from a mysterious clown (Mirielle d'Argent) who leads them to an impressive disused cathedral. There they meet a gnostic priest (Ben Zimet) standing...
19) Priest
Author
Series
Jack Taylor series volume 5
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
290 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Private investigator Jack Taylor, fresh from the mental institution, is asked to look into the beheading of a local priest in Galway, Ireland, and aided by an enthusiastic new partner, uncovers secrets the victim would rather have taken to the grave.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
279 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Author's memoir about his relationship with his father who was a high ranking general through most of the Vietnam War, and how he entered the priesthood, quickly becoming part of the radical faction protesting the war, and eventually breaking his vows to marry and have a family.
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