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The death of Finn The death of Finn Oran Ryan The Death of Finn concerns the sudden and untimely death of Joe Finn, a brilliant and eccentric young monk, and traces the impact of his death on the people around him, in particular his one-time bes… OL11982697W
A medieval monk A medieval monk Giovanni Caselli Describes a year in the life of the monks living in the great monastery of Cluny in medieval France, as seen through the eyes of a young boy who has just joined the monastic order. OL14738W
Thomas Merton in search of his soul Thomas Merton in search of his soul Robert G. Waldron 157 p. ; 20 cm OL14850567W
The Wheel of Darkness The Wheel of Darkness Lincoln Child FBI Special Agent Pendergast is taking a break from work to take 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… OL14907332W
Snook alone Snook alone Marilyn Nelson 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. OL15056516W
The Monk The Monk Matthew Gregory Lewis `The Monk was so highly popular that it seemed to create an epoch in our literature', wrote Sir Walter Scott. Set in the sinister monastery of the Capuchins in Madrid, The Monk is a violent tale of a… OL15220454W
The mermaid chair The mermaid chair Sue Monk Kidd 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… OL15398004W
A mighty fortress A mighty fortress David Weber The Charisian Empire has managed to survive against seemingly impossible odds and has destroyed the armada of the Church of God Awaiting. The Church has spent centuries suppressing all technological … OL15571383W
The weaver's inheritance The weaver's inheritance Kate Sedley Roger the Chapman series #8 Chapman 08 - The long-lost son of a wealthy weaver, thought murdered six years before, has reappeared, to the joy of the old man but to the indignation of Alison Burnet… OL16244319W
The hour before dawn The hour before dawn Penelope Wilcock The brothers at St. Alcuin Monastery deal with the aftermath of trauma. OL16604668W
The fountains of paradise The fountains of paradise Arthur C. Clarke In the 22nd century visionary scientist Vannevar Morgan conceives the most grandiose engineering project of all time, and one which will revolutionize the future of humankind in space: a Space Elevat… OL17403W
Relics Relics Pip Vaughan-Hughes "It's England, 1235, and Brother Petroc is living a simple life as a novice monk. Struggling to keep his soul fairly clean and worrying most about resisting the local girls, he is helpless when he st… OL17745536W
John the pupil John the pupil D. L. Flusfeder "John the Pupil is a medieval road movie in book form, recounting the journey taken from Oxford to Viterbo in 1267 by John and his two companions. Modeling themselves after Saint Francis, the trio tr… OL17900255W
City of cannibals City of cannibals Ricki Thompson In 1536 England, sixteen-year-old Dell runs away from her brutal father and life in a cave carrying only a hand-made puppet to travel to London, where she learns truths about her mother's death and t… OL18169315W
The hunting of the last dragon The hunting of the last dragon Sherryl Jordan In England in 1356, as a monk records his every word, a young peasant tells of his journey with a young Chinese noblewoman to St. Alfric's Cove and the lair of a dragon. OL1899022W
Wolf & parchment Wolf & parchment Isuna Hasekura "The companion of the young man who wishes to become a priest, Col, is the daughter of the wisewolf, Myuri, and she urges him to make her his wife. After leaving the pirate islands, the two get caugh… OL19761967W
Sanctus Sanctus Simon Toyne When a man performs a dangerous, symbolic act on the mountain known as the Citadel, a Vatican-like city-state that towers above the city of Ruin in contemporary Turkey, a deadly chain of events is se… OL19949427W
Heresy Heresy S. J. Parris England, 1583. A country awash with paranoia and conspiracy - but a safe haven for a radical monk on the run. Giordano Bruno, with his theories of astronomy and extraterrestrial life, has fled the In… OL20414239W
Painted in Blood Painted in Blood Pip Vaughan-Hughes 1242. An immense pyre is being kindled in Europe. A great Christian army is gathering. The King of France, Saint Louis, has decided once and for all to stamp out the heretic Cathar sect. For the Cath… OL21435757W
Pagan's Vows Pagan's Vows Catherine Jinks Pagan's Vows is an engrossing, marvellously written medieval thriller, a brilliant sequel to Pagan's Crusade and Pagan in Exile. 'The Pagan Chronicles are a kind of medieval version of Tin Tin...told… OL2247563W
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