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143) Knight awakened
Author
Series
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
430 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Warlord Vladimir Barbu has seized control of Transylvania, but his claim to the throne remains anything but certain. The king of Hungary opposes his rule, his people despise him, and the high priestess needed to crown him has vanished without a trace. Refusing to see his ambitions thwarted, he hires an assassin to hunt her down. Killing is the only life Xavian Ramir knows. But now the elite assassin wants out, vowing to start anew after one last job....
144) Léon Morin, priest
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (128 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Leǒn Morin, a devoted man of the cloth, is the crush object of all the women of a small village in Nazi-occupied France. He finds himself most drawn to a sexually frustrated widow, a borderline heretic whose relationship with her confessor is a confrontation with both God and her own repressed desire.
145) Oracle of the Dead
Author
Series
SPQR mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
146) Doubt
Language
English
Formats
Description
1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. Father Flynn is a charismatic priest who is trying to upend the schools' strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier. The Sister is the iron-gloved principal who believes in the power of fear and discipline. With the winds of political change, the school has just accepted its first black student, Donald Miller. But when Sister James shares with Sister Aloysius her suspicion that...
147) True confessions
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A 1940s Los Angeles detective hounds his monsignor brother about a pious pimp's tie to grisly murder.
Author
Language
English
Description
After Father Michael Kavanagh sees a friend from his seminary days at the altar of his humble Inwood community parish, he wanders into the medieval haven of The Cloisters. In conversation with museum guide Rachel Vedette, he finds she retreated to the quiet of The Cloisters after her harrowing experience as a Jewish woman in France during the Holocaust. She shares with Kavanagh her late father's greatest intellectual work: a study demonstrating the...
150) The exorcist
Language
English
Description
Actress Chris MacNeil becomes increasingly disturbed by the inexplicable behavior of her 12-year-old daughter Regan--mouthing obscenities, predicting the murder of one of Chris's friends, and urinating in public. Doctors and psychologists have no explanation and as a last option, Chris consults a priest. Father Damian Karras, a Jesuit who is having doubts about his own faith following his mother's death, investigates. Karras comes to no other conclusion...
Series
The Criterion collection volume 222
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A new priest arrives in the French country village of Ambricourt to attend to his first parish. The rural congregation rejects him immediately. Through his country diary entries, the suffering young man relays a crisis of faith that threatens to drive him away from the village and God.
152) Scrublands
Author
Series
Martin Scarsden novels volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
651 pages (large print) : map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Riversend, an isolated rural community afflicted by an endless drought, a young priest does the unthinkable, killing five parishioners before being taken down himself. A year later, accompanied by his own demons from war-time reporting, journalist Martin Scarsden arrives in Riversend. His assignment is simple: describe how the townspeople are coping as the anniversary of their tragedy approaches. But as Martin meets the locals and hears their version...
Author
Series
Delphic women novels volume 1
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
431 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In northeast Manila's Quezon City is a district called Payatas--a 50-acre dump that is home to thousands of people who live off of what they can scavenge there. It is one of the poorest neighborhoods in a city whose law enforcement is already stretched thin, devoid of forensic resources and rife with corruption. So when the eviscerated bodies of teenage boys begin to appear in the dump heaps, there is no one to seek justice on their behalf. In the...
156) The damned
Author
Series
Darkest hand trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Overlook Duckworth
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
345 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"1914. In the French city of Arras, a Father is brutally murdered. The Catholic Inquisition--still powerful, but now working in the shadows--sends its most determined and unhinged of Inquisitors, Poldek Tacit to investigate: his mission to protect the Church from those who would seek to undermine it, no matter what the cost. As the Inquisitor strives in vain to establish the truth behind the murder and to uncover the motives of other Vatican servants...
157) Daughter of Ireland
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
300 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
158) From hell: The order
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
2 Blu-rays (224 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From hell: Scotland Yard Inspector Fred Abberline, a psychic and opium addict, tracks down Jack the Ripper in 1888 London.
The order: For centuries, a secret order of priests has existed within the Church. A renegade priest is sent to Rome to investigate the mysterious death of one of the order's most revered members.
Author
Series
The Daoshi chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Talos Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's the end of the Nineteenth Century. San Francisco's cobblestone streets are haunted, but Chinatown has an unlikely protector in a young Daoist priestess named Li-lin. Using only her martial arts training, spiritual magic, a sword made from peachwood, and the walking, talking spirit of a human eye, Li-lin stands alone to defend her immigrant community from supernatural threats. But when the body of a young girl is brought to the deadhouse Li-lin...
160) The thorn birds
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (487 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Adaptation of Colleen McCullough's epic novel about an Australian priest torn by personal desires and ambition. This title has been repackaged. Disc one contains episodes 1 and 2; disc two contains episodes 3 and 4; disc three contains extra content.
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