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Author
Series
Harwood mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Loyola Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
This historical novel is the second book in The Harwood Mysteries and continues the adventure of Xan, Lucy, and their friends.
Author
Series
Hangman's daughter tales volume 4
Publisher
Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In 1666, Magdalena, the hangman's daughter and her physician husband arrive at Andechs Abbey where they, along with Jakob Kuisl, the hangman of Schongau, set out to find the mysterious Brother Virgilius, a monk, watchmaker and inventor, who disappeared after creating an eerie automata.
23) Silent angel
Author
Publisher
Ignatius Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This tale opens up with a scene of carnage and devastation, from the ruins of a monstary to lifeless bodies the doings of an army of young Turks. Silent Angel follows the story of five survivors: three women, a child, and a Greek monk. They are forced to wander through the deserted Valley of Moush in search of a new life and a better destiny than their Armenian brothers. During the most painful moment of their lives, they become guardians of a book...
Author
Series
Harwood mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Loyola Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
An attack by bandits?in the middle of the night leaves a young boy with no memory of who he is or where he is from. Nursed back to health by the devoted monks in a Benedictine abbey, he takes the name Alexander, or Xan for short. Aided by the kindly Brother Andrew, Xan commits himself to finding out who he really is. Does he have a family? Are they still alive? And who-or what-is the shadowy figure creeping around the abbey in the dead of night?
25) Skeleton God
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Shan Tao Yun, now the reluctant constable of a remote Tibetan town, has learned to expect the impossible at the roof of the world, but nothing has prepared him for his discovery when he investigates a report that a nun has been savagely assaulted by ghosts. In an ancient tomb by the old nun lies a gilded saint buried centuries earlier, flanked by the remains of a Chinese soldier killed fifty years before and an American man murdered only hours earlier....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A transcendent tale of a woman's self-discovery—the New York Times–bestselling second work of fiction by the author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Book of Longings
Inside the church of a Benedictine monastery on Egret Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, resides a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and dedicated to a saint who, legend claims, was a mermaid before...
Inside the church of a Benedictine monastery on Egret Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, resides a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and dedicated to a saint who, legend claims, was a mermaid before...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Bones of the Earth is Edgar Award-winning author Eliot Pattison's much anticipated tenth and final installment in the internationally acclaimed Inspector Shan series. After Shan Tao Yun is forced to witness the execution of a Tibetan for corruption, he can't shake the suspicion that he has instead witnessed a murder arranged by conspiring officials. When he learns that a Tibetan monk has been accused by the same officials of using Buddhist magic to...
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