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Cape Breton trilogy volume 2
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English
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Something about the boat, perhaps its name, and the posture of that boy caused me to defer my anxieties for the moment. It was so rare to see someone that age stationary, somber. I was more accustomed to a rowdy adolescent enthusiasm. This young man, I realized, was exceptional only because of time and place. Maybe any one of them in those circumstances would have been the same. Quiet. But he caught my attention nevertheless and linked the moment...
2) Overbite
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Now working for the Palatine Guard--a secret demon-hunting unit of the Vatican--Meena Harper tries to win over her co-workers as well as her new partner Alaric Wolf while investigating a young priest recently assigned to the case.
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PBS
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English
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Will's life has changed for the better. He is happily married to the brilliant Bonnie and due to become a father, but his world is about to be rocked by a terrible accident. He's always preached the word of a compassionate God, but how can he do that now?
5) Pastoral
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Series
Quincunx cycle (Andre Alexis) volume 1
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English
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For his very first parish, Father Christopher Pennant is sent to the sleepy town of Barrow. But things aren't so idyllic for Liz Denny, whose fianc ̌doesn't want to choose between Liz and his more worldly lover Jane, or for Father Pennant himself, whose faith is profoundly shaken by the miracles he witnesses: a mayor walking on water, intelligent gypsy moths, and a talking sheep. Andr ̌Alexis' debut novel "Childhood" won the Books in Canada First...
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English
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Two abandoned souls are on the hunt for one powerful man. Soon, their paths will cross and lead to one twisted fate. Danny Hansen is a Bosnian immigrant who came to America with hopes of escaping haunted memories of a tragic war that took his other's life. Now he's a priest incensed by the powerful among us who manipulate the law for their own gain, uncaring of these hattered lives they leave behind. It is his duty to show them the error of their...
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Linford
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English
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August 1970. Eleven-year-old Trixie is miserably homesick when she first arrives at St Hilda's Convent School, but once she but once she meets young novice Sister Anne and the new chaplain Father Tom, life becomes more interesting. There are obstacles aplenty to overcome before Trixie finally settles in: she gets caught up in a great adventure, and realises nothing is quite as it seems - especially Father Tom! Meanwhile, despite her vocation, romance...
8) Heart sutra
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Publisher
Grove Press
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English
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"From "China's foremost literary satirist" (Financial Times) comes a captivating new novel set at a religious training center in Beijing, focusing on the love story of a Buddhist nun and a Daoist priest. At the Religious Training Center on the campus of Beijing's National Politics University, disciples of China's five main religions-Buddhism, Daoism, Protestantism, Catholicism, and Islam-gather for a year of intensive study and training. In this hallowed...
10) The dragon's son
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Series
Dragonvarld trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Tor Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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The twin offspring of a high priestess and a dragon are raised secretly and in separate locations in the hope that they will restore order to the Parliament of Dragons.
11) Obit: a mystery
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English
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Declan Burke fled Ireland forty years ago and never looked back. Now settled in New York, he thinks he's put the old country behind him, until he reads the obituary of one Cathal Murphy. The obituary, he sees at once, is not about Murphy at all. It is a coded indictment of Burke's own life - and an announcement of his impending death. Halifax lawyer Monty Collins investigates the obit with its allusions to Burke's IRA past. Collins gets no help from...
12) Maleficium
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English
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Martine Desjardins delivers to readers of Maleficium the unexpurgated revelations of Vicar Jerome Savoie, a heretic priest in nineteenth century Montreal. Braving threats from the Catholic Church, Savoie dares to violate the sanctity of the confessional in this confession-within-a-confession, in which seven penitents, each afflicted with a debilitating malady or struck with a crippling deformity, relates his encounter with an enigmatic young woman...
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English
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Father Brennan Burke's patience is tested to the limit when a young woman announces to the world that the Virgin Mary has appeared to her in his churchyard, and hordes of pilgrims, souvenir hawkers, and reporters converge on the scene. Events take a darker turn when a body is found at the apparition site, and a talk show host is picked up for the murder.
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Kanopy Streaming
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...
15) Crossed
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Series
Never after novels (McIntire) volume 5
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English
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"Father Cade Frederic is a holy man. Brought up in the streets of Paris, he has dedicated his life to the church. But there's a monster that lingers just beneath the surface. A sickness. One that bleeds darkness and feeds on the damned. When he's tasked to become the priest in Festivale, Vermont--a town both beautiful in architecture and riddled with despair--his sickness sings, demanding he rid the place of evil. Amaya Paquette is Festivale's beautiful...
17) Broken places
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Series
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English
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Former cop Cass Raines has found the world of private investigation a less stressful way to wake out a living in the Windy City. But when she stumbles across the dead body of a respected member of the community, it's up to her to prove a murderer is on the loose.
18) Going my way
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Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
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English
Description
Father O'Malley is a young priest, new to an established but financially flailing parish. When his philosophies on how to relieve the parish's financial troubles come into conflict with those of crumudgeonly Father Fitzgibbon, the result is a timeless story of patience, compromise and understanding.
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Random House Canada
Language
English
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A spellbinding story of loss, romance, and betrayal from internationally bestselling Canadian historical fiction author, Linda Holeman. This is a first person female narrative set in 18th century Portugal with plenty of wine-making, piracy and slave trading that shows the heavy toll of Catholicism on an unbaptized child.
20) The western wind
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English
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An extraordinary new novel by Samantha Harvey-whose books have been nominated for the Man Booker Prize, the Women's Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize), and the Guardian First Book Award-The Western Wind is a riveting story of faith, guilt, and the freedom of confession.
It's 1491. In the small village of Oakham, its wealthiest and most industrious resident, Tom Newman, is swept away by the river during the early hours of Shrove Saturday....
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