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23) Moonlight kite
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Pub. Date
[1997]
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The last three monks at a monastery have their lives enriched by the presence of children flying kites outside their walls.
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Somershill Manor mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"In 1349, Oswald, the third son of the de Lacy family, was an eighteen-year-old novice monk at Kintham Abbey. Sent to collect herbs from the forest, Oswald comes across a terrified village girl. Frenzied with fear, she runs headlong into a swollen river. Oswald pulls her broken and bruised body from the water and returns her to the local village, only to discover that several other women have disappeared. A heinous killer is at work, but because all...
25) Beautiful ghosts
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Pub. Date
[2004]
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In an earlier time, Shan Tao Yun was an Inspector stationed in Beijing. But he lost his position, his family and his freedom when he ran afoul of a powerful figure high in the Chinese government. Released unofficially from the work camp to which he'd been sentenced, Shan has been living in remote mountains of Tibet with a group of outlawed Buddhist monks. Without status, official identity, or the freedom to return to his former home in Beijing, Shan...
26) The lost throne
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1890, a man collapses near the Piazza della Santa Carita in Naples, Italy. Strangers manage to revive him, but he is unable to speak. Police carry him to the nearest hospital, where he is not admitted because he has no money or identification. Frantically trying to communicate, he scribbles notes in ancient Greek and German that would have told the world about a discovery of immense importanceif anyone had read them. . . . Reaching from the...
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Series
Left hand of God trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Follows the adventures of sixteen-year-old Thomas, one of thousands of imprisoned youths being trained in combat by warrior monks who becomes aware of his secret destiny after a daring escape.
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Magic Tree House volume 15
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to a monastery in medieval Ireland, where they try to retrieve a lost book while being menaced by Viking raiders.
29) Fen gold
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Series
Wickit chronicles volume 2
Pub. Date
2008.
Description
"The hot summer has brought several kinds of trouble to the monastery at Wickit, and Pip, the orphan, and Perfect, the stone gargoyle, find themselves up to their eyebrows in it all! What is the king's man really doing at Wickit? Will the Black Bog give up its secrets? Will the beautiful Norse girl find John Shortleg's long-lost buried treasure"--P. [4] of cover.
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Series
Wickit chronicles volume 4
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Pip, the orphan, and Perfect, the living stone gargoyle, must help a mysterious stranger who is being pursued by the infamous Holy Hunter.
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Pub. Date
20240123
Description
THRILLER A murderer shrouded in shadows, a rose, a chain of thorns. A floating forest where fear hides terrible secrets.
Cortegada Island, 1910. The discovery of the body of a girl on the day of the massacre generates great commotion among the inhabitants of the estuary due to the circumstances and the atrocity of the crime. A culprit, the poet Guillermo de Foz. A condemnation, death by club.
Monastery of Armenteira, Pontevedra, 2002. The restoration...
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We shall all, in the end, be led to where we belong. We shall all, in the end, find our way home. In a time of war, a mysterious child appears at the monastery of the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing. Gentle Brother Edik finds the girl, Beatryce, curled in a stall, wracked with fever, coated in dirt and blood, and holding fast to the ear of Answelica the goat. As the monk nurses Beatryce to health, he uncovers her dangerous secret, one that imperils...
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