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Harris, Robert

Summary: 1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artefacts--coins, fragments of glass, human bones--which the old parson used to collect. Did his obsession with the past lead to his death? Fairfax becomes determined to discover the truth.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAR

Jemisin, N. K.

Summary: In a city where Gatherers harvest the magic of the sleeping mind and use it to judge the corrupt, Ehiru, the most famous of the city's Gatherers, learns that he must protect the woman he was sent to kill or watch the city be devoured by forbidden magic.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JEM

Silva, Daniel

Summary: Gabriel Allon has slipped quietly into Venice for a much needed holiday with his wife and two young children. But when Pope Paul VII dies suddenly, Gabriel is summoned to Rome by the Holy Father's loyal private secretary, Archbishop Luigi Donati. A billion Catholic faithful have been told that the pope died of a heart attack. Donati, however, has two good reasons to suspect his master was...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC SIL

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SIL

Hamill, Pete

Summary: An American priest assigned to the Vatican discovers a plan to kill Pope Paul.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAM

Canavan, Trudi.

Summary: When schools teaching magic are banned, Tyen, a teacher of mechanical magic, is left with no home or purpose and must decide how far he is willing to go to free a sorcerer imprisoned in a book, while Rielle's peaceful new life is shattered by a local war that leads to an extraordinary offer.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit, Hachette Book Group 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAN

Harris, Robert

Summary: "From the internationally best-selling author of Fatherland and the Cicero Trilogy--a chilling and dark new thriller unlike anything Robert Harris has done before. 1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artifacts--coins, fragments of glass, human bones--which the old parson...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HAR

Machado de Assis

Summary: Machado de Assis é considerado como um dos grandes nomes da literatura da língua portuguesa capaz de retratar como poucos, o seu tempo, a sociedade e a sua terra. Em uma inédita e cuidada edição bilíngue português e inglês, a obra-prima de Machado de Assis e uma das maiores incógnitas da literatura brasileira. É uma das grandes obras de Machado de Assis e confirma o olhar certeiro e crítico que...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 469.3 MAC

Batacan, F. H.

Summary: "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,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAT

Gounelle, Laurent

Summary: "Alice is very good at her job. She's on the rise at a prominent PR firm, and there is no image-management disaster she can't fix. But when her dearest friend, a parish priest in a charming French village, becomes depressed about his dwindling number of parishioners, she may finally have met her biggest challenge. Though an avowed atheist, Alice is determined to apply her skills to the problem....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOU

Harvey, Samantha

Summary: Oakham, near Bruton, is a tiny village by a big river without a bridge. When a man is swept away by the river in the early hours of Shrove Saturday, an explanation has to be found. Was it murder, or suicide, or an accident? The whole story is relayed by the village priest, John Reve, who in his role as confessor is privy to a lot of information that others have not. But will he be able to...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAR

Martin, Charles

Summary: Murphy Shepherd is a retired priest, living alone on an island, and tending the grounds for a church with no parishioners. But when his best friend dies and asks that Murph scatter his ashes at the end of the world, Murph lashes the ashes to the front of his boat and heads south down the Intracoastal waterway. Along the way, his path intersects with a dance instructor named Summer who is...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2020

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction Mar

Lewis, Linden A.

Summary: "First Sister has no name and no voice. As a priestess of the Sisterhood, she travels the stars alongside the soldiers of Earth and Mars - the same ones who own the rights to her body and soul. When her former captain abandons her, First Sister's hopes for freedom are dashed when she is forced to stay on her ship with no friends, no power, and a new captain - Saito Ren - whom she knows nothing...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Skybound Books/Gallery Books 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEW

Grisham, John

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: In the small north Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no clues behind. There were no witnesses, no real suspects, no one with a motive. The police soon settled on Quincy Miller, a young black man who was once a client of Russo's.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print Publishing 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRI

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRI

Carlson, David

Summary: "Allyson Worthy, daughter of the renowened homicide detective Christopher Worthy always dreamt of living in Venice. Now, as a college student, she's landed a dream internship with the Venice police. She assumes she will be investigating minor crimes perpetrated on gullible American and English tourists. On the first day of the internship, however, Allyson is assigned to assist with a more...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee Town Press 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAR

Martin, Charles

Summary: "Murphy Shepherd lives alone, doing maintenance work for a church that no one attends and trying to heal from scars gained rescuing others who dwell in the margins. His specialty is finding young girls bought and sold in the flesh trade, and leading them from brokenness to freedom, but Shepherd thinks he has given everything he has and it may be time to retire. His hermetic healing process is...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC MAR

Carlson, David

Summary: "A priest is found brutally strangled before the altar of Detroit's St. Cosmas Greek Orthodox Church. The captain of the Detroit Police assigns her star detective Christopher Worthy to the case, knowing that the interim priest is Worthy's close friend Father Fortis. Worthy's new partner Henderson believes Father Spiro surprised a local thug in the act of stealing a silver altarpiece. This...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee Town Press 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAR

Grisham, John

Summary: Cullen Post, an Episcopal minister and lawyer, fights to exonerate Quincy Miller, who has spent over twenty years in prison for killing a lawyer, only to discover that powerful forces want the murder to remain unsolved.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2019

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRI

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRI

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRI

El Rashidi, Yasmine

Summary: "A young Egyptian woman chronicles her personal and political coming of age in this debut novel. Cairo, 1984. A blisteringly hot summer. A young girl in a sprawling family house. Her days pass quietly: listening to a mother's phone conversations, looking at the Nile from a bedroom window, watching the three state-sanctioned TV stations with the volume off, daydreaming about other lives....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tim Duggan Books 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELR

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