Andrews, Julie
Summary: This creative nonfiction book introduces readers to the remarkable story of Guido d'Arezzo's development of musical notation. Guido longed to find a way to write and teach music. Eventually, he created the musical scale, using the words Do-Re-Mi-Fa-Sol-La-Ti-Do...one syllable for each note. Though the other monks thought it was a waste of time, Guido's music couldn't be silenced. His discovery...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GUISummary: The Grande Chartreuse, considered one of the world's most ascetic monasteries is based in the French Alps. In 1984, German filmmaker Philip Gröning wrote to the Carthusian order for permission to make a documentary about them. They said they would get back with him. Sixteen years later, they were ready. Gröning, sans crew or artificial lighting, lived in the monks' quarters for six months -...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF INTSummary: Nicholas Vreeland walked away from a worldly life of privilege to become a Tibetan Buddhist monk. Grandson of legendary Vogue editor, Diana Vreeland, and trained by Irving Penn to become a photographer, Nicholas' life changed drastically upon meeting a Tibetan master, one of the teachers of the Dalai Lama.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MONSmith, Katy Simpson
Summary: "Spanning two thousand years, The Everlasting follows four characters whose struggles resonate across the centuries: an early Christian child martyr; a medieval monk on crypt duty in a church; a Medici princess of Moorish descent; and a contemporary field biologist conducting an illicit affair. Outsiders to a city layered and dense with history, this quartet separated by time grapple with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMISykes, S. D.
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime, an imprint of Pegasus Books, Ltd 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SYKPattison, Eliot
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATSummary: Ghost rider: In order to save his dying father, Johnny Blaze, a young stunt cyclist, sells his soul to Mephistopheles and sadly parts from Roxanne, the girl he loves. Years later, Johnny's path crosses again with Roxanne, who is now a reporter. He, also, crosses paths with Mephistopheles, who offers to release Johnny's soul if Johnny becomes the fabled, fiery Ghost Rider, a supernatural agent...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE GHOSummary: Learn how one man reluctantly took on the most powerful institution of his day and won. Martin Luther is credited with expounding a new vision of man's relationship with God and, by extension, a redefinition of man's relationship with authority. Filmed across Europe -- from the rustic rural Germany to the opulence of the Vatican City -- you'll witness the collapse of the medieval world and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MARCarlson, David
Summary: A teenage girl has vanished in Santa Fe. Nearby, in the Trappist monastery of St. Mary of the Snows, a beautiful young nun is stabbed to death. Father Nicholas Fortis is on sabbatical at St. Mary's, and when Lieutenant Christopher Worthy of the Detroit Police Department is flown in to help find the missing teenager, the Orthodox monk asks his friend to delve into the nun's murder as well. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffeetown Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARFollett, Ken
Summary: "It is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages. England is facing attacks from the Welsh in the west and the Vikings in the east. Those in power bend justice according to their will, regardless of ordinary people and often in conflict with the king. Without a clear rule of law, chaos reigns. In these turbulent times, three characters find their lives intertwined: A young boatbuilder's life is turned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOLCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOLSummary: "The TARDIS lands on the Northumbrian coast, where new companion Steven discovers a Viking helmet and the Doctor deduces they must have arrived in the 11th century. Steven remains skeptical, especially when he and Vicki encounter what appears to be a Saxon hunter with a modern wristwatch. Investigating a monastery, the Doctor discovers further anachronisms. Who is the mysterious monk observing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOCNelson, Marilyn
Summary: Through the power of faith, a monk named Abba Jacob and his loyal rat terrier, Snook, are reunited after being separated by a ferocious storm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2010
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JE FIC NELRussell, P. Craig.
Summary: The King of All Night's Dreaming is drawn into a tale about a monk, a fox woman, and an evil man set in ancient Japan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics/Vertigo 2009
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GAISummary: The adventure continues for Kwai Chang Caine, a Shoalin priest trained in the wisdom and warfare of China's ancients, following life's path in the American west of the later 1800s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV KUNBrodrick, William
Summary: They came for me in November nineteen fifty-one and took me to Mokotow prison. Cambridge, the present day. And out of the past, a cry for help: Father Anselm, the brilliant Benedictine, receives a visit from an old friend with a dangerous story to tell - the story of a woman betrayed by time, fate, and someone close to her ... someone still unknown. As a young woman, Roza Mojeska was part of an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Overlook Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROKoeppel, Gerard T.
Summary: "The Herbert Fuller, a three-masted sailing ship loaded with New England lumber, left Boston bound for Buenos Aires on July 8, 1896 with twelve people on board: captain-owner Charles Nash, his wife and Maine childhood-sweetheart Laura, two mates, the "mulatto" steward, six crewmen, and one passenger. Just before 2 A.M. on the sixth day at sea, the captain, his wife, and the second mate were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 KOEPenny, Louise.
Summary: When a peaceful monastery in Quebec is shattered by the murder of their renowned choir director, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir of the Sûreté du Québec are challenged to find the killer in a cloistered community that has taken avow of silence.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PENPreston, Douglas J.
Summary: While on a grand tour Pendergast and Constance learn that a rare and dangerous artifact the monks have been guarding for generations has been mysteriously stolen. Pendergast takes up the search which leads them to the maiden voyage of the Queen Victoria.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PREAlmond, David
Summary: "In medieval Ireland, a boy named Kevin is taken to a monastery by parents who can no longer afford to keep him, though they promise to bring him home when times are better. Meanwhile, Kevin works for the monks, who teach him hymns, prayers, and reading. He is content, though happiest when his work is done and he can roam the countryside, befriending wild creatures. As he grows older, the monks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press
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Summary: "It is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages. England is facing attacks from the Welsh in the west and the Vikings in the east. Those in power bend justice according to their will, regardless of ordinary people and often in conflict with the king. Without a clear rule of law, chaos reigns. In these turbulent times, three characters find their lives intertwined. A young boatbuilder's life is turned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FOLDonoghue, Emma
Summary: In this beautiful story of adventure and survival from the New York Times bestselling author of Room, three men vow to leave the world behind them as they set out in a small boat for an island their leader has seen in a dream, with only faith to guide them. In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DONFollett, Ken.
Summary: It is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages. England is facing attacks from the Welsh in the west and the Vikings in the east. Those in power bend justice according to their will, regardless of ordinary people and often in conflict with the king. Without a clear rule of law, chaos reigns. In these turbulent times, three characters find their lives intertwined.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOLCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOLKidd, Sue Monk.
Summary: Inside the abbey of a Benedictine monastery on tiny 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 her conversion. Jessie Sullivan's conventional life has been "molded to the smallest space possible." So when she is called home to cope with her mother's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2005