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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 65
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English
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During the building of a cathedral in the fictional town of Kingsbridge, the ambitions of three men merge, conflict and collide through 40 years of social and political upheaval as internal church politics affect the progress of the cathedral and the fortunes of the protagonists.
Author
Language
English
Description
Destined to be yet another bestseller from the inimitable Johanna Lindsey.
Spirited Rowena Belleme must produce an heir - or incur the dangerous wrath of a ruthless stepbrother who stands to forfeit his ill-gotten wealth. And the magnificent Warrick deChaville is the perfect choice to sire her child - though it means imprisoning the handsome knight and forcing him to bend to her amorous whims.
Vowing to resist but betrayed by his virility, noble...
Author
Series
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 65
Language
English
Description
The ambitions of three men merge, conflict and collide through four decades during which social and political upheaval and the internal politics of the church affect the progress of the cathedral and the fortunes of the protagonists.
Author
Series
Magdalene la Batarde mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Magdalene la Bâtarde is the madam of the Old Priory Guesthouse in Southwark. People expect her and her women to indulge in a number of sinful activities, but bloody murder isn't one of them. Then Baldassare, the messenger, dies. The Bishop of Winchester, who was served for many years by Baldassare, puts Sir Bellamy of Itchen, his most trusted knight, in charge of the investigation. Sir Bellamy must find out how and why Baldassare died or else watch...
5) Monk's-hood
Author
Series
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
Brother Cadfael is confounded when his own potion is used to kill his former love's new husband Gervase Bonel is a guest of Shrewsbury Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul when he suddenly takes ill. Luckily, the abbey boasts the services of the clever and kindly Brother Cadfael, a skilled herbalist. Cadfael hurries to the man's bedside, only to be confronted with two surprises: In Master Bonel's wife, the good monk recognizes Richildis, whom he loved...
Author
Series
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
A respite in the 12th-century struggle for the English throne between King Stephen and Empress Maud lends Brother Cadfael the opportunity to accompany a friend to Wales on a diplomatic venture. But they soon find themselves involved in another royal feud.
Author
Series
Publisher
Book of the Month Club
Pub. Date
c1986, 1999
Language
English
Description
Christmas, AD 1141 Abbot Radulfus returns from London, bringing with him a priest for the vacant living of Holy Cross (known as the Foregate), a man of presence, scholarship and discipline, but neither humility nor the common touch. When he is found drowned in the mill-pond, suspicion is cast in many directions, not least towards a young man who came in the priest's train, sent to work in Brother Cadfael's garden. For he has little obvious priestly
...Author
Series
Chronicles of Brother Cadfael volume 1
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
1978, c1977
Language
English
Description
In medieval times, an English prior becomes involved in a mystery when he leads a delegation into Wales to acquire the bones of Saint Winifred.
Author
Series
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
Charges of heresy and murder are complicated by the contents of a mysterious treasure chest In the summer of 1143, William of Lythwood arrives at the Benedictine Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul, but it is not a joyous occasion-he's come back from his pilgrimage in a coffin. William's body is accompanied by his young attendant Elave, whose mission is to secure a burial place for his master on the abbey grounds, despite William's having once been reprimanded...
Author
Series
Brother Cadfael medieval mysteries volume 17
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
Brother Cadfael becomes involved in a mystery when the corpse of a young woman is plowed up in a potter's field in 1143.
Author
Series
Chronicles of Brother Cadfael volume 18
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
Brother Cadfael in captured by Danish mercenaries when his caught up in a disagreement between two Welsh princes in the summer of 1144.
13) The Holy Thief
Author
Series
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
In the fall of 1144, two groups of visitors come to Brother Cadfael's Abbey. One group is lead by a ribald French troubadour, and the other by a mischievous young Benedictine monk. As rising flood waters threaten the abbey, a dead body is discovered, and Cadfael is set on the prowl.
Author
Series
Chronicles of Brother Cadfael volume 10
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
c1984
Language
English
Author
Series
Chronicles of Brother Cadfael volume 7
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
1983
Language
English
Author
Series
Chronicles of Brother Cadfael volume 12
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
1999,c1986
Language
English