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Author
Publisher
Center Street
Language
English
Description
THE SANCTUARY is the gripping story of vigilante priest, Danny Hansen, who is now serving a fifty year prison term in California for the murder of two abusive men. Filled with remorse, Danny is determined to live out his days by a code of non-violence and maneuvers deftly within a ruthless prison system.But when Renee Gilmore, the woman he loves, receives a box containing a bloody finger and draconian demands from a mysterious enemy on the outside,...
Author
Series
Dragonvarld volume 1
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mistress of Dragons is the first volume in an epic fantasy trilogy entitled The Dragonvald. Here is a world where men and dragons coexist amid political intrigue and dark magic, where the uneasy balance of power between the two is on the verge of becoming undone, threatening to unleash waves of destruction that will pit humans against humans as well as dragons against men for the domination of the world. Humanity's very survival is at risk. The power...
5) Overbite
Author
Series
Insatiable volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Bryn is the daughter of a humble stone-cutter. But the day comes when a spinning thistledown leads Bryn to her destiny - the famous Temple of the Oracle. Here she discovers that her innate gifts make her a terrifying threat to those who seek to abuse the Temple's power for their own glory.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Danny Hansen came to America with hopes of escaping haunted memories of a tragic war that took his mother's life. Now he's a priest, incensed by the powerful among us who manipulate the law for their own gain, uncaring of the shattered lives they leave behind. It is his duty to show them the error of their ways, even if he must put them, in the grave. Renee Gilmore is the frail and helpless victim of one such powerful man. Having escaped his clutches,...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"In a world between wars, a young man on the cusp of taking priestly vows is suddenly made a fugitive. Fleeing the accusations of police who blame him for a murder, as well as more sinister forces with darker intentions, Vango attempts to trace the secrets of his shrouded past and prove his innocence before all is lost. As he crisscrosses the continent via train, boat, and even the Graf Zeppelin airship, his adventures take him from Parisian rooftops...
9) Father Stu
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When an injury ends his amateur boxing career, Stuart Long moves to Los Angeles to find money and fame. While scraping by as a supermarket clerk, he meets Carmen, a Sunday school teacher who seems immune to his bad-boy charm. Determined to win her over, the longtime agnostic starts going to church to impress her. However, a motorcycle accident leaves him wondering if he can use his second chance to help others, leading to the surprising realization...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
For more than half a century, Father Damien Modeste has served his beloved people, the Ojibwe, on the remote reservation of Little No Horse. Now, nearing the end of his life, he dreads the discovery of his physical identity, for he is a woman who has lived as a man.
12) Faith: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
It is the spring of 2002 and a perfect storm has hit Boston. Across the city's archdiocese, trusted priests have been accused of the worst possible betrayal of the souls in their care. In Faith, Jennifer Haigh explores the fallout for one devout family, the McGanns.
13) The Dragon's Son
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
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.
14) Body and Blood
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Dangerous secrets unravel as two Catholic priests rekindle their forbidden romance in this steamy suspense tale.As a sixteen-year-old Catholic seminarian, Chris Sieb had a deep crush on fellow student Jack Canston. Now, twenty-five years after parting ways, Jack has transfered to the Kansas City diocese where he once again encounters Chris - now Father Sieb - a devoted priest and closeted gay man. After seeing each other for the first time, the two...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The Scarlet Gospels takes readers back many years to the early days of two of Barker's most iconic characters in a battle of good and evil as old as time: The long-beleaguered detective Harry D'Amour, investigator of all supernatural, magical, and malevolent crimes faces off against his formidable, and intensely evil rival, Pinhead, the priest of hell. Barker devotees have been waiting for The Scarlet Gospels with bated breath for years, and it's...
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In Phantom trail, accompanying a posse to capture some bandits, Father Halorhan is badly wounded; the bandit who shot him is captured and then dies. Was he poisoned? If so, by whom? In Guns of thunder, two troopers are murdered, apparently by someone eager to see their sealed orders regarding a shipment of rifles bound for Camp Scott.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Grand Prairie, Louisiana-land of confounding accents, hard-drinking senior citizens, and charming sinners-brought to hilarious life in a bracing, heartfelt debut novel simmering with Cajun spice... Father Steve Sibille has come home to the bayou to take charge of St. Pete's church. Among his challenges are teenybopper altar girls, insomnia-curing confessions, and alarmingly alluring congregant Vicky Carrier. Then there's Miss Rita, an irrepressible...
Author
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In the New Mexico village of Camposanto, a priest is tied to a cross made from a sacred cottonwood tree. Father Lorenzo Soledad's adversaries, the impoverished tribe called the Calabazas, observe from below, and Juan Lobo, the head man of the Calabazas, sings the Song of Passage, preparing the priest for his journey by rubbing a white powder across his brow. It's a chilly April Friday in 1897. In two days it will be Easter, but for Soledad there will...
19) Angel of storms
Author
Series
Millennium's rule novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
20) Chalice
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A beekeeper by trade, Mirasol's life changes completely when she is named the new Chalice, the most important advisor to the new Master, a fire priest whom the Circle has called home to assume his role in healing the troubled demesne of Willowland.