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In mid-thirteenth century Provence, Dolssa de Stigata is a fervently religious girl who feels the call to preach, condemned by the Inquisition as an "unnatural woman," and hunted by the Dominican Friar Lucien who fears a resurgence of the Albigensian heresy; Botille is a matchmaker trying to protect her sisters from being branded as gypsies or witches--but when she finds the hunted Dolssa dying on a hillside, she feels compelled to protect her, a...
2) Seeker
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Noble warriors volume 1
Language
English
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Having been rejected by the Nomana--the revered warrior-monk order they long to join--sixteen-year-olds Seeker and Morning Star, along with a curious pirate named Wildman, attempt to prove that they are worthy of joining the community, after all.
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"Glorieta Magdalena Davis Espinosa is happy that Papi married Alice. She's happy that he can smile again after years of mourning Mamá. But the urn containing Mamá's ashes disappeared into a drawer the day Alice moved in. If everything about Glorieta's life is going to change, then she wants one thing to go her way: She wants to hear stories about her mamá when the family gathers on the last night of los Días de los Muertos. And that can only happen...
8) Snook alone
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
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.
9) Eddy, Eddy
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A series of earthquakes exposes the fault lines in a teenager's unconventional life in a powerful crossover novel that explores raw emotion with wit and warmth."--
10) God: stories
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
A collection of stories on God. In Made in Heaven by John Updike a non-believer finds himself attracted to believers, while in Parker's Back by Flannery O'Connor an estranged husband has himself tattooed with the picture of Jesus to get into the good books of his religious wife.
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