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  • The walking Tanteek
    Author:
    Woods, Jane
    Summary:

    A CNQ Editors’ Book of the Year. Does faith insist upon the spotless soul? Can intellectual integrity and an honest search for the holy in this world survive a collision with religious mania? Is heavenly forgiveness possible this side...
  • The priest : aaron
    Author:
    Rivers, Francine
    Summary:

    The Priest is the first book in a new companion series to A Lineage of Grace. Each novella peers into the life of one of five biblical men (such as Aaron, Jonathan, Silas) who stood behind the great heroes of faith. In The Priest you...
  • The innocence of Father Brown
    Author:
    Chesterton, G. K.
    Summary:

    Has it never struck you that a man who does next to nothing but hear men's real sins is not likely to be wholly unaware of human evil? In The Innocence of Father Brown , G.K. Chesterton explores the darker side of human nature—the...
  • The drop zone : A T.J. Peterson mystery
    Author:
    Kroll, Bob
    Summary:

    A dark and suspenseful debut. Detective T.J. Peterson has a problem, and it's not just how much he's drinking or the daily, silent, tormenting video calls from his estranged daughter. A Catholic priest has been bludgeoned to death in...
  • The awful mess : a love story
    Author:
    Hutchison, Sandra
    Summary:

    A lonely divorcee gets caught up in the lives of an unhappily-married Episcopal priest and a handsome town cop before a crushing job loss, a scandalous pregnancy and a deteriorating ex threaten all she has left. In this witty, often...
  • Sign of the Cross: A Mystery
    Author:
    Emery, Anne
    Summary:

    Be careful what you wish for, his mother used to say. Yet how many times has Monty Collins wished for a client who is intelligent, articulate and tattoo-free? Now he has one, but it’s not long before his mother’s warning comes back to...
  • Ruined Abbey: A Collins-Burke Mystery
    Author:
    Emery, Anne
    Summary:

    “This winning mystery stands on its own” (Booklist) — Emery’s eighth novel now in trade paper

    It’s 1989. The Troubles are raging in Ireland, bombs exploding in England. In this prequel to the Collins-...
  • Rosmersholm
    Author:
    IBSEN, Henrik
    Summary:

    Rosmersholm is a play written in 1886 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. In the estimation of many critics the piece is Ibsen’s masterwork, only equalled by The Wild Duck of 1884. As expressed by the protagonist, Rosmer,...
  • Raymond Gravel, le dernier combat
    Author:
    Marchand, Carl
    Summary:

    «J’ai besoin que le monde m’aime.» Voilà, c’est dit... Après neuf mois d’entretiens et de rencontres, Raymond Gravel laisse tomber cette toute petite phrase. Si quelques mots suffisaient à le définir, ce serait ceux-là: ce besoin d’...
  • Land of shadows : a medieval mystery
    Author:
    Royal, Priscilla
    Summary:

    A royal birth, a nobleman's death, and a scarlet woman's murder In March 1279 Edward I takes a break from hammering the Welsh and bearing down on England's Jews to vacation in Gloucestershire. The royal party breaks the...
  • Lament for Bonnie : a Collins-Burke mystery
    Author:
    Emery, Anne
    Summary:

    Twelve-year-old Bonnie MacDonald — the beloved stepdancing, fiddling youngest member of Cape Breton’s famed Clan Donnie band — vanishes after a family party. No one thinks Bonnie ran away. Maura MacNeil, cousin to Clan Donnie, offers...
  • Hansel et Gretel
    Author:
    Godbout, Yvan
    Summary:

    Une mère désespérée surprenant l’innommable dans le quatre pièces et demie miteux qu’elle partage avec son salaud et leur couple de jumeaux. Un frère et une soeur télépathes ayant sauvagement perdu leur innocence, avidement convoités...
  • Faith under fire : Fredrick G. Scott, Canada's extraordinary chaplain of the Great War
    Author:
    Hustak, Alan
    Summary:

    If Frederick Scott is remembered at all today, it is as minor Victorian poet or as the father of his illustrious son F.R. Scott. However, Frederick Scott was almost 55 years old and the pastor of St. Matthews Anglican Church in Quebec...
  • Death at Christy Burke's: A Mystery
    Author:
    Emery, Anne
    Summary:

    There’s a killer on the premises of Christy Burke’s pub in Dublin, according to graffiti spray-painted on the wall. Father Brennan Burke, Christy’s grandson, is asked to investigate the vandalism. Brennan has been tending bar a bit...
  • Blood on a Saint: A Mystery
    Author:
    Emery, Anne
    Summary:

    This popular series 'gets better with every book' (Globe and Mail)

    Father Brennan Burke's patience is tested to the limit when a young woman announces to the world that the Virgin Mary has appeared to...
  • Anchoress of Shere
    Author:
    Moorcraft, Paul L.
    Summary:

    In 1329, a beautiful Surrey woman is walled up alive in the village church of Shere. The Anchoress’ story is taken up late in this century by deranged Catholic priest Father Michael Duval. Gradually, two separate sagas unfold: the world...
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