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2014., Blasted Heath Ltd Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: A young girl stands at a window in the middle of the night, looking across the street at a man with a Bible. A stained-glass Jesus in blue looks down on the lost church. A woman hangs by the neck from a bridge in the public park, angel's wings on her back. A teenage boy lies in a bath, the water turned blood red. Four church congregations have been told to unite, with unholy consequences. One by one the victims fall, as DS Hutton and DCI Taylor are drawn into the troubled and duplicitous world of the Christian Church, as its numbers fall and members fight over the scraps of diminishing power. And for Hutton, at last, it seems there may be the chance to receive absolution for past sins.
![The Blood That Stains Your Hands [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT76677.JPG "The Blood That Stains Your Hands [eBook]")
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c2012., Adolescent, Simon Pulse Call No: Fic Gre Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Order of darkness Volume: bk. one.Summary Note: In 1453, seventeen-year-old Luca Vero, accused of heresy and expelled from his monastery, is recruited to help investigate evil across Europe but frees his first subject, Isolde, from captivity in a nunnery, and together they seek the one who defends the boundaries of Christendom and holds the secrets of the Order of Darkness.
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c2008., HarperOne Call No: Fic Cho Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: From his unceremonious birth in Bethlehem to his ultimate betrayal in Jerusalem, "Jesus" presents a riveting and soul-stirring account of the remarkable story of one of the world's most important figures.
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2022. Click to access digital title. Summary Note: A new masterwork of satire, lore, and living memory from the leading voice of French-Rwandan literature “Mukasonga breathes upon a vanished world and brings it to life in all its sparkling multifariousness” —J.M. Coetzee In four beautifully woven parts, Mukasonga spins a marvelous recounting of the clash between ancient Rwandan beliefs and the missionaries determined to replace them with European Christianity. When a rogue priest is defrocked for fusing the gospels with the martyrdom of Kibogo, a fierce clash of cults ensues. Swirling with the heady smell of wet earth and flashes of acerbic humor, Mukasonga brings to life the vital mythologies that imbue the Rwandan spirit. In doing so, she gives us a tale of disarming simplicity and profound universal truth. Kibogo’s story is reserved for the evening’s end, when women sit around a fire drinking honeyed brew, when just a few are able to stave off sleep. With heads nodding, drifting into the mist of a dream, one faithful storyteller will weave the old legends of the hillside, stories which church missionaries have done everything in their power to expunge. To some, Kibogo’s tale is founding myth, celestial marvel, magic incantation, bottomless source of hope. To white priests spritzing holy water on shriveled, drought-ridden trees, it looms like red fog over the village: forbidden, satanic, a witchdoctor’s hoax. All debate the twisted roots of this story, but deep down, all secretly wonder – can Kibogo really summon the rain?
![Kibogo [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT102755.JPG "Kibogo [eBook]")
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2011., Adult, Penguin Canada Call No: Fic McI Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Mesopotamian trilogy Volume: bk. 1.Summary Note: John Madison, a Turkish-American art dealer, is trying to solve a puzzle: to find the link between a modern day witch and an ancient one. Aided by Tomas, an archeologist, and Ari, an Iraqi photojournalist - two men with their own secrets to hide - John races against time to unearth the dark history behind the old science of alchemy: Is the notion of turning lead into gold possible after all? The truth lies in Iraq. This is a thriller inspired by the looting of the Baghdad museum.
