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2008., Adult, McClelland & Stewart Call No: SC Fic Oha Edition: Emblem Editions. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Be near me when my light is low, When the blood creeps, and nerves prick And tingle; and the heart is sick, And all the wheels of Being slow." (from 'In Memoriam A.H.H.', Alfred, Lord Tennyson) When an English priest takes over a small Scottish parish, not everyone is ready to accept him. He makes friends with two local youths, Mark and Lisa, and clashes with a world he can barely understand. The town seems to grow darker each night. Fate comes calling and before the summer is out his quiet life is the focus of public hysteria. Father David looks back to find a Lancashire childhood. He remembers a lost father and a grand school for Catholic boys. He finds 1960s Oxford in the heat of student revolt and recalls a choice he once made in the orange groves of Rome. Be Near Me is a story of art and politics, love and change, and a book about the way we live now. Trapped in class hatreds, threatened by personal flaws, Father David begins to discover what happened to the ideals of his generation. Meanwhile a religious war is unfolding on his doorstep...
![The devil's labyrinth [LP] : a novel](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "The devil's labyrinth [LP] : a novel")
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2015., Adult, ECW Press Call No: MYS Fic Kro Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: 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 church, apparently by a symbol of his faith, and an unidentified woman's body had been found. He's barely holding it together. When a deranged teenager, a possible witness, crosses his path, he is propelled into a sleazy, violent world of underage prostitution, sexual abuse, and human trafficking as he pursues a merciless killer. A stylish and riveting exploration of both the consequences of depravity and the sometimes-extraordinary resilience of the human spirit.
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2006., Alfred A. Knopf Canada Call No: Fic Fru Edition: ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: brilliant novel packed with delights: grand romance, alchemical potions, violins to make you weep, commedia dellœarte theatre, reappearing comets, rambling skeletons and cracks in time.It is 1682 in Cremona, Italy. With his manservant, an insolent dwarf named Omero, Fabrizio Cambiati, a priest, climbs the town clocktower to await the return of a comet that is said to reappear in the skies every 76 years. He has a new invention called a telescope with which to scour the night. As they await the comet, he scopes the town below and sees the commedia dellœarte players setting up in the town square and a Jesuit arriving in a carriage. We later learn that the Jesuit is Michele Archenti, a Devilœs Advocate sent from Rome to investigate the candidacy for sainthood of this same Fabrizio Cambiati 76 years later! The novel then begins again, this time in 1758 when Archenti settles himself in the town to assume his investigations. It is his job to find the flaws in Fabrizioœs character. In this attempt, he interviews a number of citizens, including an old duchess who holds a secret about Fabrizioœs life that would ruin the reputation of this priest, who was both a hidden alchemist and healer. The play held in the town square connects the two time periods by reflecting the goings-on in the wider world. We meet the players, as well as the duke, his beautiful daughter, a happy madman roaming the countryside with a skeleton on his back, and a hunchback who lives with his mastiff in a labyrinthine palace that is, like imagination itself, continually mutating. With enormous assurance and a wonderful affection for his characters, Mark Frutkin has woven a miraculous tale that explores the ambiguous nature of reality and on every page packs joy into the reading.
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2017., Adult, 108, Lions Gate Entertainment Inc. Call No: DVD Fic First Reformed Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A pastor of a small church in upstate New York starts to spiral out of control after a soul-shaking encounter with an unstable environmental activist and his pregnant wife.
![First reformed [DVD] (2017). Directed by Paul Schrader.](/Library/images/~imageCT99758.JPG "First reformed [DVD] (2017). Directed by Paul Schrader.")
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2014., Birlinn Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: In the house of a Roman Catholic bishop a man lies in a pool of blood. Out in the bishop's diocese the quiet life of parish priest Father Vincent Ross is about to be thrown into turmoil by a terrifying revelation. There are ugly scandals being hidden by the church he has served for so long, and a murderer is on the prowl. The police and the authorities are groping in the dark, but Father Ross has been given special information that he cannot disclose to anyone. It gradually dawns on him that he and he alone can unravel the mystery and bring the nightmare of violence to an end. He must put his personal safety, his reputation and finally his life on the line.
![The good priest [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT76453.JPG "The good priest [eBook]")
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2019., Adult, Doubleday Call No: MYS Fic Gri Edition: First Edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In a small Florida town, a young lawyer is shot to death. A young black man, a former client, named Quincy Miller is charged and convicted. For 22 years, Miller maintains his innocence from inside prison. Finally, Guardian Ministries takes on Miller's case, but the Episcopal minister in charge gets more than he bargained for as powerful people do not want Miller exonerated.
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2019., Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Edition: eBook ed. Connect to this eBook title Summary Note: In the small north Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no clues behind. There were no witnesses, no real suspects, no one with a motive. The police soon settled on Quincy Miller, a young black man who was once a client of Russo's. Quincy was framed, convicted, and sent to prison for life. For twenty-two years he languished in prison with no lawyer, no advocate on the outside. Then he wrote a letter to Guardian Ministries, a small innocence group founded by a lawyer/minister named Cullen Post. Guardian handles only a few innocence cases at a time, and Post is its only investigator. He travels the South fighting wrongful convictions and taking cases no one else will touch. With Quincy Miller, though, he gets far more than he bargained for. Powerful, ruthless people murdered Keith Russo, and they do not want Quincy exonerated. They killed one lawyer twenty-two years ago, and they will kill another one without a second thought.
![The guardians [eBook] : a novel](/Library/images/~imageCT100763.JPG "The guardians [eBook] : a novel")
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2014., Adult, Doubleday Canada Call No: Fic Boy Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Odran Yates enters Clonliffe Seminary in 1972 after his mother informs him that he has a vocation to the priesthood. He goes in full of ambition and hope, dedicated to his studies and keen to make friends. Forty years later, Odran's devotion has been challenged by the revelations that have shattered the Irish people's faith in the church. He has seen friends stand trial, colleagues jailed, the lives of young parishioners destroyed and has become nervous of venturing out in public for fear of disapproving stares and insulting remarks. But when a family tragedy opens wounds from his past, he is forced to confront the demons that have raged within a once respected institution and recognise his own complicity in their propagation. It has taken John Boyne fifteen years and twelve novels to write about his home country of Ireland but he has done so now in his most powerful novel to date, a novel about blind dogma and moral courage, and about the dark places where the two can meet. At once courageous and intensely personal, A History of Loneliness confirms Boyne as one of the most searching chroniclers of his generation.
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2009., Alto Call No: QWF FR Fic Des Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Roman constitué de huit récits étroitement liés entre eux, confessions de sept hommes et d'une femme à un prêtre, l'abbé Savoie (1877-1913), qui, incapable de garder le silence face à ces étranges événements, commet le sacrilège de les livrer au papier. Un quatrième roman haut en couleur, mélange singulier d'exotisme, d'érotisme et de fantastique, qui mérite le détour. [SDM]
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2012., Talonbooks Call No: QWF Fic Des Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Martine Desjardins delivers to readers of 'Maleficium' the unexpurgated revelations of Vicar Jerome Savoie, a heretic priest in nineteenth-century Montreal. Braving threats from the Catholic Church, Savoie violates the sanctity of the confessional in a confession-within-a-confession, in which seven penitents, each a?icted with a debilitating malady or struck with a crippling deformity, relates his encounter with an enigmatic young woman whose lips bear a striking scar. As these men penetrate deep into the exotic Orient, each falls victim to his own secret vice. One treks through Ethiopia in search of wingless locusts. Another hunts for fly-whisks among the clove plantations of Zanzibar. Yet others bargain for sa?ron in a Srinagar bazaar, search for the rarest frankincense, and pursue the coveted hawksbill turtle in the Sea of Oman. Two more seek the formula for sabon Nablus in Palestine or haggle over Persian carpets in the royal gardens of Shiraz. The men's individual forms of punishment, revealed through the agency of the young woman, are wrought upon their bodies.
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2020., HarperCollins Publishers Inc. Connect to this eBook title Series Title: Gabriel Allon series.Summary Note: "Gabriel Allon has slipped quietly into Venice for a much-needed holiday with his wife and two young children. But when Pope Paul VII dies suddenly, Gabriel is summoned to Rome by the Holy Father's loyal private secretary, Archbishop Luigi Donati. A billion Catholic faithful have been told that the pope died of a heart attack. Donati, however, has two good reasons to suspect his master was murdered. The Swiss Guard who was standing watch outside the papal apartments the night of the pope's death is missing. So, too, is the letter the Holy Father was writing during the final hours of his life. A letter that was addressed to Gabriel."--Provided by publisher.
![The order [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT101355.JPG "The order [eBook]")
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By Bruen, Ken2007., St. Martin's Minotaur Call No: MYS Fic Bru Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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By Emery, Anne2015., Adult, ECW Press Call No: MYS Fic Eme Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Collins-Burke Mystery Volume: 8Summary Note: "In this prequel to the Collins-Burke series, Father Brennan Burke is home in New York when news of his sister's arrest in London sends him flying across the ocean. The family troubles deepen when Brennan's cousin Conn is charged with the murder of a Special Branch detective and suspected in a terrorist plot against Westminster Abbey. The Burkes come under surveillance by the murdered cop's partner and are caught in a tangle of buried family memories."--bookmanager.com.
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-- 2nd sleep.2019., Adult, Random House Canada Call No: MYS Fic Har Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artifacts--coins, fragments of glass, human bones--which the old parson used to collect. Did his obsession with the past lead to his death? Fairfax becomes determined to discover the truth. Over the course of the next six days, everything he believes--about himself, his faith, and the history of his world--will be tested to destruction."--Publisher.
