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Magic tree house. Original series volume 15
Language
English
Description
Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to a monastery in medieval Ireland, where they try to retrieve a lost book while being menaced by Viking raiders.
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Language
English
Description
"We shall all, in the end, be led to where we belong. We shall all, in the end, find our way home. In a time of war, a mysterious child appears at the monastery of the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing. Gentle Brother Edik finds the girl, Beatryce, curled in a stall, wracked with fever, coated in dirt and blood, and holding fast to the ear of Answelica the goat. As the monk nurses Beatryce to health, he uncovers her dangerous secret, one that imperils...
Author
Series
Looking Glass Library volume 15
Language
English
Description
The gentle son of a medieval German robber baron, raised in the calm and thoughtful quiet of a monastery, returns to his father's castle and, despite great suffering and blood-feuds, grows to honor and manhood.
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English
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An unbreakable cipher, a dead priest with expensive shoes, a hermit who converses with saints, an angry French girl, and much more might stop an ordinary fifteen-year-old safe-cracking genius, but not Percy St.-John. He's out to prove he did not steal a mysterious ancient book that may hold the key to mankind's greatest hope and greatest danger.
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Series
Crowfield series volume 2
Language
English
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In March of 1348, the awakening of an ancient evil drives fay creatures from the woods, causes Crowfield Abbey to crumble, and haunts the dreams of the monks, but the demon seems especially drawn to Will, who is beginning to realize the significance of his Sight.
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English
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In Ireland in the Middle Ages, young Brother Cuthbert, known for making mistakes and giving up easily, is chosen through a miscommunication to serve as scribe for an illuminated manuscript of the Nativity story, through which the Abbot hopes to make the monastery famous.
Author
Series
Crowfield series volume 1
Language
English
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Description
In 1347, when fourteen-year-old orphan William Paynel, an impoverished servant at Crowfield Abbey, goes into the forest to gather wood and finds a magical creature caught in a trap, he discovers he has the ability to see fays and becomes embroiled in a strange mystery involving Old Magic, a bitter feud, and ancient secrets.
Author
Series
(Allison L.).Ateban Cipher novel volume 1
Publisher
Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
What's the secret of the book, and why is it so valuable? These are the questions Gabe must answer when a dying man hands him a coded manuscript with one instruction: take it to Aidan. Gabe is hurled into a quest that takes him beyond his monastery home and into a world of danger, political intrigue, and adventure. As he seeks to decipher the code and find a mystery man who may not even exist, Gabe learns that survival must be earned and that some...
11) Moonlight kite
Author
Publisher
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
The last three monks at a monastery have their lives enriched by the presence of children flying kites outside their walls.
Author
Publisher
Tuttle Pub
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
After the 1783 eruption of Japan's Mount Asama destroys crops in nearby villages, a orphaned blind girl who lives at the Daruma Temple in Takasaki invents a doll representing a famed Buddhist monk and his teachings about resilience.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In 1171 twelve-year-old Hugh, burdened with a crippled leg since birth, is unhappy when his nobleman father, forced into exile in the bloody aftermath of King Henry's confrontation with Archbishop Thomas Becket, leaves him in the care of the monks of Glastonbury Abbey.
Author
Publisher
Éditions Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Français
Description
"Une enfant possède un dangereux secret ayant le pouvoir de renverser un roi. Alors qu'une guerre sévit, une enfant mystérieuse et malade apparaît au monastère de l'Ordre des Chroniques du Chagrin. Elle est découverte par un moine bienveillant qui prend soin d'elle jusqu'à ce qu'elle guérisse. Pendant ce temps, il apprend son étrange secret, un secret mettant en danger tout le royaume. Cette jeune fille est recherchée par le roi et seul...
16) Orange-robed boy
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
[1967]
Language
English
Description
Records the coming of age of a twelve-year-old Burmese boy when he must enter a monastery for a brief period to learn the precepts of Buddha.
Author
Series
Shen qi shu wu. Gu shi xi lie ji chu ban volume 15
Publisher
Xin shi ji chu ban she
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
中文
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