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1) Matrix
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvationand beset by disease. At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and mercurial sisters. In this crucible, Marie steadily...
2) The cave
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
While on a dig in a Romanian forest, a group of scientists make a startling find. Dating back to the 13th century, they find a huge abbey, which was built over the entrance to a massive network of subterranean caves. Eager to learn what lies within the caves, the scientists discover to their peril that a large part of the cave system is under water. The scientists hire a team of American spelunkers who are trained in exploring underwater caves. The...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
1st world ed.
Language
English
Description
An important discovery puts Roger the Chapman's life in danger . . . - In the autumn of 1483, Roger goes on an errand of mercy to Hereford, where he is caught up in the Duke of Buckingham's rebellion against the new king, Richard III. Roger takes refuge in Tintern Abbey, but on his return to Bristol, a murder and a series of house robberies lead him to the eventual discovery of the treasure stolen from the abbey on the night he was there. It also...
4) Ely plot
Author
Series
Wickit chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"How did Pip end up in the middle of the Fenland with the teenage King of England and a living, breathing gargoyle named Perfect? Why are people trying to kill them? Will they ever get back to the safety of Wickit Abbey?"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Series
Redwall volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Urthstripe the Strong, a wise old badger, leads the animals of the great fortress of Salamandastron and Redwall Abbey against the weasel Ferahgo the Assassin and his corps of vermin.
6) Rakkety Tam
Author
Series
Redwall volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Two warrior squirrels lead the battle against Gulo, a bloodthirsty wolverine who will stop at nothing to recover the Walking Stone that will give him the authority to rule the lands of ice beyond the Great Sea.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Language
English
Description
A companion book to the popular British series about the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants offers insights into the story and characters and background information on British society in the early years of the twentieth century.
Author
Series
Redwall volume 21
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
The courageous Redwall creatures band together as Vilaya, the evil Sable Quean, and her horde of vermin attempt to make off with the young animals of the Abbey.
10) Pearls of Lutra
Author
Series
Redwall volume 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tansy, a young hedgehog living at Redwall Abbey, attempts to solve the riddle of the missing pearls while at the same time the evil marten, Mad Eyes, desires them for himself.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This memoir of life in the American desert by the author of The Monkey Wrench Gang is a nature writing classic on par with Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring.
In Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey recounts his many escapades, adventures, and epiphanies as an Arches National Park ranger outside Moab, Utah. Brimming with arresting insights, impassioned arguments for wilderness conservation, and a raconteur’s...
In Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey recounts his many escapades, adventures, and epiphanies as an Arches National Park ranger outside Moab, Utah. Brimming with arresting insights, impassioned arguments for wilderness conservation, and a raconteur’s...
Author
Series
Redwall volume 14
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2007], c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
A young otter, kidnapped in his infancy and raised as a warrior-thief by a band of vermin, leaves the tribe and goes off to seek adventures of his own.
Author
Series
Jane Austen diaries volume 2
Publisher
Inkberry Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
In this modern retelling of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, follow Claire's hilarious journey on her first summer adventure away from home, where she learns everything isn't what is seems, and that in some instances, reality is way better than anything she'd ever find in a book..
Author
Series
Redwall volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
The mousemaid Mariel achieves victory at sea for the animals of Redwall Abbey, fighting the savage pirate rat Gabool the Wild, warlord of rodent corsairs.
Author
Publisher
Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the 50th anniversary of the publication of Edward Abbey's Desert solitaire: a season in the wilderness, author Amy Irvine has produced a clutch of essays in praise of Abbey's work, and also as a correction to some of his dated and offensive attitudes.
Author
Series
Publisher
Weldon Owen
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Recipes, notes, and photos from the show.
Food historian and show consultant Annie Gray gives a rich and fascinating insight into the background of the dishes that were popular between 1912 and 1926, when Downton Abbey is set-a period of tremendous change and conflict, as well as culinary development. With a foreword by executive producer and co-creator Gareth Neame, and featuring over one hundred stunning color photographs, The Official Downton...
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