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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"It is 1891, and a Catholic priest arrives at 221B Baker Street, only to utter the words "il corpe" before suddenly dropping dead. Though the man's death is attributed to cholera, when news of another dead priest reaches Holmes, he becomes convinced that the men have been poisoned. He and Watson learn that the victims were on a mission from the Vatican to investigate a miracle; it is said that the body of eighteenth-century philanthropist and slave...
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Join Fathers Ted, Dougal and Jack, three Irish priests exiled by the Church to their own private Purgatory, a twisted lump of rock called Craggy Island, as penance for indulging their daft vices. With the help of the world's most over-enthusiastic housekeeper, Mrs. Doyle, they tend a demented flock of island dwellers and try to make a heaven out of their rocky piece of hell.
185) The ninth day
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
Deutsch
Description
A priest interned in Dachau concentration camp is released for nine days to return to his native Luxembourg and charged with what he believes is an amoral assignment.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The exceptional young witches at Miss Robichaux's Academy are under assault by forces of ignorance and hate. Caught in the turmoil is new arrival, Zoe, who harbors a terrifying secret of her own. Fiona, a Supreme Witch with unimaginable powers, is determined to protect the Coven, but her obsessive quest for immortality will lead her to cross paths with a formidable voodoo queen and a murderous slave owner cursed with eternal life.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The legend of the Black Barn tells of an otherwordly buidling that has appeared and reappeared throughout history, bringing death and madness in its wake. Now its mystery ensnares and entwines the lives of two very different men. One: a young recluse, obsessed with finding hidden clues within the city's trash. The other: a washed-up Catholic priest, finding his place in a small town that hides dark secrets. Neither of them are prepared for what's...
189) Canoa
Series
Criterion collection volume 862
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition.
Language
Español
Description
"One of Mexico's most highly regarded works of political cinema, Canoa: A Shameful Memory reimagines a real-life incident that had occurred just eight years before its release, when a group of urban university employees on a hiking trip were viciously attacked by residents of the village of San Miguel Canoa who had been manipulated by a corrupt priest into believing the travelers were communist revolutionaries. Director Felipe Cazals adopts a gritty...
190) The overnighters
Series
Drafthouse Films volume no. 27
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
An intimate portrait of job-seekers desperately chasing the broken American Dream to the tiny oil boom town of Williston, North Dakota. With the town lacking the infrastructure to house the overflow of migrants, a local pastor starts the controversial 'overnighters' program, allowing down-and-out workers a place to sleep at the church. His well-meaning project immediately runs into resistance with his community, forcing the clergyman to make a decision...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
"After four-year-old Asenath's mother is murdered by Egypt's foreign rulers, the child is raised to be a priestess by her overprotective father -- high priest of Egypt's sun god. For fifteen years, Asenath is sequestered in the upper levels of Ra's temple, convinced it is her destiny to heal the land by becoming queen to the next Egyptian pharaoh. But when Egypt's foreign king instead gives her as a bride to the newly appointed vizier -- a Hebrew...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Shojo Beat edition.
Language
English
Description
When schoolgirl Takiko Okuda tries to destroy her father's translation of "The Universe of the Four Gods," she is sucked into the story and becomes the Priestess of Genbu on an epic journey to find the seven Celestial Warriors.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Shojo Beat edition.
Language
English
Description
"When schoolgirl Takiko Okuda attempts to destroy her father's translation of The Universe of the Four Gods, she is instead sucked into the story, becoming the Priestess of Genbu in an epic journey to find the seven Celestial Warriors! The time has come for Takiko to assume the powers of the priestess and summon Genbu. As war and disaster break out around her, she must choose the three wishes that will save the Universe of the Four Gods. But according...
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