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1) Map of bones
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
In this heart-stopping novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author James Rollins, an elite team of ex-Special Forces soldiers turned scientific specialists must uncover a secret society and the treasure that could destroy the world.
When a group of parishioners are burned to death in a German cathedral, the U.S. sends in the Sigma force. The tragedy is more than a case of arson; someone has stolen the priceless treasure
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Overweight with acne-prone skin, twelve-year-old Hannah always feels unsure of herself, but when a wooden statue of Jesus goes missing from a cathedral, she discovers a special connection with both the statue and a larger force.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 65
Language
English
Description
During the building of a cathedral in the fictional town of Kingsbridge, the ambitions of three men merge, conflict and collide through 40 years of social and political upheaval as internal church politics affect the progress of the cathedral and the fortunes of the protagonists.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The story of an enormous cathedral constructed in a marginal, majority-black neighborhood in Cienfuegos, Cuba, told by a chorus of narrators whose sometimes conflicting, overlapping accounts knit together to form a portrait of the neighborhood and the family of outsiders whose arrival in Cienfuegos sparks a series of dramatic events"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Arthur Prescott is happiest when surrounded by the ancient books and manuscripts of the Barchester Cathedral library. Increasingly, he feels like a fish out of water among the concrete buildings of the University of Barchester, where he works as an English professor. His one respite is his time spent nestled in the library, nurturing his secret obsession with the Holy Grail and researching his perennially unfinished guidebook to the medieval cathedral....
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Raphael, a griffin who guards the entrance to a cathedral, yearns to do something that will bring meaning to his life. He gets his chance when he begins caring for a baby that has been left at the cathedral door. When the child's mother returns, Raphael must set things right.
11) Catedrales
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Una adolescente aparece quemada y descuartizada en un descampado. Treinta años después, el crimen sigue sin aclararse y su familia y entorno se han desmoronado. Hace treinta años, en un terreno baldío de un barrio tranquilo, apareció descuartizado y quemado el cadáver de una adolescente. La investigación se cerró sin culpables y su familia -de clase media educada, formal y católica- silenciosamente se fue resquebrajando. Pero, pasado ese...