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"In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two monks--young Trian and old Cormac--he rows down the river Shannon in search of an isolated spot on which to found a monastery. Drifting out into the Atlantic, the three men find an impossibly steep, bare island inhabited by tens of thousands of birds, and claim it for God. In such a place, what will survival mean?"--
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Dublin saga volume 1
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English
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A sweeping panorama steeped in the tragedy and glory that is Ireland, epitomizes the power and richness of Rutherford's storytelling magic. The saga begins in tribal, pre-Christian Ireland during the reign of the fierce and mighty High kings at Tara, with the fate of two lovers, the princely Conall and the ravishing Deirdre, whose travails cleverly echo the ancient Celtic legend of Cuchulainn.
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Sister Fidelma mysteries volume 28
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First hardcover edition.
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English
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A stranger murdered in a gruesome ritual. A prophetess foretelling the return of the ancient gods: the intriguing new Sister Fidelma mystery. Ireland, AD 671. On the eve of the pagan feast of Samhain, Brother Edulf and the warrior, Aidan, discover a man murdered in an unlit pyre in the heart of Cashel. He has been dressed in the robes of a religieux and killed by the ritualistic 'three deaths'. When a strange woman known as Brancheó appears in a...
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Sister Fidelma mysteries volume 10
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First St. Martin's Minotaur edition.
Language
English
Author
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Sister Fidelma mysteries volume 11
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First St. Martin's Minotaur edition.
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English
Author
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Sister Fidelma mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
Investigating the murder of an eminent scholar who was robbed of mysterious manuscripts, Sister Fidelma and her companion, Brother Eadulf, are quickly targeted by the same killer in a case that is complicated by divisive personal problems. By the author of The Council of the Cursed.
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Sister Fidelma mysteries volume 19
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
Counseling a hostile Irish delegation to the Celtic church of 670 A.D., Fidelma of Cashel is embroiled in a politically tenacious investigation when one of the delegates is found murdered, a case that is complicated by the theft of a priceless reliquary.
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Sister Fidelma mysteries volume 24
Language
English
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Winter, AD 670: a feast day, held by King Colgu, at first seems like a joyful---and peaceful---celebration, when it is suddenly interrupted by the entrance of a religieux who claims he has an important message for the king. The intruder approaches the throne, lunging toward the king. He kills Colgu's bodyguard and wounds the king himself, putting him on the verge of death. Though the assassin is quickly slain, the questions on everyone's mind are...
14) Pride of lions
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Pub. Date
1996.
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English
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Lion of Ireland was the breathtaking chronicle of Brian Boru, the Great King who led the bickering chiefs of Ireland to unity under his reign. He overthrew traditions, reformed society, and became the Irish Charlemagne. The Ireland of 1014 was a dream Brian Boru had dreamed and brought into being.
Now, with all the fire and brilliance for which her writing is known, Morgan Llywelyn takes us there, to the battlefield where Brian died, and to Brian's...
16) Blood in Eden
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Sister Fidelma mysteries volume 30
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
Ireland, AD 671. The hamlet of Cloichín is said to be a veritable Eden, with its prosperous farms and close-knit, friendly community. But after a local farmer, his wife and two sons are murdered, a fanatical new priest orders the villagers to lynch the man accused of the crime. The only evidence they hold against him is the fact that he is a stranger to their land. Searching for accommodation on their journey home to Cashel, Sister Fidelma and Eadulf...
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Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Slave, soldier, lover, hero, saint,-his life mirrored the cataclysmic world into which he was born. His memory will outlast the ages.
Born of a noble Welsh family, he is violently torn from his home by Irish raiders at age sixteen and sold as a slave to a brutal wilderness king. Rescued by the king's druids from almost certain death, he learns the arts of healing and song, and the mystical ways of a secretive order whose teachings tantalize with...
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Series
Sister Fidelma mysteries volume 20
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
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English
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The Viking King of Dublin is dead. His young widow, Gormflaith, has ambitions for her son...Gormflaith also has a secret. She is one of the Fomorians, an immortal race who can do fire-magic. She has kept her powers hidden at all costs...Fódla is one of the Tuatha Dé Danann with the gift of healing. Her kind dwell hidden in a fortress, forbidden to live amongst the mortals...She finds a land on the brink of war--a war she is desperate to stop"--...
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