Sharan Newman
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English
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With Death Comes As Epiphany, the first in the Catherine LeVendeur mystery series, medievalist Sharan Newman has woven dark mystery and sparkling romance into a fascinating and richly detailed tapestry of everyday life in twelfth-century France, and one of the most moving love stories of all time: Abelard and Heloise.
Catherine LeVendeur is a young scholar come to conquer her sin of pride at the Convent of the Paraclete, famous
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Forge
Pub. Date
1999.
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English
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In The Difficult Saint, Sharan Newman returns to medieval France and the murder-haunted Catherine LeVendeur, heroine of this acclaimed series. After a harrowing stay with Catherine's in-laws in Scotland, Catherine and her husband, Edgar, have returned home with their two small children to live a life of peace at last-or so they hope. But soon the safety of those they love is questioned as anti-Jewish sentiment begins to grow in Paris. Raised Catholic...
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Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2000.
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English
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To Wear the White Cloak, continues the story of this most remarkable woman and her unique family. Set against the backdrop of twelfth-century France, Catherine's life is both a reflection of the bonds placed upon a woman in her society and the ways in which a strong personality could triumph and succeed in spite of those strictures. Catherine is an independent spirit, fiercely loyal to both her faith and her family, and that loyalty will be sorely...
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Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2002.
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English
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"Catherine LeVendeur is a creature of twelfth-century France. Her life is a mirror of time, but she is a unique spirit, determined to make her way in the world and armed with a keen mind and a curiousity that often puts her in peril."--Jacket.
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Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1996.
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English
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"As a former novitiate in the Order of the Paraclete, Catherine LeVendeur has had more than her share of adventures. In fact, intrigue-and murder-seem to dog her path. Catherine chose love over churchly devotion by falling in love with her Saxon nobleman, Edgar, and her family earnestly hoped that married life would settle this most headstrong and unusual woman. But heaven has a way of playing with mortals. The mummified arm of St. Aldhelm is stolen...
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Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1998.
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English
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The 12th century Parisian sleuth, Catherine LeVendeur, accompanies her Scottish husband to his war-torn homeland to investigate the murder of his brothers. A dangerous enterprise, in the course of which she and her son barely escape a castle fire.
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Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Catherine Le Vendeur's curiosity and passion for justice have sometimes led her to solve grisly murders and brave horrors...but this time the threat is to those she loves.
Catherine's family business relies on her cousin Solomon to negotiate the treacherous path to riches. The fact that Solomon is her cousin is secret, however, because he's Jewish, and if their family connections were discovered, it could mean ruin or death. When Solomon's father,...
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Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1994.
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English
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In 12th Century France, Catherine LaVendeur, the novice nun, is sent on an undercover mission by Mother Heloise, the abbess of the convent. She has to find the killer of a wealthy noblewoman. In this, Catherine is ably aided by her fiance, Edgar, a student of the monk, Peter Abelard. By the author of Death Comes As Epiphany.
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Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2008.
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English
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Portland, 1868. It is a roughhewn place, an exploding trading post that has dreams of becoming a metropolis.
Horace Stratton, one of Portland's wealthiest heirs, has decided to come home for good after amassing yet another fortune in Shanghai. With him comes his wife Emily, a shy daughter of missionaries, and their teenaged son. On the brink of that happy return, Horace suddenly falls ill and dies in San Francisco.
Emily and her son bring her...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A fresh and highly accessible history of the Holy Lands during the Middle Ages, revealing a rich and diverse culture and the fight to save Jerusalem from the Crusaders"--
"Jerusalem sits at the crossroads of three continents and has been continuously invaded for millennia. Yet, in the middle of one of the region's most violent eras, the Crusades, an amazing multicultural world was forming. Templar knights, Muslim peasants, Turkish caliphs, Jewish...