The Lost Abbot

Author : Susanna Gregory
Publisher : Sphere
ISBN 13 : 140551681X
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Abbot written by Susanna Gregory and published by Sphere. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1358 Matthew Bartholomew finds himself one of a party of Bishop's Commissioners, sent north to investigate the mysterious disappearance of the Abbot of Peterborough. He and his colleagues quickly learn that behind the beautiful façade of the Benedictine monastery there is a vicious struggle for power, and that not everyone would be happy to see the prelate's safe return. This unrest and discontent seems to have spread throughout the town, and there are bitter rivalries between competing shrines and the financial benefits of the relics they hold. One of these shrines is dedicated to Lawrence de Oxforde, a robber and murderer who was executed for his crimes, but who has been venerated ever since miracles started occurring at his grave. But when Bartholomew and his friend Brother Michael go to investigate, they find murder instead...

Author : Susanna Gregory
Publisher : Soundings Audio Books
ISBN 13 : 9781407935829
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Abbot written by Susanna Gregory and published by Soundings Audio Books. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matthew Bartholomew doesn't want to travel to Peterborough, but he has caused a scandal in Cambridge, so has no choice. He is one of a party of Bishop's Commissioners, charged to discover what happened to Peterborough's abbot, who has disappeared. When the Commissioners arrive, they find the town in turmoil. A rabble-rouser is encouraging the poor to rise up, the abbey is at war with a powerful goldsmith, and there are bitter rivalries between competing shrines. One shrine is dedicated to Lawrence de Oxforde, a felon who was executed, but who has been venerated after miracles started occurring at his grave. However, it is not long before murder rears its head, and its first victim is the woman in charge of Oxforde's tomb...

Author : George William MacArthur Reynolds
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Baker's Daughter; Or, The Lost Witness written by George William MacArthur Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 18?? with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michelle Still
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351895303
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Abbot and the Rule written by Michelle Still and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St Albans was one of the greatest Benedictine abbeys of medieval England, and the early 14th century was a period during which the concerns of the community and the role of the abbot emerge particularly clearly. Yet the history of the abbey during this period has received little attention since general surveys undertaken over eighty years ago, and the manorial history by Levett in 1938. Basing herself on the unique and relatively unexploited Gesta Abbatum Monasterii Sancti Albani, Michelle Still examines the position of St Albans in both the secular and monastic worlds, with a focus on the period 1290-1349. The study includes discussion of the role of the abbot as a feudal landlord, a provider of education (at the abbey's grammar school), and a dispenser of charity. In conclusion, she notes the pivotal importance of the personality and influence of the abbot of St Albans in ensuring the strict observance of the Rule of St Benedict in an age when traditional monasticism was increasingly challenged. Through the detailed study of this one abbey, this book makes an important contribution to the overall picture of monastic life in medieval England.

Author : Hailey Abbott
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061971502
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Getting Lost with Boys written by Hailey Abbott and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cordelia Packer hates the unexpected, but she's in for a surprise when Jacob Stein offers to be her travel companion, all the way from San Diego to her sister's place in northern California. Before she knows it, her neatly laid out summer plan has turned into a wild road trip, where anything can – and does – happen. Who knew getting lost with a boy could be so much fun?

Author : Janice Neri
Publisher : University Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 081732013X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Abbot and William Swainson written by Janice Neri and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An archive of never-before-published illustrations of insects and plants painted by a pioneering naturalist During his lifetime (1751–ca. 1840), English-born naturalist and artist John Abbot rendered more than 4,000 natural history illustrations and profoundly influenced North American entomology, as he documented many species in the New World long before they were scientifically described. For sixty-five years, Abbot worked in Georgia to advance knowledge of the flora and fauna of the American South by sending superbly mounted specimens and exquisitely detailed illustrations of insects, birds, butterflies, and moths, on commission, to collectors and scientists all over the world. Between 1816 and 1818, Abbot completed 104 drawings of insects on their native plants for English naturalist and patron William Swainson (1789–1855). Both Abbot and Swainson were artists, naturalists, and collectors during a time when natural history and the sciences flourished. Separated by nearly forty years in age, Abbot and Swainson were members of the same international communities and correspondence networks upon which the study of nature was based during this period. The relationship between these two men—who never met in person—is explored in John Abbot and William Swainson: Art, Science, and Commerce in Nineteenth-Century Natural History Illustration. This volume also showcases, for the first time, the complete set of original, full-color illustrations discovered in 1977 in the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington, New Zealand. Originally intended as a companion to an earlier survey of insects from Georgia, the newly rediscovered Turnbull manuscript presents beetles, grasshoppers, butterflies, moths, and a wasp. Most of the insects are pictured with the flowering plants upon which Abbot thought them to feed. Abbot’s journal annotations about the habits and biology of each species are also included, as are nomenclature updates for the insect taxa. Today, the Turnbull drawings illuminate the complex array of personal and professional concerns that informed the field of natural history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These illustrations are also treasured artifacts from times past, their far-flung travels revealing a world being reshaped by the forces of global commerce and information exchange even then. The shared project of John Abbot and William Swainson is now brought to completion, signaling the beginning of a new phase of its significance for modern readers and scholars.

Author : Jim Abbott
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345523261
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imperfect written by Jim Abbott and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Honest, touching, and beautifully rendered . . . Far more than a book about baseball, it is a deeply felt story of triumph and failure, dreams and disappointments. Jim Abbott has hurled another gem.”—Jonathan Eig, New York Times bestselling author of Luckiest Man NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Born without a right hand, Jim Abbott dreamed of someday being a great athlete. Raised in Flint, Michigan, by parents who encouraged him to compete, Jim would become an ace pitcher for the University of Michigan. But his journey was only beginning: By twenty-one, he’d won the gold medal game at the 1988 Olympics and—without spending a day in the minor leagues—cracked the starting rotation of the California Angels. In 1991, he would finish third in the voting for the Cy Young Award. Two years later, he would don Yankee pinstripes and pitch one of the most dramatic no-hitters in major-league history. In this honest and insightful book, Jim Abbott reveals the challenges he faced in becoming an elite pitcher, the insecurities he dealt with in a life spent as the different one, and the intense emotion generated by his encounters with disabled children from around the country. With a riveting pitch-by-pitch account of his no-hitter providing the ideal frame for his story, this unique athlete offers readers an extraordinary and unforgettable memoir. “Compelling . . . [a] big-hearted memoir.”—Los Angeles Times “Inspirational.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer Includes an exclusive conversation between Jim Abbott and Tim Brown in the back of the book.

Author : Walter Sir Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book “The” Abbot written by Walter Sir Scott and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ashton Abbott
Publisher : Ashton Abbott
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Necromancer Rising written by Ashton Abbott and published by Ashton Abbott. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The delicate balance of this world is threatened when Badb, goddess of war, is unleashed. With the help of other immortals drawn to her cause, she seeks to free her sisters and merge with them once more to form The Morrigan. Adeline Verone was prophesied to be the Queen of the Dead, the most powerful necromancer to ever grace this earth. The problem? She can’t access her powers. A group of immortals make it their mission to capture her, forcing Adeline to run for her life… and when that doesn’t work; to trust a brooding werewolf that is hiding an agenda of his own. William Flynn had his life turned upside down at the loss of his brother. When a witch falls under his protection he makes the choice to betray her in order to protect his pack. He didn’t realize how much he would regret that decision. Can Adeline and William ally for the sake of defending the world against The Morrigan, goddess of war, fate, and death? Or will William’s betrayal and the uncontrollable lust they feel for one another be their downfall?

Author : Isabella Neil Harwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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