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Language
English
Description
Some of the most beautiful English written here by a French national. Written by a man with an extraordinary breadth of experience for his time, an epic romantic fantasy, and a stark portrayal of the commoner struggling for independence from the morass of religious and governmental autocracy. Written in the dawning of French revolution, and full of interesting historical anthropological tidbits.
3) The Orenda
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Abandoned by his native guides a year after arriving in the New World, a seventeenth-century Jesuit missionary is taken prisoner by a Huron warrior in the Canadian wilderness and made to work as an emissary between rival nations at the side of an orphaned Iroquois girl.
4) The sparrow
Author
Series
Sparrow novels (Mary Doria Russell) volume 1
Language
English
Description
Emilio Sandoz, a life-long celibate and Jesuit priest, is part of a crew sent to explore a new planet. Upon arrival they encounter intelligent extraterrestrial life and a small mistake leads to a horrible catastrophe. Emilio, his faith in God utterly destroyed, is the only survivor and he faces a public inquistion when he returns to Earth. Father John Candotti is charge with discovering the truth.
5) Brasyl
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Past, present, and future Brazil, with all its color, passion, and shifting realities, come together in a novel that is part science fiction, part history, part mystery, and entirely enthralling.
6) Dune
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 28
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
This Hugo and Nebula Award winner tells the sweeping tale of a desert planet called Arrakis, the focus of an intricate power struggle in a byzantine interstellar empire. Arrakis is the sole source of Melange, the "spice of spices." Melange is necessary for interstellar travel and grants psychic powers and longevity, so whoever controls it wields great influence. The troubles begin when stewardship of Arrakis is transferred by the Emperor from the...
Author
Series
Charles Du Luc volume 02
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Ex-soldier and Jesuit Charles du Luc investigates the 1686 murder of a woman who was trying to prove she was the heir to the Mynette fortune and claim money that was otherwise intended for Louis le Grand School in Paris.
Author
Series
Charles Du Luc volume 04
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The last thing Jesuit Charles du Luc and his elderly confessor expect to find in an ancient crypt is a newly murdered body. Even more troubling, the shock of discovering the victim - a young man about to enter their order - proves too much for Charles's companion. Vowing justice, Charles wants nothing more than to discover the killer, but is unexpectedly restrained from investigation. At the same moment, a fellow soldier has also entered the Jesuit...
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