Catalog Search Results
Showing Results using Keyword index
1) The quest
Author
Language
English
Description
While the Ethiopian Civil War rages, a Catholic priest languishes in prison. Forty years have passed since he last saw daylight. His crime? Claiming to know the true location of Christ's cup from the Last Supper. Then the miraculous happens -- a mortar strikes the prison and he is free! Old, frail, and injured, he escapes to the jungle, where he encounters two Western journalists and a beautiful freelance photographer taking refuge from the carnage....
Author
Series
Dresden files volume 15
Language
English
Description
Chicago wizard Harry Dresden must help hated enemy Nicodemus Archleone break into a high security vault to steal something belonging to the Lord of the Underworld.
Author
Series
Grail Quest (Bernard Cornwell) volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thomas of Hookton, having witnessed the massacre of the people of his coastal English village by a marauding band of French raiders on Easter morning 1343, embarks on a quest to hunt down the black-clad knight who led the attack.
Author
Series
Robert Langdon novels volume 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon and French cryptologist Sophie Neveu work to solve the murder of an elderly curator of the Louvre, a case which leads to clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci and a centuries-old secret society.
5) Heretic
Author
Series
Grail Quest (Bernard Cornwell) volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Young Thomas of Hookton, on a mission for King Edward to capture the castle of Astarac, becomes an outcast when he saves a beautiful woman from being burned as a heretic by a corrupt local priest, but his friends rally to his side when he uncovers a plot to create a fake Holy Grail for a diabolical purpose.
Author
Series
Grail Quest (Bernard Cornwell) volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1347, a year of conflict and unrest, Thomas of Hookton returns to England to pursue the Holy Grail. Among the flames of the Hundred Years War, a sinister enemy awaits the fabled archer and mercenary soldier: a bloodthirsty Dominican Inquisitor who also seeks Christendom's most holy relic. But neither the horrors of the battlefield nor sadistic torture at the Inquisitor's hands can turn Thomas from his sworn mission. And his thirst for vengeance...
Author
Series
John the Eunuch mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Author
Series
Holland family saga volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2015.
Language
English
Description
"[T]he story of a father and son separated by war and circumstance--and whose encounter with the legendary Holy Grail will change their lives forever-- an epic tale of love, loss, betrayal, vengeance, and retribution that follows Texas Ranger Hackberry Holland on his journey to reunite with his estranged son, Ishmael, a captain in the United States Army" --
"After a violent encounter that leaves four Mexican soldiers dead, Hackberry escapes the country...
10) Grail knight
Author
Series
Robin Hood adventures (Angus Donald) volume 5
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In 1200 A.D., much in England has changed. Richard the Lionhearted has died and his duplicitous brother John has taken the throne. The Earl of Locksley has been outlawed by his old enemy, now the king, and Sir Alan Dale has had the estates granted to him by Richard I taken away again. But still Alan Dale lives comfortably with his beloved wife pregnant with their first child. But the good times aren't going to last. First, an old crime resurfaces...
11) The last second
Author
Series
Brit in the FBI volume 6
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times bestselling authors Catherine Coulter and J.T. Ellison comes a riveting thriller pitting special agents Nicholas Drummond and Michaela Caine against the head of a private space agency who has the power to end the world as we know it. It's Bastille Day in France, and the private French space agency Galactus--France's answer to Space X, owned by the eccentric treasure hunter Jean-Pierre Broussard--has just sent a satellite payload...
Author
Publisher
Debols!llo, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"¿Qué relación tuvieron los cátaros con el Grial? ¿Desaparecieron para proteger su secreto? Encuentran los cadáveres de dos hombres asesinados en Terrassa. Uno acababa de morir, el otro llevaba enterrado en ese lugar más de cuarenta años y portaba una cruz occitana de oro colgada al cuello. Los dos iban ataviados con las mismas túnicas grises. Onofre Vila, un anciano multimillonario afincado en Balaguer, está obsesionado con desentrañar...
Author
Series
Empire of the vampire volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From holy cup comes holy light; The faithful hands sets world aright. And in the Seven Martyrs' sight, Mere man shall end this endless night. Gabriel de León has saved the Holy Grail from death, but his chance to end the endless night is lost. Drawn into an uneasy alliance with the mysterious vampire Liathe, Gabriel must now deliver the Grail to ancients of the Blood Esani, and learn the truth of how Daysdeath might be finally undone. But the Last...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request