monks

FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast and his ward, Constance Greene, fall into a dangerous assignment at a remote Tibetan monastery when they are asked to recover a stolen relic with a deadly curse.

Follows the adventures of Pagan, squire to Lord Roland, through the years 1188 to 1189, as he accompanies his master, now determined to be a monk, to the French monastery of St. Martin and uncovers a dangerous blackmail plot.

Autobiography of Palden Gyatso, a Tibetan monk who was imprisoned in 1959 when China overtook Tibet, discussing his treatment in prison, his release in 1992, and his escape across the Himalayas to India.

In 16th-century England, lawyer Matthew Shardlake serves Lord Thomas Cromwell, an advisor to King Henry VIII; Shardlake enters a hellish cauldron of personal, social, and political upheaval as he starts to doubt Cromwell's methods.

A Buddhist monk in the New York Mets organization learns to throw a baseball with unerring accuracy at the blazing speed of 168 miles per hour.

In medieval Ireland, Theophane's boredom with his duties as a scribe distracts the other monks, but when he is sent to the kitchens he discovers that he can make inks of many colors from plants, allowing the others to illustrate their work. Includes facts about the history of monasteries, scriptoriums, and illuminated manuscripts.

Contains illustrated diary entries on the daily life of a monk in Westminster Abbey.

In England in 1356, as a monk records his every word, a young peasant tells of his journey with a young Chinese noblewoman to St. Alfric's Cove and the lair of a dragon.

When a peaceful monastery in Qu?bec is shattered by the murder of their renowned choir director, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir of the S?urete du Qu?bec are challenged to find the killer in a cloistered community that has taken a vow of silence.

Brother Cadfael, a medieval detective of sorts, investigates when one too many prisoners is slain.