Resultados para "The Priest" en Histórico

All Jean wants is a peaceful life as a monk, but everything his adoptive father Wimer built is under threat, as the much larger Holy Trinity church tries to swallow Dodnash Priory whole. Jean must find a way to fight them off amidst all the chaos of King John's reign...or break the promise he made on his father's grave.

Lady Eleanor Albright has left her "brothel-loving, girl-seducing, entitlement-inflated husband with whom she can't believe she ever had sex" and is again living with her Irish mother, Lady Adele Darnley. With her daughter's marital woes unacceptable, Lady Adele schemes to end Eleanor's "problems" - one of which is her daughter's attachment to a man seven years her junior, a barrister named Lord Henry Faraday. To help her friend, the cherubic Baron's son, Eleanor must defy family, society, even the man she loves.

From National Book Award-winning writer James Carroll comes a novel of the timeless love story of Peter Abelard and Héloïse, and its impact on a modern priest and a Holocaust survivor seeking sanctuary in Manhattan. Father Michael Kavanagh is shocked when he sees a friend from his seminary...