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Giordano Bruno novels volume 1
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Condemned for his heretical belief that the Earth orbits the sun, scientist and occult researcher Giordano Bruno is unexpectedly recruited by Elizabeth I, who dispatches him to Oxford University to investigate a Catholic plot against the crown.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
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In mid-thirteenth century Provence, Dolssa de Stigata is a fervently religious girl who feels the call to preach, condemned by the Inquisition as an "unnatural woman," and hunted by the Dominican Friar Lucien who fears a resurgence of the Albigensian heresy; Botille is a matchmaker trying to protect her sisters from being branded as gypsies or witches--but when she finds the hunted Dolssa dying on a hillside, she feels compelled to protect her, a...
5) Incantation
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
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The opposing forces of love and hate, loyalty and betrayal underscore this brief but rich tale set during the Spanish Inquisition. Told by 16-year-old Estrella deMadrigal, friends Estrella and Catalina envision that their lives will be intertwined forever. However, there is a secret about Estrella and her family that unfolds in spurts.
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Pub. Date
1998.
Description
"Since the sixteenth century, the Spanish inquisition has been synonymous with terror, bigotry, and persecution. In this book, a renowned historian sweeps away old misconceptions and presents a new view of this notorious and fascinating period." "Henry Kamen reassesses the significance and consequences of the expulsion of the Jews and also argues that there is little evidence for the alleged Jewishness of the conversos who were the Inquisition's first...
10) Raptor's revenge
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"It is Elizabeth's England and the saga of Jamey, fourteen years old, returning home to find his whole family murdered. Vowing revenge, he begins his quest with his only clue, a ring left by the killers. His adventures take him to sea and the Spanish Main as a privateer earning the title "El Raptor". Sailing to Jamaica to find the killer, he finds his true love but is captured and turned over to the inquisition. Love/hate; betrayal/triumph; battles/intrigue....
11) The Inquisition
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Series
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
This book explains about thye Inquisition and gives background information about how and why it was started and how it effects us.
12) Man of la mancha
Series
Pub. Date
1972.
Description
The story of Don Quixote, a chivalrous knight who chooses to see life as it should be, not as it is. Sceen version of the successful stage musical.
14) The pagan night
Author
Series
Hallowed war volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
The Celestial Church has all but eliminated the old pagan ways, ruling the people with an iron hand. Demonic gheists terrorize the land, hunted by the warriors of the Inquisition, yet its the battling factions within the Church and age-old hatreds between north and south that tear the land apart.
15) Scarlet tides
Author
Series
Moontide quartet volume 2
Pub. Date
2014, �2013.
Description
With the reappearance of the Leviathan Bridge, the Third Crusade begins in the name of Emperor Constant, while most of the Rondians are seeking their fortune, there is a small faction set on finding the source of all magical power, the Scytale of Coneus.
16) Goya's ghosts
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Told through the eyes of celebrated Spanish painter Francisco Goya. Set against political turmoil at the end of the Spanish Inquisition and start of the invasion of Spain by Napoleon's army. Captures the essence and beauty of Goya's work which is best known for both the colorful depictions of the royal court and its people, and his grim depictions of the brutality of war and life in 18th century Spain. When Goya's beautiful muse is accused of being...
17) Day of wrath
Pub. Date
2006
Description
During the tumultuous Spanish Inquisition, greed, torture, and death have taken over a village. Fighting deceit and betrayal, Ruy de Mendoza wields his sword to reveal a secret conspiracy.
Description
... shows a rather different side of Moses, the Stone Age and the Roman Empire - in which Brooks is a stand-up philosopher playing Caesar's Palace. Next, the truth is finally told about the Spanish Inquisition in a splashy production number featuring song-and-dance monks and swimming nuns ... It's history as you've never known it - completely irreverent and positively hilarious. -- Container.
19) Blood secret
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Fourteen-year-old Jerry Luna, mute since her mother's disappearance, is sent to her great-great aunt Constanza's house, where she discovers a trunk that draws her into the world of her ancestors during the Spanish Inquisition.
20) The last Jew
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
The Great Expulsion of 1492 provides the backdrop for this novel of holocaust that follows a thirteen-year-old Spanish Jew named Yonah as he tries to avoid the Inquisition.