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Author
Series
Robert Langdon novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
A Harvard symbologist analyzes a mysterious symbol seared to the chest of a murdered physicist and discovers evidence of the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood to carry out its vendetta against the Catholic Church.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
108 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Author Megan Stine charts the beginning of Christianity and its hold on members of the faith as well as the countless struggles for power (one pope was poisoned by his own men!), the building of the Vatican and creation of the Sistine Chapel, and the Secret Archives that hold papers the church has accumulated over the centuries"--
Author
Series
Robert Langdon novels volume 1
Publisher
Umbriel
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
606 p. : maps ; 23 cm.
Language
Español
Author
Publisher
Plaza & Jan?s
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Primera edici?n.
Physical Desc
397 pages ; 24 cm
Language
Español
Description
Zavala destapa las historias ocultas m?s sorprendentes que se esconden tras los muros del Vaticano. ¿Intentaron envenenar a Juan Pablo II? ¿Es verdad que existi? un Vaticano franc?s? ¿Por qu? Juan XII fue el peor pont?fice? ¿Qu? papas muertos permanecen hoy incorruptos? ¿Es cierto que existi? la papisa Juana? ¿Cu?ntos antipapas ha habido a lo largo de la historia? ¿Y cismas? ¿Qu? indujo a Napole?n Bonaparte a declararle la guerra a P?o VII?...
14) Death of a Pope
Author
Publisher
Ignatius Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
215 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Juan Uriarte, a handsome and outspoken Spanish ex-priest is on trial, accused of terrorist activities. Meanwhile an international conspiracy is growing, one that reaches into the Vatican itself. When the death of Pope John Paul II brings about the conclave that will elect Joseph Ratzinger as Pope Benedict XVI, a terrorist plot involving blackmail, subterfuge, and mass murder begins to fall into place.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"For more than twenty-five years John Thavis held one of the most fascinating journalistic jobs in the world: reporting on the inner workings of the Vatican. His daily exposure to the power, politics, and personalities in the seat of Roman Catholicism gave him a unique, behind-the-scenes perspective on an institution that is far less monolithic and unified than it first appears. Thavis reveals Vatican City as a place where Curia cardinals fight private...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 volume ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this gripping narrative of religious and political history, Paul Collins tells the improbable success story of the last 220 years of the papacy, from the unexalted death of Pope Pius VI in 1799 to the celebrity of Pope Francis today. In a strange contradiction, as the papacy has lost its physical power--its armies and states--and remained stubbornly opposed to the currents of social and scientific consensus, it has only increased its influence...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st. ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 452 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the story of a seventeenth-century mistress who significantly influenced the Catholic church and international policy in Rome during the reign of her lover and brother-in-law, Pope Innocent X.
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