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1) Crispin
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Crispin is the second book of Stone Security Volume Two. For the best reading experience, it is highly recommended to start from the beginning with Jack, Stone Security Volume One. This book has over 50,000 words of romantic suspense. I lost my wife five years ago. I left my job three months ago. My life has never been in such a state of flux. I'd always known what to do and how to do it. But now, it seemed like fate or the universe or whatever was...
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Crispin volume 1
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English
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Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.
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Crispin volume 1
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English
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Branded as traitors by the king's authorities, Crispin and his guardian, Bear, flee to coastal towns in fourteenth-century England, where they perform a musical juggling act and bond as a family after befriending a disfigured girl.
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A contemporary Lovecraftian tale of art, obsession, and elder gods.
There were no monsters at first, only "Arthur Dufresne Crispin," who met me on the front steps of his apartment in the Village: towheaded, tall, and lean, with long spidery fingers that closed mine in a strangler's handshake.
Don't miss Max Gladstone's dark fantasy tale Crispin's Model, a Tor.com Original.
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When Alice sleeps over Lola-grandma's house for Lola-grandma's hundredth birthday, she receives a mysterious letter from a boy named Crispin, who claims to be a neighbor. But there is no one her age for miles around, except for a boy named Jason. Who is Crispin? What does he have to do with the haunted house across Calle Nuevo? And what connects the February Revolution to the hundred years before it?
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Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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Winner of the Newbery Medal, Crispin: The Cross of Lead is an action-packed mystery and adventure from master storyteller Avi.
Sometimes I ran, sometimes all I could do was walk. All I knew was that if the steward overtook me, I’d not survive for long....
Crispin is a poor thirteen-year-old peasant in medieval England. Accused of a crime he did not commit, he has been declared a "wolf’s...
Sometimes I ran, sometimes all I could do was walk. All I knew was that if the steward overtook me, I’d not survive for long....
Crispin is a poor thirteen-year-old peasant in medieval England. Accused of a crime he did not commit, he has been declared a "wolf’s...
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The incredible story of how a handful of men at arms and less than 5,000 archers defeated over 20,000 men at arms and 20,000 other warriors. The story of how a King won a crown!
The last time an English King had come to France it had been led by the Black Prince. Now a new King, a throwback to those days contemplated retaking what he believed to be his birthright!
King Henry Vth of England plans to do just that but disease and sickness robs him...
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Jump into a world filled with mystery and intrigue as one boy discovers his heritage. Our all-in-one resource provides everything needed for student comprehension, including vocabulary and writing prompts with each chapter. Determine whether Crispin would support the viewpoint, "cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities". Brainstorm possible inscriptions on Crispin's cross that would cause Bear's reaction. Investigate the trade of a tinker...
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"Father Bulthius Braydon begs Crispin Guest for help when corpses are seen stalking St Modwen Church's graveyard, while Crispin's seven-year-old son is accused of murder. As Crispin investigates, it seems that St Modwen's links both cases, and he is soon in a desperate race against time to solve the strange goings-on and prove his son's innocence"--Publisher's description
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Severn House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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1390. Hailes Abbey, Gloucestershire, England. Two monks lie murdered, their Holy Blood relic stolen: a relic that is said to run liquid for the sinless and remain stubbornly dry for the sinner. Unwilling to become involved in a bitter dispute between a country monastery and Westminster Abbey, the disgraced former knight Crispin Guest attempts to return the relic to Hailes where it belongs, but somehow it keeps returning to his hands no matter what....
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Severn House Publishers LTD
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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Crispin Guest awakens in a strange bed after a night of passion and finds a woman dead, murdered. Drunk, Crispin scarcely remembers the night before. Did he kill her? But when other young women turn up dead under similar circumstances, he knows there is a deadly stalker loose in London. Could it have to do with the mysterious Tears of the Virgin Mary kept under lock and key by a close-lipped widow, a relic that a rival family would kill to get their...
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This complete summary of "Fooled Again" by Mark Crispin Miller, a media studies professor and activist for media reform, shows that the presidential election of 2004 was marked by mass quantities of irregularities — machine malfunctions, logistical misinformation, bureaucratic red tape and overt partisan harassment. In his book, the author explains that all of these seemed to hamper the Democratic vote, and leave the Republican vote unaffected....
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Crispin volume 1
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English
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Grieving for Bear, their lost protector, Crispin and Troth continue their journey across the 14th century French countryside where Troth finds refuge in a convent and Crispin falls in with a troupe of murderous thieves. Making plans to escape and free the troupe's servant boy, Crispin determines to make his way to Iceland.
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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After the French king's courier is killed by a crossbow in a tavern, a barmaid seeks the assistance of fourteenth-century detective Crispin Guest, who soon finds himself the prime suspect in the murder, one that could draw France and England into war.
18) The End of Time
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Crispin volume 3
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English
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As long as I could keep myself out of bondage, I would be true to Bear's teaching. And so it was that beyond all else, I was determined to keep my freedom.
After the death of their beloved mentor, Bear, Crispin and Troth are more desperate than ever, wandering the desolate French countryside, where they don't speak the language and know no one. The only hope they cling to is that somehow they can reach Iceland, where Bear had said there were
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Ordered to Canterbury to investigate a threat against the bones of Saint Thomas à Becket, disgraced knight Crispin Guest is accosted by court acquaintance Geoffrey Chaucer and a motley group of pilgrims who are looking for a murderer.
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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""Creative and enthralling. If you enjoy authentic Medieval history combined with modern suspense, this one's for you." --John Lescroart Once a Knight of the Realm, Crispin Guest was stripped of his title and his lands and must now earn his meager living through his wits. With the help of his young apprentice, reformed thief Jack Tucker, Guest is known to certain populations as The Tracker, the man who can find anything--for a price. It is for that...
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