It is late summer in the year 1270 and England is as weary as its aging king, Henry III. Although the Simon de Montfort rebellion is over, the smell of death still hangs like smoke over the land. Even in the small priory of Tyndal on...
Nuns
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Author:Royal, PriscillaSummary: -
Author:Guidry, JacquelineSummary:Ten-year-old Vivien Leigh wants more than anything to understand the adult world. But when two black nuns come to teach at her all-white Catholic elementary school, everything begins to change. Her father leads a "Concerned Citizens"...
- Author:McDermott, AliceSummary:
A magnificent new audiobook from one of America's finest writers-a powerfully affecting story spanning the twentieth century of a widow and her daughter and the nuns who serve their Irish-American community in Brooklyn. On a dim...
- Author:BARRETT, William EdmundSummary:
Homer Smith, a Black ex-GI, encounters Mother Maria Marthe, the leader of a group of German-speaking nuns, and is soon playing a pivotal role in helping them realize their dream of building an adobe chapel in the desert
- Author:Uss, ChristinaSummary:
A determined 12-year-old girl bikes across the country in this quirky and charming debut middle grade novel. Introverted Bicycle has lived most of her life at the Mostly Silent Monastery in Washington, D.C. When her guardian, Sister...
- Author:Rather, LinaSummary:
The sisters of the Order of Saint Rita captain their living ship into the reaches of space in Lina Rather's debut novella, Sisters of the Vast Black. Years ago, Old Earth sent forth sisters and brothers into the vast dark of the...
- Author:Rather, LinaSummary:
Two generations ago, Earth's colonies and space stations broke free of their home planet's tyrannical rule. Earth's Central Governance is now flexing its power to regain control of its lost assets. The Order of Saint Rita...
- Author:Albert, Susan WittigSummary:
Herbalist and sleuth China Bayles, on retreat at a Texas convent, investigates the mysterious death of the mother superior.
- Author:Leon, DonnaSummary:
In the sixth book featuring Donna Leon's ever-charming and sympathetic protagonist, Commissario Guido Brunetti comes to the aid of a young nursing sister who has had five patients unexpectedly die and decides to leave her convent....
- Author:Kingfisher, T.Summary:
He's a paladin of a dead god, tracking a supernatural killer across a continent. She's a nun from a secretive order, on the trail of the raiders who burned her convent and kidnapped her sisters. When their paths cross at the...
- Author:Dillon, AlenaSummary:
Little daunts renegade, silver-haired Sister Evelyn, who, with her fellow sisters, make Mercy House a safe haven for Brooklyn's abused and abandoned, until they receive word that Bishop Hawkins is coming to investigate Mercy House...
- Author:Groff, LaurenSummary:
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION. "A relentless exhibition of Groff's freakish talent. In just over 250 pages, she gives us a character study to rival Hilary Mantel...
- Author:Hansen, RonSummary:
In a convent in upstate New York in 1906, a beautiful young postulant shocks the members of her convent when she suddenly manifests signs of the stigmata.
- Author:Tremblay d'Essiambre, LouiseSummary:
La fille de Joseph, originalement publié sous Le Tournesol, est le tout premier roman de Louise Tremblay D’Essiambre. Le voici maintenant présenté dans une élégante édition de collection, pour ceux n’ayant pas eu la chance de découvrir...
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Author:Coady, Mary FrancesSummary:Holy Rule takes place during three weeks in October, 1958, focusing on the lives of a group of nuns who teach at St. Monica’s Girls’ School. During this time of high autumn, the pope lies dying in Rome — and then finally dies...
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Author:Clark, KathySummary:Based on the true story of two sisters sheltered from the Nazis by a group of Catholic nuns during World War II. Mama had always told twelve-year-old Susan that there was no safe place for a Jew, especially in German-occupied Hungary in...
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Author:Stelllings, CarolineSummary:The year Louisiana – Easy for short – meets Janis Joplin is the year everything changes. Easy is a car mechanic in her dad’s shop, but she can sing the blues like someone twice her age. So when she hears that Janis Joplin is passing...
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Author:Gervais, Christine L.M.Summary:Beyond the Altar illustrates how women religious overcome sexist subjugation by side-stepping the patriarchal power of the Roman Catholic Church. This book counters the stereotypical image of Catholic nuns as being loyally compliant...
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Author:Christmas, JaneSummary:Jane Christmas takes a decidedly unconventional journey to find out whether she is, as she puts it, "nun material". This is no carefree adventure. The call toward a religious vocation has beckoned Jane since she was a teenager, and now...
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Author:Shofner, CorabelSummary:Twelve-year-old Ruby Clyde Henderson's life turns upside down the day her mother's boyfriend holds up a convenience store and her mother is wrongly jailed for assisting with the crime.
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