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Author
Series
Star of the Sea Academy volume 2
Language
English
Description
Sister Bernadette Ignatius has returned to Ireland in the company of Tom Kelly to search for the past—and the son—they left behind. For it was here that these two long-ago lovers spent a season of magic before Bernadette's calling led her to a vocation as Mother Superior at Star of the Sea Academy on the sea-tossed Connecticut shore. For Tom, Bernadette's choice meant giving up his fortune and taking the job as caretaker at Star of the Sea, where...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The Ghent Altarpiece is the most violated work of art in the world. Thirteen times it has been vandalized, dismantled, or stolen. Why? What secrets does it hold? Enter UNESCO investigator, Nicholas Lee, who works for the United Nations' Cultural Liaison and Investigative Office (CLIO). Nick's job is to protect the world's cultural artifacts-including countless lesser-known objects and national treasures. When Nick travels to Belgium for a visit...
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
379 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Temperance Brenna, Forensic Anthropologist for the Province of Quebec, is in the middle of identifying the bones of a nun, dead for over a century, who is now a candidate for sainthood, when she is pulled away to investigate a bigger mystery involving the twisted corpses found at a burning chalet.
Author
Publisher
CenterPoint
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Micah Bishop doesn't believe in miracles -- until a derringer-packing nun busts him out of jail. But it's not Christian charity that's driving Sister Genevieve -- she wants Micah to take her to a place called the Valley of Fire, deep in the most lawless and perilous part of New Mexico Territory. It was here where an order of nuns met their Maker, and it's Sister Genevieve's mission to see that they are given a proper funeral. Or so she claims. Micah's...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
290 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Once she was Professor Mary Naughton, investigative reporter, teacher, and free spirit. Now she is Sister Agatha of Our Lady of Hope, a cloistered, financially-struggling monastery in New Mexico. As an extern-a nun who handles her order's dealings with the outside world-she is used to having her faith and newly-acquired patience tested. But when popular chaplain Father Anselm is poisoned to death in the middle of Mass, Sister Agatha has to bring all...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Santa Catarina, a convent near Venice, is home to over one hundred women in 1567. But with powerful forces for change raging outside the convent, and with the world of the women within threatened by a new arrival, passions, hysteria, and conflict will come to threaten their very survival.
Author
Series
Sister Agatha mystery volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Physical Desc
252 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sister Agatha is an extern nun in the cloistered order at the Our Lady of Hope Monastery near a small New Mexican desert town. As an extern, Sister Agatha is the link between her cloistered sisters and the outside world. Usually this means running errands in the monasteryś slowly dying automobile (dubbed the Anti-Chrystler) or their motorcycle with Pax, the orderś German Shepard, in the side car. Sometimes her duties involve a bit more--like when...
10) Black narcissus
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A group of 5 Anglican nuns attempt to found a hospital and school in the Himalayas. They are overcome by their own human frailties and native suspicions.
11) The innocents
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
While assisting survivors of the German camps in 1945, a French Red Cross doctor discovers severeal nuns in advanced states of pregnancy at a nearby convent.
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
269 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
A former investigative reporter, Sister Agatha has more than her fair share of spiritual challenges as an extern, a nun responsible for her cloistered orderś dealings with the outside world. Still, sheś instantly intrigued when the archbishop requests she discreetly investigate the odd disappearances of valuable religious folk art from The Retreat, a former New Mexico monastery-turned-upscale-inn. But soon Sister Agatha is entangled in one unearthly...
14) Benedetta
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Based on a true story, a 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedetta's shocking religious visions that threaten to shake the Church to its core.
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
261 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Agatha is an extern-authorized to interact with the outside world-for Our Lady of Hope Monastery, a small community on the cusp of financial ruin. When a drunk driver crashes his SUV into its security gate, the nuns must scramble to find the funds for repairs. Meanwhile, a hacker is disrupting the computer work the community relies upon for much of its income, and the adjacent vineyard may be sold to a developer. Salvation seems at hand when dying...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xvii, 294 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The author of Dead Man Walking, the nation's foremost leader in efforts to abolish the death penalty, shares the story of her growth as a spiritual leader, speaks out about the challenges of the Catholic Church, and shows that joy and religion are not mutually exclusive.
18) Ida
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Polish
Description
In 1960s Poland, an orphaned teenager who wishes to be a nun sets out on a journey of self-discovery after discovering that her Jewish parents were killed during the Holocaust.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
262 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Renowned and reviled for her crime-solving prowess, Sister Agatha of Our Lady of Hope monastery in Bernalillo, New Mexico, finds her skills tested by a case in which her friend and ally, Sheriff Tom Green, is accused in the brutal murder of a political rival.
20) A simple path
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
xxxviii, 200 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mother Teresa shares the thoughts and experiences that led her to choose a life as a missionary and her thoughts about prayer, faith, love, service, and peace.
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