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1) Angelology
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When twenty-three-year-old Sister Evangeline accidentally stumbles upon some mysterious letters exchanged between the late mother superior of her convent and the famous philanthropist Abigail Rockefeller, she is thrust into an ancient conflict between the Society of Angelologists and the monstrously beautiful descendants of angels and humans, the Nephilim.
Author
Language
English
Description
A New York Times Notable Book
Acclaimed author Ann Patchett's debut novel, hailed as "beautifully written . . . a first novel that second- and third-time novelists would envy for its grace, insight, and compassion" (Boston Herald)
St. Elizabeth's, a home for unwed mothers in Habit, Kentucky, usually harbors its residents for only a little while. Not so Rose Clinton, a beautiful, mysterious woman who
...Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[200-?]
Language
English
Description
A nightclub singer is forced to take refuge from the mob in a convent. While there she turns the convent choir into a "soulful chorus of swingin' sisters." The sudden celebrity of the choir jeopardizes her identity.
Whoopi Goldberg returns as the lounge singer who goes undercover as a nun to help an ailing inner-city school.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Audrey Hepburn portrays a nun whose life journey takes her from the staff of a mental asylum to a surgical nurse in the Belgian Congo. She returns to Belgium as WWII breaks out and is torn between the needs of the Resistance and the church's neutrality.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and mercurial sisters. In this crucible, Marie steadily...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
Sister Joan of the Order of the Daughters of Compassion is sent to a remote spot in Scotland for a rest. But when, not long after her arrival, the venturesome nun rows out to an island to paint a monastery, she finds herself in a singular mess: Not only is someone following her, but she seems to be unearthing far too many secrets for her curiosity to handle.
10) Mother Teresa
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the life of Mother Teresa, the nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity to work with the destitute and dying, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
11) Mother Teresa
Author
Publisher
Lerner
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A biography of the nun who founded the order known as the Missionaries of Charity to work with the sick and destitute in Calcutta and other places, and who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
13) The sinner
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
This ebook edition contains a special preview of Tess Gerritsen’s I Know a Secret.
Not even the icy temperatures of a typical New England winter can match the bone-chilling scene of carnage discovered at the chapel of Our Lady of Divine Light. Within the cloistered convent lie two nuns–one dead, one critically injured–victims of an unspeakably savage attacker. The brutal crime appears to be without motive, but medical...
Not even the icy temperatures of a typical New England winter can match the bone-chilling scene of carnage discovered at the chapel of Our Lady of Divine Light. Within the cloistered convent lie two nuns–one dead, one critically injured–victims of an unspeakably savage attacker. The brutal crime appears to be without motive, but medical...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
""A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be." In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century. A diary is Nao's only solace--and will touch lives in ways she...
16) Devious
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the body of young novice Sister Camille is found garroted in St. Marguerites cathedral, New Orleans Detectives Bentz and Montoya are called in. Bentz is sure Father O'Toole is their man. But there are other suspects, too, including a ruthless murderer believed to have died years ago.
17) The nun
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A priest and a young novice are sent to investigate the suicide of a young nun in Romania and are confronted with a malevolent force in the form of a demonic nun.
18) The nun
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A priest and a young novice are sent to investigate the suicide of a young nun in Romania and are confronted with a malevolent force in the form of a demonic nun.
20) Mother Teresa
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Pub
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of the nun who founded the Order of the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, won the Nobel Peace Prize, and dedicated her life to helping the destitute.
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