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Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books, Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Left at the Mostly Silent Monastery as a toddler and home-schooled by a retired nun, twelve-year-old Bicycle rides cross-country to meet a famous cyclist who she hopes will be her first friend.
3) Angelology
Author
Series
Angelology novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
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
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The haunting, vivid story of a nun whose past returns to her in unexpected ways, all while investigating a mysterious death and a series of harrowing abuse claims
A young nun is sent by the Vatican to investigate allegations of misconduct at a Catholic school in Iceland. During her time there, on a gray winter’s day, a young student at the school watches the school’s headmaster, Father August Franz, fall to his death from
...5) Bad faith
Author
Series
Sister Agatha mysteries volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
When Father Anselm dies mysteriously while consecrating the host, Sister Agatha, a nun at the cloistered order of The Sisters of the Blessed Adoration in the New Mexico desert, finds herself the prime suspect in the crime.
Author
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Sister Regina, a teacher at St. Joseph's Catholic school in Browerville, Minnesota in the 1950s, and handyman Eddie Olczak, a widower with two little girls, must find the courage to follow their hearts when they realize they have fallen in love with one another.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A tale inspired by the life of the twelfth-century abbess, composer, and prophet depicts a young girl who upon being given to the Church rejects the order's masochistic piety and finds grace in studying books, growing herbs, and rejoicing in divine visions.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a life-changing journey to Ireland with Tom Kelly, Bernadette Sullivan finds refuge within the cloistered walls of a convent, but years later their past returns to haunt them, and they journey across the sea to find the son they had given up for adoption.
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Leading a double life, devout nun Maria Lunurin, who behind closed doors is a stormcaller, chosen daughter of the Aynilan goddess Anitun Tabu, after a devastating discovery, makes a choice that sets in motion a chain of events beyond her control, awakening Tabu's rage and endangering everyone she loves.
Author
Series
Aelf Fen novels volume 4
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Startled awake by an unearthly voice that warns her that one of her loved ones is in danger, eleventh-century apprentice healer Lassair learns that a nun at the abbey where her beloved sister lives has been murdered, a situation that pits Lassair against an unexpectedly dangerous threat.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Ming Neng, entering a retreat to test her karma as a Buddhist nun, becomes trapped between her long-held spiritual quest and forbidden passion when she succumbs to temptation with the young American doctor who saved her life.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn stands a century-old row house presided over by renegade, silver-haired Sister Evelyn. Gruff and indomitable on the surface, warm and wry underneath, Evelyn and her fellow sisters makes Mercy House a safe haven for the abused and abandoned. Women like Lucia, who arrives in the dead of night; Mei-Li, the Chinese and Russian house veteran; Desiree, a loud and proud prostitute; Esther, a Haitian immigrant...
16) False witness
Author
Series
Sister Agatha mysteries volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
When a stolen SUV crashes through the walls of Our Lady of Hope Monastery, the nuns are faced with the daunting task of raising money for repairs and agree to what appears to be a simple task, helping Sister Agatha track down a benefactor's missing niece, but the investigation soon pulls the nuns into a deadly situation that could end in disaster.
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Ireland 1923. Reverend Mother Aquinas is buying buttered eggs in the Cork city market at the very moment when the city engineer, James Doyle, is assassinated. Although no one saw the actual killing, a young reporter named Sam O'Mahony is found standing close to the body, a pistol in his hand, and is arrested and charged. Following a desperate appeal from Sam's mother, convinced of her son's innocence, the Reverend Mother investigates--and, in this...
20) The prodigal nun
Author
Series
Sister Agatha mysteries volume 5
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
When the local diocese offers to pay for renovations to Our Lady of Hope monastery in exchange for housing a novice nun from a different order, the contemplative order becomes the target of violent threats after the arrival of the boisterous Sister Jo.
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