A pregnant woman leaves her husband and moves to St. Elizabeth's, a Catholic home for unwed mothers in Kentucky, to begin a new life.

"An astonishing memoir of twelve years as a contemplative nun in a silent monastery. Cloistered takes the reader deep into the hidden world of a traditional Carmelite monastery as it approaches the third Millennium and tells the story of an intense personal journey into and out of an enclosed life of poverty, chastity, and obedience. Finding an apparently perfect world at Akenside Priory, in Northumberland, Catherine trusts herself to a group of twenty...

In this highly personal account of an ex-nun's transition from a cloistered, disciplined life, to a life in the world, confronting her human feelings and making her own decisions, Karen Armstrong discusses frankly and with humor her process of coping with the shifting values and lifestyles of the secular world. It is a revealing account of her discovery that the spiritual vocation can be an ever-changing journey into life. She is author of Beginning...

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.

The new edition includes a new foreword that looks at the impact the original edition had on both the lesbian and the mainstream cultures. The authors have added individual afterwords, describing how their lives were changed when their book went mainstream.

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.

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.

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.