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"Sister Agatha and Father Selwyn make sleuthing a work of art. But will they paint themselves into a corner when they investigate the Village Art Society president's death? As Yuletide settles upon Gwenafwy Abbey, the rural Welsh convent's peace is shattered when Tiffany Reese, president of the Village Art Society, is found dead on the floor of the parish hall. Sister Agatha, whose interests lie more with reading and writing mystery stories than with...
22) Matrix
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"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...
23) The reeve's tale
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Sister Frevisse mysteries volume 9
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English
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A PLAGUE OF MURDERSThe village of Prior Byfield is blighted with famine, devastated by plague, and cursed with ill-fortune. Simon Perryn, the poor reeve of the village, is driven to distraction by the petty rivalries and hopeless troubles of his neighbors. His adulterous sister and her dolt of a husband have entangled their affairs with Gilbey Dunn, the richest man of the village, and Elena, the beautiful and seductive woman that he calls his wife....
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Senior sleuths volume 1
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English
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"Rose Donovan looks for the good in everyone. With her sister-in-law, Peg, that sometimes requires a lot of searching. Even a sixty-something former nun like Rose has her limits, and gruff Peg Turnbull sure knows how to push them. But after forty years of bickering, they’re attempting to start over, partnering up to join the local bridge club. Peg and Rose barely have a chance to celebrate their first win before one of the club’s most accomplished...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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At age eighty-two and in failing health, Olivia Morrow must decide whether she will expose a long-held family secret and reveal that her cousin, Catherine, gave birth to a son at age seventeen and gave him up for adoption before entering a convent. Now deceased, Sister Catherine is being considered for beatification by the Catholic Church. Catherine' s granddaughter Monica has no idea that her grandfather was the famous doctor Alex Gannon, and Alex's...
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Sister Joan mysteries volume 2
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1992
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1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
191 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
27) Bad faith
Author
Series
Sister Agatha mysteries volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
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290 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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Morrow
Pub. Date
c1988
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English
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Four nuns, suddenly severed from the security of convent life by the turbulence of Spanish political unrest, find themselves fighting their enemies and their own desires and struggling to sustain their friendship and their lives.
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Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
c2007
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xii, 544 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.
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English
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Sister Bernadette Ignatius has returned to Ireland with Tom Kelly to search for the son they had left behind years ago. In Dublin Seamus Sullivan is searching for his first love Kathleen Murphy. Both lived in St. Augustine's Children's Home until Kathleen's family claimed her and moved to America.
33) Then came heaven
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1997
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xiii, 332 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
34) Holy fools
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Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
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355 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1969
Physical Desc
376 p.
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English
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Set in England, this is a novel about a successful career woman in her forties who renounces the world to enter Brede monastery, a cloistered order of English Benedictine nuns and what happens to her thereafter.
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Sister Frevisse mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
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323 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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Sister Frevisse mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
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339 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dame Frevisse and two companions head for London to recover some lost gold from the treasury of the murdered Duke of Suffolk, but their plans are threatened by a murder that ignites dangerous anti-Semitic sentiment.
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