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41) Memoirs of a nun
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume no. 90
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c1992
Physical Desc
xxix, 249 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Heaven Lee mysteries volume 6
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
273 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
While visiting New Orleans to help the Sisters of the Holy Trinity hold their annual benefit dinner, Chef Heaven Lee of Kansas City becomes the prime suspect in the murder of her old friend's husband.
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st St. Martin's Minotaur ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 306 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sister Fidelma and Brother Eadulf investigate the killing of Abbess Faife and the disappearances of six young women accompanying her on a pilgrimage, looking for a link between these crimes and the bludgeoning death of an aging abbey scholar.
45) Blessed water
Author
Series
Publisher
Gillian Flynn Books, a Zando imprint
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A tattooed nun who moonlights at a detective agency feels she is called on by God to find the killer after discovering a dead priest.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
300 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1798 France, in a Versailles hospital lies The Great Tarare, a dying man rumored to have done monstrous things in his attempts to sate an insatiable appetite-an appetite they say tortures him still.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Bernice Buttman is tired of being labeled a 'bully,' so when her mom leaves her with her aunt, who is a nun, Bernice decides to mend her ways and become a model citizen"--
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 316 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Desperate for a new start in life at age fifty-two, Claire takes a chance on a trip to Rome to assist the funny, fearless nuns at a struggling convent, and confronts her own missed connection with convent life in the past as well as an old flame who reappears in her life just as she's about to make a momentous decision.
50) Scorched grace
Author
Series
Publisher
Gillian Flynn Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Saint Sebastian's School becomes the target of a shocking arson spree, the Sisters of the Sublime Blood and their surrounding New Orleans community are thrust into chaos. Patience is a virtue, but punk rocker turned nun Sister Holiday isn't satisfied to just wait around for officials to return her home and sanctuary to its former peace, instead deciding to unveil the mysterious attacker herself. Her investigation leads her down a twisty path...
Author
Series
Publisher
Planeta Pub Corp
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
335 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Watching her radiant wings as Evangeline stood on the Brooklyn Bridge 10 years ago still feels like a fresh betrayal to Verlaine, and Evangeline's return changes everything as Verlaine hunts the angels bent on creating their personal paradise: the Angelopolis.
Author
Series
Sister Frevisse mysteries volume 17
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
307 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
As Dame Frevisse and the nuns of St. Frideswide priory prepare for the end of Lent, their peaceful world is turned upside down by the arrival of Sister Cecely, a former nun who is seeking refuge, but her coming has also brought danger and possibly murder.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
x, 368 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Investigating the murder of an eminent scholar who was robbed of mysterious manuscripts, Sister Fidelma and her companion, Brother Eadulf, are quickly targeted by the same killer in a case that is complicated by divisive personal problems. By the author of The Council of the Cursed.
Author
Series
Publisher
Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
339 pages.
Language
English
Description
Strange dealings are afoot in the Apostolic Palace-a nun leapt to her death shortly after participating in a seemingly routine exorcism. But when a priest clad in Gammarelli and a Vatican commissario with an almost unholy level of sex appeal turn up at her door, Poldi is shocked to hear that she's a suspect in their case. Who is the woman being exorcised, and where has she disappeared to? And why in the world does she claim, in perfect Bavarian, to...
Author
Publisher
Ignatius Press
Pub. Date
[2011].
Physical Desc
104 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Set during the French Revolution, the classic novella is based on the true story of the Carmelite nuns of Compiègne, who offered their lives for the preservation of the Church in France. The story unfolds around the fictional character of Blanche de la Force, an excessively timorous aristocrat who enters the Carmelite convent in order to flee the dangers of the world. As the Reign of Terror begins, Blanche is no longer safer in the convent than...
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First Touchstone hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Horatio Cotton, aka "Bob," has been looking for some combination of spiritual and carnal salvation his entire life. When he steals a self-help book called Magnificent Vibration: Discover Your True Purpose from a bookstore and calls the number scrawled inside the front cover, he discovers that he has a direct line to God, and that God likes to mess with him. Soon enough Bob finds a partner in Alice, a surprisingly sexy and good-humored nun, and they...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 337 pages : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Ireland, A.D. 671. It is the beginning of the summer season and the Kingdom of Muman is preparing to celebrate the Great Fair of Cashel. It is an extravagant nine days of contests, food, and endless entertainment. Circumstances have led Fidelma and Eadulf far and wide across the kingdom, and they have been absent from the Great Fair for many years. But, for once they haven't been called away from Cashel, and are eager to enjoy the festivities - that...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
76 pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the early 1600s, imagines an encounter between a Pueblo woman and Sister María de Jesús de Ágreda, New Mexicoʹs famous Lady in Blue, during the nun's mystical spiritual journeys.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
338 pages : map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Winter, 670 AD. King Colgu has invited the leading nobles and chieftains of his kingdom to a feast day. Fidelma and her companion Eadulf are finally home for an extended stay, and have promised their son Alchu that they'll be able to spend some time together after months of being on the road, investigating crimes. Fidelma and Eadulf are enjoying the feast when it is interrupted by the entrance of a religieux, who claims he has an important message...
60) Matrix
Author
Publisher
Lumen Narrativa
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Primera edición: septiembre de 2022.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 23 cm
Language
Español
Description
"Descendiente de una larga dinastía de guerreras y cruzadas, Marie es demasiado ruda y rebelde para la vida palaciega, por lo que acaba siendo expulsada de la corte y enviada a los lodazales de Inglaterra para que asuma el rol de priora de una abadía venida a menos. Al llegar, encuentra un panorama desolador donde reinan la inanición y el chismorreo. Marie añora la comodidad de la corte francesa, y también a su amante secreta, Cecily. Sin embargo,...
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