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Author
Series
Nora Breen Investigates volume 1
Publication Date
2025.
Language
English
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Description
"From Jess Kidd, the bestselling author of Things in Jars who "is so good it isn't fair" (Erika Swyler, nationally bestselling author), the first in a cozy mystery series about a former nun who searches for answers in a small seaside town after her pen pal mysteriously disappears. I believe every one of us at Gulls Nest is concealing some kind of secret. 1954: When her former novice's dependable letters stop, Nora Breen asks to be released from her...
Author
Publication Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"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...
Author
Publication Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
With two remarkable "immaculate conceptions" reported--one in Ireland and the other in Rhode Island--the Archdiocese of Boston is charged with watching over the two girls until they give birth.
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Publication Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A true story of spiritual and human desire is revealed through the forbidden love between Beryl Bissell, a New Jersey nun who entered the convent at age eighteen with the belief that God had called her to his way of life, and a handsome Italian priest, Padre Vittorio, who would become her secret love.
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Publication Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Profiling mid-twentieth-century Boston as a time in which devout families routinely provided children for a life of religious service to the Catholic church, the son of a former priest and nun describes how his parents met while ministering to the inner-city poor and fought to continue serving in the priesthood after their marriage.
Author
Publisher
Fawcett, Ballantine Books
Publication Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Christine receives a chilling phone call which police trace to an apartment whose tenants have vanished, leaving behind only a telephone and a trace of blood on the carpet. Why have they abandoned everything, even, it seems, their identities?
Author
Publisher
Antrim House
Publication Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Called: The Making & Unmaking of a Nun, a memoir by Margaret Rogers Barrett, tells of her lively and free-spirited youth as part of a large family in a small town on a prairie in Minnesota; of her calling by God; and of her new calling to marriage and life as both mother and teacher. Along the way, we meet her remarkable family, both reveling and suffering with her as she experiences sometimes joyful, sometimes difficult times. In the end, this is...
Author
Publisher
Tule Publishing
Publication Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
Meddling and murder can both be deadly sins. When retired nun and teacher Sister Bernadette returns with her fellow residents to The Abbey: Senior Living, she is the first to discover the body sprawled in the hallway of the converted school where she once taught English and now lives. Instead of freezing with horror, Sister Bernie has questions. Lots of them. Why does Toni Travi, the bedazzled and bejeweled resident from apartment 218, have so much...