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Publisher
Funimation
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
Description
In New York, 1928, the seals between Earth and Hell are breached. Brandishing sacred weaponry, Sister Rosette and her partner Chrono dutifully serve the Magdalene Order, a divine organization that cleans the streets of demonic filth. Their main target: Aion, an indomitable devil reining apocalyptic horrors over America. A doozy of a devil himself, Chrono's true powers can only be released at Rosette's command - draining her own life in exchange.
23) Black narcissus
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
A group of 5 Anglican nuns attempt to found a hospital and school in the Himalayas. They are overcome by their own human frailties and native suspicions.
24) Devious
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the body of young novice Sister Camille is found garroted in St. Marguerite's cathedral, New Orleans Detectives Bentz and Montoya are called in. Bentz is sure Father O'Toole is their man. But there are other suspects, too, including a ruthless murderer believed to have died years ago.
Author
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
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 the church tower. Two decades later, the child, now a grown man, haunted by the past, calls the nun back to the scene of the crime. Seeking peace and calm in her twilight years at a convent...
26) Mother Teresa
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackbirch Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
28) Mother Teresa
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Zoom
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
490L
Language
English
Description
Mother Teresa worked among the poorest of the poor. Her compassion impacted and inspired millions of people. Historic photos and easy-to-read text take readers into her story. Key dates, quick stats, and bolded glossary terms make it easy to zoom in even deeper. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Zoom is a division of ABDO.
Author
Series
Abbess of Meaux mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Hildegard, no longer a member of the Cistercian order of nuns, has returned to the priory after more than a year from her pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Still unsure whether she will rejoin the Order, the Prioress suggests that a visit to Handale Priory might help provide some clarity. Used as a house of correction for sinning nuns, it lies in the north of the county in the middle of a vast wood and is run by the ambiguous Abbess Basilda...
Author
Series
Abbess of Meaux mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Language
English
Description
All the danger and intrigue of 14th-century England spring to life in this "compelling" (Publishers Weekly) series about the brave, incorruptible Abbess of Meaux.
Abbess Hildegard may consider herself "just a nun with no useful skills or connections," yet her loyalty and intelligence have brought her to the attention of King Richard II himself-not the safest place to be, when the king has enemies on all sides. As Hildegard wrestles with her role...
31) Juegos de guerra
Publisher
Distributed by Venevision International
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Español
Description
Spain, July 19, 1936. The Spanish Civil War has just begun and women as always play their part in this human tragedy. María, an innocent young nun, is forced to leave the convent after the arrival of the revolutionary troops in Barcelona. She takes refuge in a brothel where she meets a group of "Libertarias," women "drafted" as freedom fighters.
Author
Series
Reverend Mother mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Severn House Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
©2018.
Edition
First world edition.
Language
English
Description
"The Reverend Mother is delighted with her new entrant to the convent. Young Sister Gertrude is well-educated, has worked for an accountant and has an appealing sense of humour. But one autumn morning, Sister Gertrude is found dead inside a small wooden shed, just beside the river. Surely a young nun could not die from alcohol poisoning? But when the Reverend Mother delves more deeply into Sister Gertrude's background, she finds some puzzling anomalies....
34) Mother Teresa
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, known as Mother Teresa, who spent most of her life serving "the poorest of the poor" in Calcutta, India.
35) Mortal heart
Author
Series
His fair assassin volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Annith's worst fears are realized when she discovers that, despite her lifelong training to be an assassin, she is being groomed by the abbess as a Seeress, to be forever shut up in the convent of Saint Mortain.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The life and times of a group of midwives working at Nonnatus House--a nursing convent serving the impoverished of East London in the late 1950s and early 1960s--are chronicled in this appealing British series based on true events. The women learn powerful lessons about life's struggles while visiting with expectant mothers and poor children.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
50th anniversary edition.
Language
English
Description
Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the most beloved family film of all time! Rogers and Hammerstein's cinematic treasure stars the incomparable Julie Andrews as Maria, the warmhearted young woman who brings joy and music to Captain von Trapp and his children.
38) Echoes
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Against a vivid backdrop of history, Danielle Steel tells a compelling story of love and war, acts of faith and acts of betrayal…and of three generations of women as they journey though years of loss and survival, linked by an indomitable devotion that echoes across time.
For the Wittgenstein family, the summer of 1915 was a time of both prosperity and unease, as the guns of war sound in the distance. But for eldest daughter Beata, it was...
For the Wittgenstein family, the summer of 1915 was a time of both prosperity and unease, as the guns of war sound in the distance. But for eldest daughter Beata, it was...
Author
Series
Reverend Mother mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"On opening an evil-smelling trunk labelled 'old books', the Reverend Mother is horrified to discover the dead body of one of Cork's richest merchants. Many had reason to loathe the hides and skins merchant, but when suspicion falls on a former lay sister from her convent, the Reverend Mother decides to help find the real killer."--Publisher's description.
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