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The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
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Karen Armstrong
Karen Armstrong spent seven years in a convent (which she described in a previous memoir) and, when she left, was at a loss as to what to do with her life. In THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE, she writes about her difficulties, as she first picked up a couple of advanced degrees, then taught in a private school, a job she eventually lost--after which she ...
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Sinner
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T Gerritsen
A murder at a Boston convent once again pairs M.E. Maura Isles and Detective Jane Rizzoli as they try to get to the bottom of things before the body count increases.
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Sands of Time
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Sidney Sheldon
When four nuns are forced to flee their Spanish convent in 1976 to face a hostile world, they find themselves pawns in a violent struggle between the outlawed Basque underground movement and the Spanish army under the command of Colonel Ramon Acoca, who is bent on destroying them all. The author's other books include "If Tomorrow Comes", "Master ...
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Lying Awake
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Mark Salzman
In a Carmelite monastery on the outskirts of Los Angeles, life continues virtually unchanged for centuries. Sister John of the Cross has spent years there in the service of God. The only one to experience intense visions and the author of a best-selling book on religion, she is regarded by the other nuns as a spiritual master. But Sister John's ...
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A Simple Path
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Mother Teresa of Calcutta
An internationally recognized spiritual icon and Nobel Peace laureate, Mother Teresa devoted her life to the world's disadvantaged, in work that took her from the slums of India to AIDS clinics in the U.S. The men and women worldwide who have been inspired to join her in her work have long been familiar with what she has called "her business cards ...
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Christmas Tree
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Julie Salamon
The story of the Rockefeller Christmas tree, 1996, which came from a convent in New Jersey, and of the old nun who watched the tree, a Norwegian spruce, grow from a sapling.
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Changing Habits
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Debbie Macomber
The story of three women who meet when they join the same convent, each vowing to live the life of a nun. However, as the years pass, each woman faces a crisis that causes her to leave the order and seek a life beyond her religious faith.
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Then came heaven
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LaVyrle Spencer
The new romantic saga by the bestselling author of HOME SONG and SMALL TOWN GIRL. Browerville is a small town in Minnesota, with a close, mostly Polish, community steeped in Catholicism. Everyone knows everyone else and looks out for each other's children. And there Eddie and Krystyna Olczak have been bringing up their two little girls, Anne and ...
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In this house of Brede
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Rumer Godden
The story of nuns and postulants in the closed Benedictine Order in the Abbey of Brede. Through the events of the novel Philippa Talbot, an ex-civil servant, learns how to come to terms with the tragedy from her past and even gain serenity. "The River" is another book by the same author.
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Mariette in Ecstasy
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Ron Hansen
In 1906, a beautiful 17-year-old postulant enters a New York convent. When she begins to bleed from hands, feet and side, the entire community is thrown into turmoil. Is Mariette a cunning sham, a sexual hysteric, or God's chosen one?
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The Traitor's Tale
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Margaret Frazer
The 16th mystery in the Edgar]-nominated series finds Dame Frevisse assisting her cousin Alice in burying her husband, the hated Duke of Suffolk. "The Traitors Tale" features a guest appearance by Simon Joliffe, now featured in his own spinoff series.
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What Matters Most
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Luanne Rice
In her "New York Times" bestsellers--"Sandcastles, The Edge of Winter," and "Summer of Roses"--Rice illuminates the secret wonders of the heart. Now she brings back two of her most beloved characters to unravel the mysteries of a shared past, and two undying love affairs.
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The Novice's Tale
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Margaret Frazer
In the tradition of Ellis Peters--the first in a new medieval mystery series set in the English convent of St. Frideswide. Saintly novice Thomasine's odious aunt arrives at the convent insisting that Thomasine leave with her. And when the blaspheming, hard-drinking dowager is murdered, only Sister Frevisse, hosteler of the proiry and amateur ...
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Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska: Divine Mercy in My Soul
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Marian Press (Creator)
This bestselling book that birthed the Divine Mercy movement, one of the fastest growing movements in world today. This amazing narrrative will stir your heart and soul while it chronicles the experience of a simple Polish nun.
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Crisscross
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F Paul Wilson
Repairman Jack is back An anonymous mercenary, with no last name and no social security number, Jack has thrilled a veritable army of readers ever since his bestselling debut in "The Tomb," Jack can fix any problem, supernatural or otherwise, for a price. Now, in his latest gripping adventure, he takes on two cases at once. The first involves a ...
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Bad Faith: A Sister Agatha Mystery
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Aimee Thurlo, David Thurlo
Cloistered in the middle of a New Mexico desert with only a few other nuns and a dying station wagon, Sister Agatha is cut off from the outside world . . . until the chaplain is poisoned and the local sheriff--whom Agatha dated before becoming a nun--comes to investigate. Martin's Press.
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Year the Colored Sisters Came to Town
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Jacqueline Guidry
When the Louisiana town of Ville d'Angelle is jolted by the arrival of two black nuns in 1957 to teach at the all-white Catholic elementary school, for the first time Vivien Leigh Dubois is obliged to consider the color of people's skin.
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Doubt: A Parable
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John Patrick Shanley
"A superb new drama written by John Patrick Shanley. It is an inspired study in moral uncertainty with the compellingly certain structure of an old-fashioned detective drama. Even as "Doubt" holds your conscious attention as an intelligently measured debate play, it sends off stealth charges that go deeper emotionally. One of the year's ten best." ...
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Quaker Summer
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Lisa Samson
Every year I think there must be more to life, and every year, despite a new car or a trip to a new land, new milestones and triumphs in my son's life, or a redone deck, a pool, a spa, or entertainment system, I take stock and think once again, I was made for more than this. But I love my stuff. Heather Curridge is coming unhinged.
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The Nun's Tale: An Owen Archer Mystery
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Candace M Robb
In the summer of 1365, in York, England, a young nun dies of a fever and is buried quickly, for fear of the plague. The following year, a woman claims to be the resurrected nun and talks of miracles and relic trading. When murders follow in the woman's wake, Owen Archer is dispatched to investigate, a task complicated by the woman's association ...
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The Lady in Blue
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Javier Sierra
The "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Secret Supper" offers a mesmerizing novel that sheds new light on an ancient enigma of the American Southwest.
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Shroud for the Archbishop
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Peter Tremayne
This carefully researched novel provides an authentic background for a host of remarkable characters and suspects. In this mystery Sister Fidelma joins forces with Brother Eadulf to try to piece together a strange jigsaw of evil and vengeance.
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Master of Souls: A Mystery of Ancient Ireland
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Peter Tremayne
In this latest historical whodunit, Fidelma of Cashel faces one of her most perplexing mysteries when she is called to investigate the brutal murder of an abbess and the disappearance of six young female religieuse.
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Only in My Arms
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Jo Goodman
Torn between devotion and a secret yearning for adventure and fulfilment, Mary Frances Dennehy makes her choice. Shocking her family, she leaves the convent and her cloistered existence behind and sets out in search of a new life. But for a woman along, the west can be a hostile and treacherous place. And no one is more dangerous - and ...
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Nun in the Closet
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Dorothy Gilman
From the bestselling author of the Mrs. Pollifax books comes a new mystery habit to acquire. From the moment Sister John and Sister Hyacinthe reach the old house left to their abbey by a mysterious benefactor, their cloistered world begins to crumble. First, there is the wounded man hiding in the house, then the suitcase stuffed with money sitting ...
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