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Enjoy again a tale of friendship, faith and finding your destiny in this classic women's fiction novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber. They were sisters once. In a more innocent time, three girls enter the convent. Angelina, Kathleen and Joanna come from very different backgrounds, but they have one thing in common-the desire to join a religious order and serve as best they can. Despite the seclusion of the convent house in...
3) Agnes of God
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1993
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1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A psychiatrist probes the murder of an infant in a convent. The mother superior tries to protect the young nun who give birth to the baby, the chief suspect.
4) Matrix
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2021.
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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...
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"When Sister Eve returns to the monastery, the last thing she expects there is murder. After solving several mysteries with her father at the Divine Private Detective Agency, Sister Eve finds herself torn between her calling as a nun and the thrill that comes with detecting. She knows she's been using her father's health as an excuse to extend her leave of absence from the monastery, but that excuse is running thin. She prays that a return visit to...
7) Thérèse
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2005
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1 videodisc (ca. 96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (1 v. (unpaged : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)
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The mesmerizing story of a young girl's romance with God. Her faith, trials, and sacrifices reveal a way of life based on love and simplicity. A ponderous film based on the true story of Saint Therese of Lisieux, the most popular saint of modern times.
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Micah Bishop doesn't believe in miracles -- until a derringer-packing nun busts him out of jail. But it's not Christian charity that's driving Sister Genevieve -- she wants Micah to take her to a place called the Valley of Fire, deep in the most lawless and perilous part of New Mexico Territory. It was here where an order of nuns met their Maker, and it's Sister Genevieve's mission to see that they are given a proper funeral. Or so she claims. Micah's...
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Sister Agatha mysteries volume 2
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Sister Agatha is one of two extern nuns in the cloistered order at the Our Lady of Hope Monastery near the small desert town of Bernalillo, New Mexico. An investigative journalist before entering the monastery, now, as an extern it is Sister Agatha's role to be the link between her cloistered sisters and the outside world. It is the skills from both her past and current lives that she must bring to the task assigned to her by the Archbishop of her...
10) R is for rebel
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[2018]
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IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
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244 pages ; 22 cm
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After her parents are jailed for a failed resistance movement, Malley is sent to reform school, where she plans some resistance of her own.
12) The sinner
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Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles series volume 3
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2003
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Investigating the brutal murder of one nun and the critical injury of another within a cloistered convent, medical examiner Maura Isles and homicide detective Jane Rizzoli stumble upon long-buried secrets that link these horrific crimes.
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Inside a century-old row house in Brooklyn, renegade Sister Evelyn and her fellow nuns preside over a safe haven for the abused and abandoned. Gruff and indomitable on the surface, warm and wry underneath, little daunts Evelyn, until she receives word that Mercy House will be investigated by Bishop Hawkins, a man with whom she shares a dark history. In order to protect everything they've built, the nuns must conceal many of their methods, which are...
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Repairman Jack novels volume 8
Pub. Date
2004
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415 p. ; 24 cm.
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Repairman Jack is back in New York City where he tries to find out who is blackmailing a nun and helps elderly Maria Roselli find her missing son, whom may have joined the cult-like Dormentalist Church.
16) The lady in blue
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An elaborately woven novel of intrigue about one of America's most curious and enduring legends -- the enigma of the Lady in Blue In Los Angeles, Jennifer Narody has been having a series of disturbing dreams involving eerie images of a lady dressed in blue. What she doesn't know is that this same spirit appeared to leaders of the Jumano Native American tribe in New Mexico 362 years earlier, and was linked to a Spanish nun capable of powers of "bilocation,"...
17) The omega factor
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"The Ghent Altarpiece is the most violated work of art in the world. Thirteen times it has been vandalized, dismantled, or stolen. Why? What secrets does it hold? Enter UNESCO investigator, Nicholas Lee, who works for the United Nations' Cultural Liaison and Investigative Office (CLIO). Nick's job is to protect the world's cultural artifacts-including countless lesser-known objects and national treasures. When Nick travels to Belgium for a visit with...
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c2009
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xvi, 396 p. ; 25 cm.
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Sparking enthusiasm for a play about the founding of their North Carolina mountains Catholic girls' school, a charismatic ninth grader and her recently orphaned best friend set in motion a series of events that have decades-long ramifications.
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[2015]
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1 videodisc (175 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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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 (Christopher Plummer) and his children. Experience the magnificent movie musical filled with unforgettable songs including 'Do-Re-Mi', 'My Favorite Things' and 'The Sound of Music'" -- Back of container.
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2013
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422 pages ; 24 cm
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"A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be." In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century. A diary is Nao's only solace--and will touch lives in ways she...
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