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Abbess of Meaux mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"February, 1390. The Church seethes with rebellion. Newly elected Pope Boniface faces a challenger: the anti-pope Clement, who sows discord from his power base in France.The quarrel threatens the very survival of the Cistercian Order. So when suspicions grow that distant Beaulieu Abbey may turn traitor, Hildegard's prioress summons her with a mission she can't refuse: travel to the isolated royal abbey and spy out their true allegiance.The public...
163) Mother Teresa
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
A biography of the founder of the Missionary Sisters and Brothers of Charity, known for her work with the destitute and dying in Calcutta and other places and who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
Author
Series
Reverend Mother mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The Reverend Mother's investigative skills are called into action again when one of her young pupils is found murdered at St Fin Barre's Cathedral. 1920s. Cork, Ireland. The Reverend Mother's Christmas Day festivities are shattered when the protestant bishop of Cork arrives at the convent with terrible news: one of the Reverend Mother's pupils, the troublesome seven-year-old Edna O'Sullivan, has been found murdered in St Fin Barre's Cathedral. Furthermore,...
165) The girl from Vichy
Author
Publisher
Aria
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
''She's done running. Now she fights. 1942. With the war raging in Europe, Adèle Ambeh dreams of a France that is free from the clutches of the Nazis. As the date of her marriage to a ruthless man draws closer, she only has one choice: she must run. Adèle flees to Lyon and seeks refuge at the Sisters of Notre Dame de la Compassion. From the outside this is a simple nunnery, but the sisters are secretly aiding the French Resistance, hiding and supplying...
166) Doubt
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. Father Flynn is a charismatic priest who is trying to upend the schools' strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier. The Sister is the iron-gloved principal who believes in the power of fear and discipline. With the winds of political change, the school has just accepted its first black student, Donald Miller. But when Sister James shares with Sister Aloysius her suspicion that...
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
A moving, intimate, funny, and true-to-life look at the colorful stories of midwifery and families in East London in the '50s. When Jenny Lee first arrives in Poplar, she knows nothing about hardship, poverty, or, indeed, life itself. But Jenny is brought up to speed fast once she joins a team of midwives who provide care to the poorest women.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012, c1972
Language
Italiano
Description
A young woman loses her lover in an oil field accident in Libya. Brokenhearted, she becomes a nun, known as Sister Germana. Returning to Italy, she becomes an administrator of an unconventional hospital where a Marxist patient, Annibale, seems to have the run of the place; counseling doctors, administering cures, and romancing nurses. What follows is an unusual relationship between a nun who is trying to do what is right and a man who feels that he...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Presents the life of Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, known as Mother Teresa, who spent most of her life serving "the poorest of the poor" in Calcutta, India.
174) Bandits
Author
Publisher
Arbor House
Pub. Date
1987
Language
English
Description
Bandits assembles an unlikely crew: an ex-nun, an ex-cop, and an ex-con. They've got their eyes on several million dollars that they've decided should not be spent to aid the Contras in Nicaraugua. Of course , a lot of other people have their eyes on the money, too.
175) Galway confidential
Author
Series
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Irish detective Jack Taylor awakens from a coma to discover that his sleuthing services are needed after two local nuns are found bludgeoned by a hammer.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
It's 1968 and Enoch Powell's infamous 'Rivers of Blood' speech creates serious tension in Poplar, especially when a group of dockers march in support of Powell. The midwives welcome a new nun, Sister Veronica, who's an instant hit with everyone, except Nurse Crane. Meanwhile, Trixie's relationship with Matthew goes from strength to strength, while Nurse Crane helps Nancy with her financial woes. Sister Julienne enjoys helping out on the district rounds,...
177) Lilies of the field
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A free-spirited ex-G.I. stumbles upon five German refugee nuns in Arizona and helps them build a chapel.
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