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Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"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...
2) Matrix
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Tiller Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Tiller Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 221 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color); 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Discover how to engage in a faith-filled life in the era of social media from a group of young, consecrated Catholic sisters.
Friend. Artist. Writer. Businesswomen. Advocate. Scholar. The women whose pieces are included in this book hold many different titles. But they all share two important characteristics. First, they are all young women. Second, they are all consecrated religious of the Catholic order the Daughters of Saint Paul. They are millennial...
5) The nun
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A priest with a haunted past and a novice on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate the death of a young nun in Romania and confront a malevolent force in the form of a demonic nun.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2019
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Bernice Buttman is tired of being labeled a 'bully,' so when her mom leaves her with her aunt, who is a nun, Bernice decides to mend her ways and become a model citizen"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
105 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House Pub Ltd
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 334 pages : map ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ireland. AD 672. The body of a dead man has been found on a lonely mountain road and taken to the isolated abbey of Gleann Da Loch for a proper burial. The abbot quickly identifies him as Brehon Brocc, who had been travelling to the abbey on a secret mission with Princess Gelgeis and her steward. When news reaches Colgu, King of Muman, that his betrothed, Princess Gelgeis, has disappeared, Fidelma with her trusted companions, Eadulf and Enda, enter...
12) A simple path
Author
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
xxxviii, 202 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
xxi, 327 pages ; 25 cm
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...