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  Sacred Hearts

  by Sarah Dunant

  The year is 1570, and in the convent of Santa Caterina, in the Italian city of Ferrara, noblewomen find space to pursue their lives under God’s protection. But any community, however smoothly run, suffers tremors when it takes in someone by force. And the arrival of Santa Caterina’s new novice sets in motion a chain of events that will shake the convent to its core. Ripped by her family from an illicit love... (more)
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  The Innocent

  by Harlan Coben

  One night, Matt Hunter innocently tried to break up a fight-and ended up a killer. Now, nine years later, he's an ex-con who takes nothing for granted. His wife, Olivia, is pregnant, and the two of them are closing on their dream house. But all it will take is one shocking, inexplicable call from Olivia's phone to shatter his life-a second time...
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  The Answer / La Respuesta, Including a Selection of Poems (A Feminist Press Sourcebook)

  by Juana Inés de la Cruz

  Drawing on rich new scholarship, this translation restores Sor Juana's own emphasis and diction. Known as the First Feminist of America, the Mexican nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648/51 - 1695) was a brilliant and popular poet, playwright, and essayist whose feminist theory stands as a link between that of Christine de Pizan and Mary Wollstonecraft in the struggle to establish the intellectual rights of women.... (more)
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  Sor Juana's Second Dream: A Novel

  by Alicia Gaspar de Alba

  This bold novel unravels the mystery and complexity of the woman Carlos Fuentes calls the first great Latin American poet. Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (16481695), poet, playwright, rhetorician, and musician, is often equated with Sappho, the lesbian poet whom Plato baptized the Tenth Muse. The Mexican nun has fascinated readers around the world for centuries as scholars have attempted to understand her ... (more)
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  Colonial Habits: Convents and the Spiritual Economy of Cuzco, Peru

  by Kathryn Burns

  In Colonial Habits Kathryn Burns transforms our view of nuns as marginal recluses, making them central actors on the colonial stage. Beginning with the 1558 founding of South America’s first convent, Burns shows that nuns in Cuzco played a vital part in subjugating Incas, creating a creole elite, and reproducing an Andean colonial order in which economic and spiritual interests were inextricably fused. Based on... (more)
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  The Cloister Walk

  by Kathleen Norris

  A reverent study of the monastic world assesses the meaning of the cloistered life in modern times, journeying through a liturgical year to capture the relevance and spiritual significance of the religious life. Reprint. Tour. NYT. PW.
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  Dreadful Skin

  by Cherie Priest

  I ducked into a niche between a cabin and the pilot house and hiked my skirt up enough to reach down into my garter holster. I've heard it said that God made all men, but Samuel Colt made all men equal. We'd see what Mr. Colt could do for a woman. * * * * * Jack Gabert went to India to serve his Queen. He returned to London a violently changed man, infected with an unnatural sickness that altered his... (more)
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  Lieutenant Nun

  by Catalina de Erauso

  Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World Translated by Michele Stepto and Gabriel Stepto Foreword by Marjorie Garber The memoir of a 16th century Basque woman who escaped a convent dressed as a boy became a soldier in the Spanish army, killed her own brother, and managed to become the darling of the Pope and the Spanish-speaking world.
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  The Blindfold's Eyes

  My Journey From Torture To Truth

  by Dianna Ortiz

  In 1989, Sister Dianna Ortiz, an American-born nun, was abducted from the compound where she worked in Guatemala. Twenty-four hours later, she escaped, but within that brief period, her body had been burned with cigarettes, she'd been raped, beaten and forced to torture a woman who was already near death. As a consequence of her devastation, Ortiz lost every memory she had of her life before the kidnapping, and... (more)
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  Confessions of a Pagan Nun

  by Kate Horsley

  Cloistered in a stone cell at the monastery of Saint Brigit, a sixth-century Irish nun secretly records the memories of her Pagan youth, interrupting her assigned task of transcribing Augustine and Patrick. She also writes of her fiercely independent mother, whose skill with healing plants and inner strength she inherited. She writes of her druid teacher, the brusque but magnetic Giannon, who first introduced her... (more)
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  In This House of Brede

  by Rumer Godden

  This extraordinarily sensitive and insightful portrait of religious life centers on Philippa Talbot, a highly successful professional woman who leaves her life among the London elite to join a cloistered Benedictine community.
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  Petals From The Sky

  by Mingmei Yip

  When twenty-year-old Meng Ning declares that she wants to be a Buddhist nun, her mother is aghast. In her eyes, a nun's life means only deprivation - 'no freedom, no love, no meat'. But to Meng Ning, it means the chance to control her own destiny, and to live in an oasis of music, art, and poetry far from her parents' unhappy union. With an enigmatic nun known as Yi Kong, 'Depending on Emptiness', as her mentor,... (more)
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  The Passion of Mary-Margaret

  by Lisa Samson

  Mary-Margaret yearned to dedicate her life to the Lord. Jesus had another idea. When Mary-Margaret Fischer met Jude Keller, the lighthouse keeper's son, she was studying at a convent school on a small island off Chesapeake Bay. Destined for a life as a religious sister, she nevertheless felt a pull toward Jude--gorgeous, rebellious, promiscuous Jude. But Jude, driven by demons no one really understood,... (more)
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  Hanukkah: A Mini AniMotion Book

  by Accord Publishing

  Hanukkah employs Accord's New York Times best-selling AniMotion(tm) technology to celebrate the Festival of Lights. This sparkly tribute reveals an entertaining way to introduce youngsters to the traditions associated with the holiday. Animated windows feature flickering menorahs, spinning dreidels, and flipping latkes to celebrate important Jewish traditions associated with Hanukkah. In addition to the book's... (more)
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  Another Bloody Love Story

  by Rachel Green

  Darling? You're killing me. When 30+ divorcee Pennie Black falls in love with the womanizing Chase Spenser, she doesn’t realize he only wants her for her life insurance, and his name on the claim form at the morgue. Meanwhile her ex-husband Steve has disappeared and her flat has been ransacked. What can you do when you fall to your death and find out your best friend is a werewolf? You hire an assassin to get... (more)
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  A CHANGE OF HABIT: A Spiritual Journey From Sister Mary Kateri To Sister Mary Vodka

  by Patty Ptak Kogutek

  " A Change of Habit is moving and soul-searching ..." - Constance Holcomb, retired publishing executive "The arduous journey of this teenage girl to womanhood is a profound story containing lessons for all of us." - Walter D. Serwatka, retired chairman of the board, MacMillan-McGraw-Hill "This was a real joy to read! Heartwarming ... inspiring ... I didn't want to book to end. I laughed,... (more)
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  The Blessing Stone

  by Barbara Wood

  Millions of years ago, a meteorite fell to earth and a beautiful blue stone shattered from it. One hundred thousand years ago, a girl named Tall One found the crystal on the African plain---and it formed her destiny, as well as the destiny of generations to come. From ancient Israel to imperial Rome, medieval England, fifteenth-century Germany, the eighteenth-century Caribbean, and the nineteenth-century American... (more)
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  The Eight

  by Katherine Neville

  Computer expert Cat Velis is heading for a job to Algeria. Before she goes, a mysterious fortune teller warns her of danger, and an antique dealer asks her to search for pieces to a valuable chess set that has been missing for years...In the South of France in 1790 two convent girls hide valuable pieces of a chess set all over the world, because the game that can be played with them is too powerful....
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  Bandits

  by Elmore Leonard

  Working at his brother-in-law's New Orleans funeral home isn't reformed jewel thief Jack Delaney's idea of excitement -- until he's dispatched to a leper's hospital to pick up a corpse that turns out to be very much alive ... and under the care of a beautiful, radical ex-nun in designer jeans. The "deceased" is the one-time squeeze of a Nicaraguan colonel who's ordered her dead for trying to "infect" him, and... (more)
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  The Letters of Abelard and Heloise (Penguin Classics)

  by Peter Abelard

  The story of Abelard and Heloise remains one of the world’s most dramatic and well-known love affairs. It is told through the letters of French philosopher Peter Abelard and his gifted pupil Heloise. Through their impassioned writings unfolds the story of a romance, from its reckless, ecstatic beginnings to the public scandal, enforced secret marriage, and devastating consequences that followed. These... (more)