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62) Mortal heart
Author
Series
His fair assassin volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Annith's worst fears are realized when she discovers that, despite her lifelong training to be an assassin, she is being groomed by the abbess as a Seeress, to be forever shut up in the convent of Saint Mortain.
Author
Publisher
Harper Select
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Known to millions as simply "Sister Jean," the Loyola Chicago matriarch and college basketball icon invites you into her remarkable memoir filled with history, wonder, and common-sense wisdom for this century and beyond. As Sister Jean wisely says, "I've seen so many changes in the last 102 years, but the important things remain the same." Part life story, part philosophy text, and part spiritual guide, Sister Jean's wit, wisdom, and common sense...
65) To the Castle
Author
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Twelfth-century Normandy-;as a fierce battle for the crown erupts, a powerful knight and his innocent bride will discover their destinies are passionately entwined...;.
Just weeks away from taking her holy vows, Nell de Bonvile learns of her elder sister's tragic death. Swept from the convent, she is ordered to take Sybilla's place as bride to Roger de Roche, heir to Britain's most powerful earldom. Lovely, naive and totally unprepared for life outside...
Author
Publisher
Abrams / Vearsa Limited
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In 1535, England is hardly a wellspring of gender equality; it is a grim and oppressive age where women--even the privileged few who can read and write--have little independence. In The Butcher's Daughter, it is this milieu that mandates Agnes Peppin, daughter of a simple country butcher, to leave her family home in disgrace and live out her days cloistered behind the walls of the Shaftesbury Abbey. But with her great intellect, she becomes the assistant...
Author
Series
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A house of God hides a dark secret...
It's 1321 and Lady Elizabeth, Prioress of St Mary's, is struggling to retain her position, especially since Sister Margherita, her treasurer, has accused her of lascivious disregard, claiming that, instead of paying for a new roof, Elizabeth has given money to the new vicar, a man she often sees alone – at night…
Sir Baldwin Furnshill, together with his old friend Simon Puttock, is summoned by the Bishop...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Dame Frevisse of St. Frideswide's nunnery, travels to London in the summer of 1450 to purchase funeral vestments for the Duke of Suffolk, and becomes caught up in a web of intrigue and murder centered around the widowed seamstress Anne Blakhall and her lover, Daved Weir, a merchant hiding the fact that he is a Jew.
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Veteran reporter Jo Piazza profiles ten extraordinary nuns and the causes to which they have dedicated their lives -from an eighty-three-year-old Ironman champion to a brave sister who rescues victims of human trafficking Meet Sister Simone Campbell, who traversed the United States challenging a Republican budget that threatened to severely undermine the well-being of poor Americans; Sister Megan Rice, who is willing to spend the rest of her life...
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