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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Hildegard of Bingen Hildegard of Bingen Fiona Maddocks Best known today as a fine composer, the twelfth-century German abbess Hildegard of Bingen was also a religious leader and visionary, a poet, naturalist and writer of medical treatises. Despite her c… OL11609492W
María of Ágreda María of Ágreda Marilyn H. Fedewa Tells the life story of the 17th century Spanish nun Maria of Agreda, who wrote a monumental life of the Virgin Mary based on her visionary experiences, and was sought for her spiritual and political… OL13654034W
Every good and perfect gift Every good and perfect gift Brenda Jernigan "Every Good and Perfect Gift is set in a small town in North Carolina, a place that is comfortable with tradition, including the traditional image of God. On a sultry Sunday morning when ten-year-old… OL16786428W
Angels in my hair Angels in my hair Lorna Byrne An Irish mystic talks about her encounters with angels and other spiritual beings, discussing how these entities exist as guardians and companions to every person and provide comfort and guidance in … OL19938765W
Stairways to heaven Stairways to heaven Lorna Byrne Lorna Byrne sees and talks with angels every day of her life and has done since she was a baby. As a child Lorna was told by the angels that her job on this earth was to share the wisdom and knowledg… OL19948267W
Women mystics and sufi shrines in India Women mystics and sufi shrines in India Kelly Pemberton This work combines historical data with years of ethnographic fieldwork to investigate women's participation in the culture of Sufi shrines in India and the manner in which this participation both co… OL20952680W
Autobiography of Madame Guyon Autobiography of Madame Guyon Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon,Marie-Louise Gondal Madame Guyon was a French noblewoman who was born in an unprincipled time fated to its corruption. She grew up in a church as licentious as the world in which it was established: spiritually desponde… OL2298249W
Confessions of a closet mystic Confessions of a closet mystic Julia Turner Hultgren "Confessions of a Closet Mystic is the story of how Julia Turner Hultgren, MSW, refused to listen to Jesus when he first appeared to her while she was meditating in her musty smelling basement, becau… OL24256870W
Enduring grace Enduring grace Carol Flinders Astonishingly relevant portraits of the lives of seven women mysticsKnown to more than a million readers as the coauthor of the classic vegetarian cookbook Laurel's Kitchen, Carol Lee Flinders looks … OL2670968W
Sister Faustina Kowalska Sister Faustina Kowalska Maria Tarnawska The life and mission of Sister Faustina, the seer of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Written by Maria Tarnawska(translated from Polish into English by Anne Hargest) UK imported edition with many black and… OL28769410W