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Respuesta a sor Filotea de la Cruz
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Electa Arenal,Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz,Amanda Powell,Sor Juana Ines Dela Cruz |
"Outstanding edition and translation into English of Sor Juana's intellectual tour de force. Includes an excellent introduction, chronology, notes, and critical commentary. Both scholarly remarks and… |
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City of silver
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Annamaria Alfieri |
In the midst of a Grand Inquisition, Mother Maria Santa Hilda finds herself at odds when the daughter of a wealthy man mysteriously dies in her care. Despite the fact that it looks as though the girl… |
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False Witness (A Sister Agatha Mystery)
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David Thurlo |
Situated in rural New Mexico, Our Lady of Hope Monastery squeaks by on donations and various craft and skilled jobs suited to the nuns’ cloistered, contemplative life. When a stolen SUV crashes throu… |
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Prey for a Miracle (A Sister Agatha Mystery)
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David Thurlo |
Sister Agatha is an extern nun in the cloistered order at the Our Lady of Hope Monastery near a small New Mexican desert town. As such, Sister Agatha is the link between her cloistered sisters and th… |
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Thief in retreat
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Aimée Thurlo |
Sister Agatha is one of two extern nuns in the cloistered order at the Our Lady of Hope Monastery near the small desert town of Bernalillo, New Mexico. An investigative journalist before entering the… |
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Sister Pelagia and the red cockerel
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B. Akunin |
When someone bashes in the head of Manuila, the messianic leader of a rogue Jewish sect, aboard a steamboat on which Pelagia happens to be a passenger, her observations prove useful to the investigat… |
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Thief in retreat
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Aimée Thurlo |
Sister Agatha is one of two extern nuns in the cloistered order at the Our Lady of Hope Monastery near the small desert town of Bernalillo, New Mexico. An investigative journalist before entering the… |
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The maiden's tale
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Margaret Frazer |
It is an hour of desperate need for St. Frideswide's. Thrust into financial ruin by the incompetence and corruption of their former prioress, the nuns have become trapped under the thumb of Abbott Gi… |
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Jerome's Pillows
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Christian Filostrat |
Sister Immanuel recounts her life and the life of her great love, Sister Mària, from their childhood in Belgium to their service as Catholic nuns in colonial Belgian Congo in this mesmerizing, psycho… |
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Behold a Pale Horse
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Peter Berresford Ellis |
AD 664: Sister Fidelma finds herself in the seaport of Genua, en route from Rome back to her native Cashel. Her old teacher, Brother Ruadan, lies dying in the abbey of Bobium - an isolated abbey in a… |
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The book of human skin
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Michelle Lovric |
13 May 1784, Venice Minguillo Fasan, heir to the decaying gothic Palazzo Espagnol is born. Yet Minguillo is no ordinary child he is strange, devious, and all those who come near him are fearful. Twel… |
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Mother Teresa
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Betsy Lee |
A biography of the nun who for her many years of working with poor and outcast people has been recognized with the 1980 Nobel Peace Prize. |
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The red nun
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Gail Godwin |
From Gail Godwin, three-time National Book Award finalist and acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Evensong and The Finishing School, comes a sweeping new novel of friendship, loyalty, riva… |
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The Sands of Time
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Sidney Sheldon |
***Spain. A land of eternal passion and unceasing bloodshed.*** From the vengeance of a pitiless tyrant, four women flee the sacred, once-safe walls of a convent: ***LUCIA,*** the proud survivor harb… |
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Changing Habits (Mira)
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Debbie Macomber |
They were sisters once.
In a more innocent time, three girls enter the convent. Angelina, Kathleen and Joanna come from very different backgrounds, but they have one thing in common—the desire to … |
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"Yes is forever!"
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Daughters of St Paul |
A biography of Mother Thecla Merlo, the Italian nun who was a co-founder of the Daughters of St. Paul. |
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The ninth hour
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Alice McDermott |
On a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens the gas taps in his Brooklyn tenement. In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Savior, an aging nun, appears, unbidden, to direc… |
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Echoes
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Danielle Steel |
Against a vivid backdrop of history, Danielle Steel tells a compelling story of love and war, acts of faith and acts of betrayal…and of three generations of women as they journey though years of loss… |
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And then there were nuns
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Jane Christmas |
Just as Jane Christmas decides to enter a convent in mid-life to find out whether she is "nun material", her long-term partner Colin springs a marriage proposal on her. Determined not to let her mona… |
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A certain magical index
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Kazuma Kamachi |
When Toma Kamijo, a student in Academy City with the ability to negate all supernatural powers, as well as his own luck, meets Index, a nun whose mind has been implanted with 103,000 forbidden magica… |
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