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Author
Series
Book of the Ancestor volume 1
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Edition.
Description
"At the Convent of Sweet Mercy, young girls are raised to be killers. In some few children the old bloods show, gifting rare talents that can be honed to deadly or mystic effect. But even the mistresses of sword and shadow don't truly understand what they have purchased when Nona Grey is brought to their halls. A bloodstained child of nine falsely accused of murder, guilty of worse, Nona is stolen from the shadow of the noose. It takes ten years...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Description
Desperate for a new start in life at age fifty-two, Claire takes a chance on a trip to Rome to assist the funny, fearless nuns at a struggling convent, and confronts her own missed connection with convent life in the past as well as an old flame who reappears in her life just as she's about to make a momentous decision.
23) The slippery map
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Description
Oyster R. Motel, a lonely boy raised as a foundling in a Baltimore nunnery, travels through a portal to the imaginary world of his parents, where he heroically confronts the villainous Dark Mouth.
24) Enriched
Author
Series
Knights of brethren volume 4
Publisher
Northern Lights Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Lady Karina lives in a convent and expects to become a nun someday. When her wealthy father asks her to help his textile business become more successful by marrying one of the popular Knights of Brethren, Karina complies, ever the dutiful daughter. During a royal quest to find the sacred chalice, Torvald is called home to save his family's estate through an arranged marriage to a wealthy maiden. Although willing to do his duty, he's vowed never to...
Author
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Some nuns in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy strayed far from the paradigms of monastic life. Cloistered in convents, subjected to stifling hierarchy, repressed, and occasionally persecuted by their male superiors, these women circumvented authority in sometimes extraordinary ways. Monson resurrects forgotten tales and restores to life the long-silent voices of these cloistered heroines. Here we meet nuns who dared speak out about physical...
26) Passion Blue
Author
Series
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Children
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Description
In fifteenth-century Italy, seventeen-year-old Giulia, a Count's illegitimate daughter, buys a talisman hoping it will bring her true love to save her from life in a convent, but once there she begins to learn the painter's craft, including how to make the coveted paint, Passion blue, and to question her true heart's desire. Includes historical notes and glossary.
Author
Series
Book of the Ancestor volume 1
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Edition.
Description
"The international bestselling author of the Broken Empire and the Red Queen's War trilogies begins a stunning epic fantasy series about a secretive order of holy warriors... At the Convent of Sweet Mercy, young girls are raised to be killers. In some few children the old bloods show, gifting rare talents that can be honed to deadly or mystic effect. But even the mistresses of sword and shadow don't truly understand what they have purchased when...
29) El poder de Seis
Author
Series
Lorien legacies volume 2
Publisher
RBA Molino
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
"SOMOS LA ÚLTIMA DEFENSA. Escapamos de nuestro mundo poco antes de que fuera destruido. Al llegar a vuestro planeta nos separamos. Durante un tiempo intentamos vivir entre vosotros, camuflándonos, escondiéndonos de nuestros enemigos. Tenemos poderes inimaginables y estamos aprendiendo a controlarlos para defendernos, aunque algunos de nosotros ya han caído antes de empezar a luchar. Debemos darnos prisa. Tenemos que intentar reunirnos, porque...
Author
Series
Book of the Ancestor volume 3
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Edition.
Description
"The third book in the thrilling and epic Book of the Ancestor trilogy from international bestselling author Mark Lawrence. Powerful novice Nona Grey must fight to survive in "a fantastic world in which religion and politics are dark and sharp as swords, with magic and might held in the hands of wonderful and dangerous women."* *Library Journal"--
"As a young girl, Nona Grey was saved from the noose by the Abbess of Sweet Mercy. But behind the...
31) Traces of mercy
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
Large print ed.
Description
As the Civil War ends, a young woman suffers an accident that leaves her unconscious and alone in St. Louis. Waking up with amnesia, she takes the name Mercy because of the mercy medallion found around her neck. A handsome stranger arrives who may hold the key to everything she has forgotten. Yet what he knows could devastate her, and even end her life.
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First world edition.
Description
"Reverend Mother Aquinas must discover who murdered a much-loved priest in the third of this compelling new Irish historical mystery series. Ireland. 1925. Pierced through to the brain, the dead body of the priest was found wedged into the small, dark confessional cubicle. Loved by all, Father Dominic had lent a listening ear to sinners of all kinds: gunmen and policemen; prostitutes and nuns; prosperous businessmen and petty swindlers; tradesmen...
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