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1) Red sister
Author
Series
Book of the Ancestor volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Formats
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 Nona...
3) Holy sister
Author
Series
Book of the Ancestor volume 3
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"As a young girl, Nona Grey was saved from the noose by the Abbess of Sweet Mercy. But behind the convent's walls she learned not a life of prayer and isolation, but one of the blade and the fist. Now she will serve as the convent's fiercest protector as the emperor moves to destroy the last bastion that stands against him"--
"The third book in the thrilling and epic Book of the Ancestor trilogy from international bestselling author Mark Lawrence....
4) Grey sister
Author
Series
Book of the Ancestor volume 2
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The Convent of Sweet Mercy has trained young girls to hone their skills for centuries. In Mystic Class, Novice Nona Grey has begun to learn the secrets of the universe. But before she leaves the convent, Nona must choose which order to dedicate herself to-- and whether her path will lead to a life of prayer and service or one of the blade and the fist. All that stands between her and these choices are the pride of a thwarted assassin, the designs...
5) Mortal heart
Author
Series
His fair assassin volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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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
Series
Publisher
Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Eight years ago, Lieutenant Luke Ripton made a hasty wartime marriage-in-name-only to protect a young girl from a forced union and left her protected in a remote mountain convent. Now, Luke is Lord Ripton, but he has been unable to obtain an annulment. ... For nearly a decade, Isabella has waited like a princess locked in a tower, dreaming of her handsome, dark-eyed prince. ... And while Luke and Isabella's fiery personalities clash at every turn,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane Productions
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In 1975, a baby just minutes old is taken from its devastated mother. In 2010, the gruesome corpse of a nun is found in a Dublin public park. Detective Inspector Tom Reynolds and his team are on the scene and he's convinced the murder is linked to historical events that took place in the infamous former Magdalene Laundries, institutions for 'fallen women.' As Reynolds and his team follow the trail to an isolated convent, everything seems perfectly...
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Two mischievous students turn convent school upside down with their pranks. During Christmas break, Mary remains at the school and is touched by the Sisters' celebration of the Yule. Their graduation is both a relief and a celebration for the Mother Superior.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Four girls, each named Guinevere, are abandoned by their parents at a convent to be raised by nuns. Vere, Gwen, Ginny, and Win come to the Sisters of the Supreme Adoration convent by different paths. Each has her own complicated, heartbreaking story that she safeguards. And while they may share the same name, they couldn't be more different. Gwen is all Hollywood glamour and swagger; Ginny is a budding artiste with a sentiment to match; Win's tough...
13) The little hours
Publisher
Gunpowder & Sky
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A young servant fleeing from his master takes refuge at a convent full of emotionally unstable nuns in the Middle Ages. Introduced as a deaf blind man, he must fight to hold his cover as the nuns try to resist temptation.
14) Las indignas
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Nadie le dice que no a la Hermana Superior. Nadie que quiera seguir viva. El mundo como lo conocemos ha desaparecido después del gran apagón y de varias crisis climáticas. Apenas hay animales ni naturaleza y pocas personas han sobrevivido. Varias mujeres llegaron a una suerte de convento buscando refugio y han sido captadas por una secta religiosa. Una de ellas cuenta esta historia, escrita a escondidas noche tras noche para que alguien sepa todo...
15) Belladonna
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"For readers of Elena Ferrante and Sally Rooney, a lush, coming-of-age novel set in 1950s Italy that stares into the heart of longing and at the friendships that have the power to save and destroy us. Isabella is beautiful, inscrutable, and popular. Her best friend, Bridget, keeps quietly to the fringes of their Connecticut Catholic school, watching everything and everyone, but most especially Isabella. In 1957, when the girls graduate, they land...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A true, never-before-told story discovered in a secret Vatican archive of sex, poison, and lesbian initiation rites in a nineteenth-century convent. In 1858, Katherina von Hohenzollern, a German princess recently inducted into the convent of Sant'Ambrogio in Rome, wrote a frantic letter to her cousin, a confidant of the Pope, claiming that she was being abused and feared for her life. What the subsequent investigation by the Church's Inquisition uncovered...
Author
Series
Lorien Legacies volume 3
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
The aliens must come together because their power is in numbers.
Author
Publisher
Editorial Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Descubre los sabores del Virreinato de la mano de la poeta que revolucionó las letras novohispanas. ¿Cómo eran los sabores del Virreinato? ¿Qué recetas se seguían en el convento de San Jerónimo? ¿Cuáles platillos preparaba sor Juana Inés de la Cruz? A través de treinta y ocho recetas originales, la talentosa escritora Mónica Lavín y la reconocida historiadora Ana Benítez se adentran en el sorprendente universo de la gastronomía del...
20) Angeline
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A moving, lyrical, melancholy, and spiritual novel by the acclaimed author of The Night Child, in which Sister Angeline, unwillingly sent to a radical convent and confronting her tragic past, asks the deep question, follow your heart or follow the rules? After surviving a tragedy that killed her entire family, sixteen-year-old Meg joins a cloistered convent, believing it is her life's work to pray full time for the suffering of others. Taking the...
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