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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Claire Luchette's debut, Agatha of Little Neon, is a novel about yearning and sisterhood, figuring out how you fit in (or don't), and the unexpected friends who help you find your truest self"--
8) Devious
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When her sister, a novice nun named Sister Camille, is found brutally murdered at St. Marguerite's Cathedral in New Orleans, Valerie Houston, convinced that the police aren't doing enough, investigates and discovers that a depraved killer is determined to purge St. Marguerite's of all its sins.
9) Bad faith
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
496 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2019
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Bernice Buttman is tired of being labeled a 'bully,' so when her mom leaves her with her aunt, who is a nun, Bernice decides to mend her ways and become a model citizen"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sister Bernadette Ignatius (the former Bernie Sullivan), Mother Superior at the coastal Connecticut Star of the Sea Academy, travels to Dublin with Tom Kelly, the academy's ombudsman, seeking James, the son they gave up over 20 years ago. In a parallel narrative set up in a prologue, young James and Kathleen, raised together as orphans, are devastated when they are forced to separate when Kathleen is 13. While Bernie and Tom look for James (now calling...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
In November 1382, the month of the dead, Abbess Hildegard rides out for York from the Abbey of Meaux. This is no ordinary journey--it is a time of rival popes, a boy king, and a shaky peace in the savage aftermath of Wat Tyler's murder--and Hildegard has embarked on a perilous mission to try to secure the future of her priory.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
Jimmy Murphy starts sixth grade determined to be a better student and impress the beautiful Kathy Guenther, but Sister Angelica has him and his friends pegged as troublemakers and they may just prove her right.
Author
Series
Commissario Guido Brunetti volume 6
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
258 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"...Commisario Guido Brunetti comes to the aid of a young nursing sister who has left her convent after five of her patients have died unexpectedly. In the course of his inquiries, Brunetti encounters an unusual cast of characters but discovers nothing that seems criminal. Is the nun simply creating a smoke screen to justify abandoning her vocation? Or has she stumbled onto something very real and very sinister? Something that places her own life...
Author
Series
Abbess of Meaux volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
359 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
York, 1385. Just as the Mystery Plays are about to unfold, a young woman witnesses a terrible crime and turns to Abbess Hildegard for protection. No one is safe -- even the innocent, dear young woman -- from a series of murders that seem to revolve around a craftsman working on a stunning strained galss window, but Hildegard has never been one to turn away from danger in her quest for justice and mercy.
17) 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
Physical Desc
444 pages ; 22 cm.
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
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In St. Louis, Missouri, in 1911, orphaned eleven-year-old Julia Delaney rails against countless disappointments and the nun's strict rules at the House of Mercy, especially after her sister Mary turns fourteen and must leave, but she, her family, and best friend get tangled up with a gangster and a decade-old mystery.
19) Scorched grace
Author
Series
Publisher
Gillian Flynn Books, a Zando imprint
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Saint Sebastian's School becomes the target of a shocking arson spree, the Sisters of the Sublime Blood and their surrounding New Orleans community are thrust into chaos. Patience is a virtue, but punk rocker turned nun Sister Holiday isn't satisfied to just wait around for officials to return her home and sanctuary to its former peace, instead deciding to unveil the mysterious attacker herself. Her investigation leads her down a twisty path...
20) The omega factor
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The Ghent Altarpiece is the most violated work of art in the world. Thirteen times it has been vandalized, dismantled, or stolen. Why? What secrets does it hold? Enter UNESCO investigator, Nicholas Lee, who works for the United Nations' Cultural Liaison and Investigative Office (CLIO). Nick's job is to protect the world's cultural artifacts-including countless lesser-known objects and national treasures. When Nick travels to Belgium for a visit with...