Grainger, Jean
Summary: Sister Claire McAuliffe travels to Queensland, Australia, in 1936 to assist in setting up a Catholic school for the education of the gold rush families. When she learns of the manner in which the Aboriginal people are treated, she is forced to act; but no one wants to upset the status quo, and she finds herself in danger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction GraingerÓlafur Jóhann Ólafsson
Summary: A young nun is sent by the Vatican to investigate allegations of misconduct at a Catholic school in Iceland. During her time there, on a gray winter’s day, a young student at the school watches the school’s headmaster, Father August Franz, fall to his death from the church tower. Two decades later, the child—now a grown man, haunted by the past—calls the nun back to the scene of the crime....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco Press 2019
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Summary: Irreverent, foul-mouthed, seventeen-year-old Cricket Cherpin, living under the watchful eye of Mother Mary at a Catholic boys' home in Maine, has such bleak prospects he is considering suicide when Wynona Bidaban steps into his world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Godwin, Gail.
Summary: It is the fall of 1951 at Mount St. Gabriel's, an all-girls school tucked away in the mountains of North Carolina. Tildy Stratton, the undisputed queen bee of her class, befriends Chloe Starnes, a new student recently orphaned by the untimely and mysterious death of her mother. Their friendship fills a void for both girls but also sets in motion a chain of events that will profoundly affect the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GODÓlafur Jóhann Ólafsson
Summary: A young nun is sent by the Vatican to investigate allegations of misconduct at a Catholic school in Iceland. Her past returns to her in unexpected ways, all while rumors spread of a mysterious death and a series of harrowing abuse claims.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC OLAGodwin, Gail.
Summary: Sparking enthusiasm for a play about the founding of their North Carolina mountains Catholic girls' school, a charismatic ninth grader and her recently orphaned best friend set in motion a series of events that have decades-long ramifications.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009