Johnson, Mary
Summary: Traces the story of a former nun who devotedly worked alongside Mother Teresa in service to the world's poor, describing her teenage decision to enter a convent, the struggles she faced as an independent thinker, and her decision to leave the church after twenty years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOHNSON, MARY JOHSummary: Nuns, guns, and cannabis. Meet Sister Kate, former high-flying corporate executive, reborn rebel and founder of Sisters of the Valley, California's fastest growing marijuana farm, providing medical cannabis to those in need. This is her journey to becoming a voice for the unheard, and possibly the most feared nun in the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BREPrejean, Helen
Summary: The author of Dead Man Walking, the nation's foremost leader in efforts to abolish the death penalty, shares the story of her growth as a spiritual leader, speaks out about the challenges of the Catholic Church, and shows that joy and religion are not mutually exclusive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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Summary: Adelard Comtois, son of Simon Comtois and Olivine Ducharme, married Caroline Lambert 26 July 1886 in St. Didace, Quebec. They had ten children. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Quebec.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Higginson Book Co 2001
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.2 COMTOIS BourassaToomey, Christine
Summary: In 2011, Christine Toomey met an unforgettable group of Tibetan Buddhist nuns. After hearing their stories—of prison, extreme hardship, and ultimately fleeing across the Himalayas into exile—she resolved to learn more about the private, courageous women of Buddhism: who they are, their experience of suffering, what motivates them to seek enlightenment, and what stands in their way. Toomey’s...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3 TOOSummary: Focuses on the life and work of Mother Teresa with words and pictures that even the youngest child will enjoy. Children will happily learn that Mother Teresa was a person whose strong faith and trust in God helped her make incredible changes in our world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Vision Video 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MOTGigliotti, Jim
Summary: Presents the life of an Albanian girl, Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, who became known as Mother Teresa and spent most of her life serving "the poorest of the poor" in Calcutta, India.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2015
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT People Who MotherGrathwohl, Marya
Summary: "In this memoir, Sister Marya Grathwohl recounts her spiritual journey, how she-a Catholic nun from Ohio-came to be embraced by the Crow and Northern Cheyenne, and how their traditions prompted in her an expanding devotion to the land, its resources, and its connections to faith and God"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2023
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Summary: "The never-before-told story of six intrepid Kentucky nuns, their journey to build a hospital in the poorest state in India, and the Indian nurses whose lives would never be the same New York Times editor Jyoti Thottam's mother was part of an extraordinary group of Indian women. Born in 1946, a time when few women dared to leave their house without the protection of a man, she left home by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610.82 THOArmstrong, Karen
Summary: The author relates her decision to leave her convent after failing to find religious fulfillment, her struggles with depression and epilepsy, her realization of her calling, and her career working with sacred texts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ARMSTRONG, KAREN ARMDemi.
Summary: A biography of Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, known as Mother Teresa, who spent most of her life serving "the poorest of the poor" in Calcutta, India.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TERSnowdon, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.26 SNOSummary: In 1986, at the age of 56, Helen Travis became a Benedictine Sister after she lost her husband and both her sons to substance abuse. Two years later, in New York City, she opened a halfway house for recovering male addicts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SISArmstrong, Karen
Summary: Recounts the seven years that the author spent in a convent beginning at the age of seventeen, describing her religous doubts and spiritual struggles which led to her final recognition that she was not suited for life as a nun.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ARMSTRONG, KAREN ARMHitchens, Christopher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 271.97 HITTeresa, Mother
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print in association with Ballantine Books 1995
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 271.97 TERWilliams, Paul L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alpha Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 271.97 WILBuder, Madonna
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 796.092 BRUCampbell, Simone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CAMPBELL, SIMONE CAMDaughters of Saint Paul (COR)
Summary: "Discover how to engage in a faith-filled life in the era of social media from a group of young, consecrated Catholic sisters"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiller Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248.4 DAUMcDermott, Alice
Summary: A portrait of the Irish-American experience is presented through the story of an Irish immigrant's suicide and how it reverberates through innumerable lives in early twentieth-century Catholic Brooklyn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 0000
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT FIC MCDO'Donnell-Gibson, Patricia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stuartrose Pub. LLC 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 O'DONNELL-GIBSON, PATRICIA ODOQuick, Matthew
Summary: Escaping her ritzy Florida life and her cheating pornographer husband, Portia Kane returns to the South Jersey home of her youth and resolves to save herself by assisting a beloved English teacher who has retired after a traumatic incident.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUISummary: Documents the story of Mr. Vig, an elderly bachelor who wants to turn his palatial home into a Russian Orthodox monastery, and Sister Ambrosija, the nun who investigates the feasibility of his wish, and the bond of friendship the two develop.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Lorber Films 2008