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Macomber, Debbie.

Summary: A novel of faith and self-discovery follows three women--all of whom join an order of nuns, and then leave--as they each embark on extraordinary journeys to discover their true place in the world.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2003

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MAC

Tremayne, Peter

Summary: "Ireland, A.D. 671. An Anglo-Saxon delegation arrives in Cashel to debate the new religious rules that have been handed down from Rome. The Abbot of Imleach leads the Irish delegation, which is hostile to the new rules from outsiders. Among the Anglo-Saxon group is Brother Eadulf's own younger brother Egric, whom Eadulf hasn't seen for many years. When the debate quickly becomes acrimonious, a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2015

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: M TRE

Tremayne, Peter

Summary: "Ireland, A.D. 671. It is the beginning of the summer season and the Kingdom of Muman is preparing to celebrate the Great Fair of Cashel. It is an extravagant nine days of contests, food, and endless entertainment. Circumstances have led Fidelma and Eadulf far and wide across the kingdom, and they have been absent from the Great Fair for many years. But, for once they haven't been called away...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2016

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1 available in Adult, Call number: M TRE

Uss, Christina

Summary: Left at the Mostly Silent Monastery in Washington, D.C. as a toddler and home-schooled by a retired nun, twelve-year-old Bicycle rides cross-country to meet a famous cyclist who she hopes will be her first friend.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret Ferguson Books, Holiday House 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC USS

Blakemore, A. K.

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Summary: 1798, France. Nuns move along the dark corridors of a Versailles hospital where the young Sister Perpetué has been tasked with sitting with the patient who must always be watched. The man, gaunt, with his sallow skin and distended belly, is dying: they say he ate a golden fork, and that it's killing him from the inside. But that's not all--he is rumored to have done monstrous things in his...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023

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Macomber, Debbie.

Summary: Almost forty years after entering the convent, three nuns decide to leave the sisterhood for the exciting and confusing world outside.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MAC

Clark, Cassandra

Summary: "Hildegard, no longer a member of the Cistercian order of nuns, has returned to the priory after more than a year from her pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Still unsure whether she'll rejoin the Order, the Prioress suggests that a visit to Handale Priory might help provide some clarity. While walking about its grounds, Hildegard discovers the corpse of a young man in the morgue. His...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLA

Groff, Lauren

Summary: Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2021

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRO

Tremayne, Peter

Summary: "Ireland. AD 671. Sister Fidelma has a mission, and she is sworn by oath to reveal her purpose to no other. The secret investigation leads Fidelma and her companions to the abbey of Finnbarr to question the abbot. But before they have a chance to speak to him, the abbot is found murdered - and the young girl suspected of the crime has fled the scene"--Publisher's website.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2018

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC TRE

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRE

Willan, Jane

Summary: The sisters of Gwenafwy Abbey have cherished their contemplative life--days spent in prayer, reflection, tending the Convent's vegetable gardens and making their award-winning organic cheese, Heavenly Gouda. Life seems perfect, except for Sister Agatha, a die-hard mystery fan who despairs of ever finding any real life inspiration for her own novel. That is, until the Abbey's sexton is found...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WIL

Lenz, Niki

Summary: "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"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEN

Ackroyd, Peter

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese, Doubleday 2004

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ACK

Clark, Cassandra.

Summary: 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2011

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLA

Frazer, Margaret.

Summary: Accompanying a nunnery pupil and her mother on their return home, medieval nun Dame Frevisse becomes caught up in dark family secrets, mystery, and murder when a family member dies under mysterious circumstances.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2004

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRA

Lawrence, Mark

Summary: "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 asthe emperor moves to destroy the last bastion that stands against him"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ace 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAW

Tremayne, Peter

Summary: "Ireland, AD 671. On the eve of the pagan feast of Samhain, Brother Edulf and the warrior, Aidan, discover a man murdered in an unlit pyre in the heart of Cashel. He has been dressed in the robes of a religieux and killed by the ritualistic 'three deaths'"--Amazon.com.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRE

Tremayne, Peter

Summary: Ireland, AD 671. King Colgu of Cashel is shocked to learn that his loyal Chief Bishop and advisor has been murdered in the old enemy fortress of the Ui Fidgente. When word reaches Cashel that the culprit will be executed under new law, a larger conflict looms. Dispatched to investigate, Fidelma and her companion Eadulf discover that the man facing punishment is Gorman--commander of the King's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRE

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: M TRE

Tremayne, Peter.

Summary: When her brother the king barely survives an assassination attempt, Fidelma, her companion Eadulf, and bodyguard Gormán journey into dangerous enemy territory to discover who is behind the plot and why.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRE

Tremayne, Peter.

Summary: Returning to Ireland from a pilgrimage, Sister Fidelma discovers that her friend and companion, Saxon monk Brother Eadulf, has been accused of the rape and murder of a young girl, a crime for which he will be executed, unless she can clear his name.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2002

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRE

Trussoni, Danielle.

Summary: When twenty-three-year-old Sister Evangeline accidentally stumbles upon some mysterious letters exchanged between the late mother superior of her convent and the famous philanthropist Abigail Rockefeller, she is thrust into an ancient conflict between the Society of Angelologists and the monstrously beautiful descendants of angels and humans, the Nephilim.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2010

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC TRU

Ólafur 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....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco Press 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OLA

Callanan, Liam

Summary: 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2023

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAL

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAL

Clark, Cassandra.

Summary: York archbishop Alexander Neville taps Abbess Hildegarde to accompany him on a trip to London, where she's to serve as his spy. Before they set out, Neville's saucier is found dead in a wine vat, evidently murdered. Set in 14th century England during the turbulent reign of Richard II.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2012

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLA

Dillon, Alena

Summary: "In the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn stands a century-old row house presided over by renegade, silver-haired Sister Evelyn. Gruff and indomitable on the surface, warm and wry underneath, Evelyn and her fellow sisters makes Mercy House a safe haven for the abused and abandoned. Women like Lucia, who arrives in the dead of night; Mei-Li, the Chinese and Russian house veteran;...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIL

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Dillon 2020

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