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Abbess of Creweby Muriel SparkISBN 0811212963 (0-8112-1296-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Abbess of Crewe'Book summary:Published in 1974 and inspired by Watergate, Muriel Spark's Abbess of Crewe is much more amusing and infinitely drier. It transpires that Alexandra, the title character, has bugged and videotaped the Abbey--except for the confessionals and chapel--with electronic "devices fearfully and wonderfully beyond the reach of a humane vocabulary." After her only rival decamps for London and the arms of a Jesuit, police and newspapers swoop in. All the while, the Abbess (an adherent of Machiavelli, The Art of War, and the Modernist poets) keeps her cool, sacrificing her confederates as necessary and trying to assure herself of helicopter-hopping Gertrude's loyalty. (Gertrude is off curing cannibals of their customs and calls in occasionally from places whose unpronounceable names will soon be replaced by other equally unpronounceable names.) Spark's nuns on the run are more than stand-ins for the sweaty American President and his operatives; the satire extends to Anglo-snobbism and -Catholicism. The Abbess explains to the Pope that "electronic surveillance (even if a convent were one day to practise it) does not differ from any other type of watchfulness, the which is a necessity of a Religious Community; we are told in the Scriptures 'to watch and to pray,' which is itself a paradox." [via]
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Advent of Dyingby Carol Anne O'MarieISBN 0440100526 (0-440-10052-6)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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Blossoms of the Dharma : Living As a Buddhist Nunby Thubten Chodron, Sylvia BoorsteinISBN 1556433255 (1-55643-325-5)
Softcover, North Atlantic Books
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Chrono Crusadeby Daisuke MoriyamaISBN 1413900844 (1-4139-0084-4)
Softcover, Adv Films
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Chrono Crusade 6by Daisuke MoriyamaISBN 1413900453 (1-4139-0045-3)
Softcover, Adv Films
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Corner That Held Themby Sylvia Townsend WarnerISBN 086068878X (0-86068-878-X)
Softcover, Virago Pr
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Death Goes on Retreatby Carol Anne O'MarieISBN 0312985290 (0-312-98529-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death Goes on Retreat'Book summary:Sister Mary Helen and her Irish friend, Sister Eileen, need some R&R away from the pressures of their inner city vocation. A week at the idyllic St. Colette's Retreat House, snuggled amid towering redwoods 65 miles from San Francisco, sounds like heaven. Unfortunately the muddled sisters mistakenly arrive a week too early and find that St. Colette's is hosting a convention of hard drinking, high spirited priests. And when the serenity is further shattered by the murder of a former seminary student, suspicion falls on the holy fathers. But Sister Mary Helen has another theory about the perpetrator, and in her inimitable way she intends to uncover the deadly secrets and passions that the flesh is heir to...[via]More editions of Death Goes on Retreat:
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Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climatesby Tom RobbinsISBN 055337933X (0-553-37933-X)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates'Book summary:The fierce invalid in Tom Robbins's seventh novel is a philosophical, hedonistic U.S. operative very loosely inspired by a friend of the author. "Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll are enormously popular in the CIA," claims Switters. "Not with all the agents in the field, but with the good ones, the brightest and the best." Switters isn't really an invalid, but during his first mission (to set free his ornery grandma's parrot, Sailor, in the Amazon jungle), he gets zapped by a spell cast by a "misshapen shaman" of the Kandakandero tribe named End of Time. The shaman is reminiscent of Carlos Castaneda's giggly guru, but his head is pyramid-shaped. In return for a mind-bending trip into cosmic truth--"the Hallways of Always"--Switters must not let his foot touch the earth, or he'll die.
Not that a little death threat can slow him down. Switters simply hops into a wheelchair and rolls off to further footloose adventures, occasionally switching to stilts. For a Robbins hero, to be just a bit high, not earthbound, facilitates enlightenment. He bops from Peru to Seattle, where he's beguiled by the Art Girls of the Pike Place Market and his 16-year-old stepsister, and then off to Syria, where he falls in with a pack of renegade nuns bearing names like Mustang Sally and Domino Thirry. Will Switters see Domino tumble and solve the mystery of the Virgin Mary? Can the nuns convince the Pope to favor birth control--to "zonk the zygotic zillions and mitigate the multitudinous milt" and "wrest free from a woman's shoulders the boa of spermatozoa?" Can the author ever resist a shameless pun or a mutant metaphor?
The tangly plot is almost beside the point. Switters is a colorful undercover agent, and a Robbins novel is really a colorful undercover essay celebrating sex and innocence, drugs and a firm wariness of anything that tries to rewire the mind, and Broadway tunes, especially "Send in the Clowns." Some readers will be intensely offended by Switters's yen for youth and idiosyncratic views on vice. But fans will feel that extremism in the pursuit of serious fun is virtue incarnate. Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates is classic Tom Robbins: all smiles, similes, and subversion. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joyby Rumer Godden, Joan ChittisterISBN 0829424733 (0-8294-2473-3)
Softcover, Loyola Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy'Book summary:[via]Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy is about growth, choice, struggle, and the freedom of the soul that transcends the license of the body. It is about finding sin where we least expect it.
Joan Chittister, from the introductionThis haunting tale of disgrace and redemption centers on Lise Fanshawe, a prostitute and brothel manager in postwar Paris who, while serving time in prison for killing a man, finds God. Lise is helped by an order of Catholic nuns that includes former prostitutes and prisoners like her. She joins the order and is swept up in an unexpected and fateful encounter with people from her past life. Rumer Godden, author of the masterwork In This House of Brede, tells an inspiring and entirely convincing conversion story that shows how the mercy of God extends to the darkest human places.The Loyola Classics series connects today's readers to the timeless themes of Catholic fiction in new editions of acclaimed Catholic novelsMore editions of Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy:
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Hardcover, Macmillan - Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy: ISBN 0670317012 (0-670-31701-2)
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For the Love of God: The Faith and Future of the American Nunby Lucy KaylinISBN 0060937076 (0-06-093707-6)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Galileo's Daughterby Dava SobelISBN 0802713432 (0-8027-1343-2)
Hardcover, Walker & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Galileo's Daughter'Book summary:Everyone knows that Galileo Galilei dropped cannonballs off the leaning tower of Pisa, developed the first reliable telescope, and was convicted by the Inquisition for holding a heretical belief--that the earth revolved around the sun. But did you know he had a daughter? In Galileo's Daughter, Dava Sobel (author of the bestselling Longitude) tells the story of the famous scientist and his illegitimate daughter, Sister Maria Celeste. Sobel bases her book on 124 surviving letters to the scientist from the nun, whom Galileo described as "a woman of exquisite mind, singular goodness, and tenderly attached to me." Their loving correspondence revealed much about their world: the agonies of the bubonic plague, the hardships of monastic life, even Galileo's occasional forgetfulness ("The little basket, which I sent you recently with several pastries, is not mine, and therefore I wish you to return it to me").
While Galileo tangled with the Church, Maria Celeste--whose adopted name was a tribute to her father's fascination with the heavens--provided moral and emotional support with her frequent letters, approving of his work because she knew the depth of his faith. As Sobel notes, "It is difficult today ... to see the Earth at the center of the Universe. Yet that is where Galileo found it." With her fluid prose and graceful turn of phrase, Sobel breathes life into Galileo, his daughter, and the earth-centered world in which they lived. --Sunny Delaney [via]
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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Loveby Dava SobelISBN 0140280553 (0-14-028055-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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While Galileo tangled with the Church, Maria Celeste--whose adopted name was a tribute to her father's fascination with the heavens--provided moral and emotional support with her frequent letters, approving of his work because she knew the depth of his faith. As Sobel notes, "It is difficult today ... to see the Earth at the center of the Universe. Yet that is where Galileo found it." With her fluid prose and graceful turn of phrase, Sobel breathes life into Galileo, his daughter, and the earth-centered world in which they lived. --Sunny Delaney [via]
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Good Omensby Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, David FramptonISBN 0441003257 (0-441-00325-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Good Omens'Book summary:The world is going to end next Saturday, just before dinner, but it turns out there are a few problems--the Antichrist has been misplaced, the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse ride motorcycles, and the representatives from heaven and hell decide that they like the human race. Reprint. NYT. AB. [via]
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Good Omensby Terry PratchettISBN 0552137030 (0-552-13703-0)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Good Omens'Book summary:Pratchett (of Discworld fame) and Gaiman (of Sandman fame) may seem an unlikely combination, but the topic (Armageddon) of this fast-paced novel is old hat to both. Pratchett's wackiness collaborates with Gaiman's morbid humor; the result is a humanist delight to be savored and reread again and again. You see, there was a bit of a mixup when the Antichrist was born, due in part to the machinations of Crowley, who did not so much fall as saunter downwards, and in part to the mysterious ways as manifested in the form of a part-time rare book dealer, an angel named Aziraphale. Like top agents everywhere, they've long had more in common with each other than the sides they represent, or the conflict they are nominally engaged in. The only person who knows how it will all end is Agnes Nutter, a witch whose prophecies all come true, if one can only manage to decipher them. The minor characters along the way (Famine makes an appearance as diet crazes, no-calorie food and anorexia epidemics) are as much fun as the story as a whole, which adds up to one of those rare books which is enormous fun to read the first time, and the second time, and the third time... [via]
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witchby Terry Pratchett, Neil GaimanISBN 0060853972 (0-06-085397-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch'Book summary:Pratchett (of Discworld fame) and Gaiman (of Sandman fame) may seem an unlikely combination, but the topic (Armageddon) of this fast-paced novel is old hat to both. Pratchett's wackiness collaborates with Gaiman's morbid humor; the result is a humanist delight to be savored and reread again and again. You see, there was a bit of a mixup when the Antichrist was born, due in part to the machinations of Crowley, who did not so much fall as saunter downwards, and in part to the mysterious ways as manifested in the form of a part-time rare book dealer, an angel named Aziraphale. Like top agents everywhere, they've long had more in common with each other than the sides they represent, or the conflict they are nominally engaged in. The only person who knows how it will all end is Agnes Nutter, a witch whose prophecies all come true, if one can only manage to decipher them. The minor characters along the way (Famine makes an appearance as diet crazes, no-calorie food and anorexia epidemics) are as much fun as the story as a whole, which adds up to one of those rare books which is enormous fun to read the first time, and the second time, and the third time... [via]
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Softcover, Harpercollins - Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch: ISBN 0061121304 (0-06-112130-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins - Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch: ISBN 0060853964 (0-06-085396-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch: ISBN 0425132153 (0-425-13215-3)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group - Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch: ISBN 0441008615 (0-441-00861-5)
Softcover, Ace Books - Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch: ISBN 0894808532 (0-89480-853-2)
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Holy Foolsby Joanne HarrisISBN 0060559136 (0-06-055913-6)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Holy Fools'Book summary:With her internationally bestselling novels Chocolat, Blackberry Wine, Five Quarters of the Orange, and Coastliners, Joanne Harris has woven intoxicating spells that celebrate the sensuous while exposing the passion, secrets, and folly beneath the surface of rustic village life. In Holy Fools, her most ambitious and accomplished novel to date, she transports us back to a time of intrigue and turmoil, of deception and masquerade.
In the year 1605, a young widow, pregnant and alone, seeks sanctuary at the small Abbey of Sainte Marie-de-la-mer on the island of Noirs Moustiers off the Brittany coast. After the birth of her daughter, she takes up the veil, and a new name, Soeur Auguste. But the peace she has found in re-mote isolation is shattered five years later by the events that follow the death of her kind benefactress, the Reverend Mother.
When a new abbess -- the daughter of a corrupt noble family elevated by the murder of King Henri IV -- arrives at Sainte Marie-de-la-mer, she does not arrive alone. With her is her personal confessor and spiritual guide, Père Colombin, a man Soeur Auguste knows all too well. For the newcomer is Guy LeMerle, a charlatan and seducer now masquerading as a priest, and the one man she fears more than any other.
Soeur Auguste has a secret. Once she was l'Ailée, "The Winged One," star performer of a troupe led by LeMerle, before betrayal forced her to change her identity. But now the past has found her. Before long, thanks to LeMerle, suspicion and debauchery are breeding like a plague within the convent's walls -- fueled by dark rumors of witchcraft, part of the false priest's brilliantly orchestrated scheme of revenge. To protect herself and her beloved child, l'Ailée will have to perform one last act of dazzling daring more audacious than any she has previously attempted.
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Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italyby Judith C. BrownISBN 0195042255 (0-19-504225-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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In This House of Bredeby Rumer Godden, Phyllis TickleISBN 0829421289 (0-8294-2128-9)
Softcover, Loyola Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In This House of Brede'Book summary:Philippa Talbot leaves her Civil Service career for a new calling - to join an enclosed order of Benedictine nuns. In this small community, each crisis is guided by the Abbess and the Sisters' shared bond of faith. It is here that Philippa must learn to forgive and forget the past. [via]
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Hardcover, Macmillan - In This House of Brede: ISBN 0670400238 (0-670-40023-8)
Hardcover, Penguin USA - In This House of Brede: ISBN 0899668100 (0-89966-810-0)
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Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silenceby Rosemary Curb, Nancy ManahanISBN 0930044622 (0-930044-62-2)
Softcover, Naiad Pr
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The Lilies of the Fieldby William E. BarrettISBN 082220665X (0-8222-0665-X)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service
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The Lilies of the Fieldby William Edmund BarrettISBN 0446315001 (0-446-31500-1)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lilies of the Field'Book summary:One of the most beloved of modern classics returns with a beautiful new cover. The enchanting story of two unlikely friends, a black ex-GI and the head of a group of German nuns, The Lilies of the Field tells the story of their impossible dream--to build a chapel in the desert. [via]
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Love Lettersby Madeleine L'EngleISBN 0345306171 (0-345-30617-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Lying Awakeby Mark SalzmanISBN 0375706062 (0-375-70606-2)
Softcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lying Awake'Book summary:In his third novel, Lying Awake, Mark Salzman breaks the primary rule of fiction by creating a protagonist who has virtually no external life. Sister John of the Cross, a middle-aged nun cloistered in a Carmelite monastery in contemporary Los Angeles, languished for years in a spiritual drought--"her prayers empty and her soul dry"--until she suddenly received God's grace in the form of intense mystical visions. So vivid have her visions become that they burn a kind of afterglow into her mind that she transcribes into crystalline (and highly popular) verse. The only downside is that they are accompanied by excruciating headaches that cause her to black out.
The story hinges on Sister John's discovery that her visions are in fact the result of mild epileptic seizures. As she learns from her neurologist, temporal-lobe epilepsy commonly brings about "hypergraphia (voluminous writing), an intensification but also a narrowing of emotional response, and an obsessive interest in religion and philosophy." Dostoyevsky, the classic victim of this condition, wrote of his raptures: "There are moments, and it is only a matter of five or six seconds, when you feel the presence of eternal harmony.... If this state were to last more than five seconds, the soul could not endure it and would have to disappear." An exact description of Sister John's visions. The question she now faces is whether to go ahead with surgery--and risk obliterating both her spiritual life and her art--or cling to a state of grace that may actually be a delusion ignited by an electrochemical imbalance.
Using a very limited palette, Mark Salzman creates an austere masterpiece. The real miracle of Lying Awake is that it works perfectly on every level: on the realistic surface, it captures the petty squabbles and tiny bursts of radiance of life in a Los Angeles monastery; deeper down it probes the nature of spiritual illumination and the meaning and purpose of prayer in everyday life; and, at bottom, there lurks a profound meditation on the mystery of artistic inspiration. Salzman made a highly auspicious debut in 1986 with Iron and Silk, a memoir of his years in China, and since then he has dramatically changed key in every book--most recently from the absurdist American suburban chronicle of Lost in Place to the artistic-crisis-cum-courtroom-drama novel The Soloist. Lying Awake is quieter and more sober than Salzman's previous narratives, but it is also more accomplished, more thought-provoking, and more highly crafted. --David Laskin [via]
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Madelineby Ludwig BemelmansISBN 0670445800 (0-670-44580-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Madeline'Book summary:With its lively verse, beautiful scenes of Paris, and fun-filled action spreads, the pop-up edition of Madeline will delight children who meet her for the first time--and enchant those who already love her. Full-color illustrations. [via]
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Madeline/Spanishby Ludwig Bemelmans, Ernesto Livon GrosmanISBN 067085154X (0-670-85154-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Mariette in Ecstasyby Ron HansenISBN 0060981180 (0-06-098118-0)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mariette in Ecstasy'Book summary:A novel about convent life at the turn of the century? Hardly the makings of a page-turner, yet Ron Hansen's Mariette in Ecstasy is a gripping, even life-changing book. For the Sisters of the Crucifixion, each day is a ceaseless round of work, study, and prayer--one hardly separate from the other. Their daily life is itself an act of devotion, caught here in a series of illuminated tableaux: hundreds of yellow butterflies alighting on eight gray habits, moving through a field; a sister praying as she "turns over a great slab of dough that rolls as slowly as a white pig"; nuns warming their hands on the flanks of horses, swinging scythes through timothy grass, crushing grapes with their feet.
Into this idyll comes Mariette--young, pretty, devout, but, as her father says, perhaps "too high-strung" for the convent. Prone to "trances, hallucinations, unnatural piety, great extremes of temperament, and, as he put it, 'inner wrenchings,'" Mariette scalds her hands with hot water as penance, threads barbed wire underneath her breasts while she sleeps, and is convinced Jesus speaks to her. Her very glamour disturbs the gentle rhythm of the nuns' lives. But when she begins bleeding from unexplained wounds in her hands, feet, and sides, the convent is thrown into an uproar. Is Mariette a saint? Or just a lying, hysterical girl? Where do we draw the line between madness and faith, mysticism and eroticism, the life of the spirit and that of the world?
It's to Hansen's credit that he never provides easy answers. Mariette's stigmata may or may not be genuine; the novel's achingly gorgeous prose is the true miracle here. Mariette in Ecstasy is a brief, precious book, not a single word in excess, not a single word left out. --Mary Park [via]
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Memoirs of a Nunby Denis Diderot, Francis BirrellISBN 0679413243 (0-679-41324-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Missing Madonna: A Sister Mary Helen Mysteryby Carol Anne O'MarieISBN 0440204739 (0-440-20473-9)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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Murder in Ordinary Time: A Sister Mary Helen Mysteryby Carol Anne O'MarieISBN 0440213533 (0-440-21353-3)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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A Novena for Murderby Carol Anne O'MarieISBN 0440164699 (0-440-16469-9)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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The Nunby Denis DiderotISBN 0140443002 (0-14-044300-2)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Nun'Book summary:Diderot's The Nun (La Religieuse) is the seemingly true story of a young girl forced by her parents to enter a convent and take holy orders. A novel mingling mysticism, madness, sadistic cruelty and nascent sexuality, it gives a scathing insight into the effects of forced vocations and the unnatural life of the convent. A succès de scandale at the end of the eighteenth century, it has attracted and unsettled readers ever since. For Diderot's novel is not simply a story of a young girl with a bad habit; it is also a powerfully emblematic fable about oppression and intolerance.
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A Nun in the Closetby Dorothy GilmanISBN 0449211673 (0-449-21167-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Nun in the Closet'Book summary:From the bestselling author of the Mrs. Pollifax books comes a new mystery habit to acquire. From the moment Sister John and Sister Hyacinthe reach the old house left to their abbey by a mysterious benefactor, their cloistered world begins to crumble. First, there is the wounded man hiding in the house, then the suitcase stuffed with money sitting at the bottom of the well, not to mention fearful apparitions in the night. Lord only knows what's going on. That is, until the good sisters, armed only with their faith and boundless energy, set things right--even if it means a shocking revelation or two about ghosts, gangsters...and murder. [via]
The Nun's Storyby Kathryn Cavarly HulmeISBN 0316381357 (0-316-38135-7)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Nunsense: A Musical Comedyby GogginISBN 0573689180 (0-573-68918-0)
Softcover, Samuel French Inc Plays
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A Right to Be Merryby Mary FrancisISBN 0898708249 (0-89870-824-9)
Softcover, Ignatius Pr
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Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns Through Two Millenniaby Jo Ann Kay McNamaraISBN 0674809858 (0-674-80985-8)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns Through Two Millennia'Book summary:In this compelling analysis of women who have given their lives to religion since the advent of Christ, Jo Ann Kay McNamara challenges that although the church was the first institution to accept women, "the Catholic clergy remains the last womanless place." McNamara maintains that despite reverence for vows of chastity, history has repeatedly shown that "uncontrolled virginity" is believed to be "as dangerous as uncontrolled sexuality." Nuns during the French Revolution were tried for treason for their "persistent chastity," and the rape of a nun has always symbolized a certain triumph over personal will. Despite numerous injustices, McNamara is careful to balance her book with an impressive list of accomplishments by these dedicated women. [via]
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Sor Juana Ines De LA Cruz O Las Trampas De LA Feby Octavio PazISBN 9681612116 (968-16-1211-6)
Softcover, Fondo De Cultura Economica USA
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Sor Juana: Or, the Traps of Faithby Octavio Paz, Margaret Sayers PedenISBN 0674821068 (0-674-82106-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sor Juana Or, the Traps of Faith'Book summary:Mexico's leading poet, essayist, and cultural critic writes of a Mexican poet of another time and another world, the world of seventeenth-century New Spain. His subject is Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, the most striking figure in all of Spanish-American colonial literature and one of the great poets of her age.
Her life reads like a novel. A spirited and precocious girl, one of six illegitimate children, is sent to live with relatives in the capital city. She becomes known for her beauty, wit, and amazing erudition, and is taken into the court as the Vicereine's protégée. For five years she enjoys the pleasures of life at court--then abruptly, at twenty, enters a convent for life. Yet, no recluse, she transforms the convent locutory into a literary and intellectual salon; she amasses an impressive library and collects scientific instruments, reads insatiably, composes poems, and corresponds with literati in Spain. To the consternation of the prelates of the Church, she persists in circulating her poems, redolent more of the court than the cloister. Her plays are performed, volumes of her poetry are published abroad, and her genius begins to be recognized throughout the Hispanic world. Suddenly she surrenders her books, forswears all literary pursuits, and signs in blood a renunciation of secular learning. The rest is silence. She dies two years later, at forty-six.
Octavio Paz has long been intrigued by the enigmas of Sor Juana's personality and career. Why did she become a nun? How could she renounce her lifelong passion for writing and learning? Such questions can be answered only in the context of the world in which she lived. Paz gives a masterly portrayal of the life and culture of New Spain and the political and ideological forces at work in that autocratic, theocratic, male-dominated society, in which the subjugation of women was absolute.
Just as Paz illuminates Sor Juana's life by placing it in its historical setting, so he situates her work in relation to the traditions that nurtured it. With critical authority he singles out the qualities that distinguish her work and mark her uniqueness as a poet. To Paz her writings, like her life, epitomize the struggle of the individual, and in particular the individual woman, for creative fulfillment and self-expression.
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The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darknessby Karen ArmstrongISBN 0385721277 (0-385-72127-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness'Book summary:Karen Armstrong speaks to the troubling years following her decision to leave the life of a Roman Catholic nun and join the secular world in 1969. What makes this memoir especially fascinating is that Armstrong already wrote about this era once---only it was a disastrous book. It was too soon for her to understand how these dark, struggling years influenced her spiritual development, and she was too immature to protect herself from being be bullied by the publishing world. As a result, she agreed to portray herself only in as "positive and lively a light as possible"---a mandate that gave her permission to deny the truth of her pain and falsify her inner experience. The inspiration for this new approach comes from T. S. Eliot's Ash Wednesday, a series of six poems that speak to the process of spiritual recovery. Eliot metaphorically climbs a spiral staircase in these poems---turning again and again to what he does not want to see as he slowly makes progress toward the light. In revisiting her spiral climb out of her dark night of the soul, Armstrong gives readers a stunningly poignant account about the nature of spiritual growth. Upon leaving the convent, Armstrong grapples with the grief of her abandoned path and the uncertainty of her place in the world. On top of this angst, Armstrong spent years suffering from undiagnosed temporal lobe epilepsy, causing her to have frequent blackout lapses in memory and disturbing hallucinations---crippling symptoms that her psychiatrist adamantly attributed to Armstrong's denial of her femininity and sexuality. The details of this narrative may be specific to Armstrong's life, but the meanin! g she makes of her spiral ascent makes this a universally relevant story. All readers can glean inspiration from her insights into the nature of surrender and the possibilities of finding solace in the absence of hope. Armstrong shows us why spiritual wisdom is often a seasoned gift---no matter how much we strive for understanding, we can't force profound insights to occur simply because our publisher is waiting for them. With her elegant, humble and brave voice, she inspires readers to willingly turn our attention toward our false identities and vigilantly defended beliefs in order to better see the truth and vulnerability of our existence. Herein lies the staircase we can climb to enlightenment. --Gail Hudson [via]
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Through The Narrow Gateby Karen ArmstrongISBN 0312119038 (0-312-11903-8)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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The Tulip and the Popeby Deborah LarsenISBN 0375712909 (0-375-71290-9)
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The Tulip and the Pope: A Nun's Storyby Deborah LarsenISBN 037541360X (0-375-41360-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Unveiled: The Hidden Lives of Nunsby Cheryl L. ReedISBN 0425200299 (0-425-20029-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Virgins of Venice: Broken Vows and Cloistered Lives in the Renaissance Conventby Mary LavenISBN 0670031836 (0-670-03183-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Virgins of Venice: Enclosed Lives and Broken Vows in the Renaissance Conventby Mary LavenISBN 0670896357 (0-670-89635-7)
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A Vow of Silenceby Veronica BlackISBN 0804108145 (0-8041-0814-5)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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A Sister Joan Mystery.
The sisters at lonely Cornwall Convent share chilling secrets they cannot confess . . . Sister Sophia is dead. Sister Magdalen has vanished. Sister Joan, newly transferred to the convent to investigate its mysterious troubles, begins to suspect what she hardly dares to name: Blasphemy . . . and worse . . . [via]More editions of A Vow of Silence:
What Nuns Read: Books and Libraries in Medieval English Nunneriesby David N. BellISBN 0879075589 (0-87907-558-9)
Hardcover, Cistercian Pubns
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Buenos Presagios: Las Buenas Y Ajustadas Profecfas De Agnes La Chalada/Good Omens The Nice & Accurate Prophecies Of Agnes Nutter, Witchby Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Maria FerrerISBN 159497098X (1-59497-098-X)
Softcover, Public Square Books
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English: According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter--the world's only totally reliable guide to the future--the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just after tea... From two delightful imaginations comes an unforgettable story in which the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ride motorcycles, the hound of the devil chases sticks, and the end of the world is subject to Murphy's Law... From Amazon.com. . . Pratchett (of Discworld fame) and Gaiman (of Sandman fame) may seem an unlikely combination, but the topic (Armageddon) of this fast-paced novel is old hat to both. Pratchett's wackiness collaborates with Gaiman's morbid humor; the result is a humanist delight to be savored and reread again and again. You see, there was a bit of a mixup when the Antichrist was born, due in part to the machinations of Crowley, who did not so much fall as saunter downwards, and in part to the mysterious ways as manifested in the form of a part-time rare book dealer, an angel named Aziraphale. Like top agents everywhere, they've long had more in common with each other than the sides they represent, or the conflict they are nominally engaged in. The only person who knows how it will all end is Agnes Nutter, a witch whose prophecies all come true, if one can only manage to decipher them. The minor characters along the way (Famine makes an appearance as diet crazes, no-calorie food and anorexia epidemics) are as much fun as the story as a whole, which adds up to one of those rare books which is enormous fun to read the first time, and the second time, and the third time... [via]
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La Campana/The bellby Iris MurdochISBN 8420644536 (84-206-4453-6)
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Madeleineby Ludwig BemelsmanISBN 2211021565 (2-211-02156-5)
Softcover, Archimede Editions
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Book Details:- Format: Paperback
- Publication Date: 8/1/2000
- Pages: 48
- Reading Level: Age 5 and Up
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