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Rose, married for three years, decides she has made a mistake and leaves her husband, traveling from California to Kentucky to take up residence in a home for unwed mothers where she plans to have her baby and give it up for adoption, but she soon discovers life still holds some surprises.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
'Damned If You Don't' is Friedrichs subversive and ecstatic response to her Catholic upbringing. Blending conventional narrative technique with impressionistic camerawork, symbols and voice-overs, this film creates an intimate study of sexual expression and repression. Featuring Peggy Healey as a young nun tormented by her desire for the sultry irresistible Ela Troyano. --Kanopy.
4) Out of Order
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In Out of Order six former Catholic nuns tell why they entered and why they left religious life. The women (filmmaker Diane Christian is one of them) describe their years in the convent and their return to the secular world.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
""A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be." In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century. A diary is Nao's only solace--and will touch lives in ways she...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
Two orphan vampires (Les Deux Orphelines Vampires) follows Henriette and Louise (Isabelle Teboul and Alexandra Pic), two blind girls of unknown origin, raised in an orphanage by two adoring nuns. Little do the nuns know, each night as the sun goes down, their "little angels" acquire night vision (they "see blue"), as well as an appetite for blood and teenage mischief.
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Series
Pub. Date
2007
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English
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New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice brings back two of her most beloved characters to tell of two undying love affairs. . . .
Sister Bernadette Ignatius has returned to Ireland in the company of Tom Kelly to search for the son they left behind. For it was here that these two long-ago lovers spent a season of magic before Bernadette’s calling led her to a vocation as Mother Superior at Star of the Sea Academy. For...
Sister Bernadette Ignatius has returned to Ireland in the company of Tom Kelly to search for the son they left behind. For it was here that these two long-ago lovers spent a season of magic before Bernadette’s calling led her to a vocation as Mother Superior at Star of the Sea Academy. For...
9) Matrix
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English
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"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 and mercurial sisters. In this crucible, Marie steadily...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From "China's foremost literary satirist" (Financial Times) comes a captivating new novel set at a religious training center in Beijing, focusing on the love story of a Buddhist nun and a Daoist priest. At the Religious Training Center on the campus of Beijing's National Politics University, disciples of China's five main religions--Buddhism, Daoism, Protestantism, Catholicism, and Islam--gather for a year of intensive study and training. In this...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Daughters of Dolma takes viewers on a journey revealing a distinctively female experience of Tibetan Buddhism in the Kathmandu Valley. This feature-length documentary brings to the screen not just Buddhist spirituality and qualities like compassion and kindness, but Tibetan Buddhist nuns as full individuals beyond their monastic vows and religious practices. Daughters of Dolma reveals how gender and modernity are molding contemporary spiritual practices...
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Series
Reverend Mother mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Ireland 1923. Reverend Mother Aquinas is buying buttered eggs in the Cork city market at the very moment when the city engineer, James Doyle, is assassinated. Although no one saw the actual killing, a young reporter named Sam O'Mahony is found standing close to the body, a pistol in his hand, and is arrested and charged. Following a desperate appeal from Sam's mother, convinced of her son's innocence, the Reverend Mother investigates -- and, in this...
13) Then came heaven
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
A nun falls in love with the father of two girls she teaches in the Polish community of 1950s Browerville, Minnesota. It happens after the girl's mother is killed in an accident. A tale of frustrated desire, until she leaves the Church for him.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
A Van Helsing-like professor and his protegé are tracking Dracula's descendants through the world of "parallels", creatures who are human in form but live quite distinct psychic lives. A circus dwarf who is in love with one of these creatures leads them to a mansion filled with oddly behaving nuns, The Order of the White Virgins. The nuns are detaining a beautiful woman who is the betrothed of the still-extant Dracula. When she escapes, everyone...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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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
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
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.
19) Dead man walking
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of convicted killer Matthew Poncelet and Sister Helen Prejean, his spiritual advisor, and the journey they undertake in search of the truth.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Since the Chinese occupation of Tibet, more than one million Tibetans have been tortured, executed or starved to death for their role in demonstrations against the Chinese occupation. Tibetan nuns have fearlessly staged demonstrations for independence. Countless nuns have been imprisoned and tortured for shouting slogans, criticizing the Chinese state in conversations with foreigners, possessing posters which call for Tibetan independence, or hoisting...
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