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"In the vein of The Virgin Suicides, a dazzling debut novel about four girls inexplicably named Guinevere, all left by their parents to be raised by nuns"--
Gwen, Ginny, Win and Vere are all actually named Guinevere. They are all under the strict guidance of the nuns at Our Lady of Perpetual Adoration. They have different and equally heartbreaking reasons for coming to live at the convent. Guided by the controlling Sister Fran and the spiritually...
Author
Publisher
Elboro Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A funny, warm-hearted, and provocative farce about a beautiful but troubled insurance adjuster who believes she has psychic powers she cannot control. She decides to enter a Catholic convent for three months to protect society from her powerful emotions and her devoted math teacher boyfriend hopes this will cure her of these delusions. But the only convent that will accept her is an impoverished cloister run by a gang of outlaw nuns opening a brewery...
4) Red sister
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Series
Publisher
Ace
Language
English
Description
"The international bestselling author of the Broken Empire and the Red Queen's War trilogies begins a stunning epic fantasy series about a secretive order of holy warriors ... At the Convent of Sweet Mercy, young girls are raised to be killers. In some few children the old bloods show, gifting rare talents that can be honed to deadly or mystic effect. But even the mistresses of sword and shadow don't truly understand what they have purchased when...
Author
Series
Book of the ice volume 2
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xii, 365 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The second pulse-pounding novel in an epic fantasy series set in the same world as the wildly popular Red Sister. Yaz must fight for survival in this thrilling novel set on the unforgiving planet of Abeth"--
6) Grey sister
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
April 2018.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 415 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From Mark Lawrence, the international bestselling author of the Broken Empire Trilogy, comes the second novel in a dazzling fantasy series set in a dying world. The searing tale of a young woman on the path to becoming the empire's fiercest warrior"--
"From Mark Lawrence, the international bestselling author of the Broken Empire Trilogy, comes the second novel in a dazzling fantasy series set in a dying world. The searing tale of a young woman on...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
435 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When king's Rider Justin comes to the aid of Ellynor, a young novice at a convent, he is unaware that she is a mystic being who is being manipulated by fanatical Daughters of the Pale Moon into seeking out and destroying other mystics.
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Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 293 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Charley Davidson has enough going on without having to worry about twelve hellhounds hot on her trail. She is, after all, incredibly pregnant and feeling like she could pop at any moment. But, just her luck, twelve deadly beasts from hell have chosen this time to escape onto our plane, and they've made Charley their target. And so she takes refuge at the only place she thinks they can't get to her: the grounds of an abandoned convent. Of course,...
9) Mortal heart
Author
Series
His fair assassin volume 3
Language
English
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Annith's worst fears are realized when she discovers that, despite her lifelong training to be an assassin, she is being groomed by the abbess as a Seeress, to be forever shut up in the convent of Saint Mortain.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 318 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Krakow, 1931. A baby girl is born out of wedlock, and deposited at a remote convent in the French countryside. Amandine is raised by her governess, Solange. As global war looms, the two flee toward Solange's childhood home, and begin a perilous, years-long odyssey across Occupied France-- and deeper into the treacheries of war.
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Publisher
Amazon Children's Pub
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
346 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In fifteenth-century Italy, seventeen-year-old Giulia, a Count's illegitimate daughter, buys a talisman hoping it will bring her true love to save her from life in a convent, but once there she begins to learn the painter's craft, including how to make the coveted paint, Passion blue, and to question her true heart's desire. Includes historical notes and glossary.
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