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| Author | : Maureen McCarthy |
| Publisher | : Allen & Unwin |
| Total Pages | : 440 |
| Release | : 2012-10-01 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1743431198 |
There is no getting away from the past ... A breathtaking novel from Maureen McCarthy, spanning generations, that will be devoured by young women, their sisters, friends, mothers and grandmothers.
| Author | : M—nica D’az |
| Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2010-10-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780816528530 |
"First peoples: new directions in ethnic studies"
| Author | : Panos Karnezis |
| Publisher | : Knopf Canada |
| Total Pages | : 221 |
| Release | : 2010-10-05 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0307366359 |
A spellbinding, major new novel from one of Britain's finest young writers. A taut, suspenseful tale of an unexpected arrival at a Spanish convent and the intrigue that ensues among the order. Those whom God wishes to destroy he first makes mad... The crumbling convent of Our Lady of Mercy stands alone in an uninhabited part of the Spanish sierra, hidden on a hill among dense pine forest. Its inhabitants are devoted to God, to solitude and silence; six women cut off from the world they've chosen to leave behind. This is all to change, on the day that Mother Superior Maria Ines discovers a suitcase punctured with air-holes at the entrance to the retreat. Soon she is to find the box and its contents are to have consequences beyond her imagining, and that even in her carefully protected sanctuary she is unable to keep the world, or her past, at bay. The Convent is storytelling at its very best: enthralling, highly readable and wonderfully atmospheric.
| Author | : C.J. Archer |
| Publisher | : C.J. Archer |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 2018-03-06 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
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| Author | : Pauline Drouin-Degorgue |
| Publisher | : Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1946539228 |
The Convent’s Assassin A nun has been murdered. In the room a sleeping body offers its uncovered throat. In a split second, the murder-ous arm rises and strikes its target two times. The weapon pierces the throat to the right and to the left. The body convulses for a moment before surrendering to death. The door closes and the shadow slips back into the darkness. The deceased is Mother Notre-Dame-Des-Pins, the Mother Guardian of the Convent. One could say that she was a mean and cruel woman. Many lives were held captive in her hands. All feared destruction by her vengeful nature. She had to die. However, who possessed the courage to administer justice? Was the killer a nun or her young paramour? Or rather, these two lovers surprised in action by the terrible woman? Or perhaps this good chaplain with a heavy conscience? Just what goes on behind the closed doors of Convents? Set in the 1950s, this spell-binding murder mystery holds its secrets until the very end.
| Author | : Craig A. Monson |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 298 |
| Release | : 2012-06-08 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0226535193 |
Monson retells the story of Vizzana and the nuns of Santa Cristina to elucidate the role that music played in the lives of these cloistered women. Monson explains how the sisters fought back with words and music, and when these proved futile, with bricks, roof tiles, and stones.
| Author | : Sylvia Townsend Warner |
| Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
| Total Pages | : 425 |
| Release | : 2019-09-10 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1681373882 |
A unique novel about life in a 14th-century convent by one of England's most original authors. Sylvia Townsend Warner’s The Corner That Held Them is a historical novel like no other, one that immerses the reader in the dailiness of history, rather than history as the given sequence of events that, in time, it comes to seem. Time ebbs and flows and characters come and go in this novel, set in the era of the Black Death, about a Benedictine convent of no great note. The nuns do their chores, and seek to maintain and improve the fabric of their house and chapel, and struggle with each other and with themselves. The book that emerges is a picture of a world run by women but also a story—stirring, disturbing, witty, utterly entrancing—of a community. What is the life of a community and how does it support, or constrain, a real humanity? How do we live through it and it through us? These are among the deep questions that lie behind this rare triumph of the novelist’s art.
| Author | : P. Renee Baernstein |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 316 |
| Release | : 2013-12-16 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1136694609 |
Power often operates in strange and surprising ways. With A Convent Tale, Renee Baernstein uncovers some of the nuanced methods cloistered women devised to exert their agency. In the tradition of Simon Schama and Steven Ozment, Baernstein uses the compelling story of a single clan, the Sfondrati, to refashion our understanding of the early modern period. Showing the nuns as neither helpless victims nor valiant rebels, but reasonable beings maneuvering as best they could within limits set by class, gender and culture. Baernstein writes against the tendency to depict women as inactive pawns, and shows that even within the convent walls, nuns were empowered by ties with their (often earthly) families and actively involved in the politics of the period. Both a major contribution to scholarship on gender, family and religion in early modern Europe, and a colorful well-told tale of Renaissance intrigue, A Convent Tale is sure to attract a wide range of academic and general readers.
| Author | : Indu Sundaresan |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 242 |
| Release | : 2009-09-15 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1416586105 |
Now in paperback, internationally bestselling author Indu Sundaresan presents a poignant collection of contemporary short stories about the challenges and consequences faced by women in Indian life today. Like Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies, Indu Sundaresan’s In the Convent of Little Flowers gives readers an eloquent and illuminating collection of stories about contemporary Indian life, exploring the cutting-edge issues that surround the clash between ancient tradition and modernity. In the collection’s title story, a young woman adopted by an American family in Seattle receives a letter from Sister Mary Theresa, a nun at the Convent of Little Flowers in Chennai, where she stayed as a child. Unbeknownst to the Indian woman, the nun is her biological mother’s sister. In another story, the grandmother of an Indian journalist begs her grandson to intervene and stop a young widow from being burned alive. And when a teenaged daughter bears a child out of wedlock, her entire family is thrown into turmoil. With their lush prose, vividly rendered settings, and complex characters, these and the other stories in this elegant collection bring readers into the experience of Indian women at home and abroad, where modernity offers them lives their grandmothers could never dream of, while at the same time taking away parts of their history. With a delicate touch, Indu Sundaresan weaves the pieces of the conflict together, presenting a nuanced and unforgettable tapestry.
| Author | : Nancy Lusignan Schultz |
| Publisher | : UPNE |
| Total Pages | : 346 |
| Release | : 2002-04-11 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781555535148 |
The shocking story of the night an angry mob burned down a quiet Massachusetts convent -- and the larger story of anti-Papist and anti-feminist sentiment.
