Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New York

A Note of Grace

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Mid 20th Century Carmelite

Frances Nevins

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Yuna Kagesaki

A collection of stories starring Karin from CHIBI VAMPIRE!

Chibi Vampire Airmail

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#historicalfiction #religion #convent #nun #Renaissance

Connecticut

A Novel

The year is 1570, and a new novice has just been forced into the Italian convent of Santa Caterina. Ripped by her family from the man she loves, sixteen-year-old Serafina is sharp and defiant. Her first night inside the walls is spent in an incandescent rage so violent that the dispensary mistress, Suora Zuana, is dispatched to the girl’s cell to sedate her. Thus begins a complex relationship of trust and betrayal. As Serafina rails against her incarceration, disorder and rebellion mount inside the convent, while beyond its walls, the dictates of the Counter-Reformation begin to impose a regime of oppression that threatens what little freedom the nuns have enjoyed. Acclaimed author Sarah Dunant brings the intricate Renaissance world compellingly to life in this rich, engrossing, multifaceted love story encompassing the passions of the flesh, the exultation of the spirit, and the deep, enduring power of friendship.

Sacred Hearts

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Backlist titles from Christopher Moore. Well loved copies in good condition!

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

New Hampshire

Christopher Moore Backlist Bundle

North Carolina

A Nun's Story

The story of novelist and poet Deborah Larsen's young womanhood, The Tulip and the Pope is both an exquisitely crafted spiritual memoir and a beautifully nuanced view of life in the convent.In midsummer of 1960, nineteen-year-old Deborah shares a cab to a convent. She and the teenage girls with her, passionate to become nuns, heedless of all they are leaving behind, smoke their last cigarettes before entering their new lives. In the same artful prose that distinguished her novel The White, Larsen's memoir lets us into the hushed life of the convent. She captures the exquisite peace she found there, as well as the extreme constriction of the rules and her gradual awareness of all that she is missing. Eventually the physical world--the lush tulip she remembers seeing as a girl, the snow she tunneled in, and even the mystery of sex--begins to seem to her an alternative theater for a deep understanding and love of God.

The Tulip and the Pope

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This is the biography of Mother Joseph of the Sacred Heart and the Sisters of Providence, their expansion to the Oregon Territory (Pacific Northwest) in 1853 from Montreal, and their hardships and blessings. A bit of a difficult read but interesting. 2006 edition. #catholic #wastate #truestory #nun #nuns #montana #providence #sistersofprovidence 

Washington

The Bell and the River

Pennsylvania

Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World

Named a New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 1996

One of the earliest known autobiographies by a woman, this is the extraordinary tale of Catalina de Erauso, who in 1599 escaped from a Basque convent dressed as a man and went on to live one of the most wildly fantastic lives of any woman in history. A soldier in the Spanish army, she traveled to Peru and Chile, became a gambler, and even mistakenly killed her own brother in a duel. During her lifetime she emerged as the adored folkloric hero of the Spanish-speaking world. This delightful translation of Catalina's own work introduces a new audience to her audacious escapades.

Lieutenant Nun

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Published in 1967. Signed copy by the author. Although the author is a nun in every sense of the word, bears little resemblance to the nuns that Hollywood created in the 60's. This is a first edition. A social workers view of life at the bottom in New York city. #Nun#ManhattonMission#NewYork#PeacockBooks#Autographed#FirstEdition#SisterMarieLucita

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Betty Singleton

A Note of Grace

Joan Ward Mullaney

Frances Nevins

Yuna Kagesaki

Chibi Vampire Airmail

Sarah Dunant

Sacred Hearts

Christopher Moore

Christopher Moore Backlist Bundle

Deborah Larsen

The Tulip and the Pope

Catherine McCrosson

The Bell and the River

Catalina De Erauso

Lieutenant Nun

Sister Marie Lucita

Manhattan Mission