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Mother Teresa

2006
An account of the life of Mother Teresa, the Serbian nun who founded a religious order, the Sisters of Charity, to serve the sick and needy of Calcutta, India, and of the work that earned her a Nobel Peace Prize.

Faith and Compassion

The Life and Work of Mother Teresa
1996

Galileo's battle for the heavens

2006
Chronicles the life of Galileo Galilei and his relationship with his eldest child Virginia, examining how she helped influence her father's work. Based on a series of surviving letters between father and daughter.

Angelopolis

"Danielle Trussoni's bestselling first novel, Angelology, wove biblical lore, the Orpheus myth, and Milton's Rebel Angels into a present-day world tinged with the divine supernatural. The novel plunged two endearing loners--art historian V. A. Verlaine and Evangeline, a beautiful young nun--into an ancient battle between a secret society and mankind's most insidious enemies: angel-human hybrids known as the Nephilim. Now a decade has passed since Verlaine saw Evangeline alight from the Brooklyn Bridge, the sight of her wings a betrayal that haunts him still. The Nephilim are again on the rise, scheming to construct their own paradise--the Angelopolis-- and ruthlessly pursued by Verlaine in his new calling as an angel hunter. But when Evangeline materializes, Verlaine is besieged by doubts that will only grow as forces more powerful than even the Nephilim draw them from Paris to Saint Petersburg and deep into the provinces of Siberia and the Black Sea coast. A high-octane tale of abduction and liberation, treasure seeking and divine warfare, Angelopolis plumbs Russia's imperial past, modern genetics, and the archangel Gabriel's famous visitations to conceive a fresh tableau of history and myth that will, once again, enthrall readers the world over"--.

Chrono crusade

2004
Sister Rosette Christopher is an exorcist from the Magdala Order who, along with her companion Chrono, fights to expel demons that appear and cause destruction.

A library for Juana

the world of Sor Juana In?es
2002
A biography of the seventeenth-century Mexican poet, learned in many subjects, who became a nun later in life.

Confessions of a pagan nun

a novel
2001
A sixth-century Irish nun secretly records the memories of her Pagan youth while cloistered in a stone cell at the monastery of Saint Brigit.

Nunsense

a musical comedy
1986

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