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Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two mischievous students turn a convent school upside down with their pranks. During Christmas break, Mary remains at the school and is touched by the Sisters' celebration of the Yule. Their graduation is both a relief and a celebration for the Mother Superior.
Publisher
Gunpowder & Sky
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young servant fleeing from his master takes refuge at a convent full of emotionally unstable nuns in the Middle Ages. Introduced as a deaf blind man, he must fight to hold his cover as the nuns try to resist temptation.
Author
Series
Lorien Legacies volume 2
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
406 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
In a Spanish convent, seventeen-year-old Marina longs to join forces with her fellow Loriens to prepare for battle with the Mogadorians who destroyed their home planet, while in the United States, John, Six, and Sam elude authorities who think John is a terrorist.
Series
Criterion collection volume 93
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Led by the stern Sister Clodagh, a group of nuns tries to establish a convent in the Himalayas.
7) Las indignas
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
185 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Nadie le dice que no a la Hermana Superior. Nadie que quiera seguir viva. El mundo como lo conocemos ha desaparecido despues del gran apagon y de varias crisis climaticas. Apenas hay animales ni naturaleza y pocas personas han sobrevivido. Varias mujeres llegaron a una suerte de convento buscando refugio y han sido captadas por una secta religiosa. Una de ellas cuenta esta historia, escrita a escondidas noche tras noche para que alguien sepa todo...
8) Beate
Publisher
Film Movement
Formats
Description
A timely and relevant story of revolt against greed and apathy for the working class, BEATE shows how different walks of life can come together and unite against a common enemy. After receiving notification via group text message that they are being laid off, the hardworking female employees of the Veronica garment factory decide to “borrow” some of the factory’s equipment to produce their own line of lingerie. Lead by factory forewoman Armida,...
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
651 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.
Description
Santa Catarina, a convent near Venice, is home to over one hundred women in 1567. But with powerful forces for change raging outside the convent, and with the world of the women within threatened by a new arrival, passions, hysteria, and conflict will come to threaten their very survival.
11) The nun
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1760s France, young Suzanne, an illegitimate child, is sent to a convent to become a nun to atone for her mother's sin.
12) The Guineveres
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"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"--
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
182 pages : map ; 24 cm
Description
"Someone is killing the nuns of Ireland. The grisly discovery of an elderly sister of Saint Brigid's monastery strangled, bled dry, and thrown into a bog is just the beginning. Soon a beautiful young nun is found decapitated and hung from a barren tree. It doesn't take long before the members of the struggling monastic community of Kildare realize that not only are the nuns being hunted by a serial killer, but the murderer is preforming the gruesome...
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In Ireland in the 1960s, four women were sent to the Magdalene sisterhood asylum because of 'sinful' behavior. They all had to work in the laundry, where the strict nuns would break everyone's wills through sadistic punishment. Based on a true story.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
307 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
A tale of self-discovery follows the experiences of a girl who is sent to live in a priory in the wake of a devastating loss, where she develops unexpected talents, reconnects with a friend, and witnesses the approach of the Great Plague.
Author
Series
Lorien Legacies volume 3
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
360, 13, 11, 12 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Until the day I met John Smith, Number Four, I'd been on the run alone, hiding and fighting to stay alive. Together, we are much more powerful. But it could only last so long before we had to separate to find the others .... I went to Spain to find Seven, and I found even more, including a tenth member of the Garde who escaped from Lorien alive. Ella is younger than the rest of us, but just as brave. Now we're looking for the others -- including John....
20) Mortal heart
Author
Series
His fair assassin volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
444 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
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.
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