nuns

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.

Discusses the contributions of the Albanian nun who travelled to the slums of Calcutta to ease human suffering and continues to travel around the world caring for those in need.

Dr. David Snowdon chronicles the experiences he has had while studying a group of 678 Catholic nuns, who have agreed to let him study their lives in order to learn more about aging and Alzheimer's disease.

Hayden MacBride takes a rather unorthodox approach to living by crashing funerals for the free food, getting involved with Rosamond, a nun playing hooky from the Holy Orders, and mingling in the lives of his daughter and grandson.

Presents an illustrated biography of seventeenth-century Mexican poet Juana Ines, a women learned in many subjects who became a nun later in life.

The hard-drinking, blasphemous Lady Ermentrude bursts upon the convent of St. Frideswide in search of her niece, the saintly novice Thomasine, and ends up dead, sending amateur sleuth, Sister Frevisse, on a mission to find the killer and take the suspicion off of Thomasine.

Radu's plans to betray Ion are threatened by the arrival of Brother Petros and his Department of Inquisition, and Abel, wakened from his fight with Petros, is struggling to keep control as the battle rages on.

The injured Petros, accompanied by the Vatican agents, head east to return Ion to the Empire, but their journey is threatened by an artificial sandstorm unleashed by Radu, who is hoping to destroy the city of Carthage.