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61) Bad Samaritan
Author
Series
Sister Agatha volume 6
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Sister Agatha is an extern nun -- the link between the cloistered sisters and the community -- for the Our Lady of Hope monastery in the small town of Bernalillo, New Mexico. Using the skills she developed as an investigative journalist before she heeded the calling to become a nun, Sister Agatha has become renowned -- sometimes even infamous -- for her crime-solving skills. Sister Agatha is being sorely tested. Our Lady of Hope monastery is about...
63) First confession
Author
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
[1990]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Jackie faces his first confession with great trepidation following a warning lecture from his obnoxious, older sister.
66) Cradle and all
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In Boston, a young woman finds herself pregnant--even though she is still a virgin. In Ireland, another young woman discovers she is in the same impossible condition. And in cities all around the world, medical authorities are overwhelmed by epidemics, droughts, famines, floods, and worse. It all feels like a sign that something awful is coming. Anne Fitzgerald, a former nun turned private investigator, is hired by the Archdiocese of Boston to...
Author
Series
Father Dowling mystery volume 28
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In a sleepy Midwestern town on the banks of the Fox River lives one of the greatest fictional detectives ever created. The benevolent, brilliant Father Dowling of St Hilary's Church has led and cared for his congregation while unraveling the knottiest of mysteries in more than twenty-five novels. Collected here are fifteen of the best Father Dowling short stories, in which the good father takes on cases no less complicated for their brevity. With...
74) Stained glass
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
With too many churches and not enough people to fill them, the Archdiocese has to make some cuts, and many of them, including the proposed closing of St. Hilary's are dangeriously close to the bone. Father dowling rushes to drum up support from church officials and parishioners, including the Deveres, who don't want to see the stained glass windows they donated go anywhere other than the church they were meant for, but they can hardly be of help when...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Dorothy Day (1897-1980) was a prominent Catholic, writer, social activist, and co-founder of a movement dedicated to serving the poorest of the poor. Her life has been revealed through her own writings as well as the work of historians, theologians, and academics. What has been missing until now is a more personal account from the point of view of someone who knew her well. Dorothy Day: The World Will Be Saved by Beauty is a frank and reflective,...
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A young altar boy questions his impoverished family's hard-line Catholic beliefs in the face of his father's weapons-plant job, his mother's diagnosis with cancer, and a peer's struggles against the pressures of growing up too fast.