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1) Sister act
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
A sassy, low-rent lounge singer is forced to hide out from the mob in the last place anyone would ever look for her-- a convent.
2) Angelology
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Having entered a convent at a young age, Sister Evangeline discovers a letter from famous philanthropist Abigail Rockefeller that reveals an ancient conflict between an angel society Evangeline is destined to join and the human descendants of the Nephilim.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Two mischievous students turn a convent school upside down with their pranks. Just when there appears to be no hope for the school's two most incorrigible students, they get a little help from Sisters Celestine and Constance.
Series
Classic holiday DVD collection volume 1
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
With lilting melodies and an earnest sense of higher calling, Ann takes her faith where it might not otherwise go - onto the world's airwaves. Her "Dominique" becomes a smash single.
Series
Criterion collection volume 93
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
"Plagued by uncertainties and worldly desires, five Protestant missionary nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, struggle to establish a school in the desolate Himalayas." --container.
7) Agnes of God
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this contemporary murder mystery, set within the confines of a convent, Agnes is a devout, innocent young nun accused of infanticide. As a psychiatrist, herself a lapsed Catholic, and the Mother Superior struggle over Agnes' fate, the play plunges deeply into the mystery of faith and the consequence of truth. The broadcast includes an interview with Dr. Kevin Orlin Johnson, author of "Why Do Catholics Do That." An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance...
Author
Series
Dame Frevisse medieval mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
It's Christmastime, and the sisters of St. Frideswide cannot turn away travellers, even the players knocking at the nunnery door. But along with the motley troupe comes the grievously wounded husband of the cloister's scullery maid, Meg. They swear they found the drunken wastrel in a ditch, but the tale sounds like another song and dance. Especially when two dead bodies are waiting in the wings.... Now Sister Frevisse must find out if one of the actors...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In June of 1964, in a small town in the highlands of Peru, Sister Mary Katherine, a young American nun, slips away from her convent with no money and no destination. Disoriented in a culture not her own and afraid of her love for an Irish priest with whom she has been working, she spends eight days on the run."--from back cover.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is the year of Our Lord's grace 1431, and the nuns of England's St. Frideswide sweetly chant their Paternosters behind gracious, trellised walls. But their quiet lives are shattered by the unwelcome visit of the hard-drinking, blaspheming dowager Lady Ermentrude, with her retinue of lusty maids and men, baying hounds, and even a pet monkey in tow. The lady demands wine, a feast, and her niece, the frail and saintly novice Thomasine.
Author
Language
English
Description
The year is 1570, and in the convent of Santa Caterina, in the Italian city of Ferrara, noblewomen find space to pursue their lives under God's protection. But any community, however smoothly run, suffers tremors when it takes in someone by force. And the arrival of Santa Caterina's new novice sets in motion a chain of events that will shake the convent to its core. Ripped by her family from an illicit love affair, sixteen-year-old Serafina is willful,...
13) Nuns on the run
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Brian Hope and Charlie McManus are a pair of two-bit hoods who decide to go straight, because they are repulsed by the increasing reliance on guns and violence in their line of work. In thrall to vicious gangster Case Casey, the duo determine that their next job will be their last. When a large amount of money is extracted from a gang of Hong Kong drug dealers and it falls into the laps of Brian and Charlie, the two take off with the loot, with the...
Author
Language
English
Description
Since her first publication in 1992, celebrated novelist Ann Patchett has crafted a number of elegant novels, garnering accolades and awards along the way. Now comes a reissue of the best-selling debut novel that launched her remarkable career. St. Elizabeth's, a home for unwed mothers in Habit, Kentucky, usually harbors its residents for only a little while. Not so Rose Clinton, a beautiful, mysterious woman who comes to the home pregnant but not...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
'Damned If You Don't' is Friedrichs subversive and ecstatic response to her Catholic upbringing. Blending conventional narrative technique with impressionistic camerawork, symbols and voice-overs, this film creates an intimate study of sexual expression and repression. Featuring Peggy Healey as a young nun tormented by her desire for the sultry irresistible Ela Troyano. --Kanopy.
19) Agnes of God
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
When, at an isolated convent, the infant of a young nun is found strangled, a court-appointed psychiatrist must decide if the devout but troubled girl is fit to stand trial.
20) Nunsense
Series
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
The Little Sisters of Hoboken are trying to raise money to bury a group of nuns accidentally poisoned by their own convent chef. You'll join the live audience watching the Sisters display their divine talents in a zany benefit revue.
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