Beautiful Warrior
Beautiful Warrior

Author: Emily Arnold McCully

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 46

ISBN-13:

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From the Caldecott Medal-winning author/illustrator of "Mirette on the Highwire" comes this dramatic, multi-layered story of two legendary women warriors, Wu Mei, the "beautiful warrior", and her most famous pupil, Mingyi. Full color.

The Red Skirt
The Red Skirt

Author: Patricia O'Donnell-Gibson

Publisher: Self Publisher

Published: 2011-07-29

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 9780983611202

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Impressionistic and dreamy, a nine-year-old girl immediately feels that she might be called by God when a Catholic missionary speaks to her third grade class at a Catholic school. The idea of this calling embeds itself into her, haunting her through elementary and high school, after which she chooses to enter the convent. Her story follows the five years she spent as an Adrian Dominican nun struggling to balance her desire for a secular life with her great fear of turning her back on God's call. Her stories are sad as well as joyous, inspiring as well as unsettling.

The Rebel Nun
The Rebel Nun

Author: Marj Charlier

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 2021-03-02

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1094092770

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Marj Charlier’s The Rebel Nun is based on the true story of Clotild, the daughter of a sixth-century king and his concubine, who leads a rebellion of nuns against the rising misogyny and patriarchy of the medieval church. At that time, women are afforded few choices in life: prostitution, motherhood, or the cloister. Only the latter offers them any kind of independence. By the end of the sixth century, even this is eroding as the church begins to eject women from the clergy and declares them too unclean to touch sacramental objects or even their priest-husbands. Craving the legitimacy thwarted by her bastard status, Clotild seeks to become the next abbess of the female Monastery of the Holy Cross, the most famous of the women’s cloisters of the early Middle Ages. When the bishop of Poitiers blocks her appointment and seeks to control the nunnery himself, Clotild masterminds an escape, leading a group of nuns on a dangerous pilgrimage to beg her royal relatives to intercede on their behalf. But the bishop refuses to back down, and a bloody battle ensues. Will Clotild and her sisters succeed with their quest, or will they face excommunication, possibly even death? In the only historical novel written about the incident, The Rebel Nun is a richly imagined story about a truly remarkable heroine.

Healing
Healing

Author: Sister Dang Nghiem

Publisher: Parallax Press

Published: 2006-10-09

Total Pages: 149

ISBN-13: 193520985X

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This extraordinary story takes the reader from the rice fields of Vietnam to the peaceful surrounding of Thich Nhat Hanh’s monastery in Plum Village where Sister Dang Nghiem took refuge. There she gained a deep understanding of the Buddhist teachings of mindfulness forged in the fire of her own life experience. Ordained as a nun by Thich Nhat Hanh, who gave her the name "Dang Nghiem," (adornment with nondiscrimination) Healing shows how the insights gained by her personal experiences now enable Sister Dang Nghiem to become a support and resource for others. With humor, insight, and an irrepressible sense of joy, Sister Dang Nghiem story demonstrates how one woman’s unique path can provide clarity and guidance for everyone. Foreword by Thich Nhat Hanh

Sister St Francis Xavier
Sister St Francis Xavier

Author: Irma Le Fer De La Motte

Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub

Published: 2013-02-23

Total Pages: 78

ISBN-13: 9781482622751

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Of her vocation we read: “Only those who have yearned to bring souls to Christ can understand the sentiments which filled Irma's heart during her four years of patient waiting. But the summons came at last. In 1839 Bishop de la Hailandiere of Vincennes, Indiana, an intimate friend of the family, who was in France, seeking aid for his mission, visited Irma's home. Here was the heaven-sent messenger. Never did a Desdemona listen to an Othello with half the eagerness with which Irma listened to the details which Bishop de la Hailandiere gave of those distant lands in America where so many souls were in darkness and in the shadow of death. Immediately after the visit, Irma wrote to a friend: 'We had a visit yesterday from Bishop de la Hailandiere, who spoke of his diocese and his great labors. Cecile wished to set out with him immediately. I did not say any thing, but I thought, "It is there perhaps that God calls me." Eugenie laughs and will not believe me; her gayety and her assurance make me heartsick. Poor dear sister how she will weep when I leave her.'”

Time Changes Everything
Time Changes Everything

Author: Christopher T. Ihekweazu

Publisher: Dorrance Publishing

Published: 2021-10-15

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1645304477

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Time Changes Everything By: Christopher T. Ihekweazu Mike Ike, was fresh from continental war and civil war was in the offing. To avoid military conscription, he relocated from an inner city to Ala City, the capital of D.C., where he accidentally met a glowing object in a human form that later, became his wife. Their relationship sent series of shock-waves across the city. People could not believed what they were hearing and began asking, "Why Mr. President? Why the nation's First Lady?” But what happened towards the end of their life made local, national, and international headline news. The nation's First Lady, who propelled the President to fame, wealth, power, and even saved him from going to jail, was divorced. While the President re-married, the First Lady remained faithful until her death. The President’s star began to dim. Although Jemimah-the-Beautiful, the nation's First Lady, became a bird without a nest, her beauty remained incorruptible regardless of age. Celebrities from the country and around the world thronged the nation's capital, just to have a glimpse of the epitome of beauty before their own death. The world was shocked and mankind, from that day on, began to realize and believe that truly in life, Time Changes Everything. After the death of the First Family and under the military command of General Ebenezer Joshua, Diamond Coast, the Switzerland of the continent evolved into utopian republics as a soothsayer had earlier predicted. Time Changes Everything is a novel that encompasses ... leaving the reader wondering why ...