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9780770437244, titled "Mother Angelica Her Grand Silence: The Last Years and Living Legacy" | Image Books, May 17, 2016, cover price $23.00

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Product Description: One day in 1917, while cooking dinner at home in Manhattan, Margaret Reilly (1884-1937) felt a sharp pain over her heart and claimed to see a crucifix emerging in blood on her skin. Four years later, Reilly entered the convent of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in Peekskill, New York, where, known as Sister Mary of the Crown of Thorns, she spent most of her life gravely ill and possibly exhibiting Christ's wounds...read more

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9781469607603 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, November 4, 2013, cover price $42.00 | About this edition: One day in 1917, while cooking dinner at home in Manhattan, Margaret Reilly (1884-1937) felt a sharp pain over her heart and claimed to see a crucifix emerging in blood on her skin.

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9781469626581 | Reprint edition (Univ of North Carolina Pr, August 1, 2015), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: One day in 1917, while cooking dinner at home in Manhattan, Margaret Reilly (1884-1937) felt a sharp pain over her heart and claimed to see a crucifix emerging in blood on her skin.
9780515100266, titled "Metamorphosis: The Cocoon Story Continues" | Mti edition (Jove Pubns, October 1, 1988), cover price $3.95 | also contains Metamorphosis: The Cocoon Story Continues | About this edition: Ben and Mary Green, and Joe and Alma Finley, earth couples who have been traveling with the Antareans for five years return to the earth for an important visit

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9781482940374 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, November 4, 2013), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: [MP3-CD audiobook format in Vinyl case.
9781482940381 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, November 4, 2013), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: [Read by Angela Brazil] One day in 1917, while cooking dinner at home in Manhattan, Margaret Reilly (1884-1937) felt a sharp pain over her heart and claimed to see a crucifix emerging in blood on her skin.

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Product Description: This spiritual memoir of a remarkable woman―musician, author, missionary―will inspire not only those who know her work but anyone interested in living a life of love and service.Miriam Therese Winter, an award-winning musician and four-time Catholic Book Award-winner, shares her experiences of becoming a Sister, working with starving children in Ethiopia and with refugees in Cambodia, of exploring the mysteries of India and the wonders of God in her own backyard, of having breast cancer and having hope...read more

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9781570752797 | Orbis Books, September 1, 1999, cover price $15.00

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9781480565234, titled "The Singer and the Song: An Autobiography of the Spirit" | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, November 19, 2013), cover price $14.99
9781480565241, titled "The Singer and the Song: An Autobiography of the Spirit" | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, November 19, 2013), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: This spiritual memoir of a remarkable woman―musician, author, missionary―will inspire not only those who know her work but anyone interested in living a life of love and service.

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A true story of spiritual and human desire is revealed through the forbidden love between Beryl Bissell, a New Jersey nun who entered the convent at age eighteen with the belief that God had called her to his way of life, and a handsome Italian priest, Padre Vittorio, who would become her secret love.

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9781582433486 | Counterpoint, March 14, 2006, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A true story of spiritual and human desire is revealed through the forbidden love between Beryl Bissell, a New Jersey nun who entered the convent at age eighteen with the belief that God had called her to his way of life, and a handsome Italian priest, Padre Vittorio, who would become her secret love.

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9781582433615 | Counterpoint, March 13, 2007, cover price $15.00

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Traces the author's eight-year study to become a Catholic nun in the 1960s, an effort that was shaped by factors ranging from the American civil rights movement to the reforms of the Second Vatican Council, in a personal account that offers insight into her transition into and daily experiences of convent life.

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9781594489372 | Riverhead Books, March 15, 2007, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: In 1964, Karol Jackowski was just out of high school.

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Product Description: The searing memoir of an American nun abducted and tortured in Guatemala, Whose ongoing search for healing and justice shows that the human spirit is a force stronger than violence and fear. Even more timely now for its insights into the aftermath of torture.

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9781570754357 | Orbis Books, October 1, 2002, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: An American nun presents a memoir detailing her torture in Guatemala while working as a missionary, her escape, her campaign to reveal the truth, her struggle to heal, and her work as a human rights activist and advocate for the victims of torture.

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9781570755637, titled "Blindfold's Eyes: My Journey From Torture To Truth" | Orbis Books, September 10, 2004, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: The searing memoir of an American nun abducted and tortured in Guatemala, Whose ongoing search for healing and justice shows that the human spirit is a force stronger than violence and fear.

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Product Description: A collection of fifty oral history interviews with Catholic American religious women, this book offers an inside look at how these women not only survived but actually embraced the changes that came to every aspect of their lives during the last forty years...read more

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9780805791365 | Twayne Pub, October 1, 1996, cover price $34.00 | About this edition: Describes changes that have come since the 1960s as nuns talk about the move from a life of rigid seclusion to one of responsible freedom during an era of tremendous change

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9780595189946 | Iuniverse Inc, July 1, 2001, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A collection of fifty oral history interviews with Catholic American religious women, this book offers an inside look at how these women not only survived but actually embraced the changes that came to every aspect of their lives during the last forty years.

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Product Description: 9028--I am almost finished " and I find it very interesting and knowledgable. Sr. Margherita is a very unique person and highly educated. She is the "flying nun", "whirlwind nun", "feisty nun", but most of all the "independent nun, `` and the defender of the late Pope Pius XII and dedicated nun to the Religious Teachers Filippini...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780845348765 | Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr, May 1, 2001, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: 9028--I am almost finished " and I find it very interesting and knowledgable.

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Product Description: Before her death in 1964, Madeleva Wolff, CSC (Congregation of the Holy Cross), was recognized as one of American Catholicism's most extraordinary women. Known as an educator who founded the School of Sacred Theology (the first and, for more than a decade, the only institution to offer graduate degrees in theology to women) Madeleva was also renowned as a scholar, mystical poet, and the author of more than twenty books...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780791434390 | State Univ of New York Pr, June 1, 1997, cover price $60.50 | About this edition: Before her death in 1964, Madeleva Wolff, CSC (Congregation of the Holy Cross), was recognized as one of American Catholicism's most extraordinary women.

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9780791434406 | State Univ of New York Pr, August 1, 1997, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: Before her death in 1964, Madeleva Wolff, CSC (Congregation of the Holy Cross), was recognized as one of American Catholicism's most extraordinary women.

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Product Description: A look at today's nuns focuses on four of the Catholic Church's most progressive sisters, discussing Sister Donna Quinn's commitment to reproductive rights for women, Sister Darlene Nicgorski's harboring of Central American refugees, and more.

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9780345372994 | Ballantine Books, March 1, 1992, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A look at today's nuns focuses on four of the Catholic Church's most progressive sisters

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780824514365 | Crossroad Pub Co, September 1, 1994, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A look at today's nuns focuses on four of the Catholic Church's most progressive sisters, discussing Sister Donna Quinn's commitment to reproductive rights for women, Sister Darlene Nicgorski's harboring of Central American refugees, and more.

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Product Description: Book by Savas, Patricia Nolan

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9780882706481 | Bridge Logos Pub, August 1, 1993, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Book by Savas, Patricia Nolan

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Product Description: A remarkable account of a sister who was miraculously healed.

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9781557250568 | Paraclete Pr, March 1, 1993, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A remarkable account of a sister who was miraculously healed.

Product Description: Collection of stories from dozens of religious women.

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9781882195008 | Whales Tales Pr, October 1, 1992, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Collection of stories from dozens of religious women.

The nun who encouraged black Catholics to express their cultural roots inside the church discusses her childhood in Mississipi, her decision to become a nun, and her commitment to ridding the world of racial differences.

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9780062520128 | Harpercollins, February 1, 1992, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The nun who encouraged black Catholics to express their cultural roots inside the church discusses her childhood in Mississipi, her decision to become a nun, and her commitment to ridding the world of racial differences.

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