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Sister Holiday mystery volume 2
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English
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"Sister Holiday is back with a newly minted PI apprentice certificate, a twisty mystery to solve, and something to prove. Tattooed from her neck to her toes, and sporting a gold tooth as sharp as her wisecracks, Sister Holiday struggles to stay on the righteous path. Never one to make things easy for herself, she's committed to taking her permanent vows with the Sisters of the Sublime Blood and joining former fire inspector Magnolia Riveaux's latest...
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300 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
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English
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1798, France. Nuns move along the dark corridors of a Versailles hospital where the young Sister Perpetué has been tasked with sitting with the patient who must always be watched. The man, gaunt, with his sallow skin and distended belly, is dying: they say he ate a golden fork, and that it's killing him from the inside. But that's not all -- he is rumored to have done monstrous things in his attempts to sate an insatiable appetite ... an appetite...
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461 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
Español
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"Año del Señor de 1580. Sevilla vive su momento de máximo esplendor como capital del comercio entre el Nuevo y el Viejo Mundo. La Flota de Indias de Su Majestad está a punto de zarpar cuando la piel arrancada del rostro de una mujer y su cabellera pelirroja aparecen ajustadas como un disfraz macabro al mascarón de proa de la Soberbia, el buque de guerra que abre el convoy. Próxima al barrio portuario del Arenal, en una zona cercada por altos...
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xv, 316 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Desperate for a new start in life at age fifty-two, Claire takes a chance on a trip to Rome to assist the funny, fearless nuns at a struggling convent, and confronts her own missed connection with convent life in the past as well as an old flame who reappears in her life just as she's about to make a momentous decision.
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309 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"Orphaned during the Second World War, Aelish and Isabel McGuire--known as the twins of Belfast--are given over to the austere care of the Sisters of Bethlehem. Though they are each all the other has, the girls are propelled in opposite directions as they grow up. Rebellious Isabel turns her back on the church and Ireland, traveling to Newfoundland where she pursues a perilous yet independent life. Devout Aelish chooses to remain in Northern Ireland...
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