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  • Harris, Sara.
    THE SISTERS: The Changing World of the American Nun.

    Edition: First printing.

    Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1970. dj. Hardcover first edition - Based on interviews with many nuns - and some former nuns - in different orders and different parts of the country. A serious look at the dedication of these women and the challenges they face in the modern world.

    Condition: Near fine in very good dust- jacket (peeled spot on front cover of dj, small chip at bottom of dj spine.)

    Book ID: 21784
    Keywords: convents, Religion and Spirituality, religious life, religious orders
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  • THE POTTER'S FIELD: The Seventeenth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael. by Peters, Ellis
    Peters, Ellis
    THE POTTER'S FIELD: The Seventeenth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael.

    Edition: First printing.

    London: Headline, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - True first edition of this seventeenth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael, set in Shrewsbury in 1143, where a body of a young woman is found in a field known as 'Potter's Field.' 248 pp, Illustrated map endpapers. ISBN: 0-747201593.

    Condition: Very good in a fine dustjacket (rather severe browning to pages, as is common for this title, over-opened at title page.)

    Book ID: 84962
    Keywords: benedictines, medieval mystery, Mysteries: historical, religious orders
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  • THE HERETIC'S APPRENTICE: The Sixteenth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael. by Peters, Ellis.
    Peters, Ellis.
    THE HERETIC'S APPRENTICE: The Sixteenth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Mysterious Press, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - A Medieval Whodunit. The true first edition of the 16th chronicle of Brother Cadfael, set in Shrewsbury in 1143. 279 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-74720103x.

    Condition: Very good in a fine dustjacket (rather severe browning to pages, as is common for this title)

    Book ID: 84963
    Keywords: benedictines, medieval mystery, Mysteries: historical, religious orders
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  • BROTHER JUNIPER'S BREAD BOOK: Slow Rise As Method And Metaphor. by Reinhart, Br. Peter; Foreword by M. F. K. Fisher
    Reinhart, Br. Peter; Foreword by M. F. K. Fisher
    BROTHER JUNIPER'S BREAD BOOK: Slow Rise As Method And Metaphor.

    Edition: 3rd printing.

    Reading, MA: Aris Books / Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, (1991) dj. Hardcover - Recipes from this award-winning Sonoma County bakery. Includes a foreword by M. F. K. Fisher, as well as a brief account of the history of the bakery from its first incarnation as a restaurant on Haight Street in San Francisco, selling cups of coffee for 5c and inexpensive sandwiches to hippies. Glossary, index, xxiii, 193 pp. ISBN: 0-201570769.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 87545
    Keywords: california, Cookbooks / Food & drink, religious orders
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  • MADELEVA: A Biography. by [Wolff, Madeleva CSC, 1887-1964] Mandell, Gail Porter
    [Wolff, Madeleva CSC, 1887-1964] Mandell, Gail Porter
    MADELEVA: A Biography.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.

    Albany: State University of New York Press, (1997). SIGNED first 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. 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. . . Her friendships with C.S. Lewis, Thomas Merton, Jacques Maritain, Charles Du Bos, and Clare Boothe Luce, among others, put her in touch with a wide range of Christian intellectuals. As a spokeswoman for the education…

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    Albany: State University of New York Press, (1997). SIGNED first 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. 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. . . Her friendships with C.S. Lewis, Thomas Merton, Jacques Maritain, Charles Du Bos, and Clare Boothe Luce, among others, put her in touch with a wide range of Christian intellectuals. As a spokeswoman for the education of women and an advocate for the improvement of the status of women in the church, Madeleva anticipated the women's movement of the late 1960s and the reforms of Vatican II by more than a generation." Illustrated with photographs. Extensive notes, selected readings, index. SIGNED on the title page. xv, 303 pp. ISBN: 0-791434400.

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    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (compliments of Madeleva Society stamped on half title page)

    Book ID: 87163
    Keywords: catholics, education, Religion and Spirituality, religious orders, women's studies
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