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Author
Series
Lorien Legacies volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Formats
Description
In a Spanish convent, seventeen-year-old Marina longs to join forces with her fellow Loriens to prepare for battle with the Mogadorians who destroyed their home planet, while in the United States, John, Six, and Sam elude authorities who think John is a terrorist.
Author
Series
Captain Alatriste adventures volume 2
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Captain Alatriste agrees to help a desperate father rescue his daughter from a convent where she is being used as a personal concubine by a powerful priest, but his efforts soon place him in the middle of a religious and political conspiracy that leads to the highest levels of the Inquisition.
4) Mortal heart
Author
Series
His fair assassin volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 23
Formats
Description
Annith's worst fears are realized when she discovers that, despite her lifelong training to be an assassin, she is being groomed by the abbess as a Seeress, to be forever shut up in the convent of Saint Mortain.
5) Learwife
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Word has come. Care-bent King Lear is dead, driven mad and betrayed. His three daughters too, broken in battle. But someone has survived: Lear's queen. Exiled to a nunnery years ago, written out of history, her name forgotten. Now she can tell her story. Though her grief and rage may threaten to crack the earth open, she knows she must seek answers. Why was she sent away in shame and disgrace? What has happened to Kent, her oldest friend and ally?...
6) Holy sister
Author
Series
Book of the Ancestor volume 3
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"The third book in the thrilling and epic Book of the Ancestor trilogy from international bestselling author Mark Lawrence. Powerful novice Nona Grey must fight to survive in "a fantastic world in which religion and politics are dark and sharp as swords, with magic and might held in the hands of wonderful and dangerous women."* *Library Journal"--
"As a young girl, Nona Grey was saved from the noose by the Abbess of Sweet Mercy. But behind the convent's...
7) Paradise
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
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Description
"In 1950, a core group of nine old families leaves the increasingly corrupted African American community of Haven, Oklahoma, to found in that same state a new, purer community they call Ruby. But in the early 1970s, the outside world begins to intrude on Ruby's isolation, forcing a tragic confrontation. It's about this time, too, that the first of five damaged women finds solace in a decrepit former convent near Ruby ... The individual stories of...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Description
The aliens must come together because their power is in numbers.
The third installment in the action-packed Lorien Legacies series that launched with "I Am Number Four" and "The Power of Six", finds the stakes higher than ever as John, Number Six, and Number Seven desperately try to find the rest of the Lorien Nine before it's too late.
9) Grey sister
Author
Series
Book of the Ancestor volume 2
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"From Mark Lawrence, the international bestselling author of the Broken Empire Trilogy, comes the second novel in a dazzling fantasy series set in a dying world. The searing tale of a young woman on the path to becoming the empire's fiercest warrior"--
"From Mark Lawrence, the international bestselling author of the Broken Empire Trilogy, comes the second novel in a dazzling fantasy series set in a dying world. The searing tale of a young woman on...