In her achingly beautiful and revelatory first novel, Christin Lore Weber, a former nun, explores the nature and power of passion -- sexual, religious, and artistic -- and brings us into a mysterious, cloistered world rarely made public. Set in the w...
Where the Great Plains begin, at the border of Minnesota and North Dakota, three families struggle with the land and with one another over generations. Distance and silence cut into their minds and hearts, knife on bone. Some hide from their sufferin...
On the wild north shore of Lake Superior stands the beautiful Star of the Sea convent, home to a dwindling community of mostly old nuns, founded by the saintly but mildly heretical Sophie Marie Loire. Now their continued existence rests in the hands ...
At the turn of the Twentieth Century a young girl,Millie, is caught between her mother's needs, her father's expectations, and a secret that she will need her entire life to recognize. The secret will motivate her towards her most profound yearning a...
My time is told in the names of women I have loved. They are the veils that filter light's intensity. They have been my heart's fire, explains Ella, the narrator of a story that extends through the many sacred moons of her life. After living eighty y...