Women Saints

Young women are deeply dissatisfied with society's standards (and double standards). They want more for themselves - but sometimes they don't quite know what that more should be. That's where Miss Black New Jersey 2018 and Teen Vogue "It Girl" turned fashion writer Tarah-Lynn Saint-Elien comes in.

More and more people - especially millennials - are turning to religion as a source of comfort and solace in our increasingly chaotic world. But rather than live a cloistered life of seclusion, the Daughters of Saint Paul actively embrace social media, using platforms like Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook to evangelize, collectively calling themselves the #MediaNuns. In this collective memoir, eight of these Sisters share their own discernment journeys, struggles and crises of faith that they’ve overcome, and episodes from their daily lives.

La dignité de la femme et sa vocation - objets constants de la réflexion humaine et chrétienne - ont pris ces dernières années un relief tout à fait particulier. On le constate, entre autres, dans les interventions du Magistère de l'église, reprises par divers documents du Concile Vatican II, qui a ensuite affirmé dans son Message final : "l'heure vient, l'heure est venue où la vocation de la femme s'accomplit en plénitude, l'heure où la femme acquiert dans la cité une influence, un rayonnement, un pouvoir jamais atteints jusqu'ici."

Niki de Saint Phalle, französische Bildhauerin und Malerin der Moderne: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten!

Addison Adelaide-Spencer has always had a natural talent for songwriting. She find herself humming a tune, then running around the house like a chicken with its head cut off looking for a pen and scrap of paper. Receipts, index cards, and magazines: nothing was safe from her scribbles. But these were songs she wrote for herself, not for anyone else. So when her Grandma sent her song to the Konstantine Talent Agency without her knowledge, Addison flipped her lid. Would these strangers accept her and her secret?

Melinda Darling has always dreamed of being at the center of the Nashville country music scene. She thought getting her Master's Degree in Music Business would be her ticket to the top, but it turns out managers are a dime a dozen in Music City. With no other prospects and student loan repayments on the horizon, she takes an internship position under the devious Kitty Konstantine. The job was simple: find talent, introduce talent to Konstantine Talent Agency, and keep it all professional.

Luke Saint knows how to move among people. As drummer in The Four Saints, he isn't quite in the spotlight that his brother Matthew is. Sometimes that can be annoying, but sometimes being unseen has its advantages. Coming up on these thugs beating this poor helpless woman was one of those times. He tasted sour copper in his mouth and let out a roar as he charged the men. Then their world got turned upside down.

John might have the last name of Saint, but his family swears he made a deal with the Devil. Not one person from Ozarks to the Appalachias could strum a mandolin like him. And while he loved the harmonies he helped his family achieve on stage, he always felt something was missing inside. Until that night she came into The Fiddler's Cave, and for the first time in his life he thought there might be someone who felt like he did.

Kitty Konstantine is used to being called names. Cutthroat. Demon. Bitch. But the title that always trips her up is "daughter." No matter what she achieved, her father was always ready to cut her down. Even now that she's signed The Four Saints, it's still not good enough. Now, if she can't get them signed under a tighter contract, she'll lose everything. Bart Saint was pure swagger. He had that level of arrogance that couldn't be earned, so only the very few could pull it off. Tall? Sure. Handsome? Oh yeah.

Bloody Mary Magdalene is Elizabeth Fern Jensen's third chapbook, a collection of poems that reveals the poet's visions of Mary Magdalene, along with her experiences during her stay at an inpatient mental hospital. Through the lens of her transgender identity and feminist activism, Jensen explores the complex relationship between the Divine Feminine and the patriarchal structures of the world, and how Mary Magdalene embodies the struggle for liberation and healing.

Preparing to marry a man she doesn't love, getting kidnapped the night of her engagement party is the last thing Ambra Hathaway expects. She hasn't seen her stepbrother in three years, since the night Ethan Cartwright turned down her clumsy attempt at seduction. Why has he taken her now? Could it really be because he's been in love with her all this time and was just waiting for her to be old enough to claim as his? She has two days to find out - and do her best to withstand his anything-but-clumsy seduction attempts.

In this fiction, a former University classmate, now colonel of the SS, meets Edith Stein in Auschwitz to persuade her to contribute to the doctrinal development of a new religion that would be functional to the Nazi regime. The story presents the development of the conflict between two world views that are absolutely irreconcilable.

It's St. Patrick's Day and 20-year-old Emma Wright is working hard at training five-month-old Molly, her foster puppy, to become a therapy dog. But her training coach and neighbor gets an emergency call, cutting the lesson short, and Emma volunteers to pick up her daughter at a St. Patrick's Day concert in town.

Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, su verdadero nombre, fue una católica albanesa que radicó durante décadas en la India y fundó las Misioneras de la Caridad en 1950. Por más de cuarenta años sirvió a los pobres, enfermos, huérfanos y moribundos, razones por las que tras su deceso, fue beatificada por el Papa Juan Pablo II en el año 2003.