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The Profit of Her Fellowship
The Profit of Her Fellowship
The Profit of Her Fellowship
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In 1971, Sister Martha Louise acts as headmistress at Our Lady of the Perpetual Covenant Academy, a down-on-its luck boarding school for girls, one of them seventeen-year-old Petranella Funk. In alternating accounts, the fiery nun and timid teenage girl recall that pivotal year, when Lila Rupert arrives at the school. Where Lila goes, chaos follows, and soon the orderly boredom of Covenant Academy is forever disrupted. Love simultaneously beckons and threatens, friendships offer redemption and ruin, and long buried secrets emerge which hold the power to heal or to destroy. Caught up in the whirlwind of social changes sweeping through American society during a turbulent decade, and wrestling with the mercurial personality who is Lila, Sister Martha Louise and Petranella must, in separate but intersecting scenarios, reevaluate long accepted traditions and beliefs as each struggles to come to terms with what she holds sacred. Not just the young doubt and are capable of change, and even the most daunting and sober individual may hide a delightfully rebellious streak and painful regrets, as this poignant and often humorous tale of days gone by reveals.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherXlibris US
Release dateDec 30, 2013
ISBN9781493153824
The Profit of Her Fellowship
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Celia Crotteau

A Biblical scholar and educator, Celia Crotteau's fascination with women's roles in ancient civilizations has inspired her to imagine how certain Old Testament heroines might have told their own stories. In earlier novels she gave voices to the prophet Hosea's wife Gomer and Ruth's sister Orpah. Now, in her sixth book of historical fiction, she does so with Jephthah's daughter. Celia has also published award winning essays, poetry, short stories, and textbooks and has taught literature, history, and writing to students from sixth grade through college level.

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