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Faithful Daughter of Israel by Wanda Ann Thomas
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe homeless outcast known as Cursed ANNA has spent her days avoiding the reproachful glances of her fellow Jerusalemites and her nights defending against the bitter cold and her growing hunger and fear. Her deepest desire is to find acceptance among her people. For that to happen she must live one more day, and one more day after that... -
![Seeking the Truth by Rachael C. Duncan]()
Seeking the Truth by Rachael C. Duncan
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsExperience the power and tension of the early church in this compelling tale of faith and conflict...Categorized as:
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![Embracing the Life by Rachael C. Duncan]()
Embracing the Life by Rachael C. Duncan
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGet carried away by the captivating display of unwavering faith and strength in this compelling tale of the transformative power of God's love...Categorized as:
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James by Jenifer Jennings
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAmidst betrayal and resurrection rumors, James must decide where his loyalties truly lie.James ben Joseph wrestles with the pain of his older brother’s death. He never believed Jesus was a rebel, but his brother’s radical teachings drew dangerous attention from the Pharisees.Traveling to Jerusalem for Passover, James hoped to convince Jesus to abandon his reckless ideas and come home...Categorized as:
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![The Days of Joseph by John Noble]()
The Days of Joseph by John Noble
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJoseph’s family just started a war they’re going to lose.Two days ago, his half-sister Dinah was kidnapped and raped by the prince of Shechem. Now Joseph is trapped between his brothers, clamoring for an attack on the fortress city, and his father, who knows they can’t win.Personally, Joseph would rather not die for a lost cause, however, he may not have much choice...Categorized as:
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![The Lost Gospel of Lazarus by Richard Zimler]()
The Lost Gospel of Lazarus by Richard Zimler
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the New Testament, we are told that Jesus resurrected a beloved friend named Lazarus from the dead. Yet the Gospel of John – which contains this episode – does not tell us how Jesus accomplished this miracle or if he had a special purpose for saving his companion... In The Lost Gospel of Lazarus, Zimler narrates this mysterious and influential story from Lazarus’ own point of view... -
![Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages by Dan Jones]()
Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages by Dan Jones
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAn epic reappraisal of the medieval world--and the rich and complicated legacy left to us by the rise of the West--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Templars.When the once-mighty city of Rome was sacked by barbarians in 410 and lay in ruins, it signaled the end of an era--and the beginning of a thousand years of profound transformation...Categorized as:
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![The Case for Jesus: The Biblical and Historical Evidence for Christ by Brant Pitre, Robert Barron]()
The Case for Jesus: The Biblical and Historical Evidence for Christ by Brant Pitre, Robert Barron
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOver the past hundred years, scholars have attacked the historical truth of the Gospels and argued that they were originally anonymous and filled with contradictions...Categorized as:
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![Caesar and Christ by Will Durant]()
Caesar and Christ by Will Durant
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsVolume 3 of the monumental Story of Civilization, CAESAR AND CHRIST depicts the rise of Rome from a crossroads town to empire. The world's first republic, Rome spread its civilization over the Mediterranean and western European world. Its long, slow crumbling and final collapse plunged Europe into darkness and chaos.The Pax Romana broke some heads...Categorized as:
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Paul: A Biography by N.T. Wright
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn this definitive biography, renowned Bible scholar, Anglican bishop, and bestselling author N. T. Wright offers a radical look at the apostle Paul, illuminating the humanity and remarkable achievements of this intellectual who invented Christian theology—transforming a faith and changing the world...Categorized as:
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![The New Testament in Its World: An Introduction to the History, Literature, and Theology of the First Christians by N.T. Wright, Michael F. Bird]()
The New Testament in Its World: An Introduction to the History, Literature, and Theology of the First Christians by N.T. Wright, Michael F. Bird
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFinally: an introduction that captures the excitement of the early Christians, helping today's readers to think like a first-century believer while reading the text responsibly for today.The New Testament in Its World is your passageway from the twenty-first century to the era of Jesus and the first Christians...Categorized as:
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![The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us by Stephen Brusatte]()
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us by Stephen Brusatte
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsA sweeping and revelatory new history of mammals, illuminating the lost story of the extraordinary family tree that led to us Though humans claim to rule the Earth, we are the inheritors of a dynasty that has reigned over the planet for nearly 66 million years, through fiery cataclysm and ice ages: the mammals...Categorized as:
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![The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution by Peter Hessler]()
The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution by Peter Hessler
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the acclaimed author of River Town and Oracle Bones, an intimate excavation of life in one of the world's oldest civilizations at a time of convulsive changeDrawn by a fascination with Egypt's rich history and culture, Peter Hessler moved with his wife and twin daughters to Cairo in 2011... -
![The Anglo-Saxons A History of the Beginnings of England: 400–1066 by Marc Morris]()
The Anglo-Saxons A History of the Beginnings of England: 400–1066 by Marc Morris
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA sweeping and original history of the Anglo-Saxons by national bestselling author Marc Morris.Sixteen hundred years ago Britain left the Roman Empire and swiftly fell into ruin. Grand cities and luxurious villas were deserted and left to crumble, and civil society collapsed into chaos...Categorized as:
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![The Lost River: On The Trail of the Sarasvati by Michel Danino]()
The Lost River: On The Trail of the Sarasvati by Michel Danino
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Lost River explores the geography, history, and mythology, of the Sarasvati river, drawing from various sources like folklore, the Vedas, archaeology, local practices, history, geology, and meteorology. The book explains that the river, its very existence, and its course have been discussed and speculated over for years... -
![The Book That Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization by Vishal Mangalwadi]()
The Book That Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization by Vishal Mangalwadi
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsUnderstand where we came from.Whether you're an avid student of the Bible or a skeptic of its relevance, The Book That Made Your World will transform your perception of its influence on virtually every facet of Western civilization...Categorized as:
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![Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times by Elizabeth Wayland Barber]()
Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times by Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNew discoveries about the textile arts reveal women's unexpectedly influential role in ancient societies.Twenty thousand years ago, women were making and wearing the first clothing created from spun fibers. In fact, right up to the Industrial Revolution the fiber arts were an enormous economic force, belonging primarily to women...Categorized as:
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![The Life of Greece by Will Durant]()
The Life of Greece by Will Durant
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Story of Civilization, Volume II: A history of Greek civilization from the beginnings, and of civilization in the Near East from the Death of Alexander to the Roman Conquest. The Life of Greece is a survey of ancient Greece whose scope and style recalls the golden age of historical writing, before specialization...Categorized as:
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![The Other Side of History : Daily Life in the Ancient World by Robert Garland]()
The Other Side of History : Daily Life in the Ancient World by Robert Garland
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLook beyond the abstract dates and figures, kings and queens, and battles and wars that make up so many historical accounts. Over the course of 48 richly detailed lectures, Professor Garland covers the breadth and depth of human history from the perspective of the so-called ordinary people, from its earliest beginnings through the Middle Ages...Categorized as:
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![Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson]()
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know...Categorized as:
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![The Nag Hammadi Library by Unknown Nag Hammadi, James M. Robinson]()
The Nag Hammadi Library by Unknown Nag Hammadi, James M. Robinson
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Nag Hammadi Library was discovered in 1945 buried in a large stone jar in the desert outside the modern Egyptian city of Nag Hammadi. It is a collection of religious and philosophic texts gathered and translated into Coptic by fourth-century Gnostic Christians and translated into English by dozens of highly reputable experts...Categorized as:
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![Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe by Simon Singh]()
Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe by Simon Singh
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA half century ago, a shocking Washington Post headline claimed that the world began in five cataclysmic minutes rather than having existed for all time; a skeptical scientist dubbed the maverick theory the Big Bang...Categorized as:
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![The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber, David Wengrow]()
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber, David Wengrow
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality—and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation...Categorized as:
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![The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins by Tom Higham]()
The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins by Tom Higham
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratings'Fascinating and entertaining. If you read one book on human origins, this should be it' Ian Morris, author of Why the West Rules - For Now 'The who, what, where, when and how of human evolution, from one of the world's experts on the dating of prehistoric fossils' Steve Brusatte, author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs50,000 years ago, we were not the only species of human in the world...Categorized as:
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![The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner]()
The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA major new work by a leading historian and pioneer in women's studies, The Creation of Patriarchy is a radical reconceptualization of Western civilization that makes gender central to its analysis. Gerda Lerner argues that male dominance over women is not "natural" or biological, but the product of an historical development begun in the second millennium B.C. in the Ancient Near East...Categorized as:
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![God: An Anatomy by Francesca Stavrakopoulou]()
God: An Anatomy by Francesca Stavrakopoulou
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAn astonishing and revelatory history that re-presents God as he was originally envisioned by ancient worshippers--with a distinctly male body, and with superhuman powers, earthly passions, and a penchant for the fantastic and monstrous. [A] rollicking journey through every aspect of Yahweh's body, from top to bottom (yes, that too) and from inside out ... Ms... -
![The Day the Universe Changed: How Galileo's Telescope Changed the Truth by James Burke]()
The Day the Universe Changed: How Galileo's Telescope Changed the Truth by James Burke
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRevision of Burke's highly successful original of 1985. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or... -
![Ghost Empire: A Journey to the Legendary Constantinople by Richard Fidler]()
Ghost Empire: A Journey to the Legendary Constantinople by Richard Fidler
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsGhost Empire is a rare treasure—an utterly captivating blend of the historical and the contemporary, narrated by a master storyteller. The story is a revelation: a beautifully written ode to a lost civilization combined with a warmly observed father-son adventure far from home.In 2014, Richard Fidler and his son Joe made a journey to Istanbul...Categorized as:
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![The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination by Daniel J. Boorstin]()
The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination by Daniel J. Boorstin
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBy piecing the lives of selected individuals into a grand mosaic, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel J. Boorstin explores the development of artistic innovation over 3,000 years. A hugely ambitious chronicle of the arts that Boorstin delivers with the scope that made his Discoverers a national bestseller...Categorized as:
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![Defiant Dreams: The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for Education by Sola Mahfouz, Malaina Kapoor]()
Defiant Dreams: The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for Education by Sola Mahfouz, Malaina Kapoor
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratings'I began to grow up the day my mother warned me to stop laughing'At age twelve, Sola Mahfouz was told she could no longer attend school. The Taliban threatened that any girl who dared to continue their education would have acid thrown in the face, be kidnapped, or worse. Confined to the walls of her home, Sola watched as the few freedoms of childhood were stripped away...Categorized as:
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