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The Strength of His Hand by Lynn Austin, Suzanne Toren
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThree-time Christy Award winner Lynn Austin returns to the Old Testament in The Strength of His Hands. She continues her uplifting series with the reign of King Hezekiah in Judah, who is noted for establishing a state that worshipped only one God, Yahweh. God has blessed Hezekiah—his kingdom is flourishing. The people are prospering and the city of Jerusalem is safe from invaders... -
![Faith of My Fathers by Lynn Austin, Suzanne Toren]()
Faith of My Fathers by Lynn Austin, Suzanne Toren
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAcclaimed author Lynn Austin has won three Christy Awards for her work in historical fiction. The king's sudden death leaves his son Manasseh as the new ruler. Overcome with sorrow, Manasseh is angry toward God and begins a reign of terror that shocks the kingdom. His own insecurity prompts the death of his closest advisors dividing the faithful in two... -
![A Treacherous Engagement: A Regency Romance by Laura Beers]()
A Treacherous Engagement: A Regency Romance by Laura Beers
Rated: 5.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe was only supposed to find her sister. Falling in love wasn’t part of the agreement.Miss Dinah Ashmore has a problem. Her sister has gone missing, and the constable isn’t taking it seriously. She decides to take matters into her own hands by hiring a Bow Street Runner, not understanding the danger she has put herself in.Nathaniel Calvert, Earl of Hawthorne, is an agent of the Crown... -
![Austin by Linda Ford]()
Austin by Linda Ford
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAustin Wagoner is a gunman on the right side of the law. As a deputy, he tracked down some bank robbers and in the following shoot out, his bullet killed Colin Martyn, the brother of Mae Martyn, the girl Austin was in love with. Knowing she would never be able to forgive him, he rides out of her life... -
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![Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke]()
Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWe have a marvelous, almost legendary image of the circumstances in which the composition of this great poem began. Rainer Maria Rilke was staying at Duino Castle, on a rocky headland of the Adriatic Sea near Trieste. One morning he walked out onto the battlements and climbed down to where the cliffs dropped sharply to the sea... -
![Written on the Wind by Elizabeth Camden]()
Written on the Wind by Elizabeth Camden
Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNatalia Blackstone is a rarity in Gilded Age America. As a trusted analyst for her father's bank, she is helping finance the legendary Trans-Siberian Railway. From her office in New York City, Natalia relies on a charming Russian aristocrat to oversee the construction of the railroad on the other side of the world... -
![The Dean's Watch by Elizabeth Goudge]()
The Dean's Watch by Elizabeth Goudge
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSet in a Cathedral city in the 1870s, a remote town dominated by the great cathedral and its formidable Dean Adam Ayscough, who holds a deep love for his parishioners and townspeople. But the craggy, homely old Dean, lived locked in by shyness... when an obscure watchmaker, the timid, fearful little Isaac Peabody, a genius of a clockmaker, strikes up an unlikely friendship with the Dean... -
![Second Touch by Bodie Thoene, Brock Thoene]()
Second Touch by Bodie Thoene, Brock Thoene
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe lepers in the Valley of Makoob hear the rumors--that a miracle healer is now walking the earth. Could this be the hope they have waited an eternity for? The healing they have longed for? While Lily, Cantor, and Rabbi Ahava courageously comfort the dying in the Valley, the leper Jekuthiel risks home and family, even when his baby is about to be born, to find out if the rumors are true... -
![The Christmas Journey by Emma Ashwood]()
The Christmas Journey by Emma Ashwood
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis Christmas Violet needs to find a husband before the orphanage finds one for her.Violet had been an orphan all her life and although she is grateful to the orphanage for their care, she knew she couldn’t stay forever. With her eighteenth birthday looming it was only a matter of time before she was turned out to find her own way... -
![All God's Promises by Vikki Kestell]()
All God's Promises by Vikki Kestell
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFaith-Filled Fiction at Its Best! So many unanswered questions.Who am I really? Kari wondered again. I am not Kari Hillyer. Not Kari Granger. They tell me my real name is Kari Thoresen Michaels. But who is that person?She frowned. And where are my sister and brother? Who took them? Where are they now?“Lord, my uncle and my cousins urge me to trust you... -
![Grass Valley Brides by Shanna Hatfield]()
Grass Valley Brides by Shanna Hatfield
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat’s a matchmaker to do when the husband-to-be rejects the bride? Again...Widowed as a young wife, Cara Cargill turned her head for business and love of romance into a successful mail-order bride enterprise. She’s never had a problem matching couples until one mule-headed man continues to refuse to wed the women she sends to meet him in Grass Valley, Oregon... -
![The Tomb: A Novel of Martha by Stephanie Landsem]()
The Tomb: A Novel of Martha by Stephanie Landsem
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn this captivating retelling of a classic biblical story, Jesus shocks the town of Bethany with Lazarus’s resurrection from the dead, leading Martha—a seemingly perfect woman trapped by the secrets of her past—to hope and a new life. Everyone in Bethany admires Martha—the perfect Jewish woman... -
![The Rumor by Hannah Miller]()
The Rumor by Hannah Miller
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEli Schrock’s life is pleasant enough. He likes his work as a farrier in his father’s smithy. He likes the girl he’s courting, Rebecca Hochstettler. Yet there is no passion for what he does or where he lives, and part of him yearns to see more of the world and get more of an education than the standard Amish eighth grade.When he meets Susanna Wittmer, though, everything changes... -
![Capturing the Cook by Kirsten Osbourne]()
Capturing the Cook by Kirsten Osbourne
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen eighteen-year-old Ashleigh Steepleton loses her parents, she has nowhere to turn but to her male cousins, whom she has always looked to as brothers. She goes along with her cousins’ plan to move to California, hoping that life will be better there as her cousins believe it will be... -
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![A Promised Tomorrow by Sylvia Price]()
A Promised Tomorrow by Sylvia Price
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Yoder Family Saga follows widow Miriam Yoder and her four unmarried daughters, Megan, Rebecca, Josephine, and Lillian, as they discover God’s plans for them and the hope He provides for a happy tomorrow. The Yoder women struggle to survive after Jeremiah Yoder succumbs to a battle with cancer. The family risks losing their farm and their livelihood... -
![The Collected Works of George MacDonald: The Complete Works PergamonMedia (Highlights of World Literature) by George MacDonald]()
The Collected Works of George MacDonald: The Complete Works PergamonMedia (Highlights of World Literature) by George MacDonald
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works - the Œuvre - of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - 28900 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • The Princess and the Goblin• Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women• Lilith: A Romance• The Princess and the Goblin• At the Back of the North Wind• The Light Princess• A Book of Strife in the... -
![Faithful Daughter of Israel by Wanda Ann Thomas]()
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... -
![Joshua and the Shepherd by Joseph F. Girzone]()
Joshua and the Shepherd by Joseph F. Girzone
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsWith simple and profound prose, Joseph Girzone bringing to light incredible insights into modern Christianity and adds to his bestselling series with the story of the revolutionary Joshua in a contemporary setting.It is the end of a bitter cold winter... -
![Wife of Chuza by Katrina D. Hamel]()
Wife of Chuza by Katrina D. Hamel
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHerod Antipas rules from his opulent palaces, but amid the hills and rural villages, Jesus of Nazareth proclaims a coming kingdom.The prophet has Joanna's unfaltering loyalty, but offering support is risky when she's under the suspicious eye of the tetrarch's jealous wife. Joanna and her husband Chuza must use their unique position to shield the prophet and allow him to gather his supporters... -
![Heirs of the Motherland by Judith Pella, Michael R. Phillips]()
Heirs of the Motherland by Judith Pella, Michael R. Phillips
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTheir Exile Is Ended . . . When Will Their Freedom Begin? Eighteen years after the birth of his daughter, Count Dmitri Remizov returns to Russia from exile to claim the child he left behind. But Mariana has been raised as a peasant and she is uncertain about her ability to take her rightful place as a countess of Imperial Russia... -
![The Complete English Poems by John Donne, A.J. Smith]()
The Complete English Poems by John Donne, A.J. Smith
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsYet it is only this century that Donne has been indisputably established as a great poet—and even, many feel, the greatest love poet of them all... -
![Poetry by John Donne]()
Poetry by John Donne
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsAbout the Series: No other series of classic texts equals the caliber of the Norton Critical Editions. Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with the comprehensive pedagogical apparatus necessary to appreciate the work fully... -
![Journey of the Shepherd Woman by Carlene Havel, Sharon Faucheux]()
Journey of the Shepherd Woman by Carlene Havel, Sharon Faucheux
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSaul of Tarsus instigates persecution against followers of the Way, forcing shepherds from Bethlehem to run for their lives. Taking only a few provisions, Channah and her family escape to the seaport of Joppa. From there, they hope to make their way to Ephesus where Channah’s husband grew up. However, travel is difficult and sometimes treacherous... -
![Lone Point by Grace Livingston Hill]()
Lone Point by Grace Livingston Hill
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGrace Livingston Hill created a moving portrayal of opposite outlooks on life in this summer romance. Maria Hammond is only happy when things are going perfectly right, while her sister Rachel can find a rainbow in any situation. When the family finances plunge, their large home in the city is rented and the family moves to a lowly cottage at Lone Point... -
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![Mama's Bible: Historical Christian Romance by Mildred Colvin]()
Mama's Bible: Historical Christian Romance by Mildred Colvin
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOregon Trail Series Book One: MAMA'S BIBLE Historical Christian Romance Also in the Oregon Trail series: Book Two: HOME'S PROMISE Book Three: LOVE'S FORGIVENESS Running from the Law. Leaving everything behind. What more is there to lose? Katie Donovan soon learns she has much to lose, but even more to gain on the long journey to Oregon in 1850. Two men vie for Katie's affection... -
![Sound of the Trumpet by Grace Livingston Hill]()
Sound of the Trumpet by Grace Livingston Hill
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe first time beautiful, wealthy Lisle sees John, she knows she loves him...Categorized as:
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![The Indentured Heart by Gilbert Morris]()
The Indentured Heart by Gilbert Morris
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Indentured Heart opens another chapter in the compelling House of Winslow. While in England, Adam Winslow rescues Molly Burns from her abusive father and brings her to America, where Molly becomes his indentured servant. A young girl, a family, and a new nation are bound together in their search for freedom...Categorized as:
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![The Gentle Rebel by Gilbert Morris]()
The Gentle Rebel by Gilbert Morris
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe story of Nathan Winslow in The Gentle Rebel brings the saga of the Winslow family into the American Revolution. At first opposed to the idea of revolution, Nathan eventually becomes a Patriot. But his faith and courage are tested when he falls in love with beautiful Abigail Howland, a proud and spoiled Tory...Categorized as:
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![A Fragile Design by Tracie Peterson, Judith McCoy Miller]()
A Fragile Design by Tracie Peterson, Judith McCoy Miller
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFleeing the life of the Shakers, Arabella Newberry finds work in the industrial mills of Lowell, Massachusetts. But the taste of freedom she experiences only increases her longing for true equality for all the mill girls. When her ideas put her at odds with the dashing Taylor Manning, she wonders if she has made a huge mistake... -
![Nana's Gift: Some Things in This World Are Very Expensive, But Others Are Priceless by Janette Oke]()
Nana's Gift: Some Things in This World Are Very Expensive, But Others Are Priceless by Janette Oke
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Enchanting Story of a Family Treasure That Becomes a LegacyIt had all begun on their honeymoon. Lizzie had been so young then. Young and vibrant and beautiful. And now she was still beautiful in Duncan's eyes. Perhaps even more so. He loved his Lizzie. She had stood by him through the good and the bad... -
![Samuel: Gadianton's Foe by Clair M. Poulson]()
Samuel: Gadianton's Foe by Clair M. Poulson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSamuel wants justice for the assassination of his friend Pahoran, Chief Judge of the Nephites, but one question stands in his way: who killed him? In the sequel to Clair Poulson's Samuel: Moroni's Young Warrior, fear has begun to spread through the Land of Zarahemla as rumors escalate that the Lamanites will soon attack... -
![Maris by Grace Livingston Hill]()
Maris by Grace Livingston Hill
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOn the eve of her brilliant society wedding, beautiful Maris must face the true meaning of love. Beautiful young Maris Mayberry is ecstatic over her upcoming marriage to wealthy Tilford Thorpe. Then disaster strikes - Maris's precious mother collapses and becomes dangerously ill... -
![Disputed Passage by Lloyd C. Douglas]()
Disputed Passage by Lloyd C. Douglas
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIT was two o'clock in the afternoon of the last Thursday in September, opening day of the autumn term. The weather was unseasonably sultry, and the air in Dr Milton (Tubby) Forrester's lecture-arena lay as inert and stale as the cadavers in the grim old anatomical laboratory adjoining. But if the atmosphere of the dingy little theatre was not refreshingly tonic it was emotionally tense... -
![Ariel Custer by Grace Livingston Hill]()
Ariel Custer by Grace Livingston Hill
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings1922. Ariel looked curiously like the portrait of her illustrious warrior ancestor when she lifted a firm little chin and left the beloved but empty home in the South to seek her fortune in an unknown northern city. But fortune was kind and with the aid of a refractory motor cycle precipitated her literally into the arms of Judson Graniss... -
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![The Captive Bride by Gilbert Morris]()
The Captive Bride by Gilbert Morris
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIncludes The Honorable Imposter, The Captive Bride, The Indentured Heart, The Gentle Rebel, and The Saintly Buccaneer...Categorized as:
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![The Song at the Scaffold by Gertrud von le Fort]()
The Song at the Scaffold by Gertrud von le Fort
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAmid the chaos and horror of the French Revolution, Blanche de la Force, daughter of a smug unbeliever, enters a Carmelite convent. Blanche is so timorous that she seems unsuited to the rigors of religious life even at the best of times - and horribly misplaced as the Reign of Terror begins to stain France with the blood of a new generation of Christian martyrs... -
![Three From Galilee: The Young Man from Nazareth by Marjorie Holmes]()
Three From Galilee: The Young Man from Nazareth by Marjorie Holmes
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMarjorie Holmes, the award-winning author of such classic bestsellers as I've Got to Talk to Somebody, God , was renowned for making the Bible come to life in books that brought hope and inspiration to millions. The first novel in this trilogy-her acclaimed, hugely successful Two from Galilee-told the great love story of Mary and Joseph as never before... -
![Paradise Lost and Other Poems by John Milton, Edward Le Comte]()
Paradise Lost and Other Poems by John Milton, Edward Le Comte
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThese three major works by the seventeenth-century English poet show why Milton takes his place beside Shakespeare, Dante, Homer, and Vergil. They ring with the unmistakable clarity of genius, with majesty of language, splendor and wealth of detail, and with the deep conviction of a powerful mind... -
![The Mountain Wreath by Petar II Petrović Njegoš, Prince-Bishop of Montenegro Peter II]()
The Mountain Wreath by Petar II Petrović Njegoš, Prince-Bishop of Montenegro Peter II
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Mountain Wreath (Serbian: Gorski vijenac) is a poem and a play, a masterpiece of Serbian literature, written by Montenegrin Prince-Bishop and poet Petar II Petrovic-Njegos.Njegos wrote The Mountain Wreath during 1846 in Cetinje and published it the following year after the printing in an Armenian monastery in Vienna... -
![Coplas De Jorge Manrique by Jorge Manrique]()
Coplas De Jorge Manrique by Jorge Manrique
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages...Categorized as:
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![Salve Deus Rex Judæorum by Aemilia Lanyer]()
Salve Deus Rex Judæorum by Aemilia Lanyer
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAemilia Lanyer (1569-1645) was the first woman poet in England who sought status as a professional writer. Her book of poems is dedicated entirely to women patrons. It offers a long poem on Christ's passion, told entirely from a woman's point of view, as well as the first country house poem published in England... -
![Edmund Spenser's Poetry by Edmund Spenser]()
Edmund Spenser's Poetry by Edmund Spenser
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsTo facilitate discussion of the place of the body and of pastoral elements in Spenser's epic, the Third Edition includes more of The Faerie Queene: from Book II, canto ix (the House of Alma), and from Book VI, the remainder of canto x and all of cantos xi-xii. The Shepheardes Calender is represented by six eclogues, including the much-discussed "Februarie... -
![The Damnation of Theron Ware: Or Illumination by Harold Frederic, Stanton Garner]()
The Damnation of Theron Ware: Or Illumination by Harold Frederic, Stanton Garner
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA candid inquiry into the intertwining of religious and sexual fervor, and a telling portrait of the United States at the end of the nineteenth century, this novel foreshadows the rise of naturalism in American literature. The Damnation of Theron Ware (published in England as Illumination) is an 1896 novel by American author Harold Frederic... -
![Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Selected): An Interlinear Translation by Geoffrey Chaucer, Vincent Foster Hopper]()
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Selected): An Interlinear Translation by Geoffrey Chaucer, Vincent Foster Hopper
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsBegun soon after 1386 and written during several years that followed, Geoffrey Chaucer’s great narrative poem The Canterbury Tales presents a richly detailed, highly entertaining, and sometimes bawdy picture of English society in the fourteenth century... -
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![The Franklin's Prologue and Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer]()
The Franklin's Prologue and Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA well-established and respected series. Texts are in the original Middle English, and each has an introduction, detailed notes and a glossary. Selected titles are also available as CD recordings... -
![Geoffrey Chaucer: The Nun's Priest's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer]()
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Nun's Priest's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer
Rated: 3.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEach book in this established series contains the full and complete text, and is designed to motivate and encourage students who may be writing on these challenging writers for the first time... -
![Count Lucanor Or The Fifty Pleasant Stories Of Patronio by Don Juan Manuel]()
Count Lucanor Or The Fifty Pleasant Stories Of Patronio by Don Juan Manuel
Rated: 3.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages...
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