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Todays Embrace
$20.99Add to cartShe gambled with her husband’s trust. At stake is-everything.
Evy Varley’s marriage to Rogan Chantry is all she had hoped it would be-until she finds out that she is pregnant with a honeymoon baby. Fearing that Rogan won’t allow her to travel while she is expecting, Evy plots to keep her pregnancy secret in order to accompany him to South Africa. Her thoughts are not only for her husband, but Evy is determined to travel to Bulawayo, the new mission station of Dr. Jakob van Buren-the one man who can help Evy to finally clear her mother’s name.After she and Rogan set out to sea, however, Evy discovers that she has gone to far in her deceit, and the damage to her marriage may be irreversible. Matters only worsen in Africa, where malaria, murder, and an African uprising all take their toll and where Rogan and Evy must fight not only for their love, but also for their very lives. Paperback, 384 pages. Randomhouse.
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Child Of The Mist (Reprinted)
$19.00Add to cartJourney to the stormy Scottish Highlands of 1565, where superstition and treachery threaten to destroy a truce between rival clans. Anne MacGregor and Niall Campbell know their arranged marriage is essential for the sake of peace. But can they learn to truly love each other—even when villagers threaten their lives and accuse Anne of witchcraft?
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Opal : The Ranch Means Everything To Her Will Tragedy Shatter Her Dream (Reprint
$19.00Add to cartTHE RANCH HAD BECOME THEIR HOME AFTER DOVE HOUSE BURNED TO THE GROUND, AND THEN THE UNTHINKABLE HAPPENED. . .
When Ruby Torvald marries rancher Rand Harrison, her sister, Opal, takes to ranch life like a hummingbird to sugar water. She can outshoot, outride, and outwork any cowboy on the place. Ranching has clearly captured her heart. But when Opal makes a foolish though innocent decision, her dear friend Atticus is taken away from her, and she is consumed with feelings of guilt and self-recrimination. Will she ever see Atticus again?
Jacob Chandler, hiding secrets from the past, arrives from the East to begin a new life with his son. The young minister discovers grace and acceptance among the people of Dakotah Territory and soon finds himself falling in love with the enchanting Opal Torvald.
Will the tragedy that has broken Opal’s heart keep her from love forever?
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Kings Ransom : A Novel Based On A True Story
$13.99Add to cartThe Faith to Face Tyranny
Faith to Face the Third Reich
Two Stories of Undaunted Courage
Set during the darkest days of World War II, King’s Ransom tells the heroic story of Tsar Boris III, King of Bulgaria, and his extraordinary efforts to save his country’s Jewish population from Hitler’s concentration camps. Aware of the price he might pay for his risks, Boris faced the Third Reich with courage and resolve, firm in his Christian convictions that would not permit him to abandon nearly 50,000 Jews. Boris, along with members of the Orthodox Church, Jewish religious leaders, and others, ultimately ensured that no Bulgarian Jews lost their lives to Hitler’s regime.
Based on a True Story
Historically accurate, Boris’s quest to save Bulgaria’s Jews is interwoven with the love story of Daria, the Jewish attendant to the Bulgarian royal family, and Dobri, a sergeant in the king’s guard. With courageous characters and passionate storytelling, King’s Ransom reveals how individuals acting on faith can change the course of history.
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Kudzu That Are Yazoo City
$24.99Add to cartThe Kudzu that Ate Yazoo City is a collection of stories that chronicle William “Junior” Jenkins’ growing up during the 1950s and 1960s in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Influenced by a large family, poverty, faith, and the ever-present kudzu vine, Jenkins mingles fact, fiction, and homegrown wisdom to remember those “cotton picking days” in the Mississippi Delta
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Kudzu That Are Yazoo City
$15.99Add to cartThe Kudzu that Ate Yazoo City is a collection of stories that chronicle William “Junior” Jenkins’ growing up during the 1950s and 1960s in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Influenced by a large family, poverty, faith, and the ever-present kudzu vine, Jenkins mingles fact, fiction, and homegrown wisdom to remember those “cotton picking days” in the Mississippi Delta
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Godiva
$19.99Add to cart“Good God, have mercy!” cried the sleepy English sentry, watching King Canute the Merciless and his armada of dragon-headed Viking ships approaching from the horizon. Ten years earlier, a horrified young girl named Godiva watched as the bloodthirsty invaders pillaged the peaceable town of Coventry. Now the marauders have returned—can Godiva save her people without betraying her faith and losing her soul?
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God Still Answers Prayer
$13.49Add to cartIn this book, the author portrays spirituality and God’s finest desires. Both obedience and perfectionism are displayed, for God is the author of perfectionism. He will do all things in the best possible way for his glory. This book explains the unexplainable and the paranormal as only God can portray it. We will go inside a youth detention facility and experience the wickedness that dwelt there and watch as God wipes it clean. Through prayer, supplication, and praise, the environment once not suitable for any human being becomes a training ground for young men to mend their future. Huge differences are made in the hearts of those who once chose to go the way of Satan and his demons but now go the way that God desires. Imagination will take you back in time to the 1800s as you experience the lives of these young boys. You will weep at the pages of this book, but you will also experience joy. Farewell to displaced past memories, and welcome to future memories. Amen.
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In Search Of Benjamin
$15.99Add to cartIn Search of Benjamin opens as the birth of the Holocaust engulfs a Jewish family, Benjamin and Milcah Belacof. Their dream of prosperity and safety rapidly deteriorates as maniacal Hitler accelerates his evil plot to extinguish the Jews. Ominous crescendoing danger causes the Belacofs to send their only infant son, Benn, back to Israel with little hope of ever seeing him again. Benjamin risks his life helping others escape from the murderous tyranny of the death camps, driven by his desire to be united with his wife and son. The war ends for Benjamin when he learns his wife had succumbed from her tortuous existence. His heart yearns for true peace and a resting place, but he cannot rest until he finds his only reason to live: his son. After years of heart-wrenching disappointments, Benjamin finds his son but also finds himself to be the target of a revengeful conspiracy. Benjamin Belacof engages in one last life-and-death struggle to save the life of his only son. In Search of Benjamin is a graphic portrayal of courage and true love. A surprising finale will complete the quest for one little boy.
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Love Takes Wing (Revised)
$16.00Add to cart1. The End Of A Long Day
2. Girl Talk
3. A Neighborhood Party
4. Such A Short Time
5. Back To Work
6. Rand
7. Supper
8. Amy Jo
9. An Accident
10. Concern
11. Bitterness
12. A New Kind Of Suffering
13. The Patient
14. A Busy Summer
15. Confusion
16. Dinner
17. Looking For Answers
18. Changes
19. Boston
20. Getting Acquainted
21. A New Life
22. The Unexpected
23. Pierre
24. Extended Horizons
25. A Taste Of Travel
26. A Discovery211 Pages
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Belinda Davis had trained as a nurse to assist her older brother, Doctor Luke. But as time goes by and she sees those she’s grown up with getting married and settling into their own lives, Belinda becomes restless. What had seemed exciting and fresh becomes dull and routine.When she meets an elderly woman who needs nursing care, Belinda jumps at the invitation to go to Boston-a large, “civilized” city with cultural opportunities she’s never even dreamed of in her little prairie town. But in spite of financial security and countless new experiences, Belinda finds herself restless, lonely, and empty inside.
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Loves Unending Legacy (Revised)
$16.00Add to cartMarty was overjoyed to be home again-could anything disturb her joy?
Marty Davis had thoroughly enjoyed her visit with daughter Missie, even though a tragic accident had extended it far longer than originally planned. But now she and Clark are home again, and there are changes to make. The family begins to adjust to Clark’s crutch, and Clark and Marty recognize their children’s new maturity and independence.
But Nandry seems unable to come to terms with Clark’s handicap; is she blaming God for the accident? The “baby of the family” is going to be a doctor. Ellie has blossomed into a lovely young woman, but is there any fellow around special enough to ask for her hand? Clare and Kate eagerly anticipate their new baby, but has life prepared them for what lies ahead?And Then There’s Marty’s Secret!
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1 More Sunrise
$19.99Add to cartRenowned throughout the frontier for his surgical skills, Dr. Dane Logan keeps busy tending the ill. Yet his mind is continually filled with thoughts of the beautiful Tharyn, whom he hasn’t seen since childhood. Will Dane find the love he seeks, or will his hopes and heart be destroyed by the roving Tag Moran gang?
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Heavens Before
$15.99Add to cartMarginalized by society and mistreated by her own family, Annah befriends a young man she’s never seen before. Shem is captivated by Annah’s courage, and he risks everything to help her gain her freedom. Trusting in the Most High, Annah marries Shem and joins her strange new family in their solitary faith that will ultimately separate them from an ancient world of amazing beauty and appalling violence–a world fast approaching the unimaginable catastrophe of the Great Flood. Out of this chaos, only eight people will survive. Their world is our world. Their future is our own.
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I Am David
$9.99Add to cartDavid’s entire twelve-year life has been spent in a grisly prison camp in Eastern Europe. He knows nothing of the outside world. But when he is given the chance to escape, he seizes it. With his vengeful enemies hot on his heels, David struggles to cope in this strange new world, where his only resources are a compass, a few crusts of bread, his two aching feet, and some vague advice to seek refuge in Denmark. Is that enough to survive?
David’s extraordinary odyssey is dramatically chronicled in Anne Holm’s classic about the meaning of freedom and the power of hope. -
Up From The Grave
$27.99Add to cartThis is a fictionalized real-life family drama concerning a Desert
Storm veteran.
Tim Moreland is born into a happy Christian home, but
adversities strike early. His father is killed in a traffic accident.
His stepfather’s behavior turns out to be inscrutable and reprehensible,
informing the family with impressions of the whole
gamut from stunned disbelief to tragicomedy, and foreshadowing
a mental illness.
Through a life rich in triumphs and tragedies, the family remains
a strong unit. Tim emerges as joyful in spirit, intense in emotion,
high in patriotism, and luminous in mental acuity, becoming a
superb physical specimen and an accomplished musician, with
seemingly unlimited potential.
He graduates from the Naval Academy and joins the Marines.
Deployed to the Persian Gulf, he returns changed through neurological
damage, which sends his health spiraling down, disabling
him more and more as time goes on.
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Up From The Grave
$17.99Add to cartThis is a fictionalized real-life family drama concerning a Desert
Storm veteran.
Tim Moreland is born into a happy Christian home, but
adversities strike early. His father is killed in a traffic accident.
His stepfather’s behavior turns out to be inscrutable and reprehensible,
informing the family with impressions of the whole
gamut from stunned disbelief to tragicomedy, and foreshadowing
a mental illness.
Through a life rich in triumphs and tragedies, the family remains
a strong unit. Tim emerges as joyful in spirit, intense in emotion,
high in patriotism, and luminous in mental acuity, becoming a
superb physical specimen and an accomplished musician, with
seemingly unlimited potential.
He graduates from the Naval Academy and joins the Marines.
Deployed to the Persian Gulf, he returns changed through neurological
damage, which sends his health spiraling down, disabling
him more and more as time goes on.
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Beginning : Genesis 1-2
$10.95Add to cartCreation… the fall of man… God’s relationship with his people… the birth of Christ… his resurrection. A fresh new telling of an old, old story – from the perspective of the angels.
In The Beginning, God creates the heavens… and the visible realm, including the earth and everything in it. The crowning glory of creation is man and woman, who live and move in both the visible world and the spiritual world, ruling creation in full fellowship with their Creator. Until… until the Garden is invaded by the succulent, deadly Tree of Knowledge and the allures of the fallen Angel of Light… until the unthinkable is done… until the bodies of Adam and Eve shrivel and are blinded to the heavenlies… and the Door between heaven and earth is closed. -
All My Tomorrows
$15.99Add to cartWhen 62 orphans and abandoned children leave New York City on a train headed out West, they have no idea what to expect. Will they get separated from their friends or siblings? Will their new families love them? Will a family even pick them at all? Future events are wilder than any of them could imagine – ranging from kidnappings and whippings to stowing away on wagon trains, from starting orphanages of their own to serving as missionaries to the Apache. No matter what, their paths are being watched by someone who cares about and carefully plans all their tomorrows.
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Every Fixed Star
$19.00Add to cart385 Pages
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Travel West with real-life American heroine Marie Dorion–a strong-willed mother who refused to be left behind when her husband joined the Wilson Hunt Astoria expedition! In Every Fixed Star, Marie struggles to keep her children safe, warm, and fed while practicing the art of trusting God through all life’s twists and turns. -
Shadow On The Creek
$19.99Add to cartIn the quiet wooded farming community of Tamrock Creek, Michigan, in the late 1800s, Maybelle Peat grows to womanhood. She enjoys fishing the creek with her friend, Jacob Page. At age fourteen, a startling remark shatters her dreams of marriage. She prepares to become a teacher to avoid the stigma of becoming an old maid. Maybelle is drawn by curiosity to the red brick house on an adjacent farm that is rumored to contain evil spirits. She meets Peter Foltz, the wealthy horse trader who owns the red brick house. She falls in love. When a disaster destroys her dreams, she feels doomed and believes God has deserted her. Unable to face the world, she goes into seclusion with an unforgiving heart. God opens a window for her through a little boy. Her mother’s death and her sister’s wedding push her back into the world of the living. Does Maybelle become trapped by evil spirits in the red brick house? Will she face a lifetime of loneliness if her husband goes to prison? Tamrock Creek and the Meadow Cemetery carry her secrets. Will she ever find it in her heart to forgive?
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Doctor In Rags
$13.99Add to cart12 Chapters
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The Hutterites are quiet people, hard workers, and known for their natural medicines. They also live in communities, or Bruderhofs, and will not attend the state church. Michael Bruhn, his younger sister Gudryn, and their widowed mother live in a castle in Moravia. After Madame Bruhn’s husband dies, she illegally welcomes Hutterites to her estate, giving them permission to build a Bruderhof because she feels they worship God in the right way.When a doctor wearing ragged clothing comes to heal Gudryn, Michael thinks he, too, must be a Hutterite. He learns later that this is the famed doctor, Paracelsus. Michael is impressed and begins to plan when he can also be a doctor.
Then tragedy strikes the Bruhn household. They are arrested along with the Hutterites. Their land is taken by King Ferdinand. Michael is put into chains with the Hutterites, doomed to become a galley slave. Join Michael as he tries to find his family again, listen for God’s calling on his life, and learn from the mysterious doctor in rags.
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Red Lion : A Novel Of The Cold War
$17.49Add to cartRed Lion is a story of mystery and international intrigue. The novel spans the era from the Great Depression to the culmination of the Cold War and presupposes a different scenario of events leading to the dissolution of the Soviet Union–a scenario more technologically decisive and perilous than the historical circumstances that actually brought down the Iron Curtain. The theme of the novel is woven through two persons who lead mutually exclusive lives, but as the story evolves, develop an unexpected and intertwined relationship. Timothy Hudson is a foundling left on the steps of a Baltimore, Maryland church rectory on New Year’s Eve, 1924. As a teenager, he is the subject of a mysterious disappearance, which is only explained many years after the fact. Robert (Rob) Kimbee is a newly appointed U.S. Secretary of Defense, circa 1980, who has been thrust into the task of developing a powerful, but controversial, high energy laser weapons system. The clandestine nature of the project brings personal and political problems to Rob, which are exacerbated by covert Soviet attempts to uncover the nature of the highly classified project. Although Red Lion is fictional, the eventual success of directed energy research could result in a huge shift in the technological balance of power and precipitate an era of political turmoil similar to that noted in the book.
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Secret Box
$14.99Add to cartBeginning with another long and tedious day at her grandfather’s house, Kate’s life changes as she is mesmerized and transported back to wartime Poland through her grandfather’s story. In The Secret Box, Kate hears tales of her family: her great-uncle Jan, whose daring activities kept him one step ahead of the Nazi soldiers, and her grandfather Alex, whose family risked their lives to hide a Jewish family during the war. From a dreary day with little to occupy her, Kate discovers the meaning of the secret box, and finds a newfound respect and love for her ailing grandfather.
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Shepherds Hill : A New England Story
$23.99Add to cartThis novel is about the people of a farming community in the Shaker country of upstate New York, the people who live there and the people who visit. It is a story with a distinctly Jewish character. The story covers almost half a century, beginning in the years before World War II. Occasionally interspersed with the narrative are fables that provide insights on such issues as light and darkness, life and death, pain and suffering, separation and isolation. And as the story progresses, a figure in the background gradually emerges as the Good Shepherd, the Overseer-the dominant character of the story.
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In Search Of A Peaceful Land
$17.49Add to cartIn 1831, the year following the French Revolution, many in Germany began pushing for revolution in Germany. Joseph Arnst Garrett had served under Napoleon when he was young, and he had witnessed the horrors of war. He also understood the political-ethnic-cultural makeup in the Fatherland and the fact that Germany had known warfare off and on for centuries, one war lasting for thirty years. He feared for his wife, two sons, and eight daughters, and he determined to take his family to America. But, would Metternich, the present ruler, or the young revolutionaries permit him to go and take his wealth? He owned three thriving businesses as well as his family estate. Johann Joseph Arnst Garrett, as the oldest son, has a hard decision to make: go to America with his family, join the young revolutionaries, or join Metternich’s army. Hendrick Bhonn Haar, a 21-year-old orphan, is a friend of Johann’s and works alongside of Johann in the Garrett family business. He is a Christian in the Brethren sect, which is hated by Catholic and Reformation Protestants alike. And he has fallen in love with Victoria, one of the Garrett daughters. What can come of this? Will he too go to America?
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Echo In The Darkness (Anniversary)
$16.99Add to cart51 Chapters
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Through the courageous faith of the Christian slave girl Hadassah and the troubled lives of the Roman masters, An Echo in the Darkness continues this moving tale of first-century Rome. Having narrowly escaped death, Hadassah conceals her scars–and identity–with veils. But it is her God-given ability to heal others that brings her to perhaps her greatest trial. God’s forgiveness and redemption triumph as this young woman, assumed to be dead, is called to risk her life for the one who would have destroyed her. -
Final Justice
$17.99Add to cartSilver Moon is in her teens when her Cheyenne village is destroyed by Colonel John Chivington’s cavalry unit. As Silver Moon grows, she becomes consumed with hatred until her one goal is to kill the man responsible. But when a smallpox epidemic breaks out among the Cheyenne, Christian nurse Breanna Baylor Brockman comes to care for the sick, and the nurse’s compassion for Silver Moon and her people begins the girl’s journey toward conversion and healing.
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Bud Not Buddy
$8.99Add to cartThe Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award-winning classic about a boy who decides to hit the road to find his father-from Christopher Paul Curtis, author of The Watsons Go To Birmingham-1963, a Newbery and Coretta Scott King Honoree.
It’s 1936, in Flint Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud’s got a few things going for him:
1. He has his own suitcase full of special things.
2. He’s the author of Bud Caldwell’s Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Making a Better Liar Out of Yourself.
3. His momma never told him who his father was, but she left a clue: flyers advertising Herman E. Calloway and his famous band, the Dusky Devastators of the Depression!!!!!!Bud’s got an idea that those flyers will lead him to his father. Once he decides to hit the road to find this mystery man, nothing can stop him-not hunger, not fear, not vampires, not even Herman E. Calloway himself.
AN ALA BEST BOOK FOR YOUNG ADULTS
AN ALA NOTABLE CHILDREN’S BOOK
AN IRA CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARD WINNER
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Measure Of Grace
$17.99Add to cartRomance and revenge, hot tempers, and cold feet frame a gripping story set in rural Elkton, Idaho, in the 1860s. Young Jordan Shaw angers easily and lives wildly, experiencing prison and kidnapping before his family attempts to tame him with marriage. To avoid their choice, he seeks a mail order bride, pretty Diana Morrow, who suffers the abuse of a violent father before escaping her tumultuous family home. When Diana arrives in Elkton and finds Jordan suddenly missing, will a handsome distraction change her destiny? How three young people’s paths entwine — and how God meets each deep need with sufficient grace — make this riveting story both vastly entertaining and faith-inspiring.
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Riona
$16.99Add to cartRiona, a gentlewoman of faith, discovers that her plan to help the disadvantaged includes not only the plague orphans in her charge, but the arrogant, handsome adventurer who feels honor-bound to save her and her lands by marrying her_with or without her consent. Lord Kieran of Gleannmara depends on nothing and no one save his wit and skill with steel, but soon a deadly twist of fate forces him to acknowledge his need not only for the lady Riona and her worrisome entourage, but for her Lord as well.
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Jerusalem Vigil : A Novel Of The Struggle For Jerusalem
$15.00Add to cartDuring the days following Israel’s birth on May 14, 1948, Jewish forces desperately fight to defend Jerusalem’s Jewish quarter from Arab attack. Archaeologist and Haganah commander Moshe Sachar can think only about his pregnant wife and the battle—until an old rabbi leads him on an amazing underground journey, revealing ancient treasures from Solomon’s temple.
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Dutch Color
$12.00Add to cart1. Beach Flop
2. Secret Election
3. Short Cuts
4. Pharaoh’s Man
5. Running Bombs
6. Staring Deeply
7. Hungry Spies
8. Family Secrets
9. Painted Prison
10. Proof Sketches
11. Friars’ Arms
12. Bethel’s Oil
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Amid the golden era of Dutch art, Clara has a passion for painting and life. But the two don’t always mix. Her father is long overdue from Italy with the latest paint recipes, but lies, famous art, rare tulips, and sugary girls crowd Clara’s search for her father. Someone knows where he might be, but it will cost more than Clara’s talents to find out. Unfortunately, all the car-chase scenes have been excised. -
Ransom Of Love
$18.99Add to cartIn this fifth installment of the bestselling Mail Order Bride series, two young couples seek freedom and love amidst slavery-rich Charleston, South Carolina. When nineteen-year-old Benjamin arrives from South Africa, he is scheduled to be sold into slavery-but is set free by a Christian who takes him in as a paid worker. The man’s son, Dan Johnson, befriends Benjamin, and the two make plans to start a cattle ranch in Texas.
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Overmountain Men : A Novel
$20.95Add to cartThe Cherokee called it Tanisi, a land rich in game, beauty and resources. Joshua Colter called it home. Born in Charles Town in Carolina and baptised in the horror of an Indian massacre, Joshua became one of the legendary long hunters and crossed the mountain range that for many years had protected Indian lands from the Atlantic Coast settlements. There he became a reluctant leader in the bitter struggle between the Cherokee nation and the white settlers, and between the settlers and the British crown. The first volume in the Tennessee Frontier series, The Overmountain Men is a saga of adventure in the period from 1757 to 1777. Cameron Judd paints a picture of the pioneering spirit of the men and women who moved west as homesteaders and traders and also of the courage of the Indians who fought to keep their lands.
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Sweet Summer : A Novel
$30.00Add to cartThe Sweet Summer is a moving novel of deep friendship and commitment between a white man and his black peers in a time and a place where such relationships were rare and looked upon with contempt. It portrays with brutal honesty the humiliations suffered by African Americans in the Jim Crow South in the 1940’s.
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Far Above Rubies
$16.99Add to cartEmbittered by years of poverty, young Ginny Grayson joins the Jesse James-Cole Younger gang. She gets caught up in a lifestyle of violence and death. When the gang kidnaps Breanna, Ginny discovers the qualities of a virtuous woman. Breanna is ordered to save a wounded outlaw or die herself. Will she be the gang’s next victim? Breanna’s godly character draws Ginny to a place where she must choose between the life of an outlaw and the pure life of a godly woman. Will God’s love change this outlaw into a woman whose worth is “far above rubies?”
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Not By Might
$18.99Add to cartNurse Natalie Fallon has brought her ailing mother to Denver for her health and starts a job at Denver’s Mile High Hospital, where she meets fellow nurse Breanna Baylor Brockman. In Natalie’s past is a relationship with Rex Rawlins, a young medical student. Two years prior she had ended the relationship when she learned Rex was planning a rural practice. She is determined not to marry a country doctor like her father, who died at age 43 from overwork. But she has never stopped loving Rex, and now, little does she know that Rex is a rural doctor in the surrounding mountains. A serious accident brings them together, but it will take a miracle to give them the promise of a life together
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Meeting Place (Reprinted)
$18.00Add to cartSet along the rugged coastline of 18th century Canada in what was then called Acadia (now Nova Scotia and New Brunswick), The Meeting Place re-creates a world that was home to native Indians, French settlers, and English garrisons. Such diverse populations did not live in accord, however. Instead, they were isolated within their own groups by a brewing political tension under the difficult English rule.
Amid such chaotic times two women, both about to become brides and both trying to live lives of quiet peace, meet in a lush field of wildflowers. Louisa, a Frenchwoman, and Catherine, who is English, continue to meet secretly through the seasons, sharing both friendship and growing faith.
The outside world does not mirror their own tranquil happiness, and the dreaded crackdown by the English throne threatens far more than their growing bond. In the face of a heart-wrenching dilemma, Louisa and Catherine strive to maintain their faith and cling to their dreams of family and home.
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Manassas : A Novel
$22.95Add to cartManassas is the first book in a series of historical novels spanning the Civil War. The Brannon family of Culpeper County, Virginia – Abigail, a widow, and her four sons (Will, Mac, Titus, and Henry) and daughter (Cordelia) – work a good-sized, self-sufficient farm. The Brannons do not own slaves, but they are staunch supporters of the South in the conflict that is about to turn into war. Manassas centres around the lives of the Brannons in the winter and spring of 1861. As speculation grows that the North and South will soon be at war with each other, the Brannons have their own problems, not the least of which is the Fogarty clan, a large family of troublemakers in the area. Will Brannon is the county sheriff and kills one of the Fogartys while trying to arrest him for murder. Justifiable homicide or not, the Fogartys vow to avenge the loss of one of their own. While tensions mount in Culpeper County, news of Fort Sumter arrives. Will and two of his brothers join one of the Virginia militia units that quickly form. After a short period of training, the Brannons’ unit is rushed to defend the village of Manassas, a strategic railroad junction.When Union and Confederate armies engage in battle among the hillsides surrounding small, meandering Bull Run Creek, Will is forced to defend himself not only from the Union troops but also from the Fogarty brothers, who decide that the chaos of battle provides ideal circumstances for settling their score with him.
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Whither Thou Goest
$18.99Add to cartContinuing with the adventures of Old West heroine Breanna Baylor, book six of the Angel of Mercy series begins with the planning of a wedding — between Breanna and the legendary Stranger, whose true identity has now been revealed. Before the wedding, however, John’s best man, Chief U.S. Marshal Solomon Duvall, disappears. And after the wedding, both John and Breanna — who has pledged, “Whither thou goest, I will go” — put their own lives in danger as they set out to find him.
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Out Of The Dust
$8.99Add to cartSet in the bleak times of the Dust Bowl, award-winning author Karen Hesse crafts a poetic tale of one girl’s coming of age. Told in journal-like free-verse, the story of Billie Jo and the accident that would change her life is told with exquisite wording and detail. Newbery Award Winner.
