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Where He Leads Me
$34.99Add to cartThis is the fictional story of Simeon and his encounter with the Master. Gifted musician Simeon entertained guests at the wedding in Cana, where Jesus performed the miracle of turning water into wine. Simeon’s witness of this miracle inspired his commitment to and faith in the future healing of his fiancee, Miriam. Mysteriously, this couple and their extended families were making a trip into Jerusalem and circumstances led them to Jesus of Nazareth once again. He was speaking to the crowd at a nearby mountain. Going to the mountain, Simeon and the Master immediately recognized each other. On the trip into Jerusalem and Bethany, Jesus captured the hearts of both Simeon’s and Miriams families. He healed Miriam and her three brothers, who all became his followers. They eventually became disciples to John the beloved, after Jesus’ ascension. This novel tells of the day-to-day adventures that they encountered as they worked side by side with the Master and were taught by Him. This is a story of the love between two young people, as well as the love the Master showered upon them.
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Where He Leads Me
$22.99Add to cartThis is the fictional story of Simeon and his encounter with the Master. Gifted musician Simeon entertained guests at the wedding in Cana, where Jesus performed the miracle of turning water into wine. Simeon’s witness of this miracle inspired his commitment to and faith in the future healing of his fiancee, Miriam. Mysteriously, this couple and their extended families were making a trip into Jerusalem and circumstances led them to Jesus of Nazareth once again. He was speaking to the crowd at a nearby mountain. Going to the mountain, Simeon and the Master immediately recognized each other. On the trip into Jerusalem and Bethany, Jesus captured the hearts of both Simeon’s and Miriams families. He healed Miriam and her three brothers, who all became his followers. They eventually became disciples to John the beloved, after Jesus’ ascension. This novel tells of the day-to-day adventures that they encountered as they worked side by side with the Master and were taught by Him. This is a story of the love between two young people, as well as the love the Master showered upon them.
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Assassin : Attack On America
$32.99Add to cartThis is an adventure novel about two antagonists representing opposite poles of ethics and morality. An Iraqi revolutionary, Sabah Yamani, one of the world’s foremost assassins, conspires to attack America by spreading toxic mold on midwestern wheat fields. She kills Admad Jamal, her co-conspirator, and meets and eventually marries Liam Kirwan, a rogue IRA terrorist. They assassinate Anatoly Malikov, a Russian general who offered to sell them the toxin. Sabah and Liam arrive in America and choose the farm of Angus Finney in Nebraska as the first stage in blackmailing the U.S. government. Kirby McCormick, a half-breed Stockbridge Indian from Wisconsin, is a top Navy SEAL. He leaves the Navy and heads west, where he finds love with Jenny Finney. Kirby has a long-standing feud with Sabah who had tortured and killed his fiancee. Aware of Sabah’s intentions, Kirby heads a SEAL team to stop her. This ends in a violent climax.
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That Hideous Strength
$17.99Add to cartThe final book in C. S. Lewis’s acclaimed Space Trilogy, which includes Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra, That Hideous Strength concludes the adventures of the matchless Dr. Ransom. The dark forces that were repulsed in Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra are massed for an assault on the planet Earth itself. Word is on the wind that the mighty wizard Merlin has come back to the land of the living after many centuries, holding the key to ultimate power for that force which can find him and bend him to its will. A sinister technocratic organization is gaining power throughout Europe with a plan to “recondition” society, and it is up to Ransom and his friends to squelch this threat by applying age-old wisdom to a new universe dominated by science. The two groups struggle to a climactic resolution that brings the Space Trilogy to a magnificent, crashing close.
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Songbird
$24.99Add to cart320 Pages
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Abandoned when she was 11, gospel singer Charmaine Hopewell has finally found her mother—and a secret that could destroy her husband’s popular ministry! Televangelist Harlan Hopewell scorns psychology, so Charmaine conceals her own depression—but an institutionalized parent proves harder to hide. Will Harlan support his wife at the expense of his reputation? -
Singsation
$21.99Add to cartThis second release from co-publishers Warner Books and Walk Worthy Press makes a solid contribution to the limited pool of quality Christian fiction titles written for and by African-Americans. Deborah Anne Peterson sings hymns at her small hometown church, but envisions herself performing in much glitzier venues. A fortuitous encounter with rap star Triage Blue gives her a chance to break into the big time. As she climbs the ladder of success and wrestles with the temptations that go with it, she wonders is this really what God wants her to do with her talent? The novel pushes the parameters of traditional Christian fiction with characters who have long discussions about underwear and thongs, engage in some French kissing and exclaim, “Oh my God!” The sexual situations aren’t graphic, but they are more titillating than most CBA readers are used to, although noticeably toned down from Walk Worthy’s first book, Temptation. The reader must sometimes suspend belief; in less than a year, Deborah changes from a country girl into a music star who performs at the Grammys. Another character’s deathbed conversion is also less than satisfying. But the portrayal of Deborah’s loving relationship with her parents is both touching and refreshing. This is a laudable effort to bring an African-American perspective and a slightly edgier tone into Christian fiction, while keeping the gospel message up front and center.
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Season Of Blessing
$17.99Add to cartThe fourth and final novel about the trials and joys of the residents of Cedar Circle Sylvia Bryan has been feeling weak and tired, but is shocked when her internist finds a malignant lump in her breast. She and her husband can9t understand why God is allowing cancer to attack at a time when their missionary work is going so well. As Sylvia undergoes a mastectomy and chemotherapy, the rest of the neighbors pull together to support her, even while coping with the stress of their own lives. Steve and Cathy experience problems with their blended family. Tory and Barry struggle to raise their Down Syndrome child. Brenda9s husband, David, who is not a believer, watches from the sidelines. Season of Blessing realistically portrays the all-too-common crises of both health and faith. How will God answer prayer? What will this latest trial do to their friendships? Terri Blackstock and Beverly LaHaye skillfully weave together the story of the lives of a group of neighbors who experience the overcoming power of Christ9s love.
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Promised To Me
$17.99Add to cart36 Chapters
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Promised to Me is the story of a young girl who comes to America around the turn of the century hoping for a new life. Karola Breit is a German girl whose betrothed, Jakob Hirsch, leaves for America before her to establish himself. But she finds herself waiting ten years, and for the last several years she hasn’t even receive a word from him. Her sisters and friends marry, and still Karola is waiting. Finally, on her 27th birthday, the long-awaited letter comes from Jakob asking her, if she is still free and willing, to join him in America and become his wife. But when she arrives at his potato farm in eastern Idaho, she discovers that he was two children, ages seven and five, and is a recent widower. While she’s been waiting, he’s been happily married. He’s now a changed man, however, and takes on the challenge of redeeming himself in her eyes. -
Hope Springs
$12.99Add to cartPull up a chair and discover the strength and sustenance of friendship with Jessie, Margaret, Louise, Beatrice, and Charlotte, as the unique bond forged between these five remarkable women is put to the test when one of their own is stricken with a deadly illness. Filled with the mystery and wonder that make life worthwhile, Hope Springs will lift your spirits and warm your heart.
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Perelandra
$16.99Add to cartThe second book in C.S. Lewis’s acclaimed Space Trilogy continues the adventures of the extraordinary Dr. Ransom. Pitted against the most destructive of human weaknesses, temptation, the great man must battle evil on a new planet – Perelandra – when it is invaded by a dark force. Will Perelandra succumb to the malevolent being, who strives to creat a new world order and who must destroy an old and beautiful civilization to do so? Or will it throw off the yoke of corruption and achieve a spiritual perfection as yet unknown to man? The outcome of Dr. Ransom’s mighty struggle alone will determine the fate of this peace-loving planet.
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Along Came Jones
$17.99Add to cartDiana Wells lost track of God in her hard-earned quest for success in the New York advertising world. Now shes accused of embezzlement, fleeing for her life with nowhere else to turn. When trail outfitter Shepherd Jones runs Dianas car off the road, the ex-U.S. Marshal isnt sure what to make of his comely stray. Instinct says this duchess of disaster is on the run and needs help – a girl like her can’t last long in the forsaken outpost of Buffalo Butte. But is Shep willing to risk his life and his heart to offer her the same refuge God once provided him?
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Exiles : A Novel
$17.99Add to cartBook one of The Creoles Series, captivating novels from bestselling authors Gilbert and Lynn Morris, introduces Chantel Fontaine. Readers follow Chantel through the streets and swamps of Louisiana as she falls in love, faces the loss of both her parents, and searches for the baby sister she thought was lost forever.
The culture of the citizens of nineteenth-century New Orleans was as varied and intriguing as their complexions_French, Spanish, African, and American. As the layers of these cultures intertwine, a rich, entertaining story of love and faith emerges. It is the early 1800s, and Chantel Fountaine, has finished her education at the Ursuline Convent. But the trials and tragedies that preceded her graduation have put her Christian beliefs to the test.
The authors’ unique perspective and the distinctive cultural setting make this novel come alive in the minds and hearts of readers.
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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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Out Of The Silent Planet
$17.00Add to cartThe first book in C. S. Lewis’s acclaimed Space Trilogy, which continues with Perelandra and That Hideous Strength, Out of the Silent Planet begins the adventures of the remarkable Dr. Ransom. Here, that estimable man is abducted by a megalomaniacal physicist and his accomplice and taken via spaceship to the red planet of Malacandra. The two men are in need of a human sacrifice, and Dr. Ransom would seem to fit the bill. Once on the planet, however, Ransom eludes his captors, risking his life and his chances of returning to Earth, becoming a stranger in a land that is enchanting in its difference from Earth and instructive in its similarity. First published in 1943, Out of the Silent Planet remains a mysterious and suspenseful tour de force.
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Canterbury Tales
$11.00Add to cartWith their astonishing diversity of tone and subject matter, The Canterbury Tales have become one of the touchstones of medieval literature.
Translated here into modern English, these tales of a motley crowd of pilgrims drawn from all walks of life-from knight to nun, miller to monk-reveal a picture of English life in the fourteenth century that is as robust as it is representative.
Translated by Nevill Coghill
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Pearl
$17.99Add to cartTalk-radio show host Dr. Diana Sheldon has made a career out of giving advice to irate daughters-in-law and spurned lovers. But when her whole life changes in one moment of bad judgement, the carefully built life she’s built begins to spiral out of control. She’d give anything-and everything-to get her family back.
From the best-selling author of The Note, a heart-wrenching story about the sovereignty of God and the peace he offers His children if only they’ll receive it.
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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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Peculiar People : Aquila And Prisca
$35.99Add to cartWhen Tess Swift, a young archaeologist estranged from her husband, her family, and her God, steals an ancient scroll she mysteriously finds in the ruins of Ephesus, she expects it to bring her financial freedom to start a new life. Instead, she finds herself swept into a journey of self-examination and spiritual awakening as she reads about the trials and triumphs of the first-century church. The scroll turns out to be the story of Aquila and Prisca (Priscilla), co-workers of Paul mentioned in four of his epistles. From Aquila’s conversation in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost to their last years in Ephesus when Prisca meets a dying Virgin Mary, their story challenges Tess to examine her life and come to terms with her guilt. The bulk of this book tells the fictionalized story of the only married couple mentioned prominently in the New Testament, using real biblical and historical events as a dramatic backdrop for both ordinary and miraculous events in their lives. Broad in scope, this book covers the period from A.D. 28 to A.D. 78, giving the reader a vivid picture of the early years of the church and the Roman Empire. This book will entertain, educate, and inspire readers, perhaps leading some to share the conclusion Tess reaches in the dramatic finale.
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Rose Of Sodom
$17.99Add to cartIn the future small bands of Christians will live in oppression under a One World Government that forces the beliefs of a New Age religion. As the world discards biblical principles and spreads a belief in reincarnation, human life is devalued and led into selfishness, suicide, abortion for profit, and euthanasia for convenience. Bodies become commodities as the very young and old are bought and sold. Survival of the richest and the fittest becomes truth to each person believing themselves to be god. For generations the Williams family had lived for the Lord. Now their beliefs are tested as their lives and the lives of their children plunge to the depths of evil and immerse them in their very own Sodom and Gomorrah.
The trilogy started with The Rose of Sodom, then The Gates of Gomorrah, the sequel to The Rose of Sodom. Katie will finish with The Promise of Gethsemane.
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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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Hearts At Home
$16.99Add to cartEdith is trying to lose weight in every way imaginable to get into a certain dress by the time Salt and Birdie’s April wedding rolls around. Olympia dies suddenly, leaving her daughter Annie the beloved old house, which she can’t afford to keep and maintain on her professor’s salary. Leaving it would be cutting herself off from Heavenly Daze, and she can’t bring herself to do that, although A.J. is urging her to move to New York to be near him. Plus, Caleb tells her he’s being “transferred” at the end of the month! Annie has to learn how to find God’s will . . . and open herself up to a new love that’s been under her nose the entire time.
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Grazer 1
$15.99Add to cartAsteroids and comets travel through our solar system like runaway freight trains on a collision course with anything that might come in their way. Earth has had its experiences with these planet-colliding objects before, including one that crashed in the Yucatan Peninsula some 65 million years ago, causing what scientists believe today to be the Ice Age. It will happen again. The question to ask is when? Hale McCormick Trask (H.M.) is an ordinary person waiting for direction in life when he logs onto an Internet contest that will change his life forever. The winner spends two weeks aboard Grazer I, an international solar-array space station used to study ultraviolet light, near earth objects, and short period comets that come in contact with the sun. What he does not realize is that his life is about to be changed from fame to destiny. What starts out as a space contest for fame and recognition just could end up in the ultimate struggle for survival for him and all humanity.
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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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Remnant : Micah 4:6-7 The Ancient Book
$16.49Add to cartSet in the Last Days, The Remnant is an intriguing story about hope and restoration: Susan Jones…grew up as an unloved orphan and thinks she is as ordinary as her name. David Masterson…is a prisoner. Is there any hope for a man convicted of murder, whose only desire is to end his life? Paul and Janna Chandler…are outcasts in their church. The passion they feel for God and the Ancient book isolates them from their peers. Can God use people whom others have given up on? Follow along as the tale is woven and these four people are brought together by the angels who love and serve them. You’ll be amazed as lives are changed and revival is brought to the least likely place of all.
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October 16th : A Novel
$15.49Add to cartOctober 16th is a refreshing contemporary Christian romance novel. The pages will come alive to enter hearts with hope and faith where there is none. This is a journey through JaNae Bogart’s life. She realizes that she has left the Lord out of her life and decides to put him back in again. When JaNae Bogart loved a man, she loved with all of herself deep from within. She gave new meaning to the word “passion.”All she wanted was just a tiny bit of that love returned to her, which never seemed to happen. When dreams of going to college and becoming a journalist were shattered, JaNae takes to the world in a different direction. After a life that had fallen apart too many times, JaNae wakes up from an attempted suicide to find the genuine love of her life-one who would love her for eternity, Jesus Christ.His spoken promises would all come to pass. Demitri was a man with more pride than the word itself. After getting close to being married, he decided to become the oldest bachelor alive, never again letting another women enter that special place in his heart.He put all his love, energy, and emotions into his business until he laid his eyes on JaNae Bogart. After all the ups and downs, JaNae and Demitri lose their pride, expose themselves, and let the Lord be the head of their lives.
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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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Misadventures Of Jon Lee 2
$13.49Add to cartThe Misadventures of Jon Lee adventure series is written on the same principles as are good jokes. Without the last chapter, each adventure is exciting and fun, with many of life’s valuable lessons being taught and learned throughout it. The last chapter of each story (The punch line) draws several spiritual word pictures for its young readers, and parallels the proceeding pages with truths found in God’s Word. Follow Jon Lee Parker in this volume (From ages 13-15) and his friends as they learn valuable spiritual lessons and principals during exciting adventures in the Big Woods of New York State. In this book are two stories. The Bully, and Jon and Cindy.
The following is an excerpt from the last chapter of The Bully. There was a loud ‘crack’ and a huge cloud of dust bellowed from the bottom and top of the shaft. Large chunks of concrete crashed down out of it onto the cavern floor, missing Jon and Butch by mere inches. The recovery cable Butch was connected to was, however, still drawing him up into the shaft. Jon shouted frantically into his helmet microphone for Roy to make them stop the wench. But would there be enough time?
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Thyself : The Continuing Saga
$23.99Add to cartThis is a fictional novel that follows the development of mankind’s religious, social, philosophical, and political history as viewed through the eyes of the protagonist of this work, the first consciousness to differentiate itself from God. The story develops amidst the increasing and ever-fluctuating conflict created through the protagonist’s efforts to assist mankind being continually obstructed and resisted by the antagonist, an entity pledged and sworn to stop the protagonist at all costs. The development and resolution of this conflict that spans recorded history will hold you spellbound and keep you wondering.
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Thyself : The Continuing Saga
$15.49Add to cartThis is a fictional novel that follows the development of mankind’s religious, social, philosophical, and political history as viewed through the eyes of the protagonist of this work, the first consciousness to differentiate itself from God. The story develops amidst the increasing and ever-fluctuating conflict created through the protagonist’s efforts to assist mankind being continually obstructed and resisted by the antagonist, an entity pledged and sworn to stop the protagonist at all costs. The development and resolution of this conflict that spans recorded history will hold you spellbound and keep you wondering.
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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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How Harwinton Got His Middle Name
$14.99Add to cartHarwinton Bear and his friend, Bumper Rabbit, live peacefully in The Dark Forest until a terrible fire destroys their homes and separates them from their families. Believing their families escaped the fire, the two friends set out to find them. Their long, sometimes difficult journey, leads the two through many adventures and to a surprise, faith-building conclusion.
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Angels Point Of View
$16.49Add to cartAngel’s Point of View is a fictional story about the journal of a fourteen-year old, Angel Santos. Angel and three other teenagers must cope with the death of a parent/sibling. CAR ACCIDENT – CANCER – SUICIDE – MURDER There are no easy answers and instant healing for the pain they have, but through Faith, Family and Friends they learn to survive one day at a time.
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Calling : The Seven Days Of Religious Tolerance
$22.99Add to cartThe characters in this book find themselves in a fight with Satan for the creation of a one-world religion. We are quickly approaching the rapture of the Church. Time is running out to make a difference. I feel it is an important piece because it says a lot of things that the Christian community today needs to say, but is unwilling or afraid to say. We will continue to lose our religious freedoms in this country if we continue to do nothing. Right now, the only ones speaking are special interest groups. I think most Christians today feel Jesus will be coming back soon; He’ll take care of everything. While we’re waiting, our God-given rights are being pushed under the legislative carpet. Reform goes to the loudest voice. What was “one nation under God” is quickly drying up in our unwillingness to stand up and say, “NO MORE.” What sets this book apart from other angel-type books is that the angelic character here is mostly interested in teaching the Word of God. His devotion to duty and his desire to tell of the things of God are paramount in his existence. All kinds of different emotions will be brought to bear as you read, THE CALLING: SEVEN DAYS OF RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE. May God be praised. -Frank Deming
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Vital Signs
$19.99Add to cartLife and death hang in the balance in hometown Baxter as officials from the Centers for Disease Control race to contain a deadly virus that threatens all.
Caught in the throes of a fever-induced delirium, young missionaries Blake and Melissa Thomas fight for their lives-and the life of their unborn child-in a hospital isolation chamber while fear and violence incubate outside.
Vital Signs is the riveting story of people hit hard by circumstances that cause them to question the very purposes of God. As they battle against flesh-and-blood realities-and confront an enemy that could prove more lethal than the virus-can their faith prevail in the struggle?
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Womens Intuition
$20.99Add to cartSamson, author of The Church Ladies, stakes out her claim as a novelist of distinction for readers who enjoy evangelical Christian fiction but often choke on the pabulum that passes for it. Larkspur Summerville is a 41-year-old paranoid virtual recluse who for 20 years has kept a secret from her family-a secret that now threatens to become her undoing. Raised Methodist, her sanity is partially tethered to playing the organ for St. Dominic’s Catholic Church and experiencing the loving friendship of its priests, although Lark admits, “The whole Mary thing unsettles me.” Lark spends most of her free time running a toll-free prayer line, 1-777-IPRAY4U. When Lark’s house burns to the ground, she is forced to seek refuge with her estranged mother, Leslie, and Leslie’s live-in housekeeper and Internet guru, Prisma Percy. Rounding out the household is Lark’s hip, artsy daughter, Flannery, a barista at Starbucks, whose sanity is the glue that holds her strange family together. The finely crafted, first-person narratives alternate among the four women, with a short ending chapter from Lark’s brother, Newly. Samson occasionally overwrites and is a little heavy on the dialogue, but her prose is mostly excellent, and the characters appealing and compelling. The centerpiece of the novel is its beautiful depiction of faith and fear that avoids canned Christian gospel presentation scenes but is clear in its message. With this offering, Samson places herself in the ranks of the CBA’s best novelists, with writing that has the potential to find a general readership as well.
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Tales Of Brokenness
$16.99Add to cartBrokenness_the disdain of tyrants and the wonder of kings. Her mystery has eluded the intellectual and empowered the noble of heart. From her bosom flow the power and compassion to change the world. But she is as rigid and unforgiving as she is genteel and hopeful. Her wisdom instructs the hungry of heart, but her law defies the most persistent of religious antics.
In Tales of Brokenness you’ll meet this companion, Brokenness, who never forgets her need of mercy, never forgets the grace that flows on her behalf. She is the secret to knowing God’s plans and desires, to obeying the Master’s bidding, and to finding your way to your personal destiny.
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Acts By Email
$26.49Add to cartRead ACTS BY E-MAIL and you will discover the delightfully creative writing of Martha Hook. This book peels back the layers of quaint, small-town living to reveal unexpected psychological and spiritual tensions. It will certainly prompt you to contemplate how life is not always as it appears. Expect to have your own emotions stirred as you watch how the characters come to terms with unusual events.
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Gideons Gift : A Novel
$30.00Add to cartOne long-ago Christmas, Earl Gibson lost the two things most precious to him: his wife and daughter. Angry and heartbroken, he ended up living on the streets and abandoned any belief he’d once had in God.
Ten years later Big Earl meets Gideon, a seven-year-old leukemia patient who believes with all her heart that “Christmas means never having to ask God how much he loves us.” Gideon is determined to reach this lonely and hurting man who hates Christmas–and he is just as determined to rebuff her. It will take a miracle for Earl to come to understand the true meaning of Christmas. But if he can accept what Gideon wants to give him, he might find that he can return the favor with a precious gift of his own.
In GIDEON’S GIFT, Karen Kingsbury reminds us that Christmas is still a time of miraculous possibilities if only we reach out to those around us.
