Defiant Heart (Westward Hearts Series #1) by Tracey Bateman

By Tracey Bateman

Attempting to get away a lifetime of indentured servitude, a lady and her younger siblings narrowly slip out of city secretly becoming a member of a wagon educate heading west. Will Fannie have the ability to continue her relations secure and discover a new lifestyles at the frontier?

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Death of a Six-Foot Teddy Bear (Bargain Hunters Mysteries, by Sharon Dunn

By Sharon Dunn

One other homicide secret for the cut price Hunters Network–only this time, one in all them is a suspect!Ginger and her husband, Earl, are in for a wild journey in Calamity, Nevada, in addition to the opposite BHN ladies–college scholar Kindra, mother-of-four Suzanne, and sassy senior Arleta. They got here to city for the discovery Expo and a few outlet buying, yet as a substitute they suffer misplaced baggage, damaged air-con, and a protracted line of individuals offended at inn proprietor Dustin Clydell. With the discovery Expo and the Squirrel fanatics’ conference either on the town, the Wind-Up resort has one way or the other overbooked.Before the evening is over, a guy has been chanced on lifeless in a teddy undergo gown, the discovery Expo has been canceled, Binky the water-skiing squirrel has long past missing…and the specialists are looking to seek advice from one of many BHN women! What else may be able to move wrong?Once back, the discount Hunters community swings into sleuth mode to unravel the murder–and this time, transparent considered one of their very own. alongside the way in which, Ginger discovers whatever even larger than a discount.

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The Revealing: The Time Is Now (Nephilim Series Vol. 3) by L. A. Marzulli

By L. A. Marzulli

The suspense-filled sequel to the tale started in Nephilim and The Unholy Deception. The occasions within the heart East appear to be culminating within the success of historical prophecies present in an unpublished lifeless Sea Scroll. as a result of his paintings exposing the Antichrist, Cardinal Fiorre used to be murdered through alien hybrids. All his study was once destroyed apart from a unmarried diskette. Former reporter paintings MacKenzie and his religious mentor, Johanen, are wanting to attempt to find it. yet a fallen angel---and the association often called the Cadre---will kill to get their palms on it. in the meantime, escalating wars, disorder, famine, and the instability of 3rd global international locations activates a mystery govt imagine tank to maneuver its Doomsday clock to dead night. Threatening battle among a confederacy of Arab states opposed to Israel, threads of biblical prophecy, and alien and flying saucers job force this tension-filled tale to its exciting climax.

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Rain Song by Alice J. Wisler

By Alice J. Wisler

Nicole Michelin avoids airplanes, bikes, and so much of all, Japan, the place her mom and dad as soon as have been missionaries. anything occurred in Japan...something that despatched Nicole and her father again to the United States alone...something of which Nicole is familiar with basically bits and items. yet she is content material with lifestyles in little Mount Olive, North Carolina, together with her quirky relations, tank of vigorous fish, and many do-it-yourself pineapple chutney. via her on-line column for the beautiful Fishy site, she meets Harrison Michaels, who, a lot to her dismay, lives in Japan. She makes an attempt to prevent him, yet his e-mails tug at her middle. Then Harrison finds that he knew her as a toddler in Japan. in truth, he is aware extra approximately her formative years than she does...

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All Together in One Place (Kinship and Courage Series #1) by Jane Kirkpatrick

By Jane Kirkpatrick

One of many incidents that made a profound influence upon the minds of all: the assembly of 11 wagons returning and never a guy left within the complete teach; all had died, and been buried at the approach, and the ladies returning alone.                                                        --from the journals of Ezra Meeker, 1852THEIR LIVES will be TEMPERED by means of ADVERSITY, increased by means of religion, POLISHED through PERSEVERANCE--For Madison "Mazy" Bacon, a tender spouse dwelling in southern Wisconsin, the longer term seems each piece as promising because it is reassuringly predictable. A loving marriage, a well-organized domestic, the excitement of planting an early spring garden--these are the carefully-tended desires that maintain her middle and nourish her soul.But while her husband of 2 years sells the domicile and informs her that they're heading west, Mazy's lifestyles is ripped down the center like a poorly mended sheet forgotten in a midwestern typhoon. Her love is attempted, her limitations stretched, and the material of her religion proven. while, she and 11 remarkable ladies are pulled towards an doubtful destiny--one that binds them jointly via reluctance and longing and into attractiveness and renewal. in accordance with a precise 1852 Oregon path incident, All jointly in a single position, ebook One within the Kinship and braveness sequence, speaks to the power in each lady and celebrates the promise of desire that unfailingly blooms amidst tragedy and problem.

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Is It Good for the Jews?: More Stories from the Old Country by Adam Biro, Catherine Tihanyi

By Adam Biro, Catherine Tihanyi

“Jewish stories,” writes Adam Biro, “resemble each people’s stories.” but while there's no higher approach to comprehend the soul, background, millennial pain, or, crucially, the fun of the Jewish humans than via such tales—“There’s nothing,” writes Biro, “more revelatory of the Jewish being.” With Is It sturdy for the Jews? Biro deals a sequel to his acclaimed selection of tales Jews on a teach. via twenty-nine tales—some new, a few outdated, yet all finely wrought and wealthy in humor—Biro spins tales of characters dealing with the vicissitudes and reverses of everyday life, whereas at the same time portray a poignant portrait of a global of unassimilated Jewish existence that has mostly been misplaced to the years. From rabbis competing to determine who's the main humble, to the daddy who makes use of suicide threats to strain his youngsters into traveling, to 3 males berated via the Almighty himself for enjoying poker, Biro populates his tales with memorable characters and absurd—yet familiar—situations, all comparable with a dry wit and spry prose variety redolent of the lengthy culture of Jewish storytelling. A assortment at the same time of foibles and fables, adversity and affection, Is It solid for the Jews? reminds us that if before everything used to be the observe, then we will without doubt be forgiven for looking forward to a punch line to keep on with this sort of days. 

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No Strange Fire by Ted Wojtasik

By Ted Wojtasik

Six Amish barns burn to the floor one evening within the titanic Valley of valuable Pennsylvania. Jacob Hostetler, a tender Amish guy who left domestic months in the past, is the top suspect. yet Jacob is lacking. What occurs to a formative years who leaves his Amish neighborhood, tempted through the surface international? This novel probes the guts and soul of Amish households who suffered the lack of barns, animals, relations, and privateness in a sequence of mysterious fires. 404 Pages.

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Foxe's Book Martyrs by John N. King

By John N. King

Moment basically to the Bible, John Foxe's Acts and Monuments, referred to as the booklet of Martyrs, was once the main influential ebook released in England throughout the 16th and 17th centuries. the main complicated and top illustrated English ebook of its time, it mentioned intimately the reviews of enormous quantities of people that have been burnt alive for his or her spiritual ideals. John N. King bargains the main finished research but of the compilation, printing, booklet, representation, and reception of the publication of Martyrs. He charts its reception throughout various variants via discovered and unlearned, sympathetic and adversarial readers. the numerous illustrations integrated right here, such a lot of that are reproduced for the 1st time, introduce readers to the visible beneficial properties of early published books and basic printing practices either in England and continental Europe, and increase this significant contribution to early sleek literary stories, cultural and non secular background, and the background of the publication.

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Kingdom by Tom Martin

By Tom Martin

A page-turning historic experience tackling the chinese language career of TibetThe Deputy glanced down on the white guy after which muttered, nearly to himself, "But how did a Westerner go back and forth into Pemako within the first place?" whilst the Abbot spoke, his voice used to be skinny and resigned. "It is the top of our monastery. through dusk i'll be useless and our partitions will lie shattered. A bad evil is coming from the wooded area . . ."A monastery in Tibet is overrun with chinese language squaddies looking for a sacred relic. The priests flee to hunt shelter in hidden caves, yet their development is hampered by means of an injured stranger, whose presence threatens all of them. Journalist Nancy Kelly gets a parcel containing a mysterious trumpet made from bone, and hears an account of a Westerner penetrating right into a hidden country in Tibet, the place orchids disguise the earth, pagodas hug the hills, and hovering cathedrals cover underground. quickly she embarks on a perilous trip into an historic land of fantasy and legend, looking for a mystery older than time itself.

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