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The Centurion's Wife

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First Light

Bodie Thoene, Brock Thoene Β· 395 pages

From Tyndale.com: Go back in time to first-century Jerusalem. It's a dark time in the world's holiest and most turbulent city. Walk with Peniel, the blind beggar who longs for rescue from his suffering. Peek into the lives of Susannah and Manaen, two lovers separated by overwhelming odds. And meet an unusual healer, who ignites a spark of controversy in the fire of hatred, deceit, and betrayal th

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John's Story: The Last Eyewitness

Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins Β· 320 pages

Ninety-year-old John, the last surviving apostle, remembers his broken life before befriending Jesus and is called upon to write a gospel that definitively establishes Jesus as the Son of God.

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As Sure as the Dawn

Francine Rivers Β· 508 pages

Atretes. German warrior. Revered gladiator. He won his freedom through his fierceness . . . but his life is about to change forever. Following A Voice in the Wind and An Echo in the Darkness, As Sure as the Dawn continues the chronicles of Hadassah, a Christian slave woman living during the height of the Roman Empire. She has saved the life of the scorned child of a disreputable Roman woman and

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A Stray Drop of Blood

Roseanna M. White Β· 344 pages

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The Robe

Lloyd C. Douglas Β· 542 pages

A Roman soldier, Marcellus, wins Christ's robe as a gambling prize. He then sets forth on a quest to find the truth about the Nazarene's robe-a quest that reaches to the very roots and heart of Christianity and is set against the vividly limned background of ancient Rome. Here is a timeless story of adventure, faith, and romance, a tale of spiritual longing and ultimate redemption.

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Sarah

Orson Scott Card Β· 386 pages

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Risen: The Novelization of the Major Motion Picture

Angela Elwell Hunt Β· 318 pages

"Epic in scope, yet deeply personal, this novelization offers a unique perspective on the story of the resurrection. Roman Tribune Clavius is assigned by Pilate to keep the radical followers of the recently executed Yeshua from stealing the body and inciting revolution. When the body goes missing despite his precautions, Clavius must hunt it down. His investigation leads him from the halls of Hero

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The Silver Chalice

Thomas B. Costain Β· 536 pages

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Claudia, Wife of Pontius Pilate

Diana Wallis Taylor Β· 326 pages

Claudia, the illegitimate granddaughter of Caesar Augustus and wife of Lucius Pontius Pilate, struggles to make the best of her life in troubled Judea and finds peace in the teachings of a mysterious Jewish Rabbi.

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Lady of Avalon

Marion Zimmer Bradley, Diana L. Paxson Β· 480 pages

New York Times bestselling author Marion Zimmer Bradley brings the mesmerizing world of myth, romance and history to life in the spellbinding novel of epic grandeur!Before the legend of King Arthur and Camelot, there was Avalon, a beautiful island of golden vales and silver mists. A land where the lives of three powerful priestesses shape the destiny of Roman Britian as they fight to regain the ma

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Gods and Kings

Lynn Austin Β· 320 pages

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Valeria's Cross

Kathi Macias, Susan Wales

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Dreaming the Eagle

Manda Scott Β· 728 pages

Boudica means Bringer of Victory. She is the last defender of the Celtic culture in Britain; the only woman openly to lead her warriors into battle and to stand successfully against the might of Imperial Rome and triumph. It is 33 AD and eleven-year-old Breaca (later named Boudica), the red-haired daughter of one of the leaders of the Eceni tribe, is on the cusp between girl and womanhood. She lon

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Lily of the Nile

Stephanie Dray Β· 351 pages

Heiress of one empire and prisoner of another, it is up to the daughter of Cleopatra to save her brothers and reclaim what is rightfully hers.

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Pompeii: City on Fire

T.L. Higley Β· 338 pages

An enslaved Jewish girl and a struggling aristocrat separately escape to Pompeii. They both encounter religious persecution and political corruption just before the city is destroyed by Mount Vesuvius.

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Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites

Chris Heimerdinger Β· 228 pages

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A Passion Most Pure

Julie Lessman Β· 480 pages

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Distant Dreams

Judith Pella, Tracie Peterson Β· 382 pages

Only her father understood her love of the unknown and the promise of distant dreams. Caught up in the excitement of America's westward expansion in 1835, fifteen-year-old Carolina Adams falls in love with the railroad. Living in a society that decidedly looks down on such aspirations in a woman, Carolina longs to study more masculine subjects such as science and advanced mathematics. Fresh out of

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Where the Wild Rose Blooms

Lori Wick Β· 348 pages

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A Lasting Impression

Tamera Alexander Β· 430 pages

After an unwanted past, Claire strives to create something that will last as an artist among Nashville's elite society in the 1860s.

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The Heiress of Winterwood

Sarah E. Ladd Β· 317 pages

Darbury, England, 1814. Amelia Barrett, heiress to an estate nestled in the English moors, defies family expectations and promises to raise her dying friend's baby. She'll risk everything to keep her word -- even to the point of proposing to Graham, the child's father -- a sea captain she's never met.

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The Negotiator

Dee Henderson Β· 319 pages

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A Promise for Ellie

Lauraine Snelling Β· 320 pages

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The Icecutter's Daughter

Tracie Peterson

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