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Mad Mary: A Bad Girl from Magdala, Transformed at His Appearing
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Francine Rivers · 331 pages
Heart of Stone
Jill Marie Landis
In the first book of the Irish Angels series, we meet Laura Foster, a woman with the darkest of pasts, and Reverend Brand McCormick, a man with everything to lose by loving her. Having escaped a life she never chose, Laura Foster is finally living her dream. But even after four years of posing as a respectable widow in Glory, Texas, she is always afraid someone from her past might reveal her true
Through the Deep Waters
Kim Vogel Sawyer · 425 pages
A past filled with shame can be washed away with a love that conquers all Born to an unloving prostitute in a popular Chicago brothel, timid seventeen-year-old Dinah Hubley was raised amidst the secrets held in every dark, grimy room of her home. Anxious to escape, Dinah pursues her dream of becoming a Harvey Girl, waiting tables along the railroad in an upscale hotel. But when she finds out sh
Woman of Grace
Kathleen Morgan · 362 pages
Woman of Grace (Brides of Culdee Creek #2) by Kathleen Morgan 4.16 · Rating details · 1,782 ratings · 84 reviews Haunted by her shameful past, Hannah Cutler struggles to accept the love of Devlin McKay. Brides of Culdee Creek book 2. Even though her name means "grace", Hannah Cutler struggles to accept true mercy and love—especially from Devlin MacKay, the only man wh
The Robe
Lloyd C. Douglas · 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.
Tenth Stone
Bodie Thoene, Brock Thoene · 352 pages
Daniel, son of Melchior and Esther of Ecbatana, lives in rebellion and a drunken stupor, a great embarrassment that his older brother is only too happy to point out to their father. Feeling that he can never meet with approval, Daniel asks for his inheritance and strikes out on his own. He innocently puts his trust in a man who promises him great wealth. But nothing is as it seems, and Daniel soon
Matthew's Story: From Sinner to Saint
Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins · 312 pages
Portrays the story of how Levi the tax collector became Matthew, the apostle of Jesus Christ and one of the great authors of the Gospels.
Levi's Will
W. Dale Cramer · 397 pages
"A family saga of pain and reconciliation set behind the closed doors of an Amish community. Spanning three generations, the story follows the life of Will McGruder, who having fled as a young man, seeks to heal the past by bringing his new family to meet his Amish relatives"--Provided by publisher.
Gilead
Marilynne Robinson · 256 pages
**WINNER OF THE 2005 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION** In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames’s life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. Ames is the son of an Iowan preacher and the grandson of a minister who, as a young man in Maine, saw a vision of Christ bound in chains and came west to Kansas to fight for abolition: He “preached men into the Civi
Alma
H.B. Moore · 308 pages
Alma the Elder, who begins his life in debauchery, becomes the respected adviser to a king and the leader of his church, only to face the almost herculean challenges of leading a colony of believers to safety.
The Redemption
M.L. Tyndall, MaryLu Tyndall · 320 pages
That Printer of Udell's: A Story of the Middle West
Harold Bell Wright
A Walk to Remember
Nicholas Sparks · 240 pages
There was a time when the world was sweeter....when the women in Beaufort, North Carolina, wore dresses, and the men donned hats.... Every April, when the wind smells of both the sea and lilacs, Landon Carter remembers 1958, his last year at Beaufort High. Landon had dated a girl or two, and even once sworn that he'd been in love. Certainly the last person he thought he'd fall for was Jamie, the s
The Wanderer
Anita Stansfield · 242 pages
After hearing a Mormon preacher in the streets of London and buying a Book of Mormon, the prodigal wanderer Ian MacBrier begins the long journey home to his beloved Brierley and to the woman whose heart he hopes to win. Set in the Highlands of 19th century Scotland.
Forgiven
Karen Kingsbury · 355 pages
Hollywood actor Dayne Matthews struggles to come to terms with the shocking secret he has learned about his family and learn to forgive his parents for the devastating deception. Book #2
Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy
Rumer Godden · 262 pages
Front flap: The heroine is Lise, an English girl who, after the liberation of Paris, falls into bad company and, after a period in one of Paris’s smartest brothels, becomes a successful madam - *La Balafrée*, the Scarred One. The story of her prison sentence, her conversion, and her agonizing work among women whose experiences outdid even her own is also the story of one woman’s searing confrontat
The Undoing of Saint Silvanus
Beth Moore · 468 pages
Jillian Slater hadn't seen her father or his mother in almost 20 years until, on the news that her father had finally drunk himself to death, Adella Atwater, the manager of her grandmother's apartment house, calls and says Jillian's expenses would be paid if she'd fly in to New Orleans for the burial. What Adella didn't tell her was that the apartment house bears the dead weight of a long and pain
Peace Like a River
Leif Enger · 313 pages
"Raised on tales of cowboys and pirates, eleven-year-old Reuben Land has little doubt that miracles happen all around us, and that it's up to us to "make of it what we will." Reuben was born with no air in his lungs, and it was only when his father, Jeremiah, picked him up and commanded him to breathe that his lungs filled. Reuben struggles with debilitating asthma from then on, making him a boy
The Great Divorce
C.S. Lewis · 128 pages
What if anyone in Hell could take a bus trip to Heaven and stay there forever if they wanted to? In The Great Divorce C. S. Louis again employs his formidable talent for fable and allegory. The writer finds himself in Hell boarding a bus bound for Heaven. The amazing opportunity is that anyone who wants to stay in Heaven, can. This is the starting point for an extraordinary meditation upon good an
Of Love and Evil
Anne Rice · 192 pages
Toby O’Dare, former government assassin, is summoned by the angel Malchiah to solve a terrible crime of poisoning and to search out the truth of a haunting by an earthbound restless spirit—a diabolical dybbuk. O’Dare soon discovers himself in the midst of dark plots and counterplots surrounded by a darker and more dangerous threat as the veil of ecclesiastical terror closes in around him. As he
The Mansion
Henry Van Dyke · 61 pages
Rich and miserly John Weightman dreams one night that he has died and is traveling to the Celestial City, where each person is rewarded with a mansion according to how they lived their life.