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The Family of Jesus

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Return to Me

Lynn Austin · 459 pages

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First Light

Bodie Thoene, Brock Thoene · 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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The Crimson Cord: Rahab's Story

Jill Eileen Smith · 422 pages

"The breathtaking story of the prostitute who risked everything to protect two Israelite spies before the battle of Jericho"--Publisher.

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The Covenant

Beverly Lewis · 318 pages

Secrets threaten the serenity of their cloistered world. Following such bestsellers as The Shunning and The Postcard, Beverly Lewis's explosive new novel, The Covenant, unveils the layers of deeply rooted Amish tradition as seen through the eyes of Leah and Sadie Ebersol, two courting-age sisters. At the close of World War II, the heart and soul of Gobbler's Knob offers everything young Leah Ebers

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Pillar of Light

Gerald N. Lund

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A.D. 30

Ted Dekker · 432 pages

"A sweeping epic set in the harsh deserts of Arabia and ancient Palestine. A war that rages between kingdoms on the earth and in the heart. The harrowing journey of the woman at the center of it all. Step back in time to the year of our Lord...A.D. 30. The outcast daughter of one of the most powerful Bedouin sheikhs in Arabia, Maviah is called on to protect the very people who rejected her. When t

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Abinadi

H.B. Moore · 260 pages

When King Noah demands that Raquel, a daughter of one of his priests, join his harem, she flees the only life she has ever known and marries her secret love, Abinadi. They live happily together in their community of believers, enjoying their firstborn son, until the Lord calls Abinadi as His prophet with a mission that will test the couple's faith--even unto death.

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Somewhere to Belong

Judith McCoy Miller · 567 pages

Although she's always longed to see the outside world, Johanna Ilg believes her future is rooted in the Amana community inhabited by devout Christians. But when she learns a troubling secret, the world she thought she knew is shattered and she is forced to make difficult choices about a new life and the man she left behind. Berta Schumacher has lived a privileged life in Chicago, and when her pare

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Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites

Chris Heimerdinger · 228 pages

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Counted With the Stars

Connilyn Cossette · 352 pages

Sold into slavery by her father and forsaken by the man she was supposed to marry, young Egyptian Kiya must serve a mistress who takes pleasure in her humiliation. When terrifying plagues strike Egypt, Kiya is in the middle of it all. Choosing to flee with the Hebrews, Kiya finds herself reliant on a strange God and drawn to a man who despises her people. With everything she's ever known swept

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The Well

Stephanie Landsem · 306 pages

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For Time & Eternity

Allison Pittman · 363 pages

Camilla Deardon meets young Mormon Nathan Fox and, despite her parents' warning, she can't refuse her heart. But even Nathan's promises cannot prepare her for what she will face in Utah.

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The Outsider

Ann H. Gabhart · 352 pages

Gabrielle Hope has a special gift of "knowing" the future. When she and her mother join the Pleasant Hill Shaker community in 1807, the members embrace her ability, although it sometimes frightens quiet Gabrielle. But when one vision comes true, a chain of events and an unlikely love challenge her loyalty to this chaste community.

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Anna's Crossing

Suzanne Woods Fisher

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An Echo in the Darkness

Francine Rivers · 449 pages

This classic series has inspired over half a million readers. Turning away from the opulence of Rome, Marcus is led by a whispering voice from the past into a journey that could set him free from the darkness of his soul. A prosperous trader, Marcus Lucianus Valerian has made a fortune providing sand and slaves for the Roman games. But Hadassah, a slave in his family's household, has enchanted

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The Meeting Place

Janette Oke, T. Davis Bunn · 354 pages

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Angels Watching Over Me

Michael R. Phillips · 293 pages

A story as full of emotion and drama as the characters themselves. Born within a year of each other and in the same North Carolina county, Mayme and Katie had grown up in two separate worlds. Mayme was a member of a slave family, and her future held nothing but slavery and hardship. Katie's future was bright with promise -- a Southern family's genteel plantation life surrounded by books and music

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The Damascus Way

Davis Bunn, Janette Oke

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Love's Reckoning

Laura Frantz

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Rumors of War

Dean Hughes · 500 pages

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The Sister Wife

Diane Noble

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When the Heart Cries

Cindy Woodsmall · 328 pages

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