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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 Sacrifice

Beverly Lewis · 392 pages

The Abram's Daughters saga encompasses the lives of three generations of Ebersols, an Amish family of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Opening with The Covenant at the end of WWII and continuing into the Fifties with The Betrayal, Leah and Sadie Ebersol have made very different choices with consequences that have left them many miles apart, both physically and emotionally. Having already suffered u

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Wedded to War

Jocelyn Green · 473 pages

"This is the first book in a series based on the real life stories of women who lived and worked during the Civil War. The author has done extensive research around the lives of military women during the Civil War for a nonfiction title and became inspired to share their stories in a fictionalized depiction based on her historical research. Charlotte Waverly is a 28 year-old upper-class woman from

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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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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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The Sheriff's Surrender

Susan Page Davis · 319 pages

In 1885 in Fergus, Idaho, Gert Dooley has an unusual job for a woman--test firing guns for her brother the gunsmith--and years of practice have made her an excellent shot. When a murder in town scares her friends, Gert starts the Ladies' Shooting Club to teach the women how to shoot. Their independence upsets the men in town, and Sheriff Chapman finds himself trying to solve a murder and restore p

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The Sister Wife

Diane Noble

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Longing for Home

Sarah M. Eden · 400 pages

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A Cup of Dust: a Novel of the Dust Bowl

Susie Finkbeiner · 320 pages

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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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Daughter of Joy

Kathleen Morgan · 406 pages

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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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A Measure of Mercy

Lauraine Snelling · 367 pages

18-year-old Astrid Bjorklund has always dreamed of being a doctor. But will she have to give up love to pursue her dream?

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Mozart's Sister

Nancy Moser · 336 pages

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Redeeming Love

Francine Rivers · 473 pages

California’s gold country, 1850. A time when men sold their souls for a bag of gold and women sold their bodies for a place to sleep. Angel expects nothing from men but betrayal. Sold into prostitution as a child, she survives by keeping her hatred alive. And what she hates most are the men who use her, leaving her empty and dead inside. Then she meets Michael Hosea. A man who seeks his Father’s

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Rebekah

Orson Scott Card · 414 pages

"Born into a time and place where a woman speaks her mind at her peril, and reared as a motherless child by a doting father, Rebekah grew up to be a stunning, headstrong beauty. She was chosen by God for a special destiny. Rebekah leaves her father's house to marry Isaac, the studious young son of the Patriarch Abraham, only to find herself caught up in a series of painful rivalries, first between

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Distant Dreams

Judith Pella, Tracie Peterson · 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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When Mountains Move

Julie Cantrell · 416 pages

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Fair Play

Deeanne Gist · 464 pages

"In this historical romance, a lady doctor and a Texas Ranger meet at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. Despite their difference of opinion on the role of women, they fight for the underprivileged children in the Nineteenth Ward"--

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The Stars for a Light

Lynn Morris, Gilbert Morris · 313 pages

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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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