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  1. The Poisonwood Bible

    by Barbara Kingsolver

    The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it--from garden... (learn more about this book)

  2. The Red Tent

    by Anita Diamant

    Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters of the Book of Genesis that tell of her father, Jacob, and his twelve sons. Told in Dinah's voice, Anita Diamant imagines the traditions and turmoils of ancient... (learn more about this book)

  3. Grace in Africa: Book 2

    The Voyage of Promise

    by Kay Marshall Strom

    She is safe, and she is free . . . but she is still alone. Slavers burst into Grace Winslow's life with guns blazing and tear her family apart forever. She watches in anguish as her husband is led in chains aboard a tightly packed slave ship bound for America .  An old enemy... (learn more about this book)

  4. Giordano Bruno: Book 1

    Heresy

    by S. J. Parris

    Giordano Bruno was a monk, poet, scientist, and magician on the run from the Roman Inquisition on charges of heresy for his belief that the Earth orbits the sun and that the universe is infinite. This alone could have got him burned at the stake, but he was also a student of occult... (learn more about this book)

  5. The Lady of Bolton Hill

    by Elizabeth Camden

    Female journalists are rare in 1879, but American-born Clara Endicott has finally made a name for herself with her provocative articles championing London's poor. When the backlash from her work forces a return home to Baltimore, Clara finds herself face-to-face with a childhood sweetheart who... (learn more about this book)

  6. The Zion Chronicles: Book 1

    The Gates of Zion

    by Bodie Thoene, Brock Thoene

    Out of the Ashes of the Holocaust, a Magnificent Novel of Indomitable Courage and Hope Ellie, a young American photojournalist, finds herself in the Jerusalem of 1947. She unwittingly becomes a pawn in a political chess game when she photographs some ancient scrolls discovered by Bedouins.... (learn more about this book)

  7. Women of the West: Book 7

    A Bride for Donnigan

    by Janette Oke

    Responding to an Advertisement, She Crossed an Ocean to Meet a Total Stranger and Became a Mail-Order Bride- Kathleen O'Malley stood on the deck of the Barreth Lily and watched the land she'd called home for more than a dozen years slip from her view. She had thought she would be glad to... (learn more about this book)

  8. Alaskan Skies: Book 1

    Touching the Clouds

    by Bonnie Leon

    Kate Evans is an adventurous and independent young woman with a pioneering spirit. She pilots a mail-delivery plane in the forbidding Alaskan wilderness, the lone woman in a male profession. But even that seems easy compared to finding true love. She likes a fellow pilot and would even... (learn more about this book)

  9. Grand Tour Series: Book 1

    Glamorous Illusions

    by Lisa Tawn Bergren

    The first audio book in the Grand Tour series, Glamorous Illusions will take listeners on a pilgrimage through Europe—and straight into the soul. It’s the summer of 1913 and Cora Kensington’s life on the family farm has taken a dark turn. After her father suffers a stroke, she struggles to... (learn more about this book)

  10. The Heart of a Hero: Book 2

    A Texan's Honor

    by Shelley Shepard Gray

    Texas, 1874. Years ago, Will McMillan had fought in the open, next to his Captain, Clayton Proffitt. Now, in book 2 of The Heart of a Hero series, he’s waging another war undercover, pretending to be a member of the notorious Walton Gang. But when a hostage situation goes awry and an innocent... (learn more about this book)

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