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The day after Liyana got her first real kiss, her life changed forever. Not because of the kiss, but because it was the day her father announced that the family was moving from St. Louis all the way to Palestine. Though her father grew up there, Liyana knows very little about her family's Arab heritage. Her grandmother and the rest of her relatives who live in the West Bank are strangers, and speak a language she... (more)

Pilate's Wife: A Novel of the Roman Empire

Pilate's Wife: A Novel of the Roman Empire

by Antoinette May

A daughter of privilege in the most powerful empire the world has ever known, Claudia has a unique and disturbing "gift": her dreams have an uncanny way of coming true. As a rebellious child seated beside the tyrannical Roman Emperor Tiberius, she first spies the powerful gladiator who will ultimately be her one true passion. Yet it is the ambitious magistrate Pontius Pilate who intrigues the impressionable young... (more)

O Jerusalem

by Laurie R. King

With her bestselling mystery series featuring Sherlock Holmes and Mary Russell, Laurie R. King has created "lively adventure in the very best of intellectual company," according to The New York Times Book Review. Now the author of The Beekeeper's Apprentice and The Moor --the first writer since Patricia Cornwell to win both the American Edgar and British Creasey Awards for a debut novel ( A Grave Talent... (more)

Knights of the Black and White: Book I of the Templar Trilogy

Knights of the Black and White: Book I of the Templar Trilogy

by Jack Whyte

A brother of the Order-a medieval secret society uniting noble families in a sacred bond-Sir Hugh de Payens has emerged from the First Crusade a broken man seeking to dedicate his life to God. But the Order has other plans for him: to uncover a deadly secret that could shatter the very might of the Church itself.

The Last Days

by Joel C. Rosenberg

With over 400,000 copies in print, this New York Times best-seller opens with White House advisors Jon Bennett and Erin McCoy heading into Gaza when their convoy is attacked by a massive explosion. Soon, Yassir Arafat is dead, Islamic radicals are trying to take over the West Bank and Gaza, Iraqi terrorists are targeting Americans, and Bennett begins to wonder if he is witnessing signs of the last days before... (more)

Jerusalem Countdown

by John Hagee

This highly anticipated audio version on CD of John Hagee's best selling updated edition of Jerusalem Countdown, unveils the reasons radical Islam and Israel cannot dwell peaceably together. Dr. Hagee paints a convincing picture explaining why Christians must support the State of Israel by saying, Those nations who align with God's purpose will receive His blessing. Those who follow a policy of opposition to... (more)

Behold the Man

by Michael Moorcock

Karl Glogauer is a disaffected modern professional casting about for meaning in a series of half-hearted relationships, a dead-end job, and a personal struggle. His questions of faith surrounding his father's run-of-the-mill Christianity and his mother's suppressed Judaism lead him to a bizarre obsession with the idea of the messiah. After the collapse of his latest affair and his introduction to a... (more)

Dreamers of the Day: A Novel

by Mary Doria Russell

“I suppose I ought to warn you at the outset that my present circumstances are puzzling, even to me. Nevertheless, I am sure of this much: My little story has become your history. You won’t really understand your times until you understand mine.” So begins the account of Agnes Shanklin, the charmingly diffident narrator of Mary Doria Russell’s compelling new novel, Dreamers of the Day. And what is Miss... (more)

Field of Blood: Jerusalem's Undead Trilogy (Book 1) (Jerusalem's Undead Trilogy)

Field of Blood: Jerusalem's Undead Trilogy (Book 1) (Jerusalem's Undead Trilogy)

by Eric Wilson

Judas hung himself in a place known as the Akeldama or Field of Blood. But what if his death didn't end his betrayal? What if his tainted blood seeped deep into the earth, into burial caves, causing a counterfeit resurrection of the dead? Gina Lazarescu, a Romanian girl with a scarred past, has no idea she is being sought by the undead. The Collectors, those released from the Akeldama, feed on souls... (more)

Requiem

by Graham Joyce

SACRED MYSTERIES Following the death of his wife, Tom Webster travels to Jerusalem in search of a friend from his college days. But the haunted city, divided by warring religious groups, offers him no refuge from guilt and grief. As he wanders through the streets and the archaeological sites, a mysterious old woman appears to him, delivering messages that seem beyond comprehension. Then a fragment of the Dead... (more)

History of Jerusalem

by Karen Armstrong

Jerusalem has probably cast more of a spell over the human imagination than any other city in the world. Held by believers to contain the site where Abraham offered up Isaac, the place of the crucifixion of Christ and the rock from which the prophet Muhammed ascended to heaven, Jerusalem has been celebrated and revered for centuries by Jews, Christians and Muslims. Such is the symbolic power of this ancient city... (more)

The Iron Lance (The Celtic Crusades, Book 1)

The Iron Lance (The Celtic Crusades, Book 1)

by Stephen R. Lawhead

In book one of the Celtic Crusades series, a Scottish boy travels to Jerusalem to try to regain his family's stolen lands, and ends up saving the relic Iron Lance that pierced Christ's side.

Holy Blood, Holy Grail

The Secret History of Jesus, the Shocking Legacy of the Grail

by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, Henry Lincoln

Is the traditional, accepted view of the life of Christ in some way incomplete? • Is it possible Christ did not die on the cross? • Is it possible Jesus was married, a father, and that his bloodline still exists? • Is it possible that parchments found in the South of France a century ago reveal one of the best-kept secrets of Christendom? • Is it possible that these parchments contain the very heart of the... (more)

Second Touch (Thoene, Bodie)

by Brock Thoene, Bodie Thoene

Be transported once again to the dark and tumultuous times of first-century Jerusalem. Return to the story of Peniel, the no-longer-blind beggar who still longs for the connection of home and family. Meet new characters like Lily, Cantor, and Rabbi Ahava, who hold on to hope in spite of their devastating affliction of leprosy. This book's rich, vibrant imagery will draw readers to discover that we all need... (more)

The Jerusalem Scrolls

by Brock Thoene, Bodie Thoene

In The Jerusalem Scrolls , bestselling authors Bodie and Brock Thoene take the story back in time from the battle for Jerusalem in 1948 to tell an ancient tale of love, faith, and redemption. After days of brutal fighting against Arab forces, Moshe Sachar, the courageous leader of the Israelis, escapes to a tunnel under the Old City and discovers sacred scrolls that tell the history of his faith and people.... (more)

The Bible

English Standard Version (ESV)

by C. John Collins, John Schwandt

The ESV Study Bible was created to help people understand the Bible in a deeper way. Combining the best and most recent evangelical Christian scholarship with the highly regarded ESV text, it is the most comprehensive study Bible ever published. The ESV Study Bible features more than 2,750 pages of extensive, accessible Bible resources, including completely new notes, full-color maps, illustrations,... (more)

Haunt of Jackals (Jerusalem's Undead Trilogy)

Haunt of Jackals (Jerusalem's Undead Trilogy)

by Eric Wilson

Eric Wilson mixes spiritual insight with modern stylings as mankind's struggle continues in the second book of the Jerusalem's Undead Trilogy. A decade earlier, Jerusalem's Undead escaped their tombs in the Field of Blood. One of their group was missing, and he will return with a vengeance, fighting his fellow Collectors for control of a vile book--a blueprint that exploits "six things, no, seven, that... (more)

Jerusalem Vigil & Thunder From Jerusalem (Zion Legacy, Volume 1 and 2)Bodie and Brock Thoene

Jerusalem Vigil & Thunder From Jerusalem (Zion Legacy, Volume 1 and 2)

by Bodie and Brock Thoene

These are Volumes 1 and 2 of the Zion Legacy. They were both published by Viking in 2000. Volume 1, Jerusalem Vigil, has ISBN 0670889113.Volume 2, Thunder from Jerusalem, has ISBN 0670892068.

Jerusalem: The City Of God

by Ellen Gunderson Traylor

Jerusalem-it's a city so sacred it captures the imagination. Generations have lived in the shadows of its walls-Abraham, Isaac, David, Bathsheba, Jesus, Invaders, Crusaders, the dispersed people of Israel returning at last to their beloved homeland. This is a sweeping saga of their loves, losses, hopes, and glories. And amid the remarkalble human drama, is the hand of One who calls the city His own.

The Last Ember

by Daniel Levin

An Italian antiquities squad discovers a woman's preserved corpse inside an ancient column. Pages torn from priceless manuscripts litter the floor of an abandoned warehouse. An illegal excavation burrows beneath Jerusalem's Dome of the rome, ground sacred to three religions. Jonathan Marcus a young American lawyer and a former doctoral student in classics, has become a sought-after commodity among antiguities... (more)

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by Naomi Shihab Nye

by Antoinette May

by Laurie R. King

by Jack Whyte

by Joel C. Rosenberg

by John Hagee

by Michael Moorcock

by Mary Doria Russell

by Eric Wilson

by Graham Joyce

by Karen Armstrong

by Stephen R. Lawhead

The Secret History of Jesus, the Shocking Legacy of the Grail

by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, Henry Lincoln

by Brock Thoene, Bodie Thoene

by Brock Thoene, Bodie Thoene

English Standard Version (ESV)

by C. John Collins, John Schwandt

by Eric Wilson

by Bodie and Brock Thoene

by Ellen Gunderson Traylor

by Daniel Levin