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  Mark of the Lion: Book 3

  As Sure as the Dawn

  by Francine Rivers

  Atretes and Rizpah discover the fires of faith and their own burning devotion to a Lord who draws them into a love that is as sure as the dawn.
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  Mark of the Lion: Book 2

  An Echo in the Darkness

  by Francine Rivers

  Through the courageous faith of the Christian slave girl Hadassah and the troubled lives of the Roman masters, An Echo in the Darkness continues this moving tale of first-century Rome. Having narrowly escaped death, Hadassah conceals her scars--and identity--with veils. But it is her God-given ability to heal others that brings her to perhaps her greatest trial. God's forgiveness and redemption triumph as this... (more)
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  Mara, Daughter of the Nile

  by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

  The adventures of an ingenious Egyptian slave girl who undertakes a dangerous assignment as a spy in the royal palace of Thebes, in the days when Queen Hatshepsut ruled.
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  Starburst

  by Robin Pilcher

  Illuminating.  Captivating.  Stunning. When the fireworks cascade over Edinburgh castle on the Festival’s final night, the magic begins…       Every summer, the Edinburgh International Festival attracts celebrated artists, musicians, comedians, and actors to the beloved Scottish city. Hundreds of thousands of people descend on the town to join in the magnificent celebration.       This year, the annual... (more)
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  The Twilight Saga: Book 1

  Twilight

  by Stephenie Meyer

  When Bella's mother remarries she grudgingly decides to go live with her father in the sunless, perpetually rainy city of Forks, Washington. It's the middle of the semester at a new school and the most she can hope for is to blend in. Then she sees the mysterious Edward Cullen. He's handsome, intriguing and he happens to be a vampire. Despite the risk to her life, Bella and Eward are drawn together and their... (more)
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  Gossip Girl: Book 1

  Gossip Girl

  by Cecily Von Ziegesar

  'Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side, where my friends and I live and go to school and play and sleep - sometimes with each other. We're smart, we've inherited classic good looks, and we know how to party. It's a luxe life, but someone's got to live it.' The Gossip Girl series is the ultimate in glamour and cool - set in New York's glamorous Upper East Side the narrative follows the thrills and spills (with... (more)
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  Ashley Stockingdale: Book 3

  With This Ring, I'm Confused

  by Kristin Billerbeck

  She's got the rock, so when does happily ever after kick in? At long last, Ashley Stockingdale--patent attorney, fasionista, and homeowner--can finally add "fiancee" to her spirited resume. That means the next four months will be a dizzying and decadent waltz through aisles of Vera Wang, Kenneth Cole, Sheridan sheets, Kate Spade place settings, and Oneida flatware. Well...maybe not. For starters, the HR... (more)
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  Spa Girls: Book 1

  She's All That (Spa Girls (Paperback))

  by Kristin Billerbeck

  Best friends since Johnny Depp wore scissors for hands, "The Spa Girls" live very separate lives, but stay in touch with routine visits to California’s Spa Del Mar. Morgan Malliard lives an heiress’s life, modeling her father’s diamond jewelry to San Francisco’s elite. Dr. Poppy Clayton doles out sage Biblical advice and herbal remedies as a chiropractor in Silicon Valley. And Lilly Jacobs struggles to make ends... (more)
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  Study Series: Book 1

  Poison Study

  by Maria V. Snyder

  Choose: A quick death . . . or slow poison . . . About to be executed for murder, Yelena is offered an extraordinary reprieve. She'll eat the best meals, have rooms in the palace -- and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of Ixia. As Yelena tries to escape her new dilemma, disasters keep mounting. Rebels plot to seize Ixia and Yelena develops magical powers she... (more)
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  Mark of the Lion: Book 1

  A Voice in the Wind

  by Francine Rivers

  This first book in the classic best-selling Mark of the Lion series brings readers back to the first century and introduces them to Hadassah. Torn by her love for a handsome aristocrat, a young slave girl clings to her faith in the living God for deliverance from the forces of decadent Rome.
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  Redeeming Love

  by Francine Rivers

  Can God’s Love Save Anyone? Bestselling author Francine Rivers skillfully retells the biblical love story of Gomer and Hosea in a tale set against the exciting backdrop of the California Gold Rush. The heroine, Angel, is a young woman who was sold into prostitution as a child. Michael Hosea is a godly man sent into Angel’s life to draw her into the Savior’s redeeming love. This remarkable novel has sold over... (more)
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  Atonement Child

  by Francine Rivers

  A beautiful repackaged edition of Francine Rivers's classic novel that breaks through the many taboos surrounding abortion. In one terrifying moment, Dynah Carey's perfect life is shattered by rape, her future irrevocably altered by an unwanted pregnancy, and her doting family torn apart. Her seemingly rock-solid faith is pushed to the limits as she faces the most momentous choice of her life--to embrace or to end... (more)
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  Just Between You and Me

  A Novel of Losing Fear and Finding God

  by Jenny B. Jones

  The only thing scarier than living on the edge is stepping off it. Maggie Montgomery lives a life of adventure. Her job as a cinematographer takes her from one exotic locale to the next. When Maggie's not working, she loves to rappel off cliffs or go skydiving. Nothing frightens her. Nothing, that is, except Ivy, Texas, where a family emergency pulls her back home to a town full of bad memories, painful... (more)
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  Beauty

  A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast

  by Robin McKinley

  Beauty has never liked her nickname. She is thin and awkward; it is her two sisters who are the beautiful ones. But what she lacks in looks, she can perhaps make up for in courage. When her father comes home with the tale of an enchanted castle in the forest and the terrible promise he had to make to the Beast who lives there, Beauty knows she must go to the castle, a prisoner of her own free will. Her father... (more)
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  The Do-Over

  by Kathy Dunnehoff

  Did you ever want to take a vacation from your life? If the more than 100 million adult women in the United States raised their hands in response, the draft would change the weather in Brazil. Just before her fortieth birthday, Mara Jane Mulligan, devoted wife and mother, runs out of bubble bath, and the ensuing panic attack drives her to Canada for more. She realizes that one foamy soak probably won't cure... (more)
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  The Boyfriend List: Book 2

  The Boy Book

  A Study of Habits and Behaviors, Plus Techniques for Taming Them

  by E. Lockhart

  Here is how things stand at the beginning of newly-licensed driver Ruby Oliver's junior year at Tate Prep:  • Kim: Not speaking. But far away in Tokyo.  • Cricket: Not speaking.  • Nora: Speaking--sort of. Chatted a couple times this summer when they bumped into each other outside of school--once shopping in the U District, and once in the Elliot Bay Bookstore. But she hadn't called Ruby, or anything.  • ... (more)
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  The Time Traveler's Wife

  by Audrey Niffenegger

  A dazzling and alluring novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap, and it is Audrey... (more)