Murray Pura
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Jude Whetstone and Lyyndaya Kurtz, whose families are converts to the Amish faith, are slowly falling in love. Jude has also fallen in love with flying that new-fangled invention, the aeroplane.The Amish communities have rejected the telephone and have forbidden motorcar ownership but not yet electricity or aeroplanes. Though exempt from military service on religious grounds, Jude is manipulated by unscrupulous army officers into enlisting in order...
2) Ashton Park
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Among the green hills and trees of Lancashire, only a few miles from the sea, lies the beautiful and ancient estate of Ashton Park. The year is 1916. The First World War has engulfed Europe and Sir William and Lady Elizabeth's three sons are all in uniform, and their four daughters are involved in various pursuits. During Sir William's long absences at Parliament, Lady Elizabeth spends time with the manor's head cook, including visits to a small Baptist...
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Sir William--recently named Lord Preston--is celebrating his sixtieth birthday at the Danforth summer home in Dover. The ravages of World War I are in the past, yet new threats loom. A man named Adolph Hitler has published a book called Mein Kampf. Is he a danger to Europe? And what of Lord Preston's growing friendship with up-and-coming political leader Winston Churchill? The Danforth family faces challenges, illness, and tragedy while placing...
4) London dawn
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Readers everywhere are clamoring for books like Downton Abbey, the hit PBS Masterpiece Theater series that's taken America by storm. Those readers have become enthusiastic about The Danforths of Lancashire by award-winning author Murray Pura. In this stunning conclusion to the saga, we find Lord Preston and his family are gathered in London in the late 1930s for what turns out to be a homecoming. The family is finally all together again, gathering...
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Snapshots in history (Murray Pura) volume 2
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Following on the heels of The Wings of Morning, the first book in Murray Pura's Snapshots in History series, comes this compelling saga of the Civil War.
In April 1861, Lyndel Keim discovers two runaway slaves in her family's barn. When the men are captured and returned to their plantation, Lyndel and her young Amish beau, Nathaniel King, find themselves at odds with their pacifist Amish colony.
Nathaniel enlists in what will become the famous Iron...
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Snapshots in history (Murray Pura) volume 3
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2013.
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The year is 1941 and Jude and Lyyndy, with their adult daughter, Sierra, are summoned to far-off, exotic Honolulu where Sierra, a flyer like her father, meets a likeable young pilot. The two enjoy a friendship that seems to be turning into something more serious...until Sunday, December 7, 1941 dawns on the Hawaiian Islands.
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"When war reaches Clarissa's back door, the trustworthy become even fewer. Journey into Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, of 1863 where Clarissa Avery Ross lives a full life. By day she is the daughter of a respectable shoemaker being courted by seminary student Kyle Forrester. But by night she is a conductor on the Underground Railroad, working with a mysterious man called Liberty. She would like to share her work with Kyle, but he refuses to enlist when...
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2013.
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After tragedy strikes the family of young Rebecca Shrock, her friend Tabitha does all she can to help. But things get complicated when Rebecca's brother, Levi, returns from combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. For one thing, he is an old flame Tabitha rejected when he chose to serve in the military. For another, he is under the Meidung-the shunning-and no one is permitted to speak to him or eat with him. But God has a way of working on the hearts...
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It's an ordinary day on the range when Zephaniah Parker, owner of the Bar Zee Ranch, finds two children alone and cowering in fear. Cheyene and Cody Wyoming had managed to evade a massacre by the vicious Raber Gang, led by Seraphim Raber, aka the Angel of Death. But now the children and other inhabitants of soutwest Montana aren't safe. Blue Meadows' rancher Charlene Spence is determined to see the children out of harm's way and back among their...
10) Clara Raven
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Merck McIntyre had survived the Great War and dodged the Spanish Flu. Now he was back in the United States and had signed on with the U.S. Marshal. His plans were for a good career in law enforcement in his home state of Massachusetts. It was The Roaring Twenties. America was recovering from a world war and wanted to party. But 1920 was the start of Prohibition. It became the law of the land. The men slated to enforce it were the U.S. Marshals, something...
12) Kingfisher Cross
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LIFE HAPPENS LOVE HAPPENS GRACE HAPPENS
There is a great mix of lives here - the Schlabach Amish, the English, immigration from Scandinavia, Europe and Asia. No different than the rest of the world, really. In all, Kingfisher Cross has just under five thousand souls, each of them unique, as souls everywhere are unique, all in their own unique family worlds and realities.
Life happens. Love happens. Grace happens. Miracles happen. Except, I think,...
13) Ride the Sky
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David Lapp had been courting Tabitha Reimer for over a year before he finally decided to take her out to a special place and ask her to be his wife. That Saturday had started out in a special way - Tabitha had dreamed once again of vast open ranges bordering impossibly tall mountains topped with snow. She had never seen a mountain, which made this vividly real dream even more perplexing. That afternoon, David came by, and the two traveled in his buggy...
14) Nevena in Love
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Andrew Chornavka took on the Trappist's cowl and disappeared from the 21st century in order to forget the century before.Yet even at the secluded monastery in America the past finds him. A delegation from the Vatican arrives with questions about his youngest sister, Zoya, who is, to Andrew's shock, a candidate for sainthood. Reluctant, hostile, wanting only to be left alone to his dairy herd and gardens and prayers, Andrew eventually begins to talk.The...
15) Grace Rider
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Michal Troyer and Milwaukee Bachman were still in Rumspringa. Which meant they had not been baptized into the Amish faith. And after biking across America to rescue Michal's sister, they weren't sure if they did want to become Amish. They had seen so much of the big world outside of Lancaster County. And they weren't sure about each other anymore either. Were they still in love? Did they still want to marry? Everything is up in the air. It will take...
16) Zo
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Andrew Chornavka took on the Trappist's cowl and disappeared from the 21st-century in order to forget the century before.
Yet even at the secluded monastery in America, the past finds him. A delegation from the Vatican arrives with questions about his youngest sister, Zoya, who is, to Andrew's shock, a candidate for sainthood. Reluctant, hostile, wanting only to be left alone, to his dairy herd and gardens and prayers, Andrew eventually begins to...
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Zephaniah and Charlotte scarcely knew each other and never spent any time together. He just admired her from afar. Both had their ranches to maintain in Montana. Both were busy from long before dawn to long after the sun set. Both only had a hat tip or head nod or a "good day" for each other if they crossed paths in Virginia City.
Suddenly, one morning, everything changes. A murderous gang slaughters a group of settlers. Two children witness the...
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I am Solina Cheng. I led protests against the Chinese crackdown in Hong Kong. The police wanted me in a maximum security prison. They began to hunt me down. I was granted refugee status in the United States. My sponsors were an Amish church. I knew nothing about the Amish. The only connection I found between me and them is that I was a refugee and so were they. They'd fled religious persecution in Europe back in the 1700s and I'd fled the persecution...
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Abigail and her Grandfather have always enjoyed a special relationship. Especially at Christmas time on their farm in Ohio.Until this year.This year, something is wrong with Abigail's beloved Grandpa. He will not eat, he will not drink, he will not rise from his bed. He only wants to die. Abigail and her family and the doctors are unable to do anything to bring him around.It will take a miracle. A miracle Abigail sees no signs of happening no matter...
20) The Preacher Man
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For some it's all myth or fantasy. Ouija boards, fortunetelling, voodoo, Satan, devil worshipers, black magic, spells and curses — none of it is real. Even for many churchgoers, it's a topic that has nothing to do with faith or worship and is best left alone.
Reverend Jude Aaron Blackstone knows better. Under the guise of suits and smiles and peace, under the exterior of normal everyday life, evil incarnate is at work eroding and destroying all...