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2) Unshaken
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Series
Lineage of grace volume 3
Language
English
Description
A novella which retells the story of Ruth, Naomi, and Boaz demonstrates that God faithfully provides for His children when all hope seems lost.
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1853, Abigail Scott was a 19-year-old school teacher in Oregon Territory when she married Ben Duniway. Marriage meant giving up on teaching, but Abigail always believed she was meant to be more than a good wife and mother. When financial mistakes and an injury force Ben to stop working, Abigail becomes the primary breadwinner for her growing family. What she sees as a working woman appalls her, and she devotes her life to fighting for the rights...
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Series
Jesus chronicles volume 3
Language
English
Description
In the third book of the Jesus Chronicles, Luke, a young Greek slave, meets Saul of Tarsus. Saul is a Hebrew debater who Luke sees as a great role model. When Saul mentions a man named Jesus who performs great miracles, Luke is not sure he believes. However, when Jesus performs miracles on one of Luke's own patients, his mind is changed.
6) Ben Hur
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Series
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
A wealthy young Jew and his family experiencing changing fortunes under Roman tyranny are affected by the life and teachings of a Nazarene named Jesus Christ.
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Language
English
Description
"Mollie Sheehan has spent much of her life striving to be a dutiful daughter and honor her father's wishes, even when doing so has led to one heartbreak after another. After all, what options does she truly have in 1860s Montana? But providing for her stepfamily during her father's long absences doesn't keep her from wishing for more. When romance blooms between her and Peter Ronan, Mollie finally allows herself to hope for a brighter future -- until...
Author
Series
Jesus chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Here is a thrilling account of the life of the Man who came to fulfill the prophecies of the Old Testament and to save all of humankind, and of the disciple who was the last eyewitness to Jesus' glory.
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English
Description
"Classically trained pianist and singer Natalie Curtis isolated herself for five years after a breakdown just before she was to debut with the New York Philharmonic. Guilt-ridden and songless, Natalie can't seem to recapture the joy music once brought her. In 1902, her brother invites her to join him in the West to search for healing. What she finds are songs she'd never before encountered--the haunting melodies, rhythms, and stories of Native Americans....
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Series
Ladies of history volume 02
Language
English
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Description
Jane Austen lives simply in the English countryside with her beloved family, entertaining them with her stories and seeking romance. She never ventures far from her own corner of the world and struggles to find her place in it. Growing up in a clergyman's home gives Jane opportunities to observe human nature at its best--and worst.
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Series
Christ the Lord volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Presents a new novel by the author of Interview with the Vampire, incorporating the latest New Testament scholarship to chronicle the life of Jesus Christ, from his early years, through his ministry, through his final days, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascent to heaven. Having completed the two cycles of legend to which she has devoted her career so far, Anne Rice gives us now her most thoughtful and powerful book, a novel about the childhood of...
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Series
Tender ties historical series volume 1
Language
English
Description
"During the fur-trapping era of the early 1800s, with two rambunctious young sons to raise, Marie Dorion refuses to be left behind in St. Louis when her husband heads west. Faced with hostile landscapes, an untried expedition leader, and her volatile husband, Marie finds that the daring act she hoped would bind her family together may in the end tear them apart."--
13) Joan of Arc
Author
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
"I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well. And besides, it furnished me seven times the pleasure afforded me by any of the others; twelve years of preparation, and two years of writing. The others needed no preparation and got none." --Mark Twain
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English
Description
"A general's wife and a slave girl forge a friendship that transcends race, culture, and the crucible of Civil War. Mary Anna Custis Lee is a great-granddaughter of Martha Washington, wife of Confederate General Robert E Lee, and heiress to Virginia's storied Arlington house and General Washington's personal belongings. Born in bondage at Arlington, Selina Norris Gray learns to read and write in the schoolroom Mary and her mother keep for the slave...
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English
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Published in 1896, this work purports to be the found memoirs of Joan's page and secretary, Louis de Conte. Twain considered this, his last published novel, to be his greatest; his lifelong fascination with Joan of Arc made this a fourteen year project. The novel follows Joan through youth, then as a commander of Charles&;s army, right up to her trial at Rouen.
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Series
Christ the Lord volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Offers a fictional account of a period in the life of Jesus Christ, beginning just prior to his baptism in the Jordan River and concluding with the miracle at Cana, as he leaves Nazareth ready to become Israel's liberator from Roman occupation.
17) The road to Cana
Author
Series
Christ the Lord volume 2
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Begins during Christ's last winter before his baptism in the Jordan and concludes with the miracle at Cana.
18) Ninth witness
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Series
A.D. chronicles volume 9
Language
English
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Description
The census riots are barely past. Bands of Zealots roam the canyons. Anguished shrieks echo against the hillsides of Nazareth as Rome crushes the last pockets of Jewish resistance. Aged scholar Rabbi Mazzar travels with his three Yeshiva students to Jerusalem for Passover and their bar mitzvahs. He has high hopes for twelve-year-old Yeshua, who seems to study people as well as Torah. Could such a one make a great rabbi? Or be the founder of something...
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In the mid-eighteenth century as England and France stand on the brink of war, John Newton is a young sailor wandering aimlessly through life. His only duty is to report to his ship and avoid disgracing his father-- until the night he hears Polly Catlett's enchanting voice, caroling. An intense connection quickly forms between the two, but John's reckless spirit and disregard for the Christian life are concerns for the responsible, devout Polly. When...
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