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The internationally renowned novel about the life and death of Jesus Christ. Hailed as a masterpiece by critics worldwide, The Last Temptation of Christ is a monumental reinterpretation of the Gospels that brilliantly fleshes out Christ’s Passion. This literary rendering of the life of Jesus Christ has courted controversy since its publication by depicting a Christ far more human than the one seen in the Bible. He is a figure who is gloriously divine but earthy and human, a man like any other - subject to fear, doubt, and pain.

A collection of 25 short stories for the advent season from some familiar and some not-so-familiar people. Experience a new the truth of the glorious arrival of the baby in the manger through the lens of these fictional first-person accounts of the prophecies and events heralding the birth of Jesus. Some of the characters may be fictional, but the truth they tell is very real!

That elusive dream: the mate who makes your heart skip a beat each time you see them, children you can impart wisdom to and learn from, a comfortable home worth coming home to, and no concern for money. We all want that. What if you got it - every bit - and snapped? Jesse McKlintock did. He received the love of his life, the children, a working ranch, a gold, silver, and copper mine, and a bank. 

Clarissa is the story of a courageous German girl, who thwarted a communist plot to infiltrate NATO during the Cold War and found her true love. During the partition of Germany, intrigues between the East and the West flourish amid kidnapping, theft, and espionage schemes. As Clarissa participates in a high-stakes operation in which she is the target, she wonders, will the romantic Canadian Aurthur Lundy rescue her from adversity?

Can a young widow hide her secret shame from the Irish preacher bent on helping her survive? In an Idaho Territory boom town, America Liberty Reed overhears circuit preacher Shane Hayes try to persuade a hotel owner to close his saloon on Sunday. Shane lands facedown in the mud for his trouble, and there’s talk of shooting him. America intervenes and finds herself in an unexpectedly personal conversation with the blue-eyed preacher. Certain she has angered God in the past, she shies away from Shane.

A wiseman had a dream, and it all began with a star. Three magi, Gaspar from India, Melchior from Persia, and Balthasar from Arabia, set out on a star-led journey to meet the newborn world ruler. What they encountered at their long journey's end astonished them all. But what awaits them 30 years later will change their lives forever. The most famous journey of all time begins.

Maryanne is a governess to two children, Mindy and Tracey. Their mother is not a hands-on parent so Maryanne has been as much of a mother as a governess. On a very stormy night the mother is killed in an accident. Because of the many debts incurred by Mrs. Turner there is no money left, including the children’s inheritance, so the house and all the furnishings have to be auctioned off to poay those debts. Robert, the long exiled brother of Mr. Turner, who was killed in a drowning accident some years before, shows up wanting to make amends with his brother.

The outlook could not be any darker for Eli Drake and his persecuted friends. Eli and Peter are staring straight at the ugly face of darkness, and a hanging seems inevitable. Some say, it takes an impossible situation for God to do a miracle, but will that be true every time? And what about Coyote Reed? Will he be able to overcome his miserable past, put his guilt aside, and stand up for the truth? Join us in this fifth book in the series Surprised by Love and find out for yourself what the future will hold for the little town of Hope's End.

Maureen O'Shea arrives in Devil Falls, Montana, to marry a man she's never met. When she finds out her intended had died before her arrival she is met with an uncertain future. She decides to spend the last of her funds by bringing culture to the western town in the form of a tea shop. It never occurred to her that the town preferred coffee. Not until the handsome blacksmith, Micah Webster so rudely points it out. Stagecoaches enroute to the town are being robbed and Micah is deputized to help.

Book one of the Davidic Chronicles immerses you in a young David’s world in a time of bloody war and supernatural deliverance. Witness the titanic collision between Goliath’s gods and David’s faith in Jehovah.

Follow Rachael Hart as she must face an unforeseeable tragedy that nearly crushes her spirit. Benjamin Hart wants nothing more than to explore the world beyond Aspen Falls, while his father wants him to take over the family's sawmill. Jason, the youngest son, wants to take over the business and expand it, but his father hasn't even considered that. Then there's Miriam, the youngest Hart daughter, the tomboy, flouting convention and prompting her mother's apoplectic fits.

Pioneer parents, Hannah and Jacob, instilled Christian values in their three children by example. Their son, Samuel, and neighbor Elizabeth, both 15, discover they are in love but must wait out a two-month separation while Samuel accompanies his father on his first cattle drive. Esther gets kidnapped by Comanches. Caleb goes off hunting on his own and deals with a hunting accident. The families endure their hardships and challenges through faith and the power of prayer.

Two families on opposite sides of the globe are shaken by the rise and fall of the Titanic, "queen of the ocean". When pampered Jacqueline Abington secretly elopes with the family gardener, she asks another woman to take her place on the much-anticipated maiden voyage of the Titanic. Tessa Bowen hails from a poor corner of London but has been granted the opportunity of a lifetime - a ticket to sail to America aboard a famed vessel.

When Joseph of Arimathea took Yeshua's corpse off the cross and placed it in his own tomb, he risked everything he'd worked years for. But now, Yeshua's body is gone, and Joseph is running for his life. Sister has never known anything but the lower city slums. She's a creature of the night, so base and inconsequential she's never even warranted a name. 

Lucetta Plum is an actress on the rise in New York City, but is forced to abandon her starring role when a fan's interest turns threatening. Lucetta's widowed friend, Abigail Hart, is delighted at the opportunity to meddle in Lucetta's life and promptly whisks her away to her grandson's estate to hide out. Bram Haverstein may appear to simply be a somewhat eccentric gentleman of means, but a mysterious career and a secret fascination with a certain actress mean there's much more to him than society knows.

Amara McKirnan and Nathan Simmons share a devotion to their Catholic faith but their loyalties lie on opposite sides of the Civil War. Dedicated to the Confederate cause, Amara offers to help out at her uncle’s makeshift hospital in Atlanta. Fate brought Nathan to their doorstep and into Amara’s life. Little does Amara know that the wounded soldier she cares for harbors a secret that will not only jeopardize his life but hers as well.

Miriam, a widow in Judea, has only one hope for survival: She must go to Capernaum and live as a beggar. On her way to the city, she is viciously attacked and left for dead. A leper, an unlikely and dangerous hero, saves her life, but Miriam's journey has only begun. Miriam's resilience and faith are tested, again and again. Meeting unlikely friends along the way, Miriam's path winds from Capernaum to the Sea of Galilee to Jerusalem.

We explore the path to redemption, forgiveness, and healing as we witness the characters in Grant Hallstrom’s novel Amora struggle with their pains of loss and betrayal, the burden of guilt, and the drive for revenge. This engaging historic epic is based on the true story of the noblewoman who inspired Justin Martyr’s petition to the Roman Senate, and is at once a sweeping action-adventure and a moving examination of spirituality and faith.

Avram has spent his life raising sheep in the hills around his native Bethlehem. Old age finds him cynical, peculiar, and perhaps dangerous. After Avram and his mute wife Yael reluctantly accept responsibility for an unwanted child, the girl’s charming innocence endears her to the couple. When Channah is a young teen, her stepfather unexpectedly appears and demands custody, taking her away to an arranged marriage. The young woman hopes for a kind husband, cherishing the dream of someday having her own child to love.

When Miss Charlotte Wilson asks God for a husband, she decides He must want her to pursue Mr. Hamilton Beckett, the catch of the season. The only problem? She's never actually met Hamilton. Fortunately, one of her oldest and dearest friends, Mr. Henry St. James - who has returned to New York after a two-year absence - does know Hamilton. Much to Henry's chagrin, Charlotte immediately ropes him into helping her meet Hamilton. However, none of her plans to catch Hamilton's eye go as she expected, and she is even more confused when her old feelings for Henry begin to resurrect themselves.