Angela Elwell Hunt
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"After her father and sister are killed, Salome and her mother move to Jerusalem. When a relative betroths Salome to a pagan prince half her age, she questions God's plan. When she finds herself crowned queen of Judea, she learns that a woman committed to God can change the world"--
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Two women occupy a place in Herod's court. The first, Salome, is the king's only sister, a resentful woman who has been told she is from an inferior race, a people God will never accept or approve. The second woman, Zara, is a lowly handmaid who serves Salome, but where Salome spies conspiracies and treachery, Zara sees hurting people in need of understanding and compassion. Powerful and powerless, Idumean and Jew, selfish and selfless--both women...
Author
Series
Silent years volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seeking peace and safety after a hard childhood, Leah marries Judah, a strong and gentle man, and for the first time in her life Leah believes she can rest easily. But the land is ruled by Antiochus IV, descended from one of Alexander the Great's generals, and when he issues a decree that all Jews are to conform to Syrian laws upon pain of death, devout Jews risk everything to follow the law of Moses.Judah's father resists the decree, igniting a...
Author
Series
Dangerous beauty novels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Complex and Compelling Glimpse at One of the Bible's Baddest Girls! Life is not easy in Philistia, especially not for a woman and child alone. When beautiful, wounded Delilah finds herself begging for food to survive, she resolves that she will find a way to defeat all the men who have taken advantage of her. She will overcome the roadblocks life has set before her, and she will find riches and victory for herself. When she meets a legendary man...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Paul, Apostle of Christ is the story of two men. Luke, as a friend and physician, risks his life every time he ventures into the city of Rome to visit Paul, held captive in Nero's bleakest prison cell. Before Paul's execution, Luke resolves to write another book, one that details the beginnings of "The Way" and the birth of what will come to be known as the church. But Nero is determined to rid Rome of Christians. Paul has survived so much--floggings,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Newspaper columnist Peyton MacGruder has returned to her job after covering the story of an ill-fated Pan World flight. Having recently discovered Christine, the daughter she gave up to an adoption agency nineteen years ago, she is reluctant to commit to the handsome sportswriter Kingston Danville. She feels she owes it to Christine to set her love life aside and make up for lost time. But when a reader challenges Peyton's advice to "let caution trump...
Author
Series
Jerusalem Road volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After moving to Jerusalem, Aya expects to be bored in her role as wife to a Torah student but finds herself fascinated by her husband's studies. And when her brother Sha'ul makes a life-altering decision, she is faced with a troubling question: How can she remain true to all she's been taught since infancy and still love her blasphemous brother?"--
Author
Language
English
Description
"Widowed Euodia, known to her neighbors as "the Lydian woman," seeks to make a fresh start by moving to the foreign city of Philippi. She finds new purpose after meeting Paulos, apostle to the Gentiles, who opens her eyes to helping those in need, particularly women and those who have been enslaved. Retired Roman soldier Hector has settled in Philippi with dreams of a future filled with wealth and status, pooling his army earnings with Lucius, his...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
On November 2, 2006, Gayle Haggard's life changed forever when her husband, Ted Haggard, founder of the 14,000-member New Life Church in Colorado Springs and president of the National Association of Evangelicals, was publicly exposed in a scandal. In the days and months ahead, everything in Gayle's life was at stake-her beliefs, her marriage, and her relationship with the church community she had been a part of for more than 20 years. In Why I Stayed,...
11) Grace in autumn
Author
Language
English
Description
It's November on the beautiful Island of Heavenly Daze, where angelic intervention is commonplace and the Thanksgiving feast is a community affair. As the island residents prepare for the holidays and the coming months of cold and snow, sacks of undeliverable mail begin to pour into the town's post office. The requests are different, but the salutation is the same: "Dear Angel..."
12) A perfect love
Author
Series
Heavenly Daze series volume 4
Language
English
Description
Despite the blustery winter chill, love is in the air in Heavenly Daze. Buddy Franklin is searching for someone to change his lonely life, Dana and Mike Klackenbush are trying to reestablish the friendship that led them to marriage three years before, Barbara and Russell Higgs are contemplating babies, and Cleta Lansdown is determined to keep Barbara, her married daughter, close to home. The angels who inhabit the island are surprised and overwhelmed...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the Buells were given the heartbreaking news that their son, Jaxon, had a rare condition called Microhydranencephaly (meaning that he was missing part of his skull and most of his brain), it meant he would likely die in utero or shortly after birth. Terminating the pregnancy was suggested, but the Buells choose life. Now they share the lessons that Jaxon-- approaching two-- has taught them about the inherent value of every human life, the extraordinary...