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1) The red tent
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
The story of Dinah, a tragic character from the Bible whose great love, a prince, is killed by her brother, leaving her alone and pregnant. The novel traces her life from childhood to death, in the process examining sexual and religious practices of the day, and what it meant to be a woman.
Author
Series
Daughters of the promised land volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
When famine visits Bethlehem, Boaz holds out hope for rain while his relative Elimelech moves his wife Naomi and their sons to Moab. For a while, it appears the Lord is blessing Elimelech's family, and his sons marry two lovely Moabite women. But calamities strike, one after another, leaving Naomi alone in a foreign land with only her childless daughters-in-law for comfort. When news reaches Naomi that the famine in Bethlehem has lifted, only Ruth...
Author
Series
Living water volume 2
Publisher
Howard Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A Roman centurion longing for peace and a Jewish woman hiding a deadly secret witness a miracle that transforms their lives and leads them to the foot of the cross.
Author
Series
Daughters of the promised land volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Called by God to lead his people back to Him, Deborah faces doubt from her family and people, and the menace of the Caananites.
5) Unshaken
Author
Series
Lineage of grace volume 3
Publisher
Tyndale House
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
6) Jezebel
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"With a bold voice reminiscent of Madeline Miller's Circe, a stunning reimagining of the story of a fierce princess from Tyre and her infamous legacy Jezebel was born into the world howling. She intends to leave it the same way. When Jezebel learns she can't be a king like her father simply because she's a girl, she vows never to become someone's decorative wife, nameless and lost to history. At fifteen she's married off, despite her protests, to...
Author
Series
Daughters of the promised land volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The breathtaking story of the prostitute who risked everything to protect two Israelite spies before the battle of Jericho"--Publisher.
8) Unspoken
Author
Series
Lineage of grace volume 4
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Author
Series
Wives of King David volume 2
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Abigail takes a leap of faith and joins David's wandering tribe. When he insists on marrying other women, how can she share his love?
Author
Series
Daughters of the promised land volume 4
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Hannah and her husband, Elkanah, share a deep and abiding love, for each other, for their God, and for his tabernacle at Shiloh. Greatly disturbed by the corruption of the priests, they long for restoration and pray for a deliverer. As years pass, Hannah remains barren. Pressured by his family to take another wife, Elkanah marries Peninnah, who quickly begins to bear children. Why does God remain silent and indifferent to Hannah's pleas?
11) Mary Magdalene
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
She is one of the most transformative yet misunderstood women in history, alternately vilified as a sinner and canonized as a saint. For the first time, the incredible story of Mary Magdalene is told through her own eyes. In the first century A.D., the free-spirited Mary flees the marriage her family has arranged for her, finding refuge and a sense of purpose in a radical new movement led by the charismatic, rabble-rousing preacher Jesus.
12) Unveiled
Author
Series
Lineage of grace volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Author
Series
Daughters of the promised land volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In an effort to complete a war his father had planned to win, King Xerxes calls every governor, satrap, and official in his vast kingdom to his palace in Susa to strategize and feast. When they finally leave, he decides on one more week of frivolity, which ends in the banishment of his favorite wife, something he never intended to do. But when he discovers Esther, Xerxes is sure he has a second chance at happiness. In her wildest dreams, Esther could...
14) Unafraid
Author
Series
Lineage of grace volume 5
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Author
Series
Dangerous beauty novels volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When an ambitious tyrant threatens genocide against the Jews, an inexperienced young queen must take a stand for her people ... When Xerxes, king of Persia, issues a call for beautiful young women, Hadassah, a Jewish orphan living in Susa, is forcibly taken to the palace of the pagan ruler. After months of preparation, the girl known to the Persians as Esther wins the king's heart and a queen's crown. But because her situation is uncertain, she keeps...
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