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Loves Unending Legacy (Revised)
$16.00Add to cartMarty was overjoyed to be home again-could anything disturb her joy?
Marty Davis had thoroughly enjoyed her visit with daughter Missie, even though a tragic accident had extended it far longer than originally planned. But now she and Clark are home again, and there are changes to make. The family begins to adjust to Clark’s crutch, and Clark and Marty recognize their children’s new maturity and independence.
But Nandry seems unable to come to terms with Clark’s handicap; is she blaming God for the accident? The “baby of the family” is going to be a doctor. Ellie has blossomed into a lovely young woman, but is there any fellow around special enough to ask for her hand? Clare and Kate eagerly anticipate their new baby, but has life prepared them for what lies ahead?And Then There’s Marty’s Secret!
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1 More Sunrise
$19.99Add to cartRenowned throughout the frontier for his surgical skills, Dr. Dane Logan keeps busy tending the ill. Yet his mind is continually filled with thoughts of the beautiful Tharyn, whom he hasn’t seen since childhood. Will Dane find the love he seeks, or will his hopes and heart be destroyed by the roving Tag Moran gang?
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Heavens Before
$15.99Add to cartMarginalized by society and mistreated by her own family, Annah befriends a young man she’s never seen before. Shem is captivated by Annah’s courage, and he risks everything to help her gain her freedom. Trusting in the Most High, Annah marries Shem and joins her strange new family in their solitary faith that will ultimately separate them from an ancient world of amazing beauty and appalling violence–a world fast approaching the unimaginable catastrophe of the Great Flood. Out of this chaos, only eight people will survive. Their world is our world. Their future is our own.
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I Am David
$9.99Add to cartDavid’s entire twelve-year life has been spent in a grisly prison camp in Eastern Europe. He knows nothing of the outside world. But when he is given the chance to escape, he seizes it. With his vengeful enemies hot on his heels, David struggles to cope in this strange new world, where his only resources are a compass, a few crusts of bread, his two aching feet, and some vague advice to seek refuge in Denmark. Is that enough to survive?
David’s extraordinary odyssey is dramatically chronicled in Anne Holm’s classic about the meaning of freedom and the power of hope. -
Up From The Grave
$27.99Add to cartThis is a fictionalized real-life family drama concerning a Desert
Storm veteran.
Tim Moreland is born into a happy Christian home, but
adversities strike early. His father is killed in a traffic accident.
His stepfather’s behavior turns out to be inscrutable and reprehensible,
informing the family with impressions of the whole
gamut from stunned disbelief to tragicomedy, and foreshadowing
a mental illness.
Through a life rich in triumphs and tragedies, the family remains
a strong unit. Tim emerges as joyful in spirit, intense in emotion,
high in patriotism, and luminous in mental acuity, becoming a
superb physical specimen and an accomplished musician, with
seemingly unlimited potential.
He graduates from the Naval Academy and joins the Marines.
Deployed to the Persian Gulf, he returns changed through neurological
damage, which sends his health spiraling down, disabling
him more and more as time goes on.
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Up From The Grave
$17.99Add to cartThis is a fictionalized real-life family drama concerning a Desert
Storm veteran.
Tim Moreland is born into a happy Christian home, but
adversities strike early. His father is killed in a traffic accident.
His stepfather’s behavior turns out to be inscrutable and reprehensible,
informing the family with impressions of the whole
gamut from stunned disbelief to tragicomedy, and foreshadowing
a mental illness.
Through a life rich in triumphs and tragedies, the family remains
a strong unit. Tim emerges as joyful in spirit, intense in emotion,
high in patriotism, and luminous in mental acuity, becoming a
superb physical specimen and an accomplished musician, with
seemingly unlimited potential.
He graduates from the Naval Academy and joins the Marines.
Deployed to the Persian Gulf, he returns changed through neurological
damage, which sends his health spiraling down, disabling
him more and more as time goes on.
How will God respond to the prayers on Tim’s behalf ? -
Beginning : Genesis 1-2
$10.95Add to cartCreation… the fall of man… God’s relationship with his people… the birth of Christ… his resurrection. A fresh new telling of an old, old story – from the perspective of the angels.
In The Beginning, God creates the heavens… and the visible realm, including the earth and everything in it. The crowning glory of creation is man and woman, who live and move in both the visible world and the spiritual world, ruling creation in full fellowship with their Creator. Until… until the Garden is invaded by the succulent, deadly Tree of Knowledge and the allures of the fallen Angel of Light… until the unthinkable is done… until the bodies of Adam and Eve shrivel and are blinded to the heavenlies… and the Door between heaven and earth is closed. -
All My Tomorrows
$15.99Add to cartWhen 62 orphans and abandoned children leave New York City on a train headed out West, they have no idea what to expect. Will they get separated from their friends or siblings? Will their new families love them? Will a family even pick them at all? Future events are wilder than any of them could imagine – ranging from kidnappings and whippings to stowing away on wagon trains, from starting orphanages of their own to serving as missionaries to the Apache. No matter what, their paths are being watched by someone who cares about and carefully plans all their tomorrows.
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Every Fixed Star
$19.00Add to cart385 Pages
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Travel West with real-life American heroine Marie Dorion–a strong-willed mother who refused to be left behind when her husband joined the Wilson Hunt Astoria expedition! In Every Fixed Star, Marie struggles to keep her children safe, warm, and fed while practicing the art of trusting God through all life’s twists and turns. -
Shadow On The Creek
$19.99Add to cartIn the quiet wooded farming community of Tamrock Creek, Michigan, in the late 1800s, Maybelle Peat grows to womanhood. She enjoys fishing the creek with her friend, Jacob Page. At age fourteen, a startling remark shatters her dreams of marriage. She prepares to become a teacher to avoid the stigma of becoming an old maid. Maybelle is drawn by curiosity to the red brick house on an adjacent farm that is rumored to contain evil spirits. She meets Peter Foltz, the wealthy horse trader who owns the red brick house. She falls in love. When a disaster destroys her dreams, she feels doomed and believes God has deserted her. Unable to face the world, she goes into seclusion with an unforgiving heart. God opens a window for her through a little boy. Her mother’s death and her sister’s wedding push her back into the world of the living. Does Maybelle become trapped by evil spirits in the red brick house? Will she face a lifetime of loneliness if her husband goes to prison? Tamrock Creek and the Meadow Cemetery carry her secrets. Will she ever find it in her heart to forgive?
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Doctor In Rags
$13.99Add to cart12 Chapters
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The Hutterites are quiet people, hard workers, and known for their natural medicines. They also live in communities, or Bruderhofs, and will not attend the state church. Michael Bruhn, his younger sister Gudryn, and their widowed mother live in a castle in Moravia. After Madame Bruhn’s husband dies, she illegally welcomes Hutterites to her estate, giving them permission to build a Bruderhof because she feels they worship God in the right way.When a doctor wearing ragged clothing comes to heal Gudryn, Michael thinks he, too, must be a Hutterite. He learns later that this is the famed doctor, Paracelsus. Michael is impressed and begins to plan when he can also be a doctor.
Then tragedy strikes the Bruhn household. They are arrested along with the Hutterites. Their land is taken by King Ferdinand. Michael is put into chains with the Hutterites, doomed to become a galley slave. Join Michael as he tries to find his family again, listen for God’s calling on his life, and learn from the mysterious doctor in rags.
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Red Lion : A Novel Of The Cold War
$17.49Add to cartRed Lion is a story of mystery and international intrigue. The novel spans the era from the Great Depression to the culmination of the Cold War and presupposes a different scenario of events leading to the dissolution of the Soviet Union–a scenario more technologically decisive and perilous than the historical circumstances that actually brought down the Iron Curtain. The theme of the novel is woven through two persons who lead mutually exclusive lives, but as the story evolves, develop an unexpected and intertwined relationship. Timothy Hudson is a foundling left on the steps of a Baltimore, Maryland church rectory on New Year’s Eve, 1924. As a teenager, he is the subject of a mysterious disappearance, which is only explained many years after the fact. Robert (Rob) Kimbee is a newly appointed U.S. Secretary of Defense, circa 1980, who has been thrust into the task of developing a powerful, but controversial, high energy laser weapons system. The clandestine nature of the project brings personal and political problems to Rob, which are exacerbated by covert Soviet attempts to uncover the nature of the highly classified project. Although Red Lion is fictional, the eventual success of directed energy research could result in a huge shift in the technological balance of power and precipitate an era of political turmoil similar to that noted in the book.
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Secret Box
$14.99Add to cartBeginning with another long and tedious day at her grandfather’s house, Kate’s life changes as she is mesmerized and transported back to wartime Poland through her grandfather’s story. In The Secret Box, Kate hears tales of her family: her great-uncle Jan, whose daring activities kept him one step ahead of the Nazi soldiers, and her grandfather Alex, whose family risked their lives to hide a Jewish family during the war. From a dreary day with little to occupy her, Kate discovers the meaning of the secret box, and finds a newfound respect and love for her ailing grandfather.
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Shepherds Hill : A New England Story
$23.99Add to cartThis novel is about the people of a farming community in the Shaker country of upstate New York, the people who live there and the people who visit. It is a story with a distinctly Jewish character. The story covers almost half a century, beginning in the years before World War II. Occasionally interspersed with the narrative are fables that provide insights on such issues as light and darkness, life and death, pain and suffering, separation and isolation. And as the story progresses, a figure in the background gradually emerges as the Good Shepherd, the Overseer-the dominant character of the story.
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In Search Of A Peaceful Land
$17.49Add to cartIn 1831, the year following the French Revolution, many in Germany began pushing for revolution in Germany. Joseph Arnst Garrett had served under Napoleon when he was young, and he had witnessed the horrors of war. He also understood the political-ethnic-cultural makeup in the Fatherland and the fact that Germany had known warfare off and on for centuries, one war lasting for thirty years. He feared for his wife, two sons, and eight daughters, and he determined to take his family to America. But, would Metternich, the present ruler, or the young revolutionaries permit him to go and take his wealth? He owned three thriving businesses as well as his family estate. Johann Joseph Arnst Garrett, as the oldest son, has a hard decision to make: go to America with his family, join the young revolutionaries, or join Metternich’s army. Hendrick Bhonn Haar, a 21-year-old orphan, is a friend of Johann’s and works alongside of Johann in the Garrett family business. He is a Christian in the Brethren sect, which is hated by Catholic and Reformation Protestants alike. And he has fallen in love with Victoria, one of the Garrett daughters. What can come of this? Will he too go to America?
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Final Justice
$17.99Add to cartSilver Moon is in her teens when her Cheyenne village is destroyed by Colonel John Chivington’s cavalry unit. As Silver Moon grows, she becomes consumed with hatred until her one goal is to kill the man responsible. But when a smallpox epidemic breaks out among the Cheyenne, Christian nurse Breanna Baylor Brockman comes to care for the sick, and the nurse’s compassion for Silver Moon and her people begins the girl’s journey toward conversion and healing.
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Bud Not Buddy
$8.99Add to cartThe Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award-winning classic about a boy who decides to hit the road to find his father-from Christopher Paul Curtis, author of The Watsons Go To Birmingham-1963, a Newbery and Coretta Scott King Honoree.
It’s 1936, in Flint Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud’s got a few things going for him:
1. He has his own suitcase full of special things.
2. He’s the author of Bud Caldwell’s Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Making a Better Liar Out of Yourself.
3. His momma never told him who his father was, but she left a clue: flyers advertising Herman E. Calloway and his famous band, the Dusky Devastators of the Depression!!!!!!Bud’s got an idea that those flyers will lead him to his father. Once he decides to hit the road to find this mystery man, nothing can stop him-not hunger, not fear, not vampires, not even Herman E. Calloway himself.
AN ALA BEST BOOK FOR YOUNG ADULTS
AN ALA NOTABLE CHILDREN’S BOOK
AN IRA CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARD WINNER
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Measure Of Grace
$17.99Add to cartRomance and revenge, hot tempers, and cold feet frame a gripping story set in rural Elkton, Idaho, in the 1860s. Young Jordan Shaw angers easily and lives wildly, experiencing prison and kidnapping before his family attempts to tame him with marriage. To avoid their choice, he seeks a mail order bride, pretty Diana Morrow, who suffers the abuse of a violent father before escaping her tumultuous family home. When Diana arrives in Elkton and finds Jordan suddenly missing, will a handsome distraction change her destiny? How three young people’s paths entwine — and how God meets each deep need with sufficient grace — make this riveting story both vastly entertaining and faith-inspiring.
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Riona
$16.99Add to cartRiona, a gentlewoman of faith, discovers that her plan to help the disadvantaged includes not only the plague orphans in her charge, but the arrogant, handsome adventurer who feels honor-bound to save her and her lands by marrying her_with or without her consent. Lord Kieran of Gleannmara depends on nothing and no one save his wit and skill with steel, but soon a deadly twist of fate forces him to acknowledge his need not only for the lady Riona and her worrisome entourage, but for her Lord as well.
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Jerusalem Vigil : A Novel Of The Struggle For Jerusalem
$22.00Add to cartDuring the days following Israel’s birth on May 14, 1948, Jewish forces desperately fight to defend Jerusalem’s Jewish quarter from Arab attack. Archaeologist and Haganah commander Moshe Sachar can think only about his pregnant wife and the battle—until an old rabbi leads him on an amazing underground journey, revealing ancient treasures from Solomon’s temple.
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Dutch Color
$12.00Add to cart1. Beach Flop
2. Secret Election
3. Short Cuts
4. Pharaoh’s Man
5. Running Bombs
6. Staring Deeply
7. Hungry Spies
8. Family Secrets
9. Painted Prison
10. Proof Sketches
11. Friars’ Arms
12. Bethel’s Oil
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Amid the golden era of Dutch art, Clara has a passion for painting and life. But the two don’t always mix. Her father is long overdue from Italy with the latest paint recipes, but lies, famous art, rare tulips, and sugary girls crowd Clara’s search for her father. Someone knows where he might be, but it will cost more than Clara’s talents to find out. Unfortunately, all the car-chase scenes have been excised. -
Ransom Of Love
$18.99Add to cartIn this fifth installment of the bestselling Mail Order Bride series, two young couples seek freedom and love amidst slavery-rich Charleston, South Carolina. When nineteen-year-old Benjamin arrives from South Africa, he is scheduled to be sold into slavery-but is set free by a Christian who takes him in as a paid worker. The man’s son, Dan Johnson, befriends Benjamin, and the two make plans to start a cattle ranch in Texas.
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Overmountain Men : A Novel
$20.95Add to cartThe Cherokee called it Tanisi, a land rich in game, beauty and resources. Joshua Colter called it home. Born in Charles Town in Carolina and baptised in the horror of an Indian massacre, Joshua became one of the legendary long hunters and crossed the mountain range that for many years had protected Indian lands from the Atlantic Coast settlements. There he became a reluctant leader in the bitter struggle between the Cherokee nation and the white settlers, and between the settlers and the British crown. The first volume in the Tennessee Frontier series, The Overmountain Men is a saga of adventure in the period from 1757 to 1777. Cameron Judd paints a picture of the pioneering spirit of the men and women who moved west as homesteaders and traders and also of the courage of the Indians who fought to keep their lands.
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Sweet Summer : A Novel
$30.00Add to cartThe Sweet Summer is a moving novel of deep friendship and commitment between a white man and his black peers in a time and a place where such relationships were rare and looked upon with contempt. It portrays with brutal honesty the humiliations suffered by African Americans in the Jim Crow South in the 1940’s.
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Far Above Rubies
$16.99Add to cartEmbittered by years of poverty, young Ginny Grayson joins the Jesse James-Cole Younger gang. She gets caught up in a lifestyle of violence and death. When the gang kidnaps Breanna, Ginny discovers the qualities of a virtuous woman. Breanna is ordered to save a wounded outlaw or die herself. Will she be the gang’s next victim? Breanna’s godly character draws Ginny to a place where she must choose between the life of an outlaw and the pure life of a godly woman. Will God’s love change this outlaw into a woman whose worth is “far above rubies?”
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Not By Might
$18.99Add to cartNurse Natalie Fallon has brought her ailing mother to Denver for her health and starts a job at Denver’s Mile High Hospital, where she meets fellow nurse Breanna Baylor Brockman. In Natalie’s past is a relationship with Rex Rawlins, a young medical student. Two years prior she had ended the relationship when she learned Rex was planning a rural practice. She is determined not to marry a country doctor like her father, who died at age 43 from overwork. But she has never stopped loving Rex, and now, little does she know that Rex is a rural doctor in the surrounding mountains. A serious accident brings them together, but it will take a miracle to give them the promise of a life together
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Meeting Place (Reprinted)
$18.00Add to cartSet along the rugged coastline of 18th century Canada in what was then called Acadia (now Nova Scotia and New Brunswick), The Meeting Place re-creates a world that was home to native Indians, French settlers, and English garrisons. Such diverse populations did not live in accord, however. Instead, they were isolated within their own groups by a brewing political tension under the difficult English rule.
Amid such chaotic times two women, both about to become brides and both trying to live lives of quiet peace, meet in a lush field of wildflowers. Louisa, a Frenchwoman, and Catherine, who is English, continue to meet secretly through the seasons, sharing both friendship and growing faith.
The outside world does not mirror their own tranquil happiness, and the dreaded crackdown by the English throne threatens far more than their growing bond. In the face of a heart-wrenching dilemma, Louisa and Catherine strive to maintain their faith and cling to their dreams of family and home.
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Manassas : A Novel
$22.95Add to cartManassas is the first book in a series of historical novels spanning the Civil War. The Brannon family of Culpeper County, Virginia – Abigail, a widow, and her four sons (Will, Mac, Titus, and Henry) and daughter (Cordelia) – work a good-sized, self-sufficient farm. The Brannons do not own slaves, but they are staunch supporters of the South in the conflict that is about to turn into war. Manassas centres around the lives of the Brannons in the winter and spring of 1861. As speculation grows that the North and South will soon be at war with each other, the Brannons have their own problems, not the least of which is the Fogarty clan, a large family of troublemakers in the area. Will Brannon is the county sheriff and kills one of the Fogartys while trying to arrest him for murder. Justifiable homicide or not, the Fogartys vow to avenge the loss of one of their own. While tensions mount in Culpeper County, news of Fort Sumter arrives. Will and two of his brothers join one of the Virginia militia units that quickly form. After a short period of training, the Brannons’ unit is rushed to defend the village of Manassas, a strategic railroad junction.When Union and Confederate armies engage in battle among the hillsides surrounding small, meandering Bull Run Creek, Will is forced to defend himself not only from the Union troops but also from the Fogarty brothers, who decide that the chaos of battle provides ideal circumstances for settling their score with him.
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Whither Thou Goest
$18.99Add to cartContinuing with the adventures of Old West heroine Breanna Baylor, book six of the Angel of Mercy series begins with the planning of a wedding — between Breanna and the legendary Stranger, whose true identity has now been revealed. Before the wedding, however, John’s best man, Chief U.S. Marshal Solomon Duvall, disappears. And after the wedding, both John and Breanna — who has pledged, “Whither thou goest, I will go” — put their own lives in danger as they set out to find him.
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Out Of The Dust
$8.99Add to cartSet in the bleak times of the Dust Bowl, award-winning author Karen Hesse crafts a poetic tale of one girl’s coming of age. Told in journal-like free-verse, the story of Billie Jo and the accident that would change her life is told with exquisite wording and detail. Newbery Award Winner.
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Iliad
$20.00Add to cartOur beautiful editions of Robert Fagles’s brilliant translations of Homer – now in Penguin Classics
Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters presents us with his universally acclaimed modern verse translation of the world’s greatest war story. Rage-Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus’ son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls? Thus begins the stirring story of the Trojan War and the rage of Achilles that has gripped listeners and readers for 2,700 years. This timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amidst devastation and destruction, as it moves inexorably to its wrenching, tragic conclusion. Renowned classicist Bernard Knox observes in his superb Introduction that although the violence of the Iliad is grim and relentless, it co-exists with both images of civilized life and a poignant yearning for peace. Combining the skills of a poet and scholar, Robert Fagles brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic epic. He maintains the drive and metric music of Homer’s poetry, and evokes the impact and nuance of the Iliad’s mesmerizing repeated phrases in what Peter Levi calls “an astonishing performance.”
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Whence Came A Prince
$18.00Add to cartLeana sank into a curtsy, thinking to put their relationship on the proper footing. “I will make myself useful in the kitchen, dear cousin.” Jamie placed his hand under her chin, slowly lifting her face until they were poised a handbreadth apart. “Cousin?” he said, his voice rough with emotion. “Nae, lass. It can never be that way with us.”
By sheer will she stepped away from him. “Nor can it be any other way but this.” A journey of the heart across the Lowlands of Scotland. Haunted by a shameful past and wrestling with an uncertain future, Jamie McKie vows to return to his ancestral home of Glentrool and claim his inheritance-a daring venture that will test the depth of his courage and the strength of his sword.
But who will travel with him, when two women each stake a worthy claim on his affection? Tender, gentle Leana is the mother of his firstborn; her spirited younger sister, Rose, is expecting his second child. Honor and duty prevail as a prodigal hero prepares to fight for all he holds dear.
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Watsons Go To Birmingham 1963
$8.99Add to cartThe year is 1963, and self-important Byron Watson is the bane of his younger brother Kenny’s existence. Constantly in trouble for one thing or another, from straightening his hair into a “conk” to lighting fires to freezing his lips to the mirror of the new family car, Byron finally pushes his family too far. Before this “official juvenile delinquent” can cut school or steal change one more time, Momma and Dad finally make good on their threat to send him to the deep south to spend the summer with his tiny, strict grandmother. Soon the whole family is packed up, ready to make the drive from Flint, Michigan, straight into one of the most chilling moments in America’s history: the burning of the Sixteenth Avenue Baptist Church with four little girls inside.
Christopher Paul Curtis’s alternately hilarious and deeply moving novel, winner of the Newbery Honor and the Coretta Scott King Honor, blends the fictional account of an African American family with the factual events of the violent summer of 1963. Fourth grader Kenny is an innocent and sincere narrator; his ingenuousness lends authenticity to the story and invites readers of all ages into his world, even as it changes before his eyes. -
Bronze Bow
$9.99Add to cartIn this Newbery Medal-winning novel, Daniel bar Jamin is fired by only one passion: to avenge his father’s death by crucifixion by driving the Roman legions from his land of Israel. He joins an outlaw band and leads a dangerous life of spying, plotting, and impatiently waiting to seek revenge. Headstrong Daniel is devoid of tenderness and forgiveness, heading down a destructive path toward disaster until he hears the lessons taught by Jesus of Nazareth. With a brand new cover, young readers won’t be able to pass up this timeless tale.
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Presidents Lady : A Novel About Rachel And Andrew Jackson
$17.99Add to cartTwo hundred years ago, Tennessee was the Wild West and the law was frequently determined by intimidation. Set against such a background, the story of Rachel and Andrew Jackson is one of the greatest love stories in American history.
In 1784, seventeen-year-old Rachel Donelson fell in love with war hero Capt. Lewis Robards. Their marriage was brief, stormy, and bitter. Because there was no such thing as divorce on the Kentucky-Tennessee frontier, Rachel appeared doomed to live the rest of her days without love or husband. Then, in her mother’s house she warmed to respect and admiration of a tall, gangling, fiery boarder —- Andrew Jackson.
Rachel and Andrew were soon deeply in love and after a difficult courtship, haunted by Captain Robards, they married under the laws of the Spanish, who governed New Orleans and Natchez. They eventually settled in Nashville, Tennessee.
Jackson became a hero of the War of 1812 and was later elected to the U.S. presidency, but he could never conquer the unending attacks on his beloved wife. Although his political enemies used Rachel’s troubled background as a campaign issue, they could not destroy her love for Andrew nor his for her.
Irving Stone brings to life a tender and poignant love story centered on one of the most controversial and amazing dramas that ever engulfed an American woman.
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Pledge
$16.99Add to cart29 Chapters
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For the sake of peace in the family, Jo-Beth kept her feelings to herself. But she and Wes were pledged to each other, and nothing could change that. Not even war.With the death of her father, Jo-Beth, her brother, and their mother, Johanna, move in with relatives in town. There, Johanna makes a living sewing her exquisite quilts-and Jo-Beth discovers a special friend. Kind, thoughtful, and deep, Wesley Rutherford draws Jo-Beth like a magnet … and their attachment to one another becomes strong. Strong enough to endure separation while Wes studies in Philadelphia. Strong enough to make their future together seem certain … until the Civil War forces a decision that places Wes at odds with friends and family.
Can their love survive a war that will rend a nation in two? Like the pieces of silk, velvet, and ribbon in one of her mother’s quilts, the patchwork events of Jo-Beth’s life will be knit together by God into a pattern of their own-one of sorrow, joy, and grace….
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Killer Angels : The Classic Novel Of The Civil War
$18.00Add to cartn the four most bloody and courageous days of our nation’s history, two armies fought for two conflicting dreams. One dreamed of freedom, the other of a way of life. Far more than rifles and bullets were carried into battle. There were memories. There were promises. There was love. And far more than men fell on those Pennsylvania fields. Bright futures, untested innocence, and pristine beauty were also the casualties of war. Michael Shaara’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece is unique, sweeping, unforgettable-the dramatic story of the battleground for America’s destiny.
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Blackfeet Indian Stories
$15.95Add to cartThese stories come down from very ancient times. Grandfathers told them to their grandchildren, and they to their grandchildren, and so on from mouth to mouth. In 1913, George Bird Grinned, one of the most famous ethnographers of the late nineteenth century, published this volume.
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Birth : Luke
$10.95Add to cartCommentary on Luke’s Gospel. In the glorious heavenly realm, the angels strain eagerly to understand. What new thing is God doing as Gabriel slips through the door and fights his way to earth? In that lower realm, angelic visitations are not an everyday affair – not even for Mary and Joseph!
Dare to open The Birth and you will find yourself drawn into the drama as Gene Edwards weaves anew the wonderful story of the Incarnation, the Christmas story, seen from both realms. Hard to put down, a compelling narrative, and a great gift idea, The Birth introduces the mystery of the Christian life for those who have never heard the story.
The Birth is the third of a five-book series entitled “The Chronicles of Heaven.” (The Beginning, The Escape, The Birth, The Triumph, The Return.)
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Paddle To The Sea (Anniversary)
$13.99Add to cartIn the Nipigon country north of the Great Lakes a young boy carved the figure of an Indian in a canoe, christened him Paddle-to-the-Sea, and set him on a melting snow bank which the spring sun was truning into a tumbling mountain stream. Then Paddle began a journey that took him hundreds of miles from his birthplace. He escaped the jaws of a hungry sawmill and went on to see many things on his long trip through the Great Lakes and down the Saint Lawrence River–wild animals fleeing a forest fire, the wreck of a steamer caught in an icy winter storm on Lake Superior, loading and unloading at busy docks, the peacful farms bordering the Saint Lawrence. He took a dizzy plunge over Niagara Falls and managed by a miracle to survive the whirlpools. He was buffeted by many winds and currents and was helped on his way by human hands, until, at last, he reached the Atlantic and earned the right to be called a true Paddle-to-the-Sea. Recommended for ages 8 to 12. A 1942 Caldecott Honor book.
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Secret Church : The Story Of The Anabaptists
$11.99Add to cartThe author recounts the story of the Anabaptists during the Reformation. The main characters are two teenage girl whose mother is dead and whose father is the most hated man in the community. This story is about their involvement in a church considered heretical.
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Bible Smuggler : The Story Of William Tyndale
$13.99Add to cartThe author explains William Tyndale’s work of translating, printing, and distributing the Scripture. The main character of the story is Collin, William Tyndale’s helper. Collin begins his work as a carries boy in smuggling a copy of Luther’s New Testament to William Tyndale in England. Later he travels with Tyndale to Europe to meet Martin Luther.