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Only a handful of people in the history of the world have died twice… Lazarus was one of them.
Little is known about the life of Lazarus. The Bible only mentions him in two chapters of the Gospel of John. However, we can glean some basic information about him from those brief references. He lived in a small town called Bethany with two sisters named Mary and Martha. When Lazarus died of a sudden illness, Jesus raised him from the dead. That miracle...
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Can a scorned heart find love with someone new?
Spurned by love, Carl places an mail-order bride ad in hopes that he can find a companion, but when Elizabeth shows up, she's nothing like he expected. At first, he can't get her to engage in town events, but when she does, odd things begin happening. Is she the reason or simply a victim?
Elizabeth Parker never dreamed of a life out west, but when her father dies, she is left with little choice. She...
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Be My Witness takes place in ancient Israel during the period of Jesus Christ's life and teaching.
The Jews of Israel are fermenting an uprising against the Roman rule. The rebellious leaders of the Jews think Jesus was the Anointed One, the Messiah who would lead his people from under the thumb of Governor Pilate, relieve them of the burdensome taxation and the Roman Legions' harsh, unforgiving rule, and restore the Throne of David, bringing freedom...
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"In 1815, a painter's daughter on the north Devon coast agrees to marry a stranger to avoid scandal, but her choice is complicated by the return of a former lover and a growing affection for the husband she barely knows."--
1815. Sophie Dupont assists her father in his studio, keeping her own artwork out of sight. Along the north Devon coast, popular with artists and poets, she meets Wesley Overtree, the first man to tell her she's beautiful. Captain...
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When Carrington Brouwer receives the enviable job of painting carousel horses for a factory in Ohio, she believes her future is secure. But after an expensive necklace disappears from the home where she's been staying, she's caught up in a search for the truth that puts her entire livelihood--and her developing relationship with the factory manager--at risk. Can she lead police to the real culprit before she loses everything?
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Readers journey across America and through time in these moving and romantic stories from top Christian historical romance writers. Karen Witemeyer's "Worth the Wait" takes place at Harper's Station women's colony, where a young mother faces the past in order to trust again. In Jody Hedlund's "An Awakened Heart," a young woman and a new minister spar over how to help the needy in New York's tenements. And in Elizabeth Camden's "Toward the Sunrise,"...
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Weary of the expectations imposed by her strict upbringing, eighteen-year-old Mazy Pelfrey leaves her Kentucky mountain home for the genteel city of Lexington to attend secretarial school. She knows her life is about to change, and only for the better. But business school is harder than she thought, and the big city not as friendly -- until she meets charming, young Loyal Chambers, who comes from a wealthy family. The only hindrance to her budding...
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When her mother dies in childbirth, Jessica's father sends his infant daughter to New York to be raised by an older aunt. Aunt Harriet tells Jessica nothing of her father's offer to take her back, and pushes her into an arranged marriage with an abusive and unfaithful man. After her aunt and husband die, Jessica is alone in the world with her infant son. Returning to the Kansas ranch where her life began, she doesn't know whom to trust. Will Windridge...
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Not all illusions happen on the stage.
Wren Lockhart, apprentice to master illusionist Harry Houdini, uses life on a vaudeville stage to escape the pain of her past. She continues her career of illusion after her mentor's death, intent on burying her true identity.
But when a rival performer's act goes tragically wrong, the newly formed FBI calls on Wren to speak the truth-and reveal her real name to the world. She transfers her skills for misdirection...
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Yukon quest volume 1
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Could They Fulfill Their Dreams in this Untamed Land? Driven by desperation, Grace Hawkins must forsake the affluent comfort of her upbringing to save herself from an arranged marriage. Disillusioned by her father's insistence, she forges a daring plan to escape the sinister hand of her intended. Peter Colton sees the Alaskan gold rush as an opportunity to establish his family's fledgling shipping business. An unexpected partnership enables him to...
12) Ashes and ice
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Yukon quest volume 2
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When heartache and loss invade Karen Pierce's carefully ordered world, she is devastated. Her plans and dreams for the future seem distant and unattainable, and she is bound by a promise to care for two young adults who are struggling with a loss of their own. Continuing their journey north to the goldfields seems their only option, and Adrik Ivanov agrees to be their guide. With a late start and the constant threat of winter hastening their pace,...
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1886. Jesse Montgomery is beginning to feel restless. Though he's grateful to friends Colin and Emma for helping him get on his feet again, surely the Lord doesn't want him to stay in Apple Grove forever. Shouldn't this reformed rowdy cowboy begin to build a life of his own? Then an unscrupulous cattle baron tries to steal Amish land, and Jesse is wounded when he intervenes. Lovely young healer Katie Miller attends to him while trying to guard her...
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Daughters of the Mayflower volume 3
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"Mercy Lytton, a scout with keen eyesight raised among the Mohawks, and Elias Dubois, a condemned traitor working both sides of the conflict, must join together to get a shipment of gold safely into British hands."--Amazon website.
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Kansas, 1881. On a trip to visit relatives, Emma Switzer's Amish family is robbed of all their possessions. Walking into the nearest trading settlement, they pray to the Lord for someone to help. When a man lands in the dust at her feet, Emma looks down and thinks, The Lord might have cleaned him up first. But Curtis Carson, heading up his first cattle drive, was not planning on being the answer to anyone's prayers. But it looks as though God has...
16) Sabrina's man
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Sabrina's pampered life comes to a screeching halt when a vile conman steals away her younger sister. When her daddy's money can't buy justice, Sabrina takes matters into her own hands and heads west to track down the outlaw. To Sabrina's disgust, her solitary hope for saving Marianne seems to be Waco Smith, an only slightly reformed ex-criminal. Will these two unlikely allies bond over more than just a shared mission of rescue and revenge?
17) Gunpowder tea
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When Miranda Hunt sees the classified ad for an heiress to the legendary Last Chance Ranch, she knows assuming the identity of Annie Beckman is the perfect cover. As a Pinkerton Detective, Miranda has been tasked with apprehending the Phantom -- an elusive and notorious train robber thought to be hiding on the sprawling ranch. But she isn't the only one there with something to hide. Wells Fargo detective Jeremy Taggert is working the scene undercover...
18) Last chance wife
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When six-time mail-order bride Winifred Sattler is stranded in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, she's grateful to find a temporary position at Mr. Ewan Burke's business until she can return home. Ewan is handsome, but stuffy and serious--her complete opposite. Unlike her new anonymous correspondent, Mr. Businessman, who appreciates her bubbly optimism. To keep his mining company afloat, Ewan can't be distracted by Winifred's vivacious beauty. He needs...
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"The Pinkerton agent that Edward Kent hired is intelligent, capable--and unexpectedly female! Though shocked to learn that Maggy Worthing will be investigating the threats to his Wyoming horse ranch, Edward needs to find the culprit. And if that means a temporary engagement to give Maggy a cover story, he'll play along with the feisty detective. Maggy always gets her man--at least when it comes to solving crimes. The young widow refuses to marry again...
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On a small Kansas farm in 1890, Christina Willems lovingly shepherds a group of displaced individuals who have come to see the Brambleville Asylum for the Poor as their home. But when a kitchen fire leaves the house uninhabitable, she must find shelter for all in her care, scattering her dear "family." Christina is forced to approach Levi Johnson, a reclusive mill owner, to take in a young blind boy named Tommy Kilgore. Levi agrees with reluctance,...
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