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1) The red tent
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
"Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters of the Book of Genesis. In The Red Tent, Anita Diamant brings this fascinating biblical character to vivid life. Told in Dinah's voice, the novel reveals the traditions and turmoils of ancient womanhood--the world of the red tent. It begins with the story of Dinah's mothers--Leah, Rachel, Zilpah, and Bilhah--the four wives of...
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English
Description
"Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven." Blind, broken by the death of his wife and bitterly disappointed by the Restoration, Milton dictated his sweeping biblical epic Paradise Lost to a series of helpers. While the struggle between God and Satan rages across the cosmos, the human tragedy of Adam and Eve the temptation and fall is movingly depicted in language unsurpassed in its musicality and beauty. A staggering and audacious undertaking...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"The third installment in the bestselling gothic series, about an ancient order who speak the truth behind Christ's miracles and strive to protect the world from evil from New York Times bestselling authors James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell"--
As an escalating scourge of grisly murders sweeps the globe, archaeologist Erin Granger must decipher the truth behind an immortal prophecy foretold in the Blood Gospel, a tome written by Christ and lost for...
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Series
Christ the Lord volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Offers a fictional account of a period in the life of Jesus Christ, beginning just prior to his baptism in the Jordan River and concluding with the miracle at Cana, as he leaves Nazareth ready to become Israel's liberator from Roman occupation.
5) Cain
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"In this, his last novel, Saramago daringly reimagines the characters and narratives of the Bible through the story of Cain. Condemned to wander forever after he kills Abel, he is whisked around in time and space. He experiences the almost-sacrifice of Isaac by Abraham, the Tower of Babel, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Joshua at the battle of Jericho, Job's ordeal, and finally Noah's ark and the Flood. And over and over again Cain encounters...
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Series
Language
English
Description
After a shocking discovery in Masada, Israel, Sergeant Jordan Stone, Father Rhun Korza and Dr. Erin Granger, racing against time to recover a book written by Christ's own hand, must contend with a force of ancient evil with impossible ambitions and a secret sect within the Vatican called the Sanguines.
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Series
Language
English
Description
"In this epic Biblical narrative, ideal for fans of The Bible miniseries, ayoung woman taken into the prophet Isaiah's household rises to capture the heart of the future king. Isaiah adopts Ishma, giving her a new name--Zibah, delight of the Lord--thereby ensuring her royal pedigree. Ishma came to the prophet's home, devastated after watching her family destroyed and living as a captive. But as the years pass, Zibah's lively spirit wins Prince Hezekiah's...
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Jesus chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Ninety-year-old John, the last surviving apostle, remembers his broken life before befriending Jesus and is called upon to write a gospel that definitively establishes Jesus as the Son of God.
11) Come unto me
Author
Series
Kingdom and the crown volume 2
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Language
English
Description
Simeon and Miriam face tremendous trials as they try to save their friends and still keep the teachings of Jesus.
A dramatic account of Christ's ministry, as seen through the eyes of those who would follow him. In Come Unto Me, volume 2 of the bestselling series The Kingdom and the Crown, Simeon of Capernaum wrestles with how to undo the damage wrought by his reluctant conversion to a man called Jesus of Nazareth. His determination to follow the...
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Jesus chronicles volume 3
Language
English
Description
Recounts the life story of the author of the Gospel of Luke--from his life as a slave to his university studies as a medical student at Tarsus, from his acquaintance with Saul (Paul) of Tarsus to his ultimate discipleship and decision to write the story of Christ.
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Series
Acts of faith volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Leah, a young Jewess of mixed heritage, is secretly commissioned to discover the truth behind the death of an obscure rabbi in the Roman backwater of first-century Palestine while also being engulfed in her own turmoil--facing the prospect of an arranged marriage to a Roman soldier, Alban, who seems to care for nothing but his own ambitions as leader of the Roman garrison near Galilee.
14) Take this cup
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Series
Language
English
Description
A weaver named Nehemiah is charged with bringing a very special vessel to Jerusalem what will herald the coming of the Messiah, just as the final events of Jesus' earthly ministry are coming to a climax.
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Series
Daughters of the promised land volume 3
Language
English
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...
