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  • Excerpts from the Prayer Journals of the Women of David Excerpts from the Prayer Journals of the Women of David
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    Excerpts from the Prayer Journals of the Women of David

    David had many facets, many skills and talents, and many noble and admirable character traits displayed and commended in scripture. He also had many wives--and concubines. Of the wives, about most of them scripture records only the woman's name,...
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  • A Fortress Among My People A Fortress Among My People
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    A Fortress Among My People

    Six hundred years before the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, ruthless pagan kings lust after the land and resources of the wayward people of Judah.  In the obscure Judean village of Anathoth, a shy, lonely boy is growing up, feared and shunned by...
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  • Garments Rolled in Blood Garments Rolled in Blood
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    Garments Rolled in Blood

    John the Baptist, forerunner of Jesus, son of Zacharias and Elizabeth-both of priestly descent-lived as a Nazarite in the desert, began his ministry beyond Jordan in the fifteenth year of Tiberias Caesar, preached baptism of repentance in preparation of...
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  • In Madison's Cave In Madison's Cave
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    In Madison's Cave

    "We two ought not to die before we have explained ourselves to one another." John Adams wrote those words to Thomas Jefferson early in the long series of letters they exchanged near the end of their lives. In Madison's Cave is Jefferson's...
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  • Through the Open Door Through the Open Door
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    Through the Open Door

    Boston, Massachusetts 1880...Charles Brennan, obsessed by greed, abused his power as a husband and employer, isolating his wife, Rose, and violating the household help. In an act of desperation, one of them murdered him, releasing them all from his...
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  • Mescalero Madness Mescalero Madness
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    Mescalero Madness

    Western master, B.N. Rundell, brings book thirteen in the best selling Rocky Mountain Saint series.The civil war is raging across the east and south of the states, and when the confederates move north from Texas, Kit Carson sends for Tate Saint.But when...
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  • Reaching Colorado Reaching Colorado
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    Reaching Colorado

    Tenderfoot Harrison Wilke wondered about the three men: heavily armed, avoiding the town, carrying gold coin in their saddlebags. Alert. Surly. Arrogant. Robbers, Harrison concluded; they must have robbed a bank or a train.   Harrison thought...
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  • Handful of Purpose Handful of Purpose
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    Handful of Purpose

    Maggie Quinn had secluded herself nicely on her grandfather’s farm in the middle of the Black Hills. Estranged from a town who didn’t care to understand her, she made her own living and was able to sustain a quiet, peaceable life alone. All...
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  • Zekial Zekial
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    Zekial

    It's Easy to be Brave from a Safe Distance.When Zekial Broome stops a sadistic slave chaser, Grissum McCord, from whipping his captive, he and the girl have no choice but to flee west into the untamed lands of the wild frontier. If they can make it...
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  • Dead Eyes in Late Summer Dead Eyes in Late Summer
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    Dead Eyes in Late Summer

    Late summer 1931 and twenty-seven-year-old Adelyn Crawford is lying in a hammock in Tulip Junction, Georgia. She lives on this working farm with her sons, her parents, her uncle Tyree and Aunt Grace, and occasionally, these days with Garnett, her husband...
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  • A Private and Her Foes A Private and Her Foes
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    A Private and Her Foes

    By the late summer of 1863, the American Civil War has become entrenched into its third year, the bloody conflict raging far longer than could have been anticipated. The armies remain hungry for recruits in order to replenish their depleted ranks, the...
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  • The Devil's Whispers The Devil's Whispers
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    The Devil's Whispers

    In a silent, sleepy castle, evil has awakened...Famed British lawyer Gerard Woodward is summoned to an ancient Welsh castle to assist a dying lord in his final affairs. But as his host slips closer to death, Gerard begins to feel less like a guest and...
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  • Josiah Pike Josiah Pike
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    Josiah Pike

    Josiah Pike, a captive of the Lakota, Sioux, came into manhood the hard way…a slave, an outcast, a young man constantly tested…who finally proved himself as a warrior among a people being driven and overwhelmed by a force they didn't...
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  • The Last Crusader Kingdom The Last Crusader Kingdom
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    The Last Crusader Kingdom

    John d'Ibelin, son of the legendary Balian, will one day defy the most powerful monarch on earth. But first he must survive his apprenticeship as squire to a man determined to build a kingdom on an island ravaged by rebellion. The Greek insurgents...
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  • The Assassinator The Assassinator
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    The Assassinator

    What if John Wilkes Booth were tried for assassinating Abraham Lincoln?Fleeing south after shooting President Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth was cornered in a barn in Virginia and mortally wounded when he refused to surrender to pursuing federal cavalrymen...
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    A Debt of War

    A dying wish and a mysterious manuscript bring to light a heart-rending tale of one soldier's undying commitment to pay a debt owed, transcending both ideology and racial divide, leading to the ultimate price paid."Michael Ringering weaves a beautifully...
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  • Cleared For Planting Cleared For Planting
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    Cleared For Planting

    With the unexpected lurking just around the corner, living in the Appalachian mountains in 1804 takes a strong person.Emma has high hopes when her family moves to the North Carolina mountains. Her father appears to have finally quit drinking, and he...
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  • Guiding Missal Guiding Missal
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    Guiding Missal

    If this little book could only talk!Guiding Missal is based on a true story about a lively prayerbook that accompanies three military men as they live through momentous events in our nation’s history.In 1942, George Panko is drafted into the U.S...
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  • The Fuhrer Virus The Fuhrer Virus
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    The Fuhrer Virus

    1941. Hitler’s Blitzkrieg ravages Europe while a neutral America sits on the sidelines. In the shadows of Washington and Berlin, a malevolent Senator and ruthless business tycoon join forces with a cabal of fanatical German patriots...
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  • Fleetie's Crossing Fleetie's Crossing
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    Fleetie's Crossing

    Fleetie’s Crossing will reveal events and upheavals in the lives of two families who stumbled upon the heartbreak of the beginning of the out-migration in the Appalachians. The devastating results of this period in history, beginning in the late...
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  • La Aguita La Aguita
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    La Aguita

    Volunteering in a rural development program in the south of Chile, Laura is initially overwhelmed by the poverty and hardship she encounters. The country is ruled by the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. As she begins to find fulfillment in her...
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  • Women in Scrub Women in Scrub
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    Women in Scrub

    This is a series of stories about the men and women coming out of the nineteenth century and what a serious event it was. The stories are true, the names are fictitious, and the facts are spelled out as best so that the author can relate them to the...
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  • Dryver's Fields Dryver's Fields
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    Dryver's Fields

    In the year 1818, Cha Kai Ta-or Crow to the warriors who follow him-has been consumed by a jealous hatred for his clever, younger brother, Nai Pa. He has hidden his feelings from his parents, his brother, and the other members of his tribe for years, but...
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  • Harvesters of Stone Harvesters of Stone
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    Harvesters of Stone

    While on a summer history research trip in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1976, William Dick is befriended by Jack Falstaff. Bull-scat Jack, as he is known, gets Bill a room at the Alvermay, a seedy hotel run by Fripp, a black man raised on Fripp Island...
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  • Dangerous Legacy Dangerous Legacy
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    Dangerous Legacy

    It is 1939, and Stefan Zurowski heads to his home nestled in the Masurian Lake District of Poland. Manipulated by his domineering father throughout his life, Stefan's heart soars with the thought that the count has now called him home to protect their...
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    The Sheriff's Dream

    When Jacob Gorska was born in Poland, it was five years before Hitler's army invaded his country and initiated the Second World War. Now after immigrating to America as a boy and eventually becoming a Jesuit priest and scholar of Eastern European...
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  • The Magician's Tale The Magician's Tale
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    The Magician's Tale

    It is the 1940s in the Lodz Ghetto in Poland as Michal Frankel, a Jew trapped by the Nazis, records in his journal his struggle to find meaning through his activities in the resistance and his love for Rachel. Meanwhile, his teenage brother, David, has...
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  • Nahid Nahid
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    Nahid

    The Late Bronze Age Stories part seven, Nahid, continues the story of this family who are descended from Thutmose, the eighteenth dynasty Egyptian artist.It is unsafe for the kin to remain in northern Mesopotamia for a tribe led by an ambitious man...
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  • Aleut Princess Aleut Princess
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    Aleut Princess

    With a father who is chief of a village of almost two hundred Aleut people, Anna Hasson grows up a real Aleut princess. But everything changes when she turns fourteen. A year after Anna is kidnapped outside her seaside home and thrust into the white...
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  • Marguerite, Calvin & Rabelais Marguerite, Calvin & Rabelais
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    Marguerite, Calvin & Rabelais

    Having studied medicine, Rabelais sat down on the beach and contemplated a statue of Asklepius."Oh worthy Asklepius, God of Healing! Where are you? ““Here I am,” a little boy said pouring sand on Rabelais’ bare feet...
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  • The Chakri Dynasty The Chakri Dynasty
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    The Chakri Dynasty

    It is the mid-1800s in Siam as King Mongkut busies himself creating children with his many wives. Out of his eighty-four offspring, Prince Damrong is the most intelligent and charming. Known as the king’s jewel, Damrong is already being groomed for...
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    Allerton and Axtell

    It is 1879—four years after a great fire ravages Independence, Iowa—when a well-dressed creamery businessman shows up in the small town, looking for a horse to buy. When Charles W. Williams meets young orphaned horse groom, Gilbert Fenny, the...
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  • Mine to Remember Mine to Remember
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    Mine to Remember

    MINE TO REMEMBER is a story of deep love and great tragedy set in the short life of Rhodesia, from 1890 to 1980.  The changing history of the country unfolds through the lives of the different families who worked to develop and build the coal mining...
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    A Deadly Thaw

    When a team of researchers from Canada's Arctic Institute travel to York Factory to disinter a grave, they unwittingly stumble upon more than they bargained for buried in the permafrost. Their research is focused on the old Hudson Bay Company fort...
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    Coronation of the White Rose

    The Coronation of the White Rose is a story that follows my first novel. The true meaning of the story represents peace after the tragedy of the people in the spring town of Virgin Mary. The story also represents a new beginning at the end of an era...
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  • My Dream of Florence Ballard My Dream of Florence Ballard
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    My Dream of Florence Ballard

    My Dream of Florence Ballard: A Detroit Rose was developed from my mom telling me all these wonderful stories of Motown music in the 1960s. She remembered Florence Ballard when she lived in Detroit. I would ask my mom about it when I was a child growing...
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    The Fate of the Jacobite Grenadiers

    February 1746. The rebel army of Prince Charles Edward Stuart has retreated to the north-east of Scotland. Here they are surrounded by three enemy armies loyal to King George. Lacking money, equipment and food, only a decisive victory on the battlefield...
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  • A Life Rebuilt A Life Rebuilt
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    A Life Rebuilt

    The novel unfolds the story of a feisty young woman named Ester who came from a rural life in Sweden and jumped into an exciting urban life in America. Ester left Sweden with a secret, as many immigrants did, but her secret didn’t hinder her...
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  • From the Other Side of the Gun From the Other Side of the Gun
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    From the Other Side of the Gun

    It is April 1941. Belgrade has been bombed, leaving its government in shambles. In a small village in the newly independent state of Croatia, its residents know that a war has started, but nobody senses the tragedy that awaits Kornica, especially a young...
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  • Swimming with Lizards Swimming with Lizards
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    Swimming with Lizards

    Umuokika is a prosperous African community led by Chief Ebube, the son of a great warrior-until a mysterious illness descends upon the people. Its first victim is Ebube's youngest wife, who becomes sick with a high fever and strange sores. At first,...
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  • Phoenix Mistress Phoenix Mistress
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    Phoenix Mistress

    It is 1969 and America is divided over the war that rages in Vietnam. The American public is unaware of a covert CIA operation called the Phoenix Program, designed to "neutralize" the Viet Cong Infrastructure.In this historical novel, a computer...
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  • Follow the Path He Set For You Follow the Path He Set For You
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    Follow the Path He Set For You

    The 1930s were a different time from the 1920s. The Great Depression hit and as time passed many people lost their jobs, homes and land. Some families and individuals “rode the rails” looking for work. A Dust Bowl hit and blew much of the...
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    Del águila al aguilucho

    Si Austerlitz fue el cenit de las victorias, Borodino fue el ocaso. Una historia fascinante de la vida de Napoleón I , con batallas, romances, engaños, perdones, todo ello narrado con sutileza, otorgando al mismo tiempo conocimientos...
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  • Haunted Youth Haunted Youth
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    Haunted Youth

    It is 1940 and a war is raging in Europe. But in a German-American neighborhood in Port Huron, Michigan, there is a different battle taking place. As the movie Frankenstein debuts in the theatre, a ten-year-old boy and his twin, Jerry, finally convince...
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    Rebecca...the Ghost of the Cloudcroft Lodge

    Rebecca, a beautiful Irish lass with swirls of red curls framing her small face and large captivating blue eyes, the color of the sea, has been found out. She has committed treason...treason against her father, against her home Connemara...and maybe even...
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  • The Iron Cavalier The Iron Cavalier
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    The Iron Cavalier

    Elizabethan England and the war with Spain. Plots, counterplots and secret couriers. Romance ashore and the Armada battles at sea. The whole color-filled panorama of the momentous 16th Century, its heroes and heroines, its explorers Sir Francis Drake and...
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  • Death's Corral Death's Corral
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    Death's Corral

    A bloody gun feud between rival freight haulers threatened to rip apart the peace and quiet of Sanderson, Texas until Walt Slade -- the undercover Texas Ranger -- compelled law and order. But each side accused the other of murder as a brutal series of...
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  • Captain Crossbones Captain Crossbones
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    Captain Crossbones

    When George Rounsivel's pirate band captured the niece of the Governor of the Bahamas, that young American buccaneer was in a jam. For he already shared his cabin with a jealous pirate wench who would slip a dagger into him the instant he looked at...
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