Noble Cause: A Civil War Novel of Love and War by Jessica James
384 pages, 27 of 31 reviews are 4 or 5-star, Lending Enabled, Previously Free
Noble Cause is the recipient of the coveted John Esten Cooke Award for Southern Fiction and captured the title for Regional Fiction in the 2011 Next Generation Indie Award contest. It was also a Bronze winner in Foreword Magazine’s BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD contest in the Romance category, and was a Finalist in the USA “Best Books 2011 Awards for Historical Fiction.
Often compared to Gone with the Wind, Midwest Book Review called Noble Cause “a riveting piece of historical fiction.”
This is the tale of Colonel Alexander Hunter, a dauntless and daring Confederate cavalry officer, who, with his band of intrepid outcasts, becomes a legend in the rolling hills of northern Virginia. Inspired by love of country and guided by a sense of duty and honor, Hunter must make a desperate choice when he discovers the woman he promised his dying brother he would protect is the Union spy he vowed to his men he would destroy.
Readers will discover the fine line between friends and enemies when the paths of these two tenacious foes cross by the fates of war and their destinies become entwined forever.
Author Jessica James uniquely blends elements of romantic and historical fiction in this deeply personal and poignant tale that, according to one reviewer, “transcends the pages to settle in the very marrow of the reader’s bones.” Winner of numerous national awards, James has received critical acclaim for this page-turning story of courage, honor, and enduring love.
Destined for an honored place among the classics of the American Civil War, Noble Cause is a book to read, and keep, and remember forever.
What The Hell: How Did We Get It So Wrong? Eternity, Grace and the Message of Love by Jackson Baer
140 pages, 16 of 21 reviews are 4 or 5-star, Lending Enabled, Previously Free
What if everything you’ve been taught about Hell was wrong?
Many Christians think that Jesus is the only way to Heaven and those who don’t believe in Him will spend eternity in a literal and burning Hell. Is this what the Bible teaches? Will the majority of mankind spend eternity in torment because they rejected God in this life?
“What the Hell” will show you what the Scriptures clearly teach about this subject and where this idea of Hell came from. It’s not about winning or losing or even changing the Christian faith. It’s about the honest pursuit of truth.
Healing The Hurts of Your Past by F Remy Diederich
183 pages, 11 of 12 reviews are 4 or 5-star, Lending Enabled
Sometimes we are our own worst enemy. We are our biggest critic. We doubt ourselves more than anyone else. Why is that? Why do we so often sabotage the success we long for? The answer, in a word, is shame.
Healing the Hurts of Your Past helps you discover the source of nagging hurts, habits and hang-ups in your life and connects the dots to your self-defeating behavior. It then offers a solid Christ-centered approach to find the freedom you’ve always wanted. This book is not a “feel-good” story but a “roll up your sleeves” look at the pain of shame and what to do about it. Questions are offered along the way to help you process the material at a deeper level.
Healing the Hurts of Your Past is a great first step before you seek out counseling or a companion once you start. It’s refreshingly “real” without the typical psychological or religious jargon. A special appendix gives you forty scripture verses that directly address the pain of shame to help you retrain your mind in regard to how you view yourself.
Betrayal’s Wake by J Heather Leigh
90 pages, 8 of 9 reviews are 4 or 5-star, Lending Enabled
After Bethany learns of her husband’s secret, she retreats to a lake house with her mother and sister. The pain is familiar for the three women because this is not the first time betrayal has wounded the family. Is forgiveness possible?
The Glory of Green (The Green Series #3) by Judy Christie
260 pages, 19 of 21 reviews are 4 or 5-star, Lending Enabled, Previously Free
With wedding plans well underway, Lois Barker plots to gracefully get rid of her groom’s catfish collection-stuffed, ceramic, woven. Her husband-to-be, Chris, on the other hand, has decided to get rid of something else: his homestead, which he gives to a needy Mexican family at church.Life is full of possibilities, and the community of Green is tickled pink that their newspaper owner is settling down with one of their own.However, the beloved small-town journalist is about to be blown away-by tragedy and by the grace that enfolds her in her third year in Green, Louisiana.
434 pages, 12 of 16 reviews are 4 or 5-star, Lending Enabled
Mary Magdalene - The controversial woman with a past only one Man could forgive. A true love story that changed the face of history.
“I was Miryam of Magdala, seller of fine fabrics and wife of Yaakov the fisherman. With my husband and son, I held a place of honor among my countrymen until a company of rogue soldiers took everything from me. I might not be Roman, but I knew injustice when I saw it. And I had been most grievously wronged.”
In an era when women are sequestered and silenced, Miryam of Magdala lives a contended life until her son’s careless gesture evokes a hostile action that shatters her serenity. With no hope of justice, Miryam commits an unthinkable act…and descends into depths of darkness that threaten her life and her sanity.
Even after Yeshua the Messiah dramatically restores her life, Miryam can neither forget nor forgive unresolved injustices. Prodded by a hunger for vengeance she will not deny, this woman of uncommon courage risks her life and her heart by drawing destiny into her own hands.
The Faith of Ashish (Blessings of India #1) by Kay Marshall Strom
320 pages, 14 of 15 reviews are 4 or 5-star, Lending Enabled, Previously Free
“His name is Ashish. His name is Blessing. The boy is my blessing.”
Virat and Latha named their son Ashish, for he is the light and glory of their world. Yet a simple drink of water from the wrong cup changes them forever. Virat, Latha, and Ashish are Untouchables in 1905 India, members of a caste who must never contaminate the world of the other, higher, castes.
When Ashish is in desperate need of a doctor, Virat risks everything to save his son and ventures into the dangerous realm of the high caste. There, the strength of a father’s love, the power of a young British nurse, and the faith of a child change the lives around them.
267 pages, 6 of 6 reviews are 5-star, Lending Enabled
From the older images of a sad, blue-eyed Jesus to the more recent, more violently graphic portrayals of his suffering, Hollywood has trained us to see the savior of the world as just another victim. To be sure, Jesus Christ endured terrible physical abuse and a barbaric death, but the night before it all happened, when he prayed in agony, alone in the garden, he was anticipating a much darker prospect, a terrible moment that according to Luke’s Gospel would cause the sun’s light to fail.
The Hush presents an alternative view, a much larger, more comprehensive look at the familiar story, combining a unique blend of speculation with the biblical record. Passion and humor and friendship are exchanged between Jesus and his disciples, while all around them danger and conflict and unseen posturing mounts. The week wears away, the hours tick down, the trials commence, and the abuse escalates. Evil is unleashed like never before.
And then comes the moment when the sun refuses to shine; as the Lord of the universe is nailed to a tree and lifted from the earth, the Hush descends.
15 Simple Steps to Losing Your Salvation by Rick Schworer
119 pages, 9 of 11 reviews are 5-star, Lending Enabled, Previously Free
Have you ever wondered, “Am I really saved?” Maybe you remember the time you said a prayer and asked Jesus into your heart, but since then you have questioned whether you really got saved at all. Or could it be that you know you got saved, but you fear that you could never live a life good enough to hold onto that gift.
Everyone at some point in time wonders what will become of them after they die. This uncertainty can especially plague and haunt someone who, though being a child of God, wonders if there is hope for their future. To the person who struggles with the security of their salvation, the prospect of any assurance or peace seems futile without clear answers from Scripture.
Others have taken obscure verses out of the Bible to cast a thick and seemingly impenetrable shadow upon the doctrine of eternal security. God’s shining light will cut through the darkness as you are given clear guidelines for understanding some of the more difficult passages in the Bible, and the looming shadow of doubt will quickly vanish as you read the fifteen impossibilities that would have to take place to ever undo the miracles that God executed at the moment of salvation.
Ecclesiastes 3:14, “I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.”
All and Only: The First Word and the Last by Martha Kilpatrick
131 pages, 4 of 4 reviews are 5-star, Lending Enabled
“Where is God in our common troubles?”
“What is He doing in the chaotic Now?”
“Who is God in His nature? In His being?”
God is so magnificently God that His vast imperial reign is powerful enough to fix any human dilemma swallow all pain and answer every quandary …
He is God. In these pages are piercing insights into the very flavor of God amidst the struggles of humanity as told through the lives of Abraham, David, Esther, Joseph and others.
Martha Kilpatrick writes in a unique poetic prose style, and her book sends a fresh plumb line into the depths of Old Testament characters as they struggle to find God’s mysterious purpose in their very human passage. Their stories, made living and relevant, become as current as the times of your own life.
452 pages, 1 of 1 reviews are 4-star, Lending Enabled
James Foster is a middle-aged Catholic Priest who’s going through a midlife crisis. With unsubstantiated allegations of misconduct shadowing him, James reluctantly takes the advice of his Bishop. Take a temporary teaching assignment at the local university before things turn against him with his congregation.
This is the best course of action the Bishop recommends, as the Archdiocese continues to receive news about sexual misconduct charges.
Upon James arrival in his new position, he befriends Professor Frank Javan. Through a lifetime of scientific study and successful experimentations, Frank has finally perfected a machine that allows him to jump back in time. However the machine only works one-way.
Faced with the reality that his new friend will take the next step and conduct a final test that sends him on a one way trip back in time, James has to consider staying behind and trying to explain Frank?s disappearance or go with him.
Catching Kate by Andrea Aarons
166 pages, 1 of 1 reviews are 4-star, Lending Enabled, Previously Free
Book 3 in the Series, Scenic Route to Paradise
Money, men and pirates in a tale of adventure, redemption and romance; Catching Kate!
Can anyone really catch Kate? She has been running from her past for almost ten years but she hasn’t an inkling that the Master Hunter has set his sights to capture Kate.
Clueless, Kate Merriweather runs headlong into her future and her destiny… after dodging the obstacles laid strategically by the nemesis of her soul.
Surviving February by Jen Dawson
419 pages, of reviews are 4 or 5-star, Lending Enabled
This is an edgy religious romantic fiction novel that has characters that are relatable and real. Surviving February is a novel in the spirit of “A Walk to Remember” by Nicholas Sparks.
The novel opens in San Diego at a celebration of a well known evangelists 25th anniversary in the ministry, where youth pastor Michael Binder is there attending with his wife Susanna. A planned ruse goes horribly wrong and Michael and his wife are involved in a horrific car accident. At the same time as the accident, widow and mother Jeanine Bertrand is taking her daughter on a shopping spree that she cannot afford and soon faces the fact that she is going to lose her home. Jeanine ends up moving to Glendale, Arizona and moves into her cousins Sally’s house. Michael returns from the hospital to his humble home in Phoenix and wonders how he will face life alone with his four children. Michael struggles with grief and Jeanine struggles with anger and a loss of faith. They meet when Jeanine answers Michael’s ad for a nanny and their instant attraction becomes an issue for both of them. Can Michael forgive himself and move on? Can Jeanine get past the anger she has at God and at herself? Can a man of God convince an unwilling woman to give religion a second chance? Could they make a relationship work?
368 pages, 6 of 8 reviews are 4 or 5-star, Lending Enabled
Very Topical and even Metafictional!
This fictional book is great for discussions of politics, religion, and life. You know – those things you aren’t supposed to talk to anybody about to keep the peace?
Do we all exist in Heaven before becoming human? Is our life on Earth a test to see if we then get to spend Eternity with God? Does evil exist? Do evil spirits exist? Is there anything to the December 21, 2012 Mayan prophecy or other political, environmental, or astronomical events suggesting we may be living in the END TIMES? What does it mean to be Christian in the year 2012 and beyond? Is God even in control? These questions and many more are answered in the pages of Broken Pottery.
Janice Thresher is the typical middle class suburban teen of the 1980′s. Living near Pittsburgh, PA, she follows her high school sweetheart off to Penn State where he proceeds to dump her. She copes with her loss by partying heavily until God brings a new love into her life. In a cruel twist of fate, this love was not meant to last either.
On the other side of the country in Southern California, Sophie Ulsrey, a girl several years younger than Janice, spends her time trying to hide ugly scars sustained after a terrible auto accident in which she lost her father. The accident, and her mother’s reaction to it, drives Sophie to achieve wealth and fame as she becomes an adult.
As adults, the lives of Janice and Sophie divinely intersect in time to warn fellow Americans of a government cover-up to hide important factual information with apocalyptic national security implications. Just as it was in 1938 when an American radio audience believed Orson Welles’ “War of the Worlds” broadcast to be truth instead of fiction, many readers of Broken Pottery will be tempted to check their cell phones and digital libraries just to make sure they, too, are reading only a book of fiction.
Broken Pottery takes you on a suspenseful adventure through the years 1965-2020, taking on the real difficulties we all have in life, dramatizes them, and provides a considered, thoughtful view of how we tackle them. 21 Study questions for self-reflection or group study are included.
How to De-Stress Your Life by Gregory Jantz
192 pages, 2 of 2 reviews are 4 or 5-star
Anyone who has ever experienced physical or emotional fatigue as a result of our frantic modern world will welcome this practical and hopeful book. Dr. Gregory L. Jantz shows readers how to change the debilitating patterns of the past, leaving the road clear for a healthy and revitalized future. How to De-Stress Your Life is filled with exercises, checklists, and potential situations designed to guide readers into a probing self-examination to pave the way to renewed physical, emotional, and spiritual health.
God and Government by Gary DeMar
730 pages, no reviews, Lending Enabled
Nearly forty years ago, amid the rapid dissolution of the American moral fabric after Roe v. Wade, an old truth started gaining new life in America.
It was the truth that had once made America great, but one which she had forgotten—that the Bible is not a collection of disconnected moralisms for private application, but rather a comprehensive guide for all of life, a blueprint for the private and public conduct of all individuals and nations.
In 1982, the three-volume God and Government series fanned the flames of this national worldview awakening, establishing that the character of a nation and its people depends on their relationship with God as revealed in Holy Scripture.
Relying on clear historical and biblical research, author Gary DeMar demonstrated how America had been great and how she could be great again.
The series quickly became a staple in the Christian curriculum. For decades, in the hands of countless teachers, parents, and students, the books educated minds young and old in the Christian history of America, the origin and foundation of government, the biblical principles of authority, and the basis and necessity of Christian political activism.
But the work of reviving America is far from finished, and Americans need to hear—now more than ever—the biblical and historical truths explained in God and Government.
Now thirty years later, American Vision has thoroughly renovated, revised, and updated Gary DeMar’s monumental work into this beautiful one-volume hardback.
With a fresh new look, more images, an extensive subject and scripture index, and an updated bibliography, God and Government is ready to prepare a whole new generation to take on the political and religious battles confronting Christians today.
May it be used in a new awakening of Christians in America—not just to inform minds, but to stimulate action and secure a better tomorrow for our posterity.
4 Weeks With God in Business: Biblical Principles For Business by Les Crause
157 pages, no reviews, Lending Enabled
All The Basics on Business in Just Four Weeks
Imagine being able to sit down with the Lord each day for four weeks to discuss your business. That is what this series will do for you.
Les D. Crause shares some of the key principles that he received from God, which he then expanded into a full Business Training Course.
This series will whet your appetite for some of the gems that are available in the full courses, and at the same time, give you enough to get going and succeeding in business.
Your Daily Shot
Each daily lesson will motivate you, lift you up and help you solve problems that you have been having in your business.
There is just enough for you to remember and apply – a kind of Daily Manna, that will take you through each day. Then you can come back the next day for more.
Read them each weekday for four weeks, then go back and do it again. You will see even more the second or third time around.
Code Blue (Prescription for Trouble #1) by Richard Mabry
290 pages, 51 of 93 reviews are 4 or 5-star, Lending Enabled, Previously Free
For Dr. Cathy Sewell, Code Blue means more than just the cardiac emergencies she faces—it’s the state of her life when the return to her hometown doesn’t bring the peace she so desperately needs. The town doctors resent the fact that she’s not only a newcomer but also a woman, and the devastating results from one of her prescriptions may mean the end of her practice. As two men compete for her affection, an enemy wants her out of town—or possibly even dead.
Cathy returns to her hometown seeking healing after a broken relationship, but discovers that among her friends and acquaintances is someone who wants her out of town…or dead. Lawyer Will Kennedy, her high school sweetheart, offers help, but does it carry a price tag? Is hospital chief of staff, Dr. Marcus Bell, really on her side in her fight to get hospital privileges? Is Will’s father, Pastor Matthew Kennedy, interested in advising her or just trying to get her back to the church she left years ago? When one of Cathy’s prescriptions almost kills the town banker, it sets the stage for a malpractice suit that could end her time in town, if not her career. It’s soon clear that this return home was a prescription for trouble.
The Dog that Talked to God by Jim Kraus
338 pages, 57 of 62 reviews are 4 or 5-star, Lending Enabled
A wonderfully quirky, heart-breaking, heart-warming and thought-provoking story of a woman’s dog who not only talks to her, he talks to God.
Recently widowed Mary Fassler has no choice except to believe Rufus, the miniature schnauzer, who claims to speak to the Divine.
The question is: Will Mary follow the dog’s advice, and leave everything she knows and loves? Is this at the urging of God? Or is it something else? Will Mary risk it all or ignore the urgings of her own heart?
Texas Whirlwind by Bonnie Blythe
216 pages, 25 of 31 reviews are 4 or 5-star, Lending Enabled, Previously Free
A summer storm in Galveston mirrors the whirlwind of problems Emma Hayes encounters after she adopts Haitian twin girls and runs into her old high school love-ending in a battle for custody when strangers contest the adoption. Is it true that she bought love with her ready-made family or can she trust the One that the even wind and waves obey?
The Bible: Word Cloud by Craig Ross
no reviews, Lending Enabled
Bookwi.se Note: this primarily images and the file is quite large
Word Clouds are a visual representation of a piece of text, based on word frequency. The larger the word, the more often it appears in the passage.
This innovative series of 69 Clouds represents each passage in the Old and New testament (King James version).
Not only are they aesthetically pleasing in their own right but also act as a platform to help reflect on the passages or as part of a study group.
Please feel free to use them however you see fit.
Sins of Our Hearts by Joseph Alila
70 pages, no reviews, Lending Enabled
A young Pastor, Rew Smith, leads the affluent Oakpound New Hope Church. Things appear well in Pastor Smith’s Church, but underneath the glitter of its architecture and human faces, it has a deep spiritual problem. Simply put, the church suffers from a shortage of love. New converts are called names and go unattended to as the young Pastor spends most of his evenings at Oakpound Big Boys Health and Fitness Club. Elders in his Lay Leadership bask in self-praise, and exude a form of spirituality that has no force of love behind it. Led by Mrs. Smith, some members of the Women Wing have introduced a controversial Foot-Washing method for its convenience, but in which the virtues of humility and selfless love are virtually dead. Oakpound New Hope Church, is crying for Divine intervention, and it is about to get it.
America’s Resurrection by Bruce Moore
158 pages, no reviews, Lending Enabled
America Was Great Once… She Can Be Great Again
In America’s Resurrection: Seeking God’s Blessing on Our Nation, author Bruce Moore details the original founding vision for America, our rise to greatness, and our present downward cycle. He shows how the Christian values our nation was founded upon, which served as the source of strength and success for our government, culture and society, are now at risk in America today, and with them, so much more.
By comparing America at its founding with its current state, Moore skillfully explores:
• The dilution and polarization of Christian values in our society, the resultant disunity of our citizenry, and the erosion of our status as the world’s leading nation.
• The alarming increase in the size and role of our nation’s government, its increasing reach into the personal lives of its citizens, as well as how our contentious political atmosphere has inflamed this problem.
• The importance of the preservation of the U.S. Constitution as originally interpreted and intended by the founders of our great nation, in the face of divergent reinterpretation that social pressures of our day impose.
Though he presents a sometimes grim assessment of America’s current state and direction, Moore presents a hopeful picture of the bright future of our nation in America’s Resurrection: Seeking God’s Blessing on Our Nation. If you believe in America and want to see her restored to greatness, you will find in these pages a wealth of invaluable information, written from a solidly Bible-based, Christian worldview.
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