An Unlikely Amish Match

An Unlikely Amish Match

Vannetta Chapman

Romance / Mystery & Thrillers / Religion

She could never love an Amish rebel...Or could she? Susannah Beiler is determined to protect the other young marriageable Amish women from falling for the new bad boy in town by pretending to date Micah Fisher herself! Their deal is simple: she'll keep him company if he stays away from her friends. It's not long before she starts to see there's more to Micah than his reputation...Experience more heartwarming and inspirational small town romance in the rest of the Indiana Amish Brides series:An Unlikely Amish MatchA Widow's Hope Amish Christmas Memories A Perfect Amish MatchFrom Love Inspired: Uplifting stories of faith, forgiveness and hope.
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Bubble Gum and Monsters

Bubble Gum and Monsters

Mark Francis

Religion / Christian

Daea is nine years old, loves candy, hates school, and just became a vampire. Awakened into a new world, she is whisked away from her comfortable Los Angeles home to a scenic capital city, where danger and adventure can manifest on any given night. With supernatural Gifts, she and her teammates fight monsters and solve mysteries in an ongoing battle against the Suffering.Abby Rose is a smart and capable member of the Vanguard. She also waits tables at the O Motel Bar & Grill between her shifts of zombie killing. When a strange and viscous series of murders closes in on her home, she finds herself fighting side by side with members of the VIG—vampire increment guard. Abby soon gets close to one of their leaders, Ethan Sterling, a tall, dark and handsome vampire. Loss is prevalent in this world, but can Ethan and Abby find their way, and avoid the loss of love?
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Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

M. R. James

Short Stories / Mystery & Thrillers / Religion

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary is the title of M. R. James\' first collection of ghost stories, published in 1904 (some had previously appeared in magazines). Some later editions under this title contain both the original collection and its successor, More Ghost Stories (1911), combined in one volume. Montague Rhodes James (1862–1936) was a medieval scholar; Provost of King\'s College, Cambridge. He wrote many of his ghost stories to be read aloud in the long tradition of spooky Christmas Eve tales. His stories often use rural settings, with a quiet, scholarly protagonist getting caught up in the activities of supernatural forces. The details of horror are almost never explicit, the stories relying on a gentle, bucolic background to emphasise the awfulness of the otherworldly intrusions.
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Home

Home

Marilynne Robinson

Fiction / Religion / Essays

Home parallels the story told in Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead. It is a moving and healing book about families, family secrets, and the passing of the generations, about love and death and faith. Hundreds of thousands were enthralled by the luminous voice of John Ames in Gilead Marilynne Robinson’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel. Home is an entirely independent, deeply affecting novel that takes place concurrently in the same locale, this time in the household of Reverend Robert Boughton, Ames’s closest friend. Glory Boughton, aged thirty-eight, has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. Soon her brother, Jack—the prodigal son of the family, gone for twenty years—comes home too, looking for refuge and trying to make peace with a past littered with tormenting trouble and pain. Jack is one of the great characters in recent literature. A bad boy from childhood, an alcoholic who cannot hold a job, he is perpetually at odds with his surroundings and with his traditionalist father, though he remains Boughton’s most beloved child. Brilliant, lovable, and wayward, Jack forges an intense bond with Glory and engages painfully with Ames, his godfather and namesake. Home is a moving and healing book about families, family secrets, and the passing of the generations, about love and death and faith. It is Robinson’s greatest work, an unforgettable embodiment of the deepest and most universal emotions.
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Dead Wrong

Dead Wrong

Vannetta Chapman

Romance / Mystery & Thrillers / Religion

Who killed Russell Dixon?When Agatha Lapp's brother and sister-in-law are tragically killed in a buggy accident, Agatha relocates to the new Amish community in Hunt Texas, nestled in the Texas Hill Country.  She's there to make a success of her brother's dream—an Amish B&B. Agatha is friendly, efficient, and capable. She's also a fifty-five year old widow who has learned to be independent. When she discovers Russell Dixon's lifeless body in Cabin 3, she runs next door where retired detective Tony Vargas lives. The police determine that her guest died of natural causes, but as Agatha and Tony put together the events of the previous two days they become convinced that the police are Dead Wrong.Dead Wrong is a story of discovering new friendships and embracing a different path in the midst of tragedy. Above all else, it's a story of God's grace and provision.Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All...
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The Man Who Knew Too Much

The Man Who Knew Too Much

G. K. Chesterton

Fiction / Crime / Religion

The Man Who Knew Too Much is a book of detective stories by English writer G. K. Chesterton, published in 1922 by Cassell and Company in the United Kingdom, and Harper Brothers in the United States. The book contains eight connected short stories about "The Man Who Knew Too Much", and additional unconnected stories featuring separate heroes/detectives. The United States edition contained one of these additional stories: "The Trees of Pride", while the United Kingdom edition contained "Trees of Pride" and three more, shorter stories: "The Garden of Smoke", "The Five of Swords" and "The Tower of Treason". Horne Fisher, "The Man Who Knew Too Much", is the main protagonist of the first eight stories. In the final story, "The Vengeance of the Statue", Fisher notes: "The Prime Minister is my father\'s friend. The Foreign Minister married my sister. The Chancellor of the Exchequer is my first cousin." Because of these intimate relationships with the leading political figures in the land, Fisher knows too much about the private politics behind the public politics of the day. This knowledge is a burden to him in the eight stories, because he is able to uncover the injustices and corruptions of the murders in each story, but in most cases the real killer gets away with the killing because to bring him openly to justice would create a greater chaos: starting a war, reinciting Irish rebellions or removing public faith in the government.
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Her Amish Adversary

Her Amish Adversary

Vannetta Chapman

Romance / Mystery & Thrillers / Religion

Joining forces with her rival... Means risking everything. Running the RV park at her father's Amish market makes Bethany Yoder happy—until he hires her childhood nemesis, Aaron King. Soon Bethany's quaint ideas clash with Aaron's Englisch-style upgrades. But they must work together to turn a profit...or else. When their unlikely alliance turns into something more, will Aaron's secrets break them—and the business—apart forever?From Love Inspired: Uplifting stories of faith, forgiveness and hope.Indiana Amish Market Book 1: An Amish Proposal for ChristmasBook 2: Her Amish Adversary
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The Painting on Auerperg's Wall

The Painting on Auerperg's Wall

Erika Rummel

History / Nonfiction / Religion

The novel revolves around the forced sale of a painting in Nazi-occupied Vienna. Zoltan Nagy, the legitimate heir, is pressured by his daughter to go to court and recoup his parents' possessions. But Zoltan is in love with the present owner of the painting. What if winning the court case means losing her? And thereby hangs a tale with several twists and turns: secrets, assumptions and slippery identities are the ingredients the author has used to create a page-turner. Zoltan's daughter, Cereta, claims the painting was sold under duress. But is the work what it appears to be, or is it an expert forgery? And is Cereta the woman she claims to be? Or is her real name Laura? David, an art historian, who falls in love with her, cannot get at the truth. He is caught in a web of illusions and postmodernist doubts. Zoltan holds the key to the puzzle, but he is hard to read. The hardships he suffered in childhood have made him a man of a thousand disguises, a man hiding even from...
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A Pie Plate Pilgrimage

A Pie Plate Pilgrimage

William Loewen

Religion / Faith

Lydia Phillips has been assigned to oversee a Christian book to be written for her book publishing employer. The only problem is that she hates Christian books and the people that read them. Motivated by pride and professionalism, she sets out to complete the tasks connected to the project, and before it's finished, she finds herself on an unexpected spritual journey of her own.Lydia Phillips has a degree in comparative literature and she thought she had found a dream job at a publishing company, but it hasn't quite worked out that way. Her boss is out of touch, and new ideas are routinely ignored. Suddenly, she is commissioned to oversee the compilation of a Christian self-help book, even though she has no faith background of her own. She needs to research the industry, interview potential authors, and navigate company policies just to get the book started. An unlikely friends helps her on her way, and the whole process becomes a kind of spiritual journey for her. In the narrative spirituality genre, like The Shack and A New Kind of Christian, A Pie Plate Pilgrimage invites you on a journey of progress and decline, of tearing down and building up, and of asking and discovering.
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Mouse

Mouse

Brian Reynolds

Christian / Religion / Spirituality

Native and non-native cultures clash in this northern Canadian romance.A somewhat hapless artist from Toronto finds himself adrift on a Cree reserve in northern Ontario in the middle of a breakup disaster in 1977, a few years after the close of the local residential school. In attempting to understand his new environement, he faces challenges not only to his family and his job, but to his identity.
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Sons Of Danu

Sons Of Danu

JR Thomas

Politics / Religion / Philosophy

If you like this be sure to check out the full "Bell Watkins and The Mistrunners" book available on Amazon.com now for only 99 cents!When former MI6 agent turned archaeologist Dr Ava Curzon is engaged by American intelligence to track down an African militia claiming to hold the Ark of the Covenant, she is plunged into a world where nothing is what it seems.Her breakneck descent into the shadowy realm of dark biblical magic hurls her across continents and into the opaque worlds of the Knights Templar, freemasons, occultists, and extremist neo-Nazis, pushing her mentally and physically to the limits.As the plot twists and turns across the centuries, she requires all her skills to solve a trail of ancient clues leading her inexorably towards a terrifying ritual. Taking centre stage, she faces the ultimate battle against an age-old evil she must stop at all costs.Dr Ava Curzon is Lara Croft meets Evelyn Salt – the first real challenger to Dan Brown’s Robert Langdon.
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Dead Broke

Dead Broke

Vannetta Chapman

Romance / Mystery & Thrillers / Religion

Why would someone kill Nathan King? The peace of a perfect November afternoon is shattered when Agatha hears the frantic bleating of goats across the river from her B&B. Agatha kayaks over with retired detective Tony and two guests—Bishop Henry and his wife Emma. They find the goats huddled together in a terrified group and Nathan lying face up beneath the Live Oak trees, lifeless eyes staring at the Texas sky. Then one of Agatha's guests goes missing. She delves into Joey's past and learns he was Dead Broke, so what was he doing vacationing at her B&B? And why was he pretending to be Amish when in fact his permanent address was Dallas, Texas? Most importantly, did Joey have anything to do with Nathan's death? Agatha and Tony are at a dead end before the investigation has properly begun, but this time they receive help from unexpected places. Bishop Henry has a gift, and he's no longer afraid to use it, even if doing so...
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The Barrow Lands Bards

The Barrow Lands Bards

Mel. White

Nonfiction / Religion / LGBT

Between this world and elsewhen lies the Barrow Lands; the place where things that were once magic go when the magic fades. This is a collection of two of the Barrow Bard tales -- the ones most frequently performed at science fiction conventions by Mel. WhiteBetween this world and elsewhen lies the Barrow Lands; the place where things that were once magic go when the magic fades. This is a collection of two of Mel. White's Barrow Bard tales -- the most recent ones that were previewed at Soonercon science fiction convention.
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