Fiction - Christian - Historical

Named for the town where her mother found out she was expecting, Kelsey Wickham wants nothing more than to stop her mother from her reckless ways, but the only way to save the infamous Lydia Wickham from her own impropriety is to distract her...

Timothy Wentworth has devoted his life to keeping his cousin Jayce Buchanan out of trouble. The two men aimlessly sail the world on a trade ship in an attempt to forget the heartbreak and losses of the past, but Timothy wishes that Jayce would...

'Crusade of Tears' is an astonishing tale of courage, perseverance and faith surrounding the tragedy of the Children's Crusade of 1212 in which thousands of German children crossed the Alps in a heart-wrenching attempt to rescue Jerusalem from Islam. C.D. Baker paints a masterful...

From his early days as a monk working with orphans, to his final days as Bishop, this historical fiction fantasy novel details the life of the true Saint Nicholas, as never told before. In an effort to help the poor in Asia Minor, Nicholas...

Marcus Vinicius is a passionate Roman tribune; Lygia Callina is a Christian maiden of royal descent and a hostage of Rome. At first Marcus has no notion of love, but he desires Lygia with animalistic intensity. Through political machinations, he contrives to have her...

"1788: In a tiny French village, during the waning days of peace, cousins Renee and Laurette live a peaceful, relatively contented life as the shepherdesses under the guardianship of the respectable Emile Gagnon. When Renee is given the chance to work as a seamstress...

I wondered why all the important people in the gospels, and many unimportant ones, have names, but some women who played a large role in a story did not? I wonder what they thought about this man who spoke to them as though they...

Many people claim that the Bible supports their views, when they are simply selecting verses and reading them out of context to bolster their prejudices. This book imagines Mary Magdalene telling her life story. It is by a published author who has made a...

A reliable historical account is a recitation of past truths and an important guide to living life in the present. A study of history enables future generations to avoid the pitfalls experienced by those who have lived before. This is a historical novel based...

Northern Europe, early sixteenth century. The Church is in turmoil, as corrupt leaders brutally suppress attempts at reform. The burning of heretics has become a public spectacle, while spies are ever watchful, searching for others to indict. And yet, most inhabitants of Mithrendia live...

A young girl has frightening dreams and visions. An innocent baby dies. A wicked king lashes out in anger and hatred, dispensing a vile revenge on the people of Jerusalem. Blood runs in the streets. Rogue priests plot evil deeds. A long line of...

John Nash journeys back to England before the first shots of the Revolution are fired. Rebecah Brent, a young woman who has known little more than the solitude of an isolated manor, gives him her heart. Can Nash protect his wife from a man...

Their discovery on the third floor of Hickory Hill is almost too much to bear.Since the Beautiful Houses computer software worked so well for the Old Dears' family tree project, Abby's college roommate Kate hopes the computer program will help her find out more...

Brake and Beach invite the reader to "time travel" into the first century, the world of an ordinary family facing extraordinary challenges, as they grapple with young Jesus's developing self-awareness and preparation for His divine mission. "With biblical and historical accuracy, insightful sanctified imagination...

In the year 732 AD, the new religion of Islam ruled throughout most of the known world. From Persia to Northern Spain, Muslim armies confidently marched forward with an irresistible force that had led to one hundred years of victories over all who opposed...

What you wanted to know about other cultures but were afraid to ask. Little Ben continues his travels to seven different countries. Vietnam, Haiti, Belgium, Germany, South Korea, Samoa, and the newly discovered island of Mababaye. In this book "Little Ben's Pledge 2" you...

Little Ben has a special love for people of different cultures, especially for those who have been overlooked or not fully recognized for their accomplishments. In this book "Little Ben's Pledge" Little Ben makes a pledge of allegiance to the people of Africa, America,...

A 200-year-old treasure waiting to be reclaimed. Abby Thomas' 11-year-old student Merri is finally warming up to her. And her friendship with John Roberts is also heating up. He's definitely marriage material. Except for the fact that when she tells him about Beautiful Houses...

A spunky young widow hires a farmhand with a bad reputation to help her get her cotton to Jefferson to meet the wagon train, and sparks fly--but can she love a man who doesn't love the Lord? Susannah Abbot Baylor reluctantly hires Henry Buckmeyer...

Written in first person, a cynical reporter finds faith in middle of nowhere amidst a sandstorm on Christmas Eve.*ALL profits from this book will be donated to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital...Thank youAuthor: Karen C. Davis-SolomonISBN-10: 1467948888ISBN-13: 9781467948883Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/19/2011Pages:...

Fictional Bible story of the shepherd boy who didn't get to go to Bethlehem because greater things were planned by the Lord for him.Author: Charles R. McCrackenISBN-10: 1507543840ISBN-13: 9781507543849Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/13/2015Pages: 88Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.18d

In 2241 B.C. the plain of Shinar is a desolate place. But there a great tower has been built to reach the heavens placed in the middle of a walled municipality known as The City. Strong-willed Nabella lives a days-journey from the safety of...

Sister Mary Baruch loves the Office of Compline and relishes how it ushers in the Great Silence of the night . . . a time to reflect on the events of the day, or the week, or the year, or even one's whole life....

Set in the ancient Mediterranean the narrator and protagonist is Kleitos, a Hellenized Jew who eventually finds himself exiled to the Aegean island of Patmos where he encounters one, Yohanan, (John) another imperial exile. The man is a fanatic, engaged in writing a long...

Catherine Gilbert can't stop looking over her shoulder. She only did what was right, but the decision has cost more than she bargained for. Now, all she wants is to make a new life for herself and her younger sister, Lydia, in the Wyoming...

"a richly imagined novel... A big, bold Biblical saga to fire the Christian imagination."---- Kirkus Reviews On the fateful road to Calvary, his part was cruelty; hers was compassion. The Lance and the Veil tells the story of Veronica, a princess of Rome, and...

The year is 1851, and a young man travels the frontier trails searching for his family. Look closely, however, and you might realize this young man is actually twenty-one-year-old Josephine "Jo" Brown, daughter of a Pennsylvanian minister. Jo longs to be a minister like...

From the award-winning author of Sinners and the Sea comes a breathtaking new look into the timeless tale of Queen Esther, "a riveting tale of courage" (New York Times bestselling author Tosca Lee). A glittering Persian king has a vast empire that reaches farther...

While visiting Jerusalem, Miriam finds the city in a state of unrest and filled with turmoil. When a disturbance occurs near the market place, one man emerges as the center of attention. She convinces her less than willing brother to join her quest to...

In small-town Tennessee, the neighbors are friendly, the days move slowly, and folks feel safe-but 1969 would be a year Maddie Randall will never forget as she throws the covers off of her quaint town's seedy underbelly. After surviving a frightening day on the...

The lives of the First Church of Raymond are forever changed when a homeless wanderer bursts into their pristine routine and challenges every conventional notion of what it means to be a Christian. As they pledge to ask themselves "What would Jesus do?" in...

Remembering Paleface Ski Center and Dude Ranch... This historical novel tells the story of a family-owned resort in the heart of the Adirondack Mountains and the struggle to thrive alongside the rugged, spectacular, and majestic Whiteface Mountain. It is the story of a dreamer,...

After a flood damages the looms at Zenus Dane's Philadelphia textile mill and the bank demands loan payment, Zenus turns to his aunt for help repurposing his textiles. Trouble is . . . his aunt has already been hired by the lovely yet secretive...

A 2011 BookList Top Ten Inspirational Book This riveting conclusion of Grace Winslow's fight for freedom carries her from England to America's Deep South. After learning that her husband, Cabeto, is on a South Carolina plantation, Grace dons a sailor's disguise and boards the...

Author: Jay A. CornilsISBN-10: 1403358664ISBN-13: 9781403358660Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/27/2002Pages: 232Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.53d

Discovering the Norseman's tombstone, his maternal forefather, the drowning of his Great Grandfather lighthousekeeper, hired hand at Derry Rabble, a New York City firefighter, followed by his son in the Rescue Company ONE until 9/11.Author: Daniel DuddyISBN-10: 1403308071ISBN-13: 9781403308078Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/04/2002Pages:...

Nkemi one of the Otani warriors rescued the beautiful Uredo on her way to visit one of her aunts in Obaji and fell in love with her, during one of his visits he made a promise to see her on particular day, though it...

"The reason I left the place I did is to find a home. But I also had no freedom there, and I value my liberty. I'll not let you tell me what to do."Etta Alby is determined never to let anyone tell her what...

Newly-married Elizabeth Darcy is determined that her first Christmas at Pemberley with Mr Darcy will be a happy one, and if that means scheming for her new sister to find happiness then that's what she will do! Georgiana Darcy is delighted to see her...

Thrust into society once more, neither Fitzwilliam Darcy nor Elizabeth Bennet can even contemplate renewing the affection they once shared: they can barely look at one another When an old antagonist tips his hand, secrets are revealed and Elizabeth and Mr Darcy are forced...

Unable to depend on her father to heal the crumbling family, Judith is afraid to trust the mysterious neighbor, Ben, who lives with his own grief. In rural Maine in 1918, Judith Chadbourne gives up her teaching job after her mother's death to help...

With the Vera B's captain dead in Melbourne, Australia, Alice Packard thinks the worst has happened, until she learns the crew has deserted her husband's ship in favor of the goldfields. Only one old man, Gypsy Deak, sticks by her, but Gypsy alone can't...

Panther Mountain: Caroline's Story is a historical fiction novel based on true events in my great-great-grandmother Caroline's life in antebellum and Civil War Virginia. Its centerpiece is a romantic mystery; a love letter, written to her by a suitor who was not my great-great-grandfather....

Pioneer settlers of wilderness areas generally have a common goal - to find and claim their own piece of paradise.Tom Rourke was no different in this regard. In 1827 his paradise was on a secluded waterway only thirty miles from the growing port of...

While still in the midst of legal trouble from their last mission, LCDRs Judah Wakefield and David Rivers, a Naval Intel profiler and a Navy SEAL happily pair up again, this time to hunt down a world-class sniper who has been hired to take...

In December 2001, CIA Director of Counterintelligence Dietz paired LCDR Judah Wakefield from Naval Intel and Navy Seal David Rivers in an undercover op to bring home six Americans imprisoned in Afghanistan. While posing as a doctor and nurse to aid the prisoners while...

Martha Palmer, the generous benefactor of Palmer House-a most extraordinary refuge for young women rescued from prostitution-has died. Denver society turns out in strength to honor the elderly woman, as do many of the young women who have lived, at some point during the...

Prescott Pioneers Series #4 - sequel to A Life RestoredChristian Historical Romance set in the Arizona Territory in 1866.Pain. Disappointment. Fear.Life turned out differently than Mary Colter expected. With her abusive husband either missing or dead, and the ranch gone, she is left to...

Tatlock's first Christy Award winner! First Place, Adult Fiction, Midwest Independent Publishers Association! From a rough section of Los Angeles during the late Depression years, to the civil rights struggles of the 1960s in the South, this novel is a searing portrayal of one...

Faith-Filled Fiction at Its Best Joy on This Mountain is the blazing sequel to the breakthrough historical novels, A Rose Blooms Twice and Wild Heart on the Prairie. The year is 1908. The little town of Corinth, Colorado, lies in the gateway to the...