Award Winner: 2018 Best Book Awards Fiction: Religious
What if Jesus was just an ordinary boy seeking enlightenment? Read the mesmerizing novel that others have called "life-changing" and "divinely inspired."
8 AD, at the Temple of Jerusalem. Charismatic young Yeshua thrills his audience when God seems to communicate through him. While his listeners gush, not everyone is impressed. The priests scoff and say that no carpenter, however wise, can ever enter their holy ranks.
Humiliated and robbed of his only dream, Yeshua resigns to a drab life as a laborer and even agrees to marry the wealthy maiden his father has chosen for him.
One day, when a Buddhist pilgrim invites Yeshua along to the magical country Sindh, where anyone can become a monk, an irresistible portal of hope opens.
Torn between duty and following his bliss, Yeshua must choose between keeping his promise to his father or selfishly chasing his dream and bringing everlasting shame upon his family.
Riveting, enlightening, and deeply moving, The Transmigrant is a brilliantly vivid story about Jesus's lost years that will fascinate you and stay with you forever.
If you enjoy spiritual, thought-provoking fiction like The Celestine Prophecy or The Alchemist, and have ever wondered if Jesus did travel in India, you will relish this intriguing page-turner.
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Fiction: Religious
A Dead Body--A Cryptic Clue. Will Jo Oliver Solve the Riddle in Time?
Police Chief Jo Oliver needed a little time to herself. But when her escape to Wisconsin turns deadly, she teams up with FBI agent Nick Vitarello, hoping to catch the Bow Tie Killer. Their romantic past and complicated present lead them into uncharted territory as they match wits with a psychopath bent on destroying everything they hold dear.
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Fiction: Religious
A Promise to Azfal is filled with heartache, love, and betrayal. Devout Jassim, watches in horror alongside his grandfather, Azfal, as bombs shower Baghdad during Operation Iraqi Freedom. The boy is forced to live in Italy with the family patriarch due to the precarious conditions in his hometown. Months of watching the news coverage ends with one horrible phone call; Jassim's parents did not survive the attack. Azfal, a museum curator living in Palestrina, Italy, loses his blissful demeanor and becomes enraged. Once the U.S. President calls the invasion a "modern day crusade," he views the events as a religious war. Our hero, Jassim, has a difficult decision to make. He can further his sports career and chase fame, fortune, and love. Or, he can convert from Islam to Catholicism and become a high-ranking priest with the sole purpose of revealing damaging church secrets, fulfilling the promise he made to Azfal and bring down the most powerful religious organization in the world.
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Fiction: Religious
Newly retired publishing executive, Theo Phillips, and his wife, Liddy, decide to leave the shadows of Atlanta behind and return to their South Georgia roots in time-lost Shiloh. While making new friends, Theo’s interest in a memorial launches him smack dab in the middle of scandal and dark secrets. As Theo digs deeper into the mysterious fire that stole the town’s landmark courthouse and a town hero, he and Liddy’s retirement dreams take a turn that could unravel both them and the idyllic life they and many others look for in Shiloh.
Award Finalist: 2018 Best Book Awards Fiction: Religious
Some færytales end with a kiss, but for Elizabeth and Ferryl, the kiss is only the beginning.
When the memories of their happily-ever-before are inexplicably stolen, Elizabeth sets off to uncover the truth and save her fabled love with the crown prince, no matter the cost. Meanwhile, Prince Ferryl must unravel the mystery behind his father's crippling headaches, grapple with the band of rebels infiltrating the borders of his kingdom with suspicious acumen, and undermine the manipulation of a queen with an unslakable thirst for power and control. All while trying to keep his mind off the beautiful stranger who seems to know and understand him too well.
The Promised One is the first book of The Chalam Færytales series--a coming-of-age epic fantasy, a story that begins after the first kiss. It's a færytale to remind us that magic is everywhere, if only we look--and love may be the most powerful magic there is.
A disheartened Chuck McBride travels to Ohio with hopes of finding his life’s meaning after a series of hardships have unsettled his life. His Christmastime visit with old neighbors is plagued with doubt, but an unexpected mission project awakens his heart to the world beyond him. On a whim, Chuck selects an unassuming red backpack to load with school supplies and includes two favorite memories from his own childhood as a special treat. Will God really use Chuck’s gift to answer a prayer? Could He actually do so? Might God answer the prayers of many individuals through this one red backpack and still continue to sow blessings from it many years later? From the patch-quilt field of Ohio to the mountain hollows of Appalachia, "The Christmas Backpack" goes beyond the lights, decorations, and songs of the Christmas season to show God’s love for His children and how one act of obedience can change lives for His Kingdom forever.
Mark Bishop opened a new bank account… and discovered Hell on Earth! Mark Bishop has too much month left when his money runs out. Seeking relief, he opened a bank account at new bank, International Financial Services (IFS) He never suspects that he is buying into a strategy for world domination operated by the Antichrist…or that his world is plummeting toward the War of Armageddon. He never suspects he and his family will be homeless, hunted and have an IFS bounty on their heads. He never suspects he and his family will endure starvation, imprisonment, slavery and natural disasters. Or that he will lose all he has has…in order to gain the only thing that counts. Mark and his family are victims. Can they rise to become victors? The Road to Armageddon is a compelling story of struggle, survival and redemption during the Great Tribulation.
TeJae Smythe gave up on God and her hometown of Evansville, Indiana, ten years ago, but a deep personal loss requires her to return to both. Her life as a stewardess is going to be perfect. She has a plan. If only life would stick to it.In Hope Travels Through, TeJae finds the biggest challenge comes from the conflict within herself. Will she hold it all together? Or will she fall apart and embrace the beauty in the midst of disaster? Based on the actual events of December 13, 1977, a date most people don’t remember, but one many living in the Ohio River Valley will never forget, the crash of the University of Evansville men’s basketball team plane.If you lived through the 1970’s, this book will ring as true as your own memories. If you didn’t, it will provide you with a vivid picture of that transitional time. But the human, romantic, well-told story will touch you, no matter when you were born. —Nancy Rue, award-winning American novelist and author of more than 120 books for adults, teens, and tweens
AN IRISH LULLABY DEPICTS HUMANITIES' SEARCH FOR RELEVANCY AND FULFILLMENT, SET AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF ONE OF THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL, MORAL, AND BURNING SOCIAL/CULTURAL ISSUES OF OUR TIME, ABORTION.
As Father O'Connor, an aging priest at Saint Aloysius Parish, contemplates his legacy, Angela Sanchez, a troubled teen, sits in an abortion clinic awaiting her procedure. She is comforted by Aubrey Fitzgibbons, who is married to the church deacon but also serves as a leader in the local Planned Parenthood. Aubrey is conflicted between her obligations to the church and her responsibilities to Planned Parenthood. More complications arise when Aubrey becomes pregnant herself, triggering a serious medical condition that threatens her life. Doctors recommend abortion, but something incredible is about to happen.
A yeshiva is supposed to be a place where young Jewish men go to learn Torah. It follows an orderly, set routine. Decorum is observed. The food is occasionally palatable. The curriculum is predictable, following the tradition of centuries. In short, it is almost everything that Rabbi White’s yeshiva is not.
What conventional yeshiva, for instance, would employ a mute giant with superhuman strength? Or boast technology that would stun any future-tech company? What Rosh Yeshiva would encourage his students to climb sheer rock faces? Or serve them food that routinely sends them into gustatory rapture? Or give them a practical, hands-on guide to the workings of the universe—including field trips?
Ari Barak, a mischievous ADHD teenager, meets up with the brainy Howard Segal, and together they quickly discover just how different this institution is.
What is Rabbi White’s big secret? Can Ari and Howard solve the ancient paradox of free will? And how will they clean up the mess they’ve made of the history of the world?
In the beginning ... there was a meeting, and the gods decided how to parcel the earth among themselves; Yahweh kept Israel for himself. Then something goes wrong: snake shows up, Adam and Eve are kicked out of Eden, and they end up in the portions of the earth reserved to the other gods. Chaos follows: Cain sacrifices Abel to Yahweh and cannibalizes him. One of the lost tribes of Israel ends up in Hell. A medieval anchorite imprisons herself in a hermit's cell, trying to escape Hell. A poor fundamentalist preacher is given a sacred charm, sells it, and seizes power in the name of Christ. A holy huddle of Christians tries to seal itself off from the sin of the world in a high-security bunker, schisms, and reunites against the threat of a holy impostor. Scientists at the famous CERN laboratory dethrone God while looking for the God Particle. God laughs. What do these fables have in common? They are untold stories of the Bible; stories that will provoke and perhaps insult you. Each carefully researched story in Modern Myths originates in a passage from scripture, and tells a tale of the pervasive shadow side of God and religion in the beginning, through the arc of history, and in the scientific instruments used to look back at the beginning.
Prince Karhiad is a humble king-in-waiting. His father, King Vilsig, rules the Kingdom of Merrhius with an iron fist. While the king dreams of endless conquests, his son only wants to conquer the hearts of his subjects through love instead of fear.
Meanwhile, a dark and sinister force threatens every kingdom around. And if King Vilsig and Prince Karhiad can't put aside their differences, this ancient evil beast and his supernatural army will lay waste to the Kingdom of Merrhius.
On the night of Prince Karhiad's 17th birthday, he is mesmerized by a radiant light and makes a decision to learn of its origin. That choice will force him towards answers he wasn't seeking, a woman he wasn't planning to fall in love with, and a destiny that will bring him great suffering and yet an even greater reward. But in this gripping tale of good vs. evil, the power of love isn't just a shield to ward off the darkness -- it's also the strongest weapon of all.
