Fiction - Christian - Historical

It's early May 1865 and the entire south has been devastated by the Civil War. Slaves have been freed, but there is little work, little food for them -- or those who used to own them. With Hampton York's cash money scarce, can the...

Like a deadly disease, sin has infected the American colony of Havenhill, Connecticut, and Josiah Rush seems to be the only person who sees the evil that has gripped the town. Blamed for a fire that nearly destroyed the colony seven years ago, Josiah...

When his daughter experiences a life-changing conversion to Christianity, a celebrated New York attorney takes the Holy Spirit to court in an attempt to win her back. With a hand-picked jury and a sympathetic judge, the atheistic attorney sues the church in which his...

"Who knows what will happen when those journeys end, and we come home again?"asks Camellia York while the dark clouds of the Civil War gather around her South Carolina home. In this second installment of the popular Southern Tides Trilogy, Camellia confronts the secrets...

Trouble is brewing on the plantation. When the overseer's daughter, Camellia York, accidentally causes the death of the plantation's owner -- who is also the father of the man she plans to marry, Trenton Tessier -- life as she knows it will never be...

Returning to her Midwest roots, award-winning author Jane Kirkpatrick draws a page from her grandmother's photo album to capture the interplay between shadow and light, temptation and faith that marks a woman's pursuit of her dreams. She took exquisite photographs, but her heart was...

A Story of Tender Truths About a Woman's Desperate Efforts to Shelter Her Family Determined to raise her children on her own terms, Emma suddenly finds herself alone and pregnant with her third child, struggling to keep her family secure in the remote coastal...

Two brothers fight to claim one father's blessing. Two sisters long to claim one man's heart. In the autumn of 1788, amid the moors and glens of the Scottish Lowlands, two brothers and two sisters each embark on a painful journey of discovery. Jamie...

A Prodigal Hero...A Perilous Journey Home The Scottish Lowlands, Summer 1790 Jamie McKie is determined to return to his ancestral home in Glen Trool and claim his inheritance--a harrowing journey that will test the depth of his courage and the strength of his sword....

The Scottish Lowlands, October 1789. A year has come and gone since Jamie McKie fled for his life, arriving at Auchengray in search of sanctuary and a bonny wife. Young Rose McBride, as fair a lass as any in Scotland, dearly loves her handsome...

Romance and revulsion, distance and determination frame a story that spans the continent in the late 1800s. McClain Reardon had saved ten-year-old Rya's life when the fugitive John Wilkes Booth held her at gunpoint in Virginia. Reuniting with McClain years later on the wagon...

Tragic and triumphant, The Chief Of Sinners gives readers a firsthand view of the Spirit's work in several characters' lives as full gospel beliefs are contrasted against the dogma of the more traditional. Spanning three generations, the epic tale offers a realistic look at...

For Vera Konig, a Christian German nurse, the decision is clear: She must risk her life and that of Andrea, an orphaned Russian girl she is hiding at Ravensbr ck Concentration Camp by trusting the enemy, a Nazi prison guard who may save Andrea...

The year was 1864. The freezing winds off Lake Michigan swept across the snow laden grounds and through the cracks of a building that held Southern prisoners in Camp Douglas, Illinois. Huddled with the other prisoners, John mulled over the reasons he had enlisted,...

The American Civil War claimed and destroyed lives, stealing fathers and sons from those they loved. The horror caused many returning to cry out for death. They carried the festering scars of battle and were unable to overcome the torment of their souls. This...

The last of the great Wabanaki tribes, the Norridgewock tribe during the 1600 to early 1700 era, in what is now Maine was wiped out on August 23, 1724, after years of struggle with the Colonial Boston English government under the rule of the...

"FIDELITY. INTEGRITY. STRENGTH."These words truly defined God's Courageous Carpenter.Saint Joseph was chosen by God to be the husband of Mary, the Mother of the Messiah. Two of the Gospels of the New Testament mention St. Joseph very briefly: the Gospel of Matthew and the...

Simon considers himself fortunate after securing the final room at the inn in Bethlehem. While eating his supper, he sees a younger man and his pregnant wife denied lodging at the door of the inn. Simon momentarily considers giving up his space, but he...

It is 1940, the time of the Phoney War. Britain stands alone with German invaders waiting across the Channel and an anxious population preparing for the bloody battle ahead. In an isolated girls' boarding school, sixteen-year-old Judy Randall watches the coming of war with...

Despite the ever-present oppression of the Jim Crow South around him, Tobit Messager had become a prosperous and well-respected man. Then one day forces beyond his control start a cascade of misfortune that leaves him blind and nearly destitute. It is then that an...

In every time and culture, women are placed in one of two categories: those who are mothers and those who are not. In the patriarchal culture of the ancient Middle East, a childless woman has little value, and an infertile widow has even less...

Katharina Sch tz is a young woman growing up in sixteenth-century Strasbourg. Immersed in the mystique and works-righteousness of medieval Catholicism, Katharina's life is one of curiosity, mischief, sorrow, fear of purgatory, indulgences and all the struggles of a regular teen in a busy...

Award-winning author Connie Lounsbury expertly weaves nonfiction and fiction together in a story that will have the reader weeping in both sorrow and joy. When Irene's husband abandons her and their children in the early 1920s she tries, in various ways, to earn an...

Seattle Debutant Sofi Andersson will do everything in her power to protect her sister who is suffering from shock over their father's death. Charles, the family busy-body, threatens to lock Trina in a sanatorium--a whitewashed term for an insane asylum--so Sofi will rescue her...

Milcah tells a straightforward tale about the five daughters of Zelophehad struggling to achieve their goals as they travel through the wilderness and into the Promised Land with their fellow Israelites. A modern Midrash from the perspective of a redeemed womankind, it is faithful...

In a quiet corner of northern Edwardian England, Margaret Lounsbury diligently works in her grandmother's millinery shop, making hats and caring for her young sister. Several years earlier, a terrible event shattered their idyllic family life and their future prospects. Maggie is resilient and...

Uncover the true love story behind the famous hymn that stirs the hearts and ignites the faith of millions around the globe. Amazing grace How sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now am found... Now remembered...

At the wood's edge cultures collide. Can two families survive the impact? The 1757 New York frontier is home to the Oneida tribe and to British colonists, yet their feet rarely walk the same paths. On the day Fort William Henry falls, Major Reginald...

The first book in the Treasures of the Nile series Anippe has grown up in the shadows of Egypt's good god Pharaoh, aware that Anubis, god of the afterlife, may take her--or her siblings--at any moment. She watched him snatch her mother and infant...

Night's chill tickled her skin. Lonnie pressed her hands together and glanced up. He was even more handsome up close. Having grown up the shy, awkward daughter of Joel Sawyer, she'd hardly spoken to any boy, let alone the one who had mothers whispering...

It is the spring of 1348, at the start of the 100 Year's War, just months before the Black Death spreads across Europe and William de Simpson finds himself "twice" orphaned. His father's death in the Battle of Neville's Cross was followed closely by...

The Regency in England This period boasted Jane Austen and Lord Byron. High society, the gentry, the working classes-they all knew their place. From coaches and curricles to Almack's and Regent's Park, from lorgnettes and quizzing glasses to Drury Lane and Pall Mall, it's...

Author Carol Umberger combines her love of history, romance, and God in a quartet of powerful stories set in 14th-century Scotland during the reign of Robert the Bruce, Scotland's great hero king.Author: Carol UmbergerISBN-10: 1591450055ISBN-13: 9781591450054Publisher: Thomas NelsonLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2002Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.53h...

Writing against the dramatic backdrop of beautiful Brunswick, Maine, and following the story's main characters into the Battle of Gettysburg-a critical turning point in the Civil War-author Al Lacy spins a tale of courage and lost love as heroic Captain Shane Donovan mourns the...

Inheriting his slighted forefathers' bitter hatred for Queen Victoria, Nigel Whitaker has finally found a way to punish the Queen: kidnap her great-grandson David, "the apple of her eye," and whisk him off to America. But when fortune-seeking emigrants Jeremy and Cecelia Barlow, unable...

Picking up where the second book in the Fort Bridger series leaves off, No Place for Fear finds Hannah Solomon befriending Betsy Fordham, a woman whose husband was captured and killed by Cheyenne Indians. Through friendship, Hannah talks with Betsy of the help God...

This is the story of forgiveness for a small girl who grew up during WWII on the island of Java in the Far East and who was imprisoned in Tjideng, the notorious Japanese concentration camp for women and children. After the war, she was...

Travel back to 1863 to a small mountain town, Seasonsville, in South-Central West Virginia that is embroiled in the American Civil War. The battles in this local conflict were not that of vast armies like those that clashed in Gettysburg or Antietam. Rather, the...

By reading Law and Grace Cannot Coexist, you will learn: The details and the truths of the gentiles' salvation How and why it was revealed to the Apostle Paul in his "my gospel"How the way to salvation changed during the period of Acts of...

How does an act of kindness result in... marriage?One carefree cowboy is about to find out in this sweet historical romance! Born dirt-poor into a life of hardship, Allie Tillman seizes the opportunity to better her situation by answering an advertisement for a mail-order...

Shortly after the burial of Jesus Christ, the Sanhedrin of Jerusalem posted five guards at the mouth his tomb, fearing that his followers might steal the body, and claim he had risen from the dead, as Christ himself had foretold. All five guards saw...

Mr. Darcy is tempted beyond what he can endure when Elizabeth Bennet leaves her private journal entries in the parlour of Netherfield. Upon reading her writing, he is appalled to find that she overheard his unflattering remarks at the Meryton Assembly and despises him...

This Study Guide is a companion for 'Pergamum: Satan's Throne' and is suitable for ages 12 and above. 'Pergamum: Satan's Throne, ' a Biblical Historical Fiction novel, is appropriate for a novel study for Grades 8 - 12, a selection for a high school...

Although the Bible gives insights into David's grief and repentance after his adulterous behavior toward the wife of Uriah, we hear very little about Bathsheba herself. In Bathsheba's Journey Lorita Boyle delves realistically into what this faithful Hebrew wife must have experienced in a...

Catherine Pinkiss is a chambermaid. Her employers are ungrateful and expect too much of all their employees. Knowing that only she can change her life, she takes her chance and replies to an advertisement in the Matrimonial Times. She knows she could be risking...

A stranger fleeing from his past. Two sisters married to the same man, now bitter rivals for his love. A family torn apart by the deception of the father, who holds the lives of all he loves in his hands. Jacob - a man...

Following a devastating tragedy in his family, Rufus, the adventurous younger son of Simon of Cyrene journeys to the mysterious kingdom of Egypt in answer to a call from God. He soon finds himself fighting for his life in an exotic land, his divine...

Heartbreaking, gripping, and life-affirming, this story, based on Nadine's own childhood background, is set in the Catholic community in 1950s Liverpool, where young men and women, fleeing the poverty of rural Ireland, have come to seek a better life. Jerry and Bernadette are determined...

Dreams in the Distance, Book One of THE CHOICE SeriesWhat voices influence your choices?1952 Britain enjoys peace and renewed prosperity. However, after WWII personal battles rage for the souls of three veterans and two English ing駭ues. Listening to perverse inner voices instead of powerful...

"Mystery, romance, and family secrets. I give it 5 stars...""...Secrets, lies, revelations and the search for forgiveness and truth..."In a remote farmhouse, during the worst blizzard in Ohio history, an old man falls down a flight of stairs to his death.Melody Knauff cannot accept...