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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
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As in The Fair God, Wallace depicts the conflict of two civilizations, the one shown as nearly all good, the other as nearly all bad. Ben-Hur shares with another enormously popular novel, The Count of Monte Cristo, two dominant themes: it is a story of revenge, and a vast fortune is at stake. Ben-Hur lives to learn that there is something better than revenge, and that riches can be put to other than worldly uses. And this brings us to the religious...
Author
Series
Jesus chronicles volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Ninety-year-old John, the last surviving apostle, remembers his broken life before befriending Jesus and is called upon to write a gospel that definitively establishes Jesus as the Son of God.
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
The mysterious envelope arrives on Nick Cominsky's desk amid a stack of credit card applications and business-related junk mail. Although his seventy-hour workweek has already eaten into his limited family time, Nick can't pass up the opportunity to see what kind of plot his colleagues have hatched. The normally confident, cynical Nick soon finds himself thrown off-balance, drawn into an intriguing conversation with a baffling man who appears to be...
Author
Series
Order of the Sanguines volume 1
Language
English
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Description
After a shocking discovery in Masada, Israel, Sergeant Jordan Stone, Father Rhun Korza and Dr. Erin Granger, racing against time to recover a book written by Christ's own hand, must contend with a force of ancient evil with impossible ambitions and a secret sect within the Vatican called the Sanguines.
Author
Series
Christ the Lord volume 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
©2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Anne Rice's second book in her hugely ambitious and courageous life of Christ begins during his last winter before his baptism in the Jordan and concludes with the miracle at Cana--From publisher description.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
Mariah Lyons risks her life to solve the brutal murder of her father, Dr. Jonathan Lyons, a well-respected academic, who in a stroke of luck comes into the possession of an ancient and highly valuable parchment stolen from the Vatican in the 15th century.
Author
Series
Jerusalem chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Lazarus occupies a surprising position in the Gospel accounts. Widely known as the man Jesus raised from the dead, his story is actually much broader and richer than that. Living as he did at Bethany, near Jerusalem, Lazarus was uniquely placed to witness the swirl of events around Jesus. When Jesus Wept, the first novel in The Jerusalem Chronicles series by bestselling authors Bodie and Brock Thoene, unfolds the turbulent times in Judea during Jesus'...
Author
Series
Jerusalem chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Behold the Man is the culmination of the Jerusalem Chronicles and brings readers to an encounter with the death and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. How could Jesus--who preached righteousness before God, and love and mercy toward neighbors--be so hated and pursued? To the Temple officials, he was a threat to the livelihood and authority of the priesthood. To Herod Antipas, he was a threat to his ambition to be the King of the Jews. And to the...
Author
Series
Jesus chronicles volume 4
Publisher
Berkley Praise
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"This story in The Jesus chronicles depicts the life of the most unlikely of apostles--a sinner turned saint--and his time with the Lord"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Jesus chronicles volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Overhearing Jesus' prophecies of events to come and witnessing such events as Judas' betrayal, Peter's denial, and the Resurrection, Mark becomes a devoted disciple of Christianity and urges Peter to recount to him the story of Jesus' life on earth.
11) A.D. 30: a novel
Author
Series
A.D. (Ted Dekker) volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A sweeping epic set in the harsh deserts of Arabia and ancient Palestine. A war that rages between kingdoms on the earth and in the heart. The harrowing journey of the woman at the center of it all. Step back in time to the year of our Lord ... A.D. 30. The outcast daughter of one of the most powerful Bedouin sheikhs in Arabia, Maviah is called on to protect the very people who rejected her. When their enemies launch a sudden attack with devastating...
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Series
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
©2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tressa is worried that the robins nesting on her grandmother's window ledge will not survive a pre-Easter cold snap, but her grandmother urges her to trust that God is caring for them, as a robin once cared for His son, Jesus.
15) A.D. 33: a novel
Author
Series
A.D. (Ted Dekker) volume 2
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Ted Dekker delivers the gripping story of Maviah, a slave who becomes a queen in Arabia, A.D. 33. They call her the Queen of the Outcasts. Maviah, a woman whose fate was sealed on her birth by this world-unwanted, illegitimate, female, a slave-subject to the whims of all. But then she met a man named Yeshua who opened her eyes. She found strength in his words, peace from the brutal word around her. Because of what...
16) Blood infernal
Author
Series
Order of the Sanguines volume 3
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"The third installment in the bestselling gothic series, about an ancient order who speak the truth behind Christ's miracles and strive to protect the world from evil."--
As an escalating scourge of grisly murders sweeps the globe, archaeologist Erin Granger must decipher the truth behind an immortal prophecy foretold in the Blood Gospel, a tome written by Christ and lost for centuries. From the dusty shelves of the Vatican's secret archives to lost...
Author
Series
Order of the Sanguines volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The second installment in the bestselling gothic series, about an ancient order who speak the truth behind Christ's miracles and strive to protect the world from evil - from the winning writerly combo of James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell"--
18) The Cairo codex
Author
Series
Justine trilogy volume 1
Publisher
West Hills Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A riveting novel of two women, two millennia apart, set in the exotic cultures of ancient and present-day Egypt. Justine Jenner has come to Cairo to forge her own path from the legacies of her parents, an Egyptian beauty and an American archaeologist. After an earthquake nearly buries her alive in an underground crypt, she discovers an ancient codex, written by a woman whose secrets threaten the foundations of both Christian and Muslim beliefs. As...
Author
Series
Secret of the hidden scrolls volume 8
Publisher
WorthyKids
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Peter, ten-year-old Mary, and their dog Hank journey to first century Jerusalem, where they race to evade capture by temple guards, follow Jesus, witness miracles, and uncover a secret plot.
Author
Series
Justine trilogy volume 2
Publisher
West Hills Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
GENERAL & LITERARY FICTION. The Italian Letters lies in the sensuous curvature of ancient, 20th and 21st century Italy. The sequel to The Cairo Codex follows the adventures of anthropologist Justine Jenner after she is expelled from Egypt in the wake of discovering the diary of the Virgin Mary. Exiled into Tuscany, Justine finds herself embroiled in three interwoven stories of discovery: the long-lost letters of D.H. Lawrence to her great grandmother,...
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