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  • Splendor of the Land by Connilyn Cossette

    Splendor of the Land by Connilyn Cossette

    Rated: 4.74 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "A triumphant story in which flawed characters face real choices and must rely on a real God to save them. "--MESU ANDREWS, bestselling and award-winning author. Gavriel, a soldier in the elite company of Yonatan--son of King Saul--dreams of forging his destiny through crafting weapons with his own hands...
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    christian  military  historical  audiobook
  • The Dance Teacher of Paris by Suzanne Fortin

    The Dance Teacher of Paris by Suzanne Fortin

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    'But how will I look after them? Where can I hide them? ' She looked up at me and didn't try to stop the tears from falling. 'I'm begging you. Please, save our children. '. Paris, 1942. As the Germans occupy the city she calls home, Adele Basset is determined to keep her pupils' spirits up. Their dance class offers a moment of solace in the dark days of occupation...
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  • The Trouble With Secrets: The Kilteegan Bridge Story by Jean Grainger

    The Trouble With Secrets: The Kilteegan Bridge Story by Jean Grainger

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Kilteegan Bridge, County Cork 1958. For eighteen year old Lena Mullery, life is predictable and dull. A future of hard work, marriage to a local boy, and a family of her own one day is all she has to look forward to. People from her background know not expect too much, but Lena yearns for something different. Malachy Berger was different, for him, the world is at his feet...
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    suspense  christian  historical  audiobook
  • Fire and Fury for the Tobacco Girls by Lizzie Lane

    Fire and Fury for the Tobacco Girls by Lizzie Lane

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    As war rages, everyone has to do their bit. .. Bristol 1941. As the clouds of war grow bleaker both at home and abroad, the Tobacco Girls are determined to do their bit for King and Country. To that end Maisie Miles and Bridget Milligan become voluntary ambulance drivers...
  • The Revelation by Beverly Lewis

    The Revelation by Beverly Lewis

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    ABRAM'S DAUGHTERS introduces readers to an Old Order family, a close-knit community and a devout people whose way of life and faith in God is as timeless as their signature horse and buggy. Set against the backdrop of post-World War II, this compelling saga spans three generations of a Lancaster County Amish family...
  • The Prodigal by Beverly Lewis

    The Prodigal by Beverly Lewis

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Book 4 in the bestselling Abram's Daughters series. The compelling and continuing chronicle of Abram Ebersol's family, beginning in the mid1940s, moves forward in time and scope to the late 50s. The devout Ebersols have faced sometimes painful divisions and separationsif not geographical, those of the heart...
  • The Collector of Burned Books by Roseanna M. White

    The Collector of Burned Books by Roseanna M. White

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In this gripping World War II historical about the power of words, two people form an unlikely friendship amid the Nazi occupation in Paris and fight to preserve the truth that enemies of freedom long to destroy. Paris, 1940. Ever since the Nazi Party began burning books, German writers exiled for their opinions or heritage have been taking up residence in Paris...
  • Love's Bright Tomorrow by Naomi Rawlings

    Love's Bright Tomorrow by Naomi Rawlings

    Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    She’s just trying to start a new life for herself. If only it wasn’t so hard…. It’s not as though there are a lot of options for a woman with barely two pennies to rub together. At least not in 1884. Or in the small town where she’s settled. Or anywhere else. It’s even harder when her past keeps coming back to haunt her. Aileen has tried putting it behind her. Truly she has...
  • The Sacrifice by Beverly Lewis

    The Sacrifice by Beverly Lewis

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Abram's Daughters book 3, the sequel to the bestselling The Betrayal. This powerful family saga features four Amish courting-age sisters growing up in Lancaster County Pennsylvania, beginning in the 1940s...
  • The Betrayal by Beverly Lewis

    The Betrayal by Beverly Lewis

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Beautifully Repackaged:. "The Betrayal" and "The Sacrifice. ". In "The Betrayal," Leah Ebersol and her beloved Jonas Mast are separated by hundreds of miles when he accepts an apprenticeship in Ohio. They are confident their love is strong enough to survive, but more than time and distance are conspiring to keep them apart...
  • The Women of Fishers Wharf by Tracy Baines

    The Women of Fishers Wharf by Tracy Baines

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Can you leave the past behind and embrace the future? - A brand new series from Tracy Baines. Great Grimsby, 1912. Newlywed fisherman Alec Hardy decides to make a fresh start with his young wife Letty and move to the thriving fishing port of Grimsby in search of a brighter future...
  • In Perfect Time by Sarah Sundin

    In Perfect Time by Sarah Sundin

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Bold, sophisticated, and coy, flight nurse Lt. Kay Jobson collects hearts wherever she flies. So how can handsome C-47 pilot Lt. Roger Cooper be immune to her charms? In fact, he seems to do everything he can to avoid her. Still, as they cross the skies between Italy and southern France, evacuating the wounded and delivering paratroopers and supplies, every beat of their hearts draws them closer...
  • Dark Days for the Tobacco Girls by Lizzie Lane

    Dark Days for the Tobacco Girls by Lizzie Lane

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Nothing will stop the The Tobacco Girls not even war. .. BRISTOL 1940. The Tobacco Girls cling together as they realise that the clouds of war are turning dark, the world is becoming more dangerous and their lives more unpredictable. Bridget Milligan’s big, happy family fragments when her siblings are evacuated to North Devon, then a letter from America further fills her with dismay...
  • Covenant Child by Terri Blackstock

    Covenant Child by Terri Blackstock

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Amanda’s heart broke as she watched them drive her beloved twins away. She resolved to hope . . . and to fight for them to her last breath. Kara and Lizzie are heiresses to one of the largest fortunes in the country...
  • A River Between Us by Jocelyn Green

    A River Between Us by Jocelyn Green

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Cora Mae Stewart’s world collapses when Sherman destroys the Georgia cotton mill where she works and has her arrested for treason and sent North. Faced with impossible choices, she does what she must to keep a little girl safe in an inhospitable land. Convinced he won’t survive the war, Union Sergeant Ethan Howard determines to make his death count for something...
  • Drawn by the Current by Jocelyn Green

    Drawn by the Current by Jocelyn Green

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    A birthday excursion turns deadly when the SS Eastland capsizes with Olive Pierce and her best friend Claire on board. Hundreds perish during the accident, and it's only when Olive herself barely escapes that she discovers her friend is among the victims...
  • The Captured Bride by Michelle Griep

    The Captured Bride by Michelle Griep

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Mercy Lytton, a scout with keen eyesight raised among the Mohawks, and Elias Dubois, a condemned traitor working both sides of the conflict, must join together to get a shipment of gold safely into British hands. A brand new series for fans of all things related to history, romance, adventure, faith, and family trees. A War-Torn Countryside Is No Place for a Lady...
  • The Secret of the Grand Hôtel du Lac by Kathryn Gauci

    The Secret of the Grand Hôtel du Lac by Kathryn Gauci

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    “Sometime during the early hours of the morning, he awoke again, this time with a start. He was sure he heard a noise outside. It sounded like a twig snapping. Under normal circumstances it would have meant nothing, but in the silence of the forest every sound was magnified. There it was again. This time it was closer and his instinct told him it wasn’t the wolves...
  • Blue Skies Tomorrow by Sarah Sundin

    Blue Skies Tomorrow by Sarah Sundin

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    In a time of peril, can they find the courage to confront their fears and embrace a love that lasts? When her husband becomes a casualty of the war in the Pacific, Helen Carlisle throws herself into volunteering for the war effort to conceal her feelings. But keeping up appearances as the grieving widow of a hometown hero is taking its toll. Soon something is going to give. Lt...
  • All We Thought We Knew by Michelle Shocklee

    All We Thought We Knew by Michelle Shocklee

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    She was so sure she knew her family’s story . . . Now she wonders if she was wrong about all of it. 1969. When Mattie Taylor’s twin brother was killed in Vietnam, she lost her best friend and the only person who really understood her. Now, news that her mother is dying sends Mattie back home, despite blaming her father for Mark’s death...
  • The Berlin Letters by Katherine Reay

    The Berlin Letters by Katherine Reay

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Near the end of the Cold War, a CIA code breaker discovers a symbol she recognizes from her childhood, which launches her across the world to the heart of Berlin just before the wall comes tumbling down...
  • Shades of Blue by Karen Kingsbury

    Shades of Blue by Karen Kingsbury

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Brad Cutler, twenty-eight, is a rising star at his New York ad agency, about to marry the girl of his dreams. Anyone would agree he has it all … a great career, a beautiful and loving fiancée, and a fairy tale life ahead of him—when memories of a high school girlfriend begin to torment him...
  • Thunder of Heaven: A Joshua Jordan Novel by Tim LaHaye

    Thunder of Heaven: A Joshua Jordan Novel by Tim LaHaye

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Economies have fallen, freedom has been suppressed, and peace is a distant memory. The world is falling apart. Joshua Jordan's protege Ethan March, along with Jimmy Louder and Rivka Reuban have been left behind in a world that is rapidly coming under the complete influence of the Antichrist...
  • Surrender the Night by MaryLu Tyndall, M.L. Tyndall

    Surrender the Night by MaryLu Tyndall, M.L. Tyndall

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Step into a breathtaking novel of adventure and romance set amid the War of 1812. During an assault by an enemy sailor, timid farm girl Rose McGuire is saved by the least likely of heroes—a British Naval Lieutenant. Now that he’s wounded, she’ll have to heal as well as hide him. Alex Reed is being aided and abetted by his enemy—albeit an innocent and attractive one...
  • A Song in the Dark by Kimberley Woodhouse

    A Song in the Dark by Kimberley Woodhouse

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Against the simmering backdrop of the impending WWII, blind virtuoso pianist Chaisley Frappier embarks on a concert tour through a rapidly changing Europe despite the dangers. When she learns that Hitler's escalating regime of injustice is targeting other disabled people, Chaisley realizes she is in a prime position to help those who are threatened reach safety...
  • The Juliet Code by Pepper Basham

    The Juliet Code by Pepper Basham

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Newlyweds Lord and Lady Astley Finally Reach Their Honeymoon Destination Only to Encounter a New Mystery in Need of Solving. Frederick and Grace Percy finally make it to Italy to enjoy a delayed honeymoon and explore the beauties of the historic city of Venice...
  • A Family for Gracie by Amy Lillard

    A Family for Gracie by Amy Lillard

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    For the Amish of Pontotoc, Mississippi, faith and family are everything—even when they pose the greatest challenge . . . Gracie Glick is known for being the helpful one, always available for a relative in need. But now that she’s longing for a home and family of her own, it’s time to help herself. With few eligible men in Pontotoc, Gracie’s choices, and her time, are limited...
  • The Song of Sourwood Mountain by Ann H. Gabhart

    The Song of Sourwood Mountain by Ann H. Gabhart

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    While the century began with such promise, it is 1910 when Mira Dean's hopes of being a wife and mother are dashed to pieces. Her fiancé dead from tuberculosis, Mira resigns herself to being a spinster schoolteacher--until Gordon Covington shows up.  No longer the boy she knew from school, Gordon is now a preacher who is full of surprises...
  • The Berlin Letters by Katherine Reay

    The Berlin Letters by Katherine Reay

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Near the end of the Cold War, a CIA code breaker discovers a symbol she recognizes from her childhood, which launches her across the world to the heart of Berlin just before the wall comes tumbling down...
  • The Noble Guardian by Michelle Griep

    The Noble Guardian by Michelle Griep

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A Cross-Country Trip through Regency England Brings Intrigue, Rogues, and High Adventure. The must-read conclusion to Michelle Griep’s Bow Street Runners Trilogy: Life couldn’t be better for Abigail Gilbert—but it’s been a long time in coming. Having lived with a family who hated her, it’s finally her time for love...
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    christian  suspense  historical  humor  regency  audiobook
  • Colors of Truth by Tamera Alexander

    Colors of Truth by Tamera Alexander

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Based on the real history of Carnton, an antebellum home that served as a Confederate hospital, Colors of Truth follows the journey of an Irish immigrant arriving in a country where her kind isn’t wanted, and of a former Federal soldier returning to the scene of a battle that almost destroyed him...
  • The Promised Land by Roberta Kagan

    The Promised Land by Roberta Kagan

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The Holocaust robbed Zofia Weiss of all she holds dear. The Secret State Police have confiscated her home, killed her friends, and imprisoned the man she loves. After searching through displaced persons camps and finding nothing, Zofia is sure that her lover is dead. With only her life, a dream, and a terrifying secret, Zofia illegally boards The Exodus, bound for Palestine...
  • Dead of Night by Brandilyn Collins

    Dead of Night by Brandilyn Collins

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    All words fell away. I pushed myself off the path, noticing for the first time the signs of earlier passage---the matted earth, broken twigs. And I knew. My mouth turned cottony. I licked my lips, took three halting steps. My maddening, visual brain churned out pictures of colorless faces on a cold slab---Debbie Lille, victim number one; Wanda Deminger, number three . . . He'd been here...
  • Though Mountains Fall by Dale Cramer

    Though Mountains Fall by Dale Cramer

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Unique Amish Historical from a Bestselling, Award-Winning Author. Amish pacifism is sorely tested in the Paradise Valley settlement in the 1920s. When an army of bandits descends on them, the Amish are saved by the last-minute arrival of government troops. But they soon learn that soldiers can be as cruel as the bandits themselves...
  • Anchor in the Storm by Sarah Sundin

    Anchor in the Storm by Sarah Sundin

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    One Plucky Female Pharmacist + One High-Society Naval Officer = Romance--and Danger. For plucky Lillian Avery, America's entry into World War II means a chance to prove herself as a pharmacist in Boston. The challenges of her new job energize her. But society boy Ensign Archer Vandenberg's attentions only annoy--even if he "is" her brother's best friend...
  • The Longest Echo by Eoin Dempsey

    The Longest Echo by Eoin Dempsey

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Against the backdrop of WWII-ravaged Italy comes a powerful and emotional novel of love, survival, justice, and second chances by the bestselling author of White Rose, Black Forest. Occupied Italy, 1944. In the mountain regions south of Bologna, Liliana Nicoletti’s family finds escaped POW James Foley behind German lines...
  • Soul Raging by Ronie Kendig

    Soul Raging by Ronie Kendig

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sometimes, the only hope is the enemy. Leif Metcalfe is done waiting for answers and seizes control, a move that comes with a high price and a deadly risk: teaming up with the enemy. He can only hope that what he uncovers will heal the wounds he's inflicted on those he loves...
  • His Accidental Amish Family by Rachel J. Good

    His Accidental Amish Family by Rachel J. Good

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the picturesque Amish community of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, life's detours may prove the path to true happiness . . . After a buggy accident when she was a teenager, Anna Flaud was told she would never walk again. Unwilling to be an object of pity, she put aside her dreams of marriage and found purpose as an assistant at a Community Care Center...
  • Undercurrent of Secrets (Doors to the Past) by Rachel Scott McDaniel

    Undercurrent of Secrets (Doors to the Past) by Rachel Scott McDaniel

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Two women, a century apart, are bound by a haunting secret aboard a legendary steamboat. Walk through Doors to the Past via a new series of historical stories of romance and adventure...
  • A Picture of Hope  (Heroines of WWII) by Liz Tolsma

    A Picture of Hope (Heroines of WWII) by Liz Tolsma

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Photojournalist Risks Her Life to Save Children. Full of intrigue, adventure, and romance, this new series celebrates the unsung heroes—the heroines of WWII. Journalist Nellie Wilkerson has spent the bulk of the war in London, photographing pilots taking off and landing—and she’s bored. She jumps at the chance to go to France, where the Allied forces recently landed...
  • The Doctor Prince and the Outsider by Cami Checketts

    The Doctor Prince and the Outsider by Cami Checketts

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A feisty billionaire framed for murder. The generous ‘Doctor Prince’ who discovers her. Will Prince Steffen believe her, or is she destined to live life on the run? Hattie Ballard, a billionaire heiress, spends her days traveling and rarely visits home, especially after the tragic death of her parents in an accident two years ago...
  • The Ninja Prince and the Investigator by Cami Checketts

    The Ninja Prince and the Investigator by Cami Checketts

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A prince hiding from the truth. A female athlete trying to protect him. Can Ellery save Prince Derek and his family or will she only lose her heart? Prince Derek has thrown his heart into the American Ninja Warrior circuit after he lost his beloved mother. He knew he couldn’t stay in Augustine and face his own pain or his family’s...
  • As Sure as the Sea by Jamie Ogle

    As Sure as the Sea by Jamie Ogle

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Once she denied everything she believed in. Now she’d give anything to choose differently. But in the shadow of the Roman Empire’s persecution and the shame of her past, she fears that what she wants most will be forever out of reach. Eastern Roman Empire, AD 310...
  • Like a Bee to Honey by Jennifer Beckstrand

    Like a Bee to Honey by Jennifer Beckstrand

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Affectionately dubbed The Honeybee Sisters in their Wisconsin Amish community, the three Christner girls are devoted beekeepers who are coming-of-age—and discovering the sweet surprise of love…. Shy, skittish Rose Christner is more comfortable tending to the beehives on the family farm and keeping her aunt’s unruly cats in line than attending social gatherings with the rest of the die youngie...
  • Jeb's Wife by Patricia Johns

    Jeb's Wife by Patricia Johns

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Patricia Johns’ sensitive storytelling brings depth and heart to this tender story of second chances, as an Amish woman embarks on marriage with the gruff farmer next door . . . Once, Leah Riehl prayed for a husband. The man she loved chose another, wanting the children that Leah can’t provide...
  • None Stood Taller: An inspirational WWII story to make your heart soar. (Historical fiction) by Peter Turnham

    None Stood Taller: An inspirational WWII story to make your heart soar. (Historical fiction) by Peter Turnham

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This book is a window into Britain's secret wartime past, step through it and this inspirational story of life and love will make your heart soar. It is March 1941, large swathes of the East End of London lie in ruins.  Lily Heywood is just one more victim of the Blitz, lying beneath the rubble of her home. An unbreakable spirit, this is not the end for Lily, it is merely the beginning...
  • To Write a Wrong by Jen Turano

    To Write a Wrong by Jen Turano

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Miss Daphne Beekman is a mystery writer by day, inquiry agent by night. Known for her ability to puzzle out plots, she happily works behind the scenes for the Bleecker Street Inquiry Agency, staying well away from danger. However, when Mr...
  • To Disguise the Truth by Jen Turano

    To Disguise the Truth by Jen Turano

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When Arthur Livingston arrives out of the blue at the Bleecker Street Inquiry Agency, anxious to hire the agency to seek out a missing heiress, Eunice Holbrooke realizes her past has finally caught up with her. Having fled from the scene of her grandfather's murder seven years before, Eunice is a lady with secrets--the most important that she is the missing heiress Arthur is seeking...
  • A Daughter's Courage by Misty M. Beller

    A Daughter's Courage by Misty M. Beller

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After accidentally destroying the intricate chalice her people have treasured for over a hundred years, Charlotte Durand sets out on an expedition in search of a skilled artisan who can repair the damage. What she expected to be a two-day hike becomes much more daunting when a treacherous snowstorm sets in...
  • A Mark of Grace by Kimberley Woodhouse

    A Mark of Grace by Kimberley Woodhouse

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ruth Anniston survived an injury that left her physically scarred, broken, and angry at God. Now she finds herself working behind the scenes as a kitchen supervisor at the El Tovar Hotel, hidden away from curious eyes. When money begins to disappear from the hotel, Ruth's entire livelihood is put at risk...
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    christian  suspense  historical  mystery  audiobook
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