Fiction, Historical
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Turnabout Spy
A Story of Intrigue in the Temple During the Time of Jesus by Ruth Ellen Millard
Jannaeus is thrilled when men on the Great Sanhedrin send him to spy on a fanatical desert prophet, and then to investigate an unschooled Galilean who is challenging their two-thousand-year-old religious order. He is intrigued with what he...
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Pharoah Hatshepsut
Moses' Other Mother by Jack A Taylor
Pharaoh Hatshepsut is the story of a young Egyptian princess who found a Hebrew baby in a basket on the Nile. She claims Moses as her own and hides him in the palace harem. Only her maids and her faithful architect Senenmut know of their true...
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The Fateful Voyage of the Empress of Ireland
A Tale of Betrayal, Redemption, and a Curse's Wrath by Cheryl Roberts Gale
We all conceal some secrets that we dare not share with anyone. But for Captain Henry Kendall—who has borne a particularly heavy burden of secrecy for decades—the thought of carrying them with him into the afterlife, still unspoken, is just too...
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Dundreary's Jam
by Jill Shakley
Barrymore Dundreary St. John has a low-wage job dismantling old and wrecked motor vehicles for parts. Although not a luxurious job, even for a Londoner during the Great Depression, everything changes when he unexpectedly receives a large sum from...
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Margaret's Hope
by Jewell Mitchell
Returning home to the small seaside community of Lockeport, Nova Scotia, after several years away in teacher’s college, Margaret Conrad thought she knew what to expect. Although she is certainly no longer the shy, broken-hearted girl she’d once...
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The Briars Between
An Emily Twillum Adventure by Andrew Sibbald
Thirteen-year-old Emily enjoys her life on the Briars estate in Jackson’s Point, Ontario, where, up until recently, things have been quiet and peaceful. For the past four years, Emily and her parents have lived in a wing of the manor, looking...
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Ironbottom Sound
by Grover Hartt III
In 1942, a series of pivotal WWII land and sea confrontations occurred in the South Pacific between the Allied Forces and the Japanese for control of the island of Guadalcanal and its strategic airfield. For twenty-seven-year-old Scott Ellsworth,...
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Forgotten Followers
from Broken to Bold by Elaine Ricker Kelly
AFTER YEARS OF SUBMISSION, Mara lives in anxiety and isolation, unsure of herself and her place in the world. But when her nephew Jesus is chased off a cliff, she is thrust into the unknown and forced to confront her deepest fears. As she...
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Day of Epiphany
by Jerome J Bourgault
Inspired by True Events At the stroke of a pen, Sister Cassandra Lalonde has gone from being a teacher in an orphanage to a nurse in a psychiatric hospital, and her beloved students have been “reclassified” as mental patients. Set against the...
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Palmyra
by Karen Barrow
I used to think the past was dead and gone, that time erased memories … An unexpected visitor to a cocoa estate on the island of Trinidad triggers buried memories of the mysterious deaths that plagued a prosperous French Creole family who once...
