Brock Thoene
Author
Series
Saga of the Sierras volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
Tom Dawson finds happiness and peace at his brother's California ranch during the Civil War until his past comes back to haunt him following a violent stagecoach robbery.
Author
Series
Zion diaries volume 1
Formats
Description
As Nazi forces tighten the noose, Loralei Kepler, daughter of a missionary family, flees Brussels ahead of the Blitzdrieg. But is any place safe from Adolf Hitler's evil grasp? Loralei's harrowing flight leads her into the arms of needy child refugees who have sacrificed everything in exchange for their lives, and toward a mysterious figure who closely guards an age-old secret.
Author
Series
Saga of the Sierras volume 6
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
When the Americans and Mexicans go to war over California, Will Reed and his family are caught in the middle with no where to go.
Author
Series
Zion diaries volume 2
Formats
Description
As Nazi forces tighten their net of evil over Europe in 1940, famed Jewish concert violist Elisa Lindheim Murphy escapes from Vienna to England. But both Elisa and her American newsman husband, John Murphy, are convinced that nowhere in Europe is safe from Hitler's seemingly unstoppable forces. As Nazi U-boats patrol and sink Allied vessels in the North Atlantic, Elisa makes a desperate but brave decision-to accompany Jewish refugee children...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1991
Description
A tale of the West for the Christian market, this latest book in the Saga of the Sierra series is the story of a young trader named Will Reed, whose explorations bring him into California in the days following Mexico's newly won independence from Spain. He finds himself caught in the middle of a war of cultures, compounded by conflicting loyalties and loves.
Author
Series
Jerusalem chronicles volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Nehemiah, the young son of a Jewish woman, a weaver from Jerusalem, is born and raised among the Jews who didn't return to Jerusalem from the Exile. Educated by Rabbi Kagba, one of the magi present at Jesus' birth thirty years earlier, Nehemiah grows up with the expectation of a soon-coming Messiah. Could the Yeshua of Nazareth, who is walking the earth, reportedly doing miracles, be that Messiah? When young Nehemiah must travel the long caravan road...
Author
Series
Saga of the Sierras volume 2
Pub. Date
c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
A tragic accident sends Joshua Roberts west to find peace. But in a lawless mining town, peace is hard to find. Burned nearly to death under the desert sun, he is brought back to life by the hands of a stranger. The powerful blacksmith now faces challenges he never dreamed of and responsibilities he never wanted. Hired to work at the Silver Rim Mine, Roberts is unaware that the mine's future is threatened by the designs of greedy and unscrupulous...
Author
Series
Wayward wind volume 3
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
The sixteen-year old son of Jesse Dodson and his wife Alcie runs away to join the Union army against his father's wishes. When Jesse decides to leave the farm and travel across battle lines to find the boy, he is conscripted to fight a war he doesn't believe in.
Author
Series
Zion Covenant volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 25
Description
Leah and Shimon Feldstein finally reach the Promised Land. They enter their new life under the shadow of the Western Wall, only to find that a longer, more sinister shadow is casting its darkness over the Holy Land. Will they ever find true peace, a resting place for their spirits? Or will their time in Jerusalem be only a brief interlude in the ongoing struggle for a homeland?
11) Shooting star
Author
Series
Saga of the Sierras volume 7
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Description
First cattle drive in California occurs with the help of Andrew Sinnickson.
Author
Series
Legends of the West volume 1
Pub. Date
2007.
Description
Presents a collection of western stories covering the 1830s through the 1860s in California, Nevada, and Utah.
13) When Jesus wept
Author
Series
Jerusalem chronicles volume 1
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
Saga of the Sierras volume 3
Pub. Date
c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 10
Author
Series
Zion chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
Description
Ellie, a young American photojournalist in Jerusalem in 1947, becomes a pawn in a political chess game.
Author
Series
Zion Covenant volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
Description
March 12, 1938, is a dark day. Hitler's evil sweeps across Austria, destroying all in its path. Although violinist Elisa Lindheim is safe in Czechoslovakia--for the moment--she grieves over her beloved Vienna. Swastika flags now wave from every window. Jewish shops are destroyed. Neighbors' houses stand empty. The Jews and those who try to defend them are arrested or killed. The clock is running out for those the Nazis consider enemies of the state,...
Author
Series
Zion chronicles volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 23
Description
With Moshe and Rachel trapped behind the walls of the old city, British forces prepare to leave Palestine. David recruits help from America to join in the efforts of the Jewish Agency to arm its people against the Arab onslaught.
Author
Series
Saga of the Sierras volume 5
Pub. Date
c1992, c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Tom Dawson finds himself in a difficult position when a group of Confederate conspirators tries to gain power in the California goldmines during the Civil War.