Bodie Thoene
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Zion diaries volume 1
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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.
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Zion diaries volume 2
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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...
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Wayward wind volume 3
Pub. Date
c1999
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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 chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
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Ellie, a young American photojournalist in Jerusalem in 1947, becomes a pawn in a political chess game.
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Series
Zion chronicles volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 23
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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.
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Zion Covenant volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 25
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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?
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Shiloh legacy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 23
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The peace and prosperity promised with the end of World War I fails to come to pass for two ex-soldiers--Arkansas farmer Birch Tucker, who faces the loss of everything he and his family have worked for; and Max Meyer, a financial columnist who may have to forfeit his wealth and influence to gain the son he never knew he had.
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Zion Covenant volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 33
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It's May 1939, Aaron Lubetkin, esteemed rabbi of Muranow, is released from a Warsaw prison. But he and his family--beautiful Etta, daughter Rachel, and sons David, Samuel, and baby Yacov--remain targets of Hitler's sinister plot. In the free city of Danzig, Lucy Strasburg flees in terror from SS officer Wolf von Fritschauer. If he finds her, the consequences for Lucy and her newborn will be dire. Yet each day the web around her tightens. Imprisoned...
10) First light
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A.D. chronicles volume 1
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Go back in time to first-century Jerusalem. It's a dark time in the world's holiest and most turbulent city. Walk with Peniel, the blind beggar who longs for rescue from his suffering. Peek into the lives of Susannah and Manaen, two lovers separated by overwhelming odds. And meet an unusual healer who ignites a spark of controversy in the fire of hatred, deceit, and betrayal that is always burning in this ancient city. This first book in the A.D....
11) Vienna prelude
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Zion Covenant volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 27
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Elisa Lindheim, of Jewish heritage, and John Murphy, New York Times reporter, become entangled in a web of intrigue, danger, and conspiracy.
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Zion Covenant volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
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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,...
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Zion chronicles volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
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Rachel survived the Nazi desolation at great personal cost. Returning to Jerusalem, she discovers members of her long-lost family. When her past is discovered, she is discredited before the people she wants to help.
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Galway chronicles volume 2
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
"I've been given a second chance at my life," Joseph said to the priest. "A home, a true family. The things I imagined were lost to me forever, Father. It's a dream for me to be here. Can I risk the loss of the dream now?" Joseph Connor Burke has reclaimed his ancestral acres and the manor he was born to rule. But in a turbulent time when Ireland struggles under an unjust English oppressor, Joseph's dreams of a peaceable kingdom are inevitably shattered...
17) Danzig Passage
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Series
Zion Covenant volume 5
Pub. Date
c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 27
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It's November, 1938--Kristal Nacht the "Night of the breaking Glass." As Hitler's minions blaze through Berlin, arresting Jews, burning homes, shops, and synagogues, Paster Karl Ibsen races to aid the Kalners, a Jewish fammily in his congregation. But will he be too late? And what price will his wife Helen, and children, Lori and Jamie pay for his actions?--Book Jacket
18) A light in Zion
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Zion chronicles volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 20
Description
The situation is desperate. Only a miracle can save them now. But will it come too late? Its Passover eve, and the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem is being starved into submission. Arab forces hold the only road into the Old Citythe village of Kastel and the narrow, twisting, rocky pass of Bab el Wad. If Haganah leader Moshe Sachar and his men cant capture and hold the pass tonight, long enough for the Jewish Agencys food...
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Series
Zion legacy volume 1
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Book One of The Zion Legacy series opens as the British are withdrawing from Jerusalem in 1948 and tells the enthralling and dramatic story of several richly drawn characters who are caught up in this momentous time in the world's most sacred city.
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Series
Galway chronicles volume 4
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It is October 1844. With the death of the evil Colonel Mahon and the end of the greatest potato famine in living memory, it seems peace and prosperity are finally on the way to Ballynockanor. But is this the calm before the storm? As Kate awaits the birth of their baby, Joseph is in hiding in London. Trying to find his way to Ireland and to his beloved wife, Joseph fights against the forces that seek to block their reunion. This fourth book in the...