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62) Jerusalem's hope
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Description
Jerusalem's Hope is the final volume in the superb Zion Legacy series, continues the story-within-a-story of The Jerusalem Scrolls and Stones of Jerusalem . Israeli strategist Moshe Sachar has taken refuge in a secret tunnel, beneath the Temple Mount, from the battle chaos of the 1948 war of independence. Now, he opens another of the temple's ancient scrolls and plunges into the supreme drama of the first century A.D. As word spreads of the miracles...
Author
Series
Zion legacy volume 6
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
The riveting conclusion of the Zion Legacy series--Three "Sparrows," ragamuffin orphan boys, find comfort while in hiding with Yeshua and become his vital messengers to a shepherd in Bethlehem. As these character converge on the dangerous road to Jerusalem at Passover, bloody violence erupts, threatening the future of the Roman state, and the surprising identity of Yeshua is revealed.
64) Kushiel's chosen
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
The fascinating Ph̬dre n̍ Delaunay fights to save her queen and country in a battle whose greatest weapon proves to be Ph̬dre herself. Ph̬dre, now Comtesse de Montr̬ve, is once again plying her skills as an anguissette - a courtesan for whom pain becomes pleasure - and her talents as a spy. She uncovers a conspiracy of treason and murder and begins an adventure that takes her once more to distant lands in the company of an intriguing...
65) Kushiel's Dart
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Description
A massive fantasy tale about the violent death of an old age and the birth of a new one. Here is a novel of grandeur, luxuriance, sacrifice, betrayal, and deeply laid conspiracies. Born with a scarlet mote in her left eye, Phedre no Delaunay is sold into indentured servitude as a child. When her bond is purchased by an enigmatic nobleman, she is trained in history, theology, politics, foreign languages, and the arts of pleasure. Above all, she learns...
Author
Series
Zion legacy volume 5
Pub. Date
2002
Description
Taking refuge in a secret tunnel beneath the Temple Mount during the Israel-Arab War, Israeli strategist Moshe Sachar immerses himself in an ancient scroll that reveals the story of a Roman centurion and the mysterious woman he loves.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2003
Formats
Description
In the days when Texas was the northern edge of Mexico, this unorthodox family struggled to make a wild but beautiful land their own. This is the tale of Jerusalem Ann, who is willing to take whatever life dishes out in order to make a life for her family. It's the story of Clay, who finds himself protecting another man's family and in love with another man's wife. It's about Jake, who loves two women and can't do right by either, and Julie, who'd...
71) Star Corps
Author
Series
The legacy trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2003
Description
In the future,
earth's warriors have
conquered the heavens.
But on a distant world,
Humanity is in chains ...
Many millennia ago, the human race was enslaved by the An -- a fearsome alien people whose cruel empire once spanned the galaxies, until they were defeated and consigned to oblivion. But a research mission to the planet Ishtar has made a terrifying -- and fatal -- discovery: the Ahanu, ancestors of the former masters, live on, far from...
Series
Pub. Date
2004, ℗♭1986
Description
Ripley is recovering from her first encounter with the deadly alien. Her account of that event is received with skepticism, but transmissions from a colony later established on the Alien's planet abruptly cease. Burke, an up-and-coming company man, talks Ripley into going back with a squad of colonial marines. Of course the Marines do not take her warnings seriously either, until they come face-to-face with the awesome alien spawn.
78) The sting
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Two con men set out to avenge the death of a mutual friend in 1930s Chicago. They swindle a powerful crime lord, pitting brain against brawn and pistol. No one is to be trusted as the twists unfold, leading up to one of the greatest double-crosses in movie history.