Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Christian - Historical

Before he became a father of the Christian Church, Augustine of Hippo loved a woman whose name has been lost to history. This is her story.

She met Augustine in Carthage when she was seventeen. She was the poor daughter of a mosaic-layer; he was a promising student and heir to a fortune. His brilliance and passion intoxicated her, but his social class would be forever beyond her reach. She became his concubine, and by the time he was forced to leave her, she was thirty years old and the mother of his...

The events in this book take place in Ancient Rome at the end of the fourth century, between the years 382 and 385 AD - a short, but critical, timespan in the history of Western civilisation. It was crunch time for the Roman Empire, long racked by internal riots and external threats, particularly from the Germanic tribes to the north. Christianity had developed from a splinter group of Judaism in Roman-occupied Jerusalem into a widespread movement with its own beliefs and rituals which brought it into direct confrontation with the existing social order. The old gods, with their power to...

Newly married to her childhood sweetheart, twenty-one-year-old Ruth Warren is settling into life in a Depression-era, East Texas oil town. She's making a home when she learns that her young husband, Charlie, has been killed in an oil rig accident. Ruth is devastated, but then gets a chance for a fresh start: a scholarship from a college in Pasadena, CA. Ruth decides to...

After her dad dies and she breaks up with her fiance, Jane is determined to make a fresh start. Having inherited a family home up on Roan Mountain that has been passed down through the generations, she decides to renovate it.

The work is monumental but makes her feel closer to her father. Soon Jane becomes close to the handyman who is helping restore the home...and begins to wonder if there's a spark between them.

But soon a possible romance is the last thing on Jane's mind. Unexplained things begin happening, such as the discovery of a Civil War-era gun hidden in the wall....

Men are optional. That's the credo Emma Chandler's suffragette aunts preached and why she started a successful women's colony in Harper's Station, Texas. But when an unknown assailant tries repeatedly to drive them out, Emma admits they might need a man after all. A man who can fight--and she knows just the one.

Malachi Shaw finally earned the respect he craved by becoming an explosives expert for the railroad. Yet when Emma's plea arrives, he bolts to Harper's Station to repay the girl who once saved his life....

"A superbly written and intellectually stimulating novel."--The Independent (London)

Since he was a young boy, John has studied at the Franciscan monastery outside Oxford, under the tutelage of friar and magus Roger Bacon, an inventor, scientist, and polymath. In 1267 Bacon arranges for his young pupil to embark on a journey of penitence to Italy. But the pilgrimage is a guise to deliver scientific instruments and Bacon's great opus to His Holiness, Pope Clement IV. Two companions will accompany John, both Franciscan novices: the handsome, sweet-tempered Brother Andrew; and...

Middle-aged widow Mabel Crowley hasnt felt needed in years. But when a homeless child named Stryker shows up at church one Sunday, Mabels life takes a drastic turn.

George Stanton is not who he seems. Running from the law in his brand new 1955 Lincoln Continental, hes planning a mad dash to Mexico to leave his past behind. He cant let an old woman and a sick kid get in his way.

Eleven-year-old...

Yorkshire, 1945.

This is a story about different kinds of love and different kinds of faith, about a novice nun, a fighter pilot, a soap heiress with a missing leg, and an angel who doesn't remember Heaven.

Charlie came face-to-face with the supernatural once before, but that was twenty years ago. He didn't think anything like that would happen to him again. At the tail end of World War II, serving in the RAF, he rescues a young man who looks as if he belongs in a stained-glass window, and realizes he was wrong.

Evvie's life changed dramatically six...

Anissa is traumatized by the most brutal conflict of the 21st Century: the Syrian Civil War. In 2012, Islamists in Homs terrorize a Syrian-Christian community and destroy everything that a young woman holds dear. Narrowly escaping death, Anissa restarts her devastated life as a college student in New York City. She is bewildered and lost, but hopeful for a better life in a new land.

Anissa is soon drawn to two powerful individuals: Michael Kassab, the Syrian-American leader working to found the first Mideast Christian state, and Julien...

Anissa Toma fled war-torn Syria after narrowly escaping the massacre of her Christian family by Islamists. Fortunate enough to rebuild her shattered life in New York City, she soon captured the interest of two powerful men: Michael, an activist working to establish Antioch, the first Mideast Christian state, and Julien, her college professor and one of the city's wealthiest bachelors.

As Anissa's saga continues, the refugee-turned-rising-star must navigate between Michael and Julien, while trying to help her surviving relatives and other...

Many will seek it... Some will die for it... But only one will unlock its secret...

When covert artifact recovery specialist, Zack Cole is hired to retrieve a priceless sixteenth-century Bible, he unwittingly takes on the most dangerous mission of his life.

What seemed like a straightforward recovery job turns deadly when the holy text is the target of a bloody heist, and an innocent missionary is brutally murdered. Zack soon finds himself caught up in a centuries-old mystery, and his only clue is a cryptic code, believed to have been written by William Tyndale...

Everyone knows the story of Christmas. But how much do we know about Mary? What must she have felt, thought, dreamed or imagined when she was chosen by God to bear His Son? What went through her young mind as she experienced the miracle of the new life growing within her?

Lo, a Star chronicles nine months in the life of the special young woman who would become the Mother of Jesus. Mary's emotional and spiritual journey, as well as her physical one, is explored, culminating in the long and arduous trip to Bethlehem with Joseph. Travel with her as she faces her own fears and...