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Brings the biblical Queen Esther to life in a way you'll never forget
Young Esther never thought her life would turn out like this. All she ever wanted was a quiet life in her Jewish community...and a loving husband and children someday. Then, one frightening day, she's stolen off the streets by the Persian king's guards and forced into the competition to be Xerxes' next queen.
Catapulted against her will into life inside the harem, Esther's simple world becomes complicated. There's her chief rival, Isis, who is out for blood...and the king's mercurial temperament. Then a dastardly plan gains momentum that will make all evil pale in comparison. And Esth | |  | | Such Deliverance as This
Five women face hardship and difficult choices, but they find friendship with each other and ways to escape.
Five women. Desperate situations. Unexpected answers. The young widow Hadassah faces the possibility of life in the Persian harem. Jarah fears she'll never marry because of her greedy uncle. Naama fails to see her husband's love when he relocates them across the Persian empire. Tova longs for a god other than Moloch, the god of darkness. Judith wants a courageous, committed mate worthy of her. After a four-month journey, the Jews arrive in a Promised Land that doesn't fulfill their expectations and become entangled in a shocking affair when Jewish men are commanded to divorce their heathen | |  | | Such Redemption as This
In the last of the Such a Hope Series, Naama's family may lose their vineyard, or their eldest child. Yael is enslaved to give them time to raise enough silver, but will she ever return to her home and her betrothed?
445 BC
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"Times New Roman",serif">But in the hills of Judah, thirteen-year-old Yael is ripped from her peaceful life when the Ammonite Tobiah decides to collect a long-overdue debt for his sis |
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Gallows Field
by Brendan O'Brien
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 Dublin 1941. A brutal murder. Mistaken identity. And barman Eamon Foley is running for his life.
Nine months later Foley is in a crowded pub, and his brother-in-law is shot dead. |
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