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Series
Zion chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Ellie, a young American photojournalist in Jerusalem in 1947, becomes a pawn in a political chess game.
Author
Series
Zion chronicles volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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
Zion chronicles volume 4
Publisher
Bethany House
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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...
Author
Series
Wayward wind volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Nelson Publishers
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
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 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
Elisa Lindheim, of Jewish heritage, and John Murphy, New York Times reporter, become entangled in a web of intrigue, danger, and conspiracy.
Author
Series
Zion Covenant volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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
Jerusalem chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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
Zion legacy volume 1
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Jerusalem chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Zondervan
Language
English
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
Zion Covenant volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
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?
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
In the days following the formation of the new State of Israel, Moshe Sachar finds himself trapped in enemy territory, hoping to reach the soldiers still fighting for the Old City and to be by his wife's side as she delivers their first child.
12) The key to Zion
Author
Series
Zion chronicles volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
The Zion Chronicles series covers the events surrounding Israel's statehood in 1948. Each book vividly portrays the intense struggle of the Jewish people in the aftermath of the Holocaust and the forces, within and without, which engulf the Middle East in conflict and controversy even today. Will there ever be peace in Zion? The Jewish people wonder as they stream into the British Mandate of Palestine after the devastation of World War II. What has...
Author
Series
Zion legacy volume 6
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Zion diaries volume 1
Language
English
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
Publisher
Thomas Nelson Publishers
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
"It was four o'clock on the afternoon of December Twenty-fourth, 1841, in the village of Ballynockanor, County of Galway, Province of Connaught, Ireland. It was after mass on the first day of Advent that the old woman, Mad Molly Fahey, had told Father O'Bannon (as well as every farmer, farmer's wife, and child) that a great miracle was coming to visit the poor of Ballynockanor" -- Conatiner.
Author
Series
Galway chronicles volume 4
Publisher
Thomas Nelson Publishers
Language
English
Description
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...
19) Jerusalem's hope
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
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...
20) Fifth seal
Author
Series
A.D. chronicles volume 5
Language
English
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Description
Hurtful gossip swirls around newlyweds Yosef and Mary concerning the timing of Mary's pregnancy, while the prophetess Hannah foretells the birth of Israel's true King, and astronomer Melchior notes the changes in the night sky signifying the birth of Jesus.