Historical Fiction Religion Thriller

In this third and final novel in the Lancaster Burning series, author Linda Byler takes us inside the home of Davey Beiler, the leader of this Amish district. He clearly feels the heat in more ways than one. Some of the younger members of his church are ready to testify against the man who has allegedly started at least several of the fires. Davey counsels patience and forgiveness.

At the trial of Christ, Theophilus, brilliant young assessore raised in the Roman aristocracy, stands behind Pontius Pilate and whispers, "Offer to release Barabbas." The strategy backfires, and Theophilus never forgets the sight of an innocent man unjustly suffering the worst of all possible deaths - Roman crucifixion. Three decades later, Theophilus has proven himself in the legal ranks of the Roman Empire. He has survived the insane rule of Caligula and has weathered the cruel tyrant’s quest to control the woman he loves.

Students of biblical Greek will learn all New Testament Greek vocabulary words that occur 10 times or more in the New Testament by interacting with this audio product. Jonathan Pennington speaks all New Testament Greek words in descending order of frequency. Different tracks enable students to concentrate on different word groupings.

The body of a young Englishwoman washes up in Istanbul wearing a pendant inscribed with the seal of the deposed sultan. The death resembles the unsolved murder of another Englishwoman, 10 years before. A magistrate in the new secular courts, Kamil Pasha, sets out to find the killer, but his dispassionate belief in science and modernity is shaken by betrayal and widening danger. In a mystical voice, a young Muslim woman recounts her own relationship with one of the dead women and with the suspected killer.

It’s 1933, and Ivor Castle, Oxford-educated and Jewish, arrives in Palestine to take up a position as assistant to the defense counsel in the trial of the two men accused of murdering Haim Arlosoroff, a leader of the Jewish community in Palestine whose efforts to get Jews out of Hitler’s Germany and into Palestine may have been controversial enough to get him killed.

Une famille plongée dans l'enfer de la Saint-Barthélemy : l'Histoire de France comme vous ne l'avez jamais lue ! 1572. Depuis dix ans, les guerres de Religion ravagent la France. Aujourd'hui, enfin, un fragile espoir de paix renaît : Catherine de Médicis a manœuvré dans l'ombre et le royaume s'apprête à célébrer le mariage de la future reine Margot et d'Henri, le roi protestant de Navarre.

You're about to discover the crazy details about Bigfoot/Sasquatch. With the easy access of the Internet, people all over the world have been interested in knowing whether or not Bigfoot exists. While I don't claim to know the answer to that, this book serves as an informative guide that provides confirmed information and is unbiased. There are so many random stories on the Internet with no basis and they serve to misguide the masses.

With the aid of her partner Dylan Tremayne, Lady Serafina Trent aims to help her neighbors—the Haydens—determine who the true heir is to their sizable estate. After some investigating, she shocks the Haydens when she reveals that the child they believed had died at birth is actually alive and living as a criminal in London's worst slum. Then the Hayden's butler is murdered and the stakes are dangerously raised. Lady Serafina must employ her famous scientific reasoning to help her discover answers before foul play strikes again.

Disenchanted with his profession, Jay Hunt gave up a lucrative Wall Street career to become a backcountry tour guide. Soon after, an ancient manuscript is uncovered that reveals the Gospels were an orchestrated fiction written by a first-century sect at Qumran. Though its revelation stuns the world, Jay ignores it until his father, a retired Dead Sea Scrolls expert, gets in over his head investigating the scroll.

Set in New York in the early 1930s, this love story is my first attempt and I hope you like it. It does have adult language, but it is not intended to be lewd in any way. I had a good time doing the research for the period, birds and photographic processes of the time.

Assassiné dans le train Rome-Paris, le père Andrei était sur le point de découvrir un secret susceptible de faire vaciller l'Occident, et que l'Eglise s'acharne depuis sa fondation à dissimuler. Ce secret, il avait eu le temps de le confier à son ami, le père Nil. Poursuivant son enquête, Nil se lance sur les traces d'une épître et d'un compagnon de Jésus occultés au cours des siècles. Rome va tout faire pour l'en empêcher, Jérusalem et La Mecque aussi : car c'est l'ordre du monde qui est en jeu.

Une aventure passionnante à la recherche de la Ménorah, le plus vieux symbole juif aujourd'hui disparu... Plus de sept ans après l'enquête qui les a conduits sur les traces du Code d'Esther, Bernard Benyamin et Yohan Perez reçoivent un jour une mystérieuse lettre. À l'intérieur se trouve une photographie de la Ménorah, l'un des objets les plus sacrés du judaïsme, accompagnée de ces quelques mots : "J'espère que vous êtes à présent en paix avec vos morts... Il serait temps que vous repreniez votre enquête parmi les vivants...".

ET SI UNE DÉCOUVERTE POUVAIT CHANGER LE MONDE ? SON FUTUR, SON PRÉSENT ET MÊME SON PASSÉ... Istanbul, 1682 : Mehmed IV, sultan de l'Empire ottoman, s'apprête à lancer le second siège de Vienne, alors capitale du Saint-Empire romain, quand un mystérieux visiteur s'introduit dans sa chambre. L'homme, couvert d'étranges tatouages, déclare au souverain pouvoir l'aider à mener à bien ses rêves de conquête.

Seule au cœur de la bibliothèque vaticane, Patricia Escalona, éminente paléographe, étudie le "Codex Vaticanus", l'un des plus anciens exemplaires de la Bible. Un document aussi sacré qu'exceptionnel qui causera sa perte : elle est égorgée, et un message codé est laissé près de son corps. D'abord suspecté, Tomás Noronha, historien et cryptologue, finit par apporter son aide à Valentina, l'inspectrice chargée de l'enquête. Alors que les meurtres s'enchaînent, ils vont devoir plonger dans les mystères du livre sacré pour comprendre les motivations de l'assassin.