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The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it -- from garden seeds to Scripture -- is calamitously transformed on African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction...
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2012.
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English
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It is 1923. Evangeline (Eva) English and her sister Lizzie are missionaries heading for the ancient Silk Road city of Kashgar. Though Lizzie is on fire with her religious calling, Eva's motives are not quite as noble, but with her green bicycle and a commission from a publisher to write A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar, she is ready for adventure.
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In a plush Virginia office, a rich, angry old man is furiously rewriting his will. With his death just hours away, Troy Phelan wants to send a message to his children, his ex-wives, and his minions--a message that will touch off a vicious legal battle and transform dozens of lives. Because Troy Phelan's new will names a sole surprise heir to his eleven-billion-dollar fortune: a mysterious woman named Rachel Lane, a missionary living deep in the jungles...
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Willamette brides volume 3
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English
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"Accompanied by her best friend, Thomas Lowell, Constance Browning returns from studying in the East to catalog the native peoples of Oregon - and to prove that her missionary parents aren't involved in a secret conspiracy to goad the oppressed tribes to war. As tensions rise amid shocking revelations, Constance may also have a revelation of the heart."--Publisher.
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Women of the West volume 1
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English
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When young Emily Evans had felt God's call to start a church in a pioneer settlement, she never dreamed it would mean going alone. With over 7 million Oke books sold, this book is another memorable story in the Oke tradition.
7) Adam's story
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Elder Roberts takes a chance by knocking on the door of his mom's parents, who haven't seen him since he was a baby. Maybe, just maybe, he can get them to accept the gospel like their daughter, Charly, did more than twenty years ago. And maybe he can find out something about the mother who died when he was a baby, and discover a little more about himself in the process.
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Covenant
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2010.
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English
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Amanda knows there's a family out there that needs the gospel - and she also knows she's the one who's supposed to bring it to them. Her recurring dream makes it seem urgent - the dream with the shiny gold frame and the vaguely familiar faces smiling down at her. The dream in which her grandmother says, "You must find them. You're the only one who can." When Amanda gets to California and starts teaching, she wonders which family she was sent there...
9) Throstleford
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When two American Missionaries visit the English village of Throstleford in the early 1840s, they forever change the life of the village--and of the villagers. Esther Grey and her father, the local vicar, are the first to receive copies of the Book of Mormon. Both recognize truth in the book, but recoil from the challenges this knowledge brings. Esther knows that accepting the message would be a betrayel of her dear father. Yet how can she deny the...
11) Hawaii: a novel
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This epic novel traces the origins and history of the islands of Hawaii, from their volcanic birth, through the first arrivals of humans from Polynesia, followed by European sailors and missionaries, then Chinese and Japanese laborers, to the modern blending of cultures.
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Priscilla White feels God's call to the mission field. Dr. Eli Ernest is back from Oregon Country only long enough to raise awareness of missions to the natives before heading back to develop a mission for the Nez Percé. They receive news from the mission board that unmarried men and women will no longer be sent into the field. Scrambling for options, the two realize the answer to their needs is a partnership, a marriage in name only that will allow...
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Covenant Communications, Inc
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English
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"Jason Jennings made a tough call two years ago when he left behind his status as a hard-partying star quarterback in order to serve the Lord. Recently returned from a mission now, he's ready to get back on the football field at UCAL. But despite turning his life around, his bad-boy reputation is proving hard to shake. Allie Hollis is everything a cheerleader should be--beautiful, outgoing, and smart--but her brilliant smile hides a devastating secret....
14) God's army
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Excel
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2001.
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English
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The story of several Mormon missionaries --Elder Allen, Sister Fronk, and Elders Dalton, Banks, Sandoval, and others -- who overcame tremendous obstacles to serve the Lord.
15) Lit fuse
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Bonneville Books
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[2011]
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English
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Delisha and Lufti Ahmed, children of Pakistani immigrants, have been raised as potential suicide bombers. Then they meet two young Mormon missionaries who change Delisha's life forever.
16) Fieldwork
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007.
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English
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Following his girlfriend to her new teaching position in Thailand, a young reporter researches the story of American anthropologist Martiya van der Leun, following her suicide in the Thai prison where she was serving a lengthy sentence for murder.
17) Messiah: a novel
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Covenant
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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Growing into manhood, Kiah sees his family torn apart by dissension regarding the prophesied Savior. Consecrating his life as a missionary, he labors among Nephites and Lamanites while facing the bitterness of unrestrained corruption before tasting the sweetness of a promise fulfilled.
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English
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Its 1852 and cousins Patrick and Beth sail to Fiji on the HMS Calliope under the command of Captain James E. Home. They arrive at the islands to find that the Christian Fijians are at war with the non-Christian Fijians. Missionary James Calvert is trying to make peace and suggests that the captain allow peace negotiations on board the British vessel. Patrick and Beth learn about sacrificial living when they observe Calverts determination to live on...
19) Doug's dilemma
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Emma trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Cedar Fort
Pub. Date
c2000.
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English
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Emma's brother Doug travels from modern-day missionary to American soldier in World War II, where he must save his great-grandfather's life in order to preserve the family line.
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[Amanda Brown series] volume 2
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William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2011.
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English
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Thirteen years after a kidnapped white child is raised in the Belgian Congo without any knowledge of her birth culture, her rescuers are put in mortal danger by a person who would keep the girl's true identity a secret.
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