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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...

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...

It is the dawn of the New Year, 1861. After two centuries of isolation, Japan has been forced to open its doors to the West, igniting a clash of cultures and generations. And as foreign ships threaten to rain destruction on the Shoguns castle in Edo, a small group of American missionaries has chosen this time to spread the word of their God. Among them, Emily Gibson, a woman seeking redemption from a tormented past, and Matthew Stark, a cold-eyed...

A Chance to Die is a biography of Amy Carmichael, an Irish missionary and writer who spent fifty-three years in south India without furlough. There she became known as ''Amma,'' or ''mother,'' as she founded the Dohnavur Fellowship, a refuge for underprivileged children.

Published to great acclaim, Death in Lacquer Red was the first novel in Jeanne M. Dams's historical mystery series featuring Hilda Johansson, a young Swedish woman working in the South Bend, Indiana home of the prominent Studebaker family. Against the backdrop of the ever-changing year 1900, Hilda finds herself facing not only the problems of an immigrant but also religious conflict, and international unrest, not to mention the discovery of the body...

"Hermana Plunge took me back to my own experiences as a sister missionary--the joys, the frustrations, the enthusiasm, the faithfulness, and the frequent hilarity of it all. Clayton's memoir manages to capture the complicated spectrum of a missionary's busy life: the sacred moments juxtaposed with the silly, the tragedies intermingled with the miracles. This book is also about the eternal friendships made in such a whirlwind enterprise of religion,...

"A novel based on the experiences of the first two female missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who served in England in the late 1800s"--