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Book Title:  Jerusalem’s Hope
Authors:  Bodie and Brock Thoene
Publisher:  Viking
Pages:  264
ISBN:  0670030848
Synopsis:  In this last installment of the Zion Legacy series, the Thoenes pick up once again with the three orphan boys who were healed by Yeshua in The Stones of Jerusalem.  Yeshua gives Avel, Ha-or Tov, and Emet the enigmatic instructions to go to Bethlehem to Zadok, who [...]

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Title:  Stones of Jerusalem
Authors:  Bodie and Brock Thoene
Publisher:  Viking
Pages: 266
ISBN:  0670030511
Synopsis:  This fifth book in the Zion Legacy series continues the story of Yeshua and those whose lives He touched.  Of course, this is the inner story; this story’s true place in the the series is that Moshe and Alfie are underground in Old Jerusalem [...]

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Title:  Jerusalem Scrolls
Authors:  Bodie and Brock Thoene
Publisher:  Viking
ISBN:  0670030120
Synopsis:  This entire book is actually a story-within-a-story.  The first layer of the story is that of Moshe Sachar and Alfie Halder, who have gone underground at the fall of Old City Jerusalem to its Arab invaders.  They are apparently the only defenders who have stayed behind to [...]

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Title:  Jerusalem’s Heart
Authors:  Bodie and Brock Thoene
Publisher:  Viking
Pages:  328
ISBN:  0670894877
Synopsis:  In this, the third book in the Zion Legacy series, war still rages over Jerusalem and all of Israel.  The defenders in the Old City get weaker and weaker due to deprivation and the numbers of them grow smaller and smaller as more and more [...]

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Title:  Thunder from Jerusalem
Authors:  Brock and Bodie Thoene
Publisher:  Viking
Pages:  311
ISBN:  0670892068
Synopsis:  This novel is part two in the episodic Zion Legacy series.  In this book, the Jews of both Old City and New City Jerusalem fight for the survival of the newborn nation of Israel.  Now, however, instead of simply fighting the Arab irregular Jihad [...]

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Title:  A Garden to Keep
Author:  Jamie Langston Turner
Publisher:  Bethany House
Length:  415 pages
ISBN:  076422154X
Synopsis: Plot wise, this book is little more than a woman’s experience of becoming a Christian, and later that same day, finding out that her husband is carrying on an extramarital affair and the fallout that ensues.  However, to reduce this amazing novel [...]

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Title:  Jerusalem Vigil
Authors:  Bodie and Brock Thoene
Publisher:  Viking
Pages:  304
ISBN:  0670889113
Synopsis:  This book picks up immediately where The Key to Zion left off.  Immediately after the declaration of Israeli statehood, Israel was attacked by its surrounding hostile Arab neighbors.  This book chronicles the three or four days following the declaration of statehood and the onslaught of relentless [...]

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New Directions in Blogging

When I started this blog, I really had no idea what its focus would be.  As you can tell by the plethora of categories I have over on the sidebar, I’ve dabbled in quite a bit on this blog.  After taking a self-imposed, week-long break from blogging, however, I have decided to narrow the focus [...]

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This review is based on the recorded book version of this novel. 
Title:  Rules
Author:  Cynthia Lord; Performed by Jessica Almasy
Length:  4 hours
Synopsis:  This is the story of Catherine, a twelve-year-old girl who loves art and longs for a friend.  Catherine is the sister and often-babysitter for her autistic brother, David, and she often has a hard time fitting [...]

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Title:  The Key to Zion
Author:  Bodie Thoene
Publisher:  Bethany House Publishers
Length:  351 pages
ISBN:  1556610343
Synopsis:  In this carefully-crafted work of fiction, Bodie Thoene has written another installment in the suspenseful Zion Chronicles.  Readers follow well-known and loved characters David and Ellie Meyer as they trek through Europe on the run from pursuers whom they cannot identify.  Will the [...]

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