Adventure Fiction
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Kudzu That Are Yazoo City
$24.99Add to cartThe Kudzu that Ate Yazoo City is a collection of stories that chronicle William “Junior” Jenkins’ growing up during the 1950s and 1960s in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Influenced by a large family, poverty, faith, and the ever-present kudzu vine, Jenkins mingles fact, fiction, and homegrown wisdom to remember those “cotton picking days” in the Mississippi Delta
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Kudzu That Are Yazoo City
$15.99Add to cartThe Kudzu that Ate Yazoo City is a collection of stories that chronicle William “Junior” Jenkins’ growing up during the 1950s and 1960s in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Influenced by a large family, poverty, faith, and the ever-present kudzu vine, Jenkins mingles fact, fiction, and homegrown wisdom to remember those “cotton picking days” in the Mississippi Delta
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Chop Shop
$21.99Add to cartAn autopsy room is where secrets are revealed. . .or buried.
Young Dr. Riley McKay has worked hard toward her career in pathology – and now she has secured a fellowship at the renowned Allegheny County Coroner’s Office in Pittsburgh. But her promising future is threatened when suspicious activities incriminate her supervising pathologist, Dr. Nathan Lassiter. Bungled autopsies, concealed evidence, and unexplained wounds accumulate at an alarming rate. When Riley is ignored by her seniors and threatened by Dr. Lassiter, she turns in desperation to Dr. Nick Polchak, the Bug Man, to help her uncover the truth.
From a handful of tiny maggots, Nick and Riley begin to unearth the facts, and together they discover that these blunders are not accidents but part of a larger evil that threatens their very lives.
The flies on the wall can talk. Forensic entomologist Nick Polchak is listening.
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Sour Raisins
$26.49Add to cartI climbed up over the guardrail and as high up the metal structure as I could. I stood there looking out over the water. It was so quiet and peaceful. The city lights were reflecting in the water so beautifully. I wished my life could be as somber and peaceful. Then just as I was about to plunge into the peacefulness, someone called out to me. “Hey there, whatcha thinkin’ about doin’?” It was an old man. He was walking towards me on the other side of the guardrail. “You leave me alone!” I yelled. “Oh… I can’t do that,” he said. “I’m on my way home and I just don’t think I’d be able to sleep tonight if I saw some girl jump off a bridge.” “Then don’t watch!” I yelled. Have you ever wondered why you were ever even born? Ever wondered, “Why me?” Follow along in a story about a girl named Shelly. Discover how she was able to overcome the most confusing, painful, scary, and dangerous times in her life. Run with her, cry with her, and learn with her as she discovers a past almost too painful to believe. And then see how she discovers the meaning of true love in ways she never thought existed.
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Sour Raisins
$16.49Add to cartI climbed up over the guardrail and as high up the metal structure as I could. I stood there looking out over the water. It was so quiet and peaceful. The city lights were reflecting in the water so beautifully. I wished my life could be as somber and peaceful. Then just as I was about to plunge into the peacefulness, someone called out to me. “Hey there, whatcha thinkin’ about doin’?” It was an old man. He was walking towards me on the other side of the guardrail. “You leave me alone!” I yelled. “Oh… I can’t do that,” he said. “I’m on my way home and I just don’t think I’d be able to sleep tonight if I saw some girl jump off a bridge.” “Then don’t watch!” I yelled. Have you ever wondered why you were ever even born? Ever wondered, “Why me?” Follow along in a story about a girl named Shelly. Discover how she was able to overcome the most confusing, painful, scary, and dangerous times in her life. Run with her, cry with her, and learn with her as she discovers a past almost too painful to believe. And then see how she discovers the meaning of true love in ways she never thought existed.
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Sins Of The Mother
$18.95Add to cartPopularity and fame have created a glimmering facade in Shanna O’Brian’s world, but when the spotlight fades, the darkness of reality sets in. Even after her mother’s mysterious death, Shanna still lives in the shadow of her control and must bear the consequences of her destructive choices.
When the beloved father figure who fashioned her music career suddenly dies, Shanna begins a desperate attempt to reclaim possession of a life she’s too often surrendered to others. And this means severing ties with Joshua Morgan, her ex-husband and the man who is now in control of her music career. But her search for self-discovery leads her right into the hands of the men who killed her mother. What she doesn’t know threatens not only her hope for happiness but her very life.
Can the mayhem surrounding Shanna be resolved despite her fledgling faith in herself, her God, and the man determined to redeem her trust?
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Assassin : Attack On America
$32.99Add to cartThis is an adventure novel about two antagonists representing opposite poles of ethics and morality. An Iraqi revolutionary, Sabah Yamani, one of the world’s foremost assassins, conspires to attack America by spreading toxic mold on midwestern wheat fields. She kills Admad Jamal, her co-conspirator, and meets and eventually marries Liam Kirwan, a rogue IRA terrorist. They assassinate Anatoly Malikov, a Russian general who offered to sell them the toxin. Sabah and Liam arrive in America and choose the farm of Angus Finney in Nebraska as the first stage in blackmailing the U.S. government. Kirby McCormick, a half-breed Stockbridge Indian from Wisconsin, is a top Navy SEAL. He leaves the Navy and heads west, where he finds love with Jenny Finney. Kirby has a long-standing feud with Sabah who had tortured and killed his fiancee. Aware of Sabah’s intentions, Kirby heads a SEAL team to stop her. This ends in a violent climax.
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That Hideous Strength
$17.99Add to cartThe final book in C. S. Lewis’s acclaimed Space Trilogy, which includes Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra, That Hideous Strength concludes the adventures of the matchless Dr. Ransom. The dark forces that were repulsed in Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra are massed for an assault on the planet Earth itself. Word is on the wind that the mighty wizard Merlin has come back to the land of the living after many centuries, holding the key to ultimate power for that force which can find him and bend him to its will. A sinister technocratic organization is gaining power throughout Europe with a plan to “recondition” society, and it is up to Ransom and his friends to squelch this threat by applying age-old wisdom to a new universe dominated by science. The two groups struggle to a climactic resolution that brings the Space Trilogy to a magnificent, crashing close.
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Perelandra
$16.99Add to cartThe second book in C.S. Lewis’s acclaimed Space Trilogy continues the adventures of the extraordinary Dr. Ransom. Pitted against the most destructive of human weaknesses, temptation, the great man must battle evil on a new planet – Perelandra – when it is invaded by a dark force. Will Perelandra succumb to the malevolent being, who strives to creat a new world order and who must destroy an old and beautiful civilization to do so? Or will it throw off the yoke of corruption and achieve a spiritual perfection as yet unknown to man? The outcome of Dr. Ransom’s mighty struggle alone will determine the fate of this peace-loving planet.
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Out Of The Silent Planet
$17.00Add to cartThe first book in C. S. Lewis’s acclaimed Space Trilogy, which continues with Perelandra and That Hideous Strength, Out of the Silent Planet begins the adventures of the remarkable Dr. Ransom. Here, that estimable man is abducted by a megalomaniacal physicist and his accomplice and taken via spaceship to the red planet of Malacandra. The two men are in need of a human sacrifice, and Dr. Ransom would seem to fit the bill. Once on the planet, however, Ransom eludes his captors, risking his life and his chances of returning to Earth, becoming a stranger in a land that is enchanting in its difference from Earth and instructive in its similarity. First published in 1943, Out of the Silent Planet remains a mysterious and suspenseful tour de force.
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Grazer 1
$15.99Add to cartAsteroids and comets travel through our solar system like runaway freight trains on a collision course with anything that might come in their way. Earth has had its experiences with these planet-colliding objects before, including one that crashed in the Yucatan Peninsula some 65 million years ago, causing what scientists believe today to be the Ice Age. It will happen again. The question to ask is when? Hale McCormick Trask (H.M.) is an ordinary person waiting for direction in life when he logs onto an Internet contest that will change his life forever. The winner spends two weeks aboard Grazer I, an international solar-array space station used to study ultraviolet light, near earth objects, and short period comets that come in contact with the sun. What he does not realize is that his life is about to be changed from fame to destiny. What starts out as a space contest for fame and recognition just could end up in the ultimate struggle for survival for him and all humanity.
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Misadventures Of Jon Lee 2
$13.49Add to cartThe Misadventures of Jon Lee adventure series is written on the same principles as are good jokes. Without the last chapter, each adventure is exciting and fun, with many of life’s valuable lessons being taught and learned throughout it. The last chapter of each story (The punch line) draws several spiritual word pictures for its young readers, and parallels the proceeding pages with truths found in God’s Word. Follow Jon Lee Parker in this volume (From ages 13-15) and his friends as they learn valuable spiritual lessons and principals during exciting adventures in the Big Woods of New York State. In this book are two stories. The Bully, and Jon and Cindy.
The following is an excerpt from the last chapter of The Bully. There was a loud ‘crack’ and a huge cloud of dust bellowed from the bottom and top of the shaft. Large chunks of concrete crashed down out of it onto the cavern floor, missing Jon and Butch by mere inches. The recovery cable Butch was connected to was, however, still drawing him up into the shaft. Jon shouted frantically into his helmet microphone for Roy to make them stop the wench. But would there be enough time?
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In Search Of A Peaceful Land
$17.49Add to cartIn 1831, the year following the French Revolution, many in Germany began pushing for revolution in Germany. Joseph Arnst Garrett had served under Napoleon when he was young, and he had witnessed the horrors of war. He also understood the political-ethnic-cultural makeup in the Fatherland and the fact that Germany had known warfare off and on for centuries, one war lasting for thirty years. He feared for his wife, two sons, and eight daughters, and he determined to take his family to America. But, would Metternich, the present ruler, or the young revolutionaries permit him to go and take his wealth? He owned three thriving businesses as well as his family estate. Johann Joseph Arnst Garrett, as the oldest son, has a hard decision to make: go to America with his family, join the young revolutionaries, or join Metternich’s army. Hendrick Bhonn Haar, a 21-year-old orphan, is a friend of Johann’s and works alongside of Johann in the Garrett family business. He is a Christian in the Brethren sect, which is hated by Catholic and Reformation Protestants alike. And he has fallen in love with Victoria, one of the Garrett daughters. What can come of this? Will he too go to America?
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Acts By Email
$26.49Add to cartRead ACTS BY E-MAIL and you will discover the delightfully creative writing of Martha Hook. This book peels back the layers of quaint, small-town living to reveal unexpected psychological and spiritual tensions. It will certainly prompt you to contemplate how life is not always as it appears. Expect to have your own emotions stirred as you watch how the characters come to terms with unusual events.
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Dragon Hunters
$13.49Add to cartExpecting another rainy day, a group of kids are propelled into a world of danger and excitement that could only exist in a vivid imagination. How could they ever find their way back to the “real world”? Alone and frightened, they are armed only with a small Bible and a mysterious guide. Join them as “putting on the armor” ceases to be a Sunday School exercise and becomes a life or death necessity. See the power of the Word of God and the depth of the love of God bring them out of a terrifying nightmare of dragons and demons!
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My Life As Invisible Intestines
$9.99Add to cartMy Life As Invisible Intestines (with Intense Indigestion) is book # 20 in the The Incredible Worlds Of Wally McDoogle series. When Wally first becomes invisible (thanks to the handy-dandy OOPS Machine) it’s great fun. Now he can do whatever he wants, like defending Opera by humiliating a bully, or helping the local football team come back from a 0-54 score. Then, of course, there’s always giving Wall Street a hand in making her first million. . . . But the fun and games are short lived when everybody from a crazy ghost buster, to the FBI, to the 59 1/2 Minutes TV show, to the neighbor’s new dog (a cross between a grizzly bear and a Tyrannosaurs Rex) begin pursuing him. Soon Wally is stumbling and staggering through his greatest misadventure ever . . . until he finally learns that cheating and taking short cuts in life are not all they’re cracked up to be. Until he learns that honesty really is the best policy.
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Secrets Of Thief Cave
$8.99Add to cartKids love adventure, mystery, and fun–and the new Camp Wanna Banana mysteries by Becky Freeman, also a part of the Children Of Faith line, are jam-packed with all three! In this fast paced tale, ten-year-old, book-loving Joy and her quirky, crazy twin Jake; their “twibling” (twin sibling) friends, Marco and Maria; and Joy’s pet spider monkey, Munch-Munch solve intriguing mysteries in and around the lakes, woods, and winding paths of the Christian summer camp where they work and live. This book includes activity pages with ideas and games to help readers have their own Camp Wanna Banana adventures.
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In Pursuit Of The Enemy (Reprinted)
$10.99Add to cartAlex is the only Superkid available for what sounds like a routine tracking mission. But he soon discovers there’s more to his mission than he expected-much more. Suddenly, Alex
finds himself in the last place he needs to be in order to save Superkid Academy: He finds himself waking up nearly two years in the future! Will Alex be able to stop NME’s Disaster
Virus in time? How can he get back to the reality he knows as the truth? Only listening to the Spirit of God and walking in forgiveness will lead Alex to the answer. Get ready for a
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Last Guardian : Called By God Targeted By Darkness Destined To Lead
$23.99Add to cartA mysterious ancient artifact leads to a chilling encounter with evil and a jarring journey to another world for Cornell student T.G. Shass. Upon his return, T.G. discovers Earth’s not the same, and his girlfriend’s missing. Searching for Jenni, he returns to that macabre realm. Will he fulfill his mission and defeat the dark forces?
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Kingdom Come
$17.99Add to cartCentral North Carolina hasn’t seen much change in over 50 years – but suddenly people who have been there for generations are leaving the small farming settlements – lock, stock, and barrel. When massive warehouses surrounded by metal fencing seem to go up overnight, local businesses are bought out, and more than 6,000 families establish residence in a community named Kingdom Come, the FBI begins to suspect cult activity. Agent Ben Atkins is sent to investigate, and though he does sense something major happening, he is not convinced it is sinister. In fact, as he moves in for a closer look, he begins to wonder if those on the inside of Kingdom Come are working to keep evil out. But time is running short for him to discover the truth, as unexpected enemies – law enforcement agencies, media groups, and even the church hierarchy – threaten the community’s existence.
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Dutch Color
$12.00Add to cart1. Beach Flop
2. Secret Election
3. Short Cuts
4. Pharaoh’s Man
5. Running Bombs
6. Staring Deeply
7. Hungry Spies
8. Family Secrets
9. Painted Prison
10. Proof Sketches
11. Friars’ Arms
12. Bethel’s Oil
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Amid the golden era of Dutch art, Clara has a passion for painting and life. But the two don’t always mix. Her father is long overdue from Italy with the latest paint recipes, but lies, famous art, rare tulips, and sugary girls crowd Clara’s search for her father. Someone knows where he might be, but it will cost more than Clara’s talents to find out. Unfortunately, all the car-chase scenes have been excised. -
Eli : A Novel
$14.99Add to cartA fiery car crash hurls TV journalist Conrad Davis into another world exactly like ours except for one detail — Jesus Christ did not come 2,000 years ago, but today. Starting with angels heralding a birth in the back of a motel laundry room, the skeptical Davis watches the gospel unfold in today’s society as a Messiah in T-shirt and blue jeans heals, raises people from the dead, and speaks such startling truths that he captures the heart of a nation. But the young man’s actions and his criticism of the religious establishment earn him enemies as ruthless as they are powerful. An intense and thought-provoking novel, Eli strips away religious tradition to present Jesus fresh and unvarnished. With gripping immediacy, Bill Myers weaves a story whose truth will refresh your faith.
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City Of The Cyborgs
$7.99Add to cartWhat are cyborgs?
The Seven Sleepers don’t know. But they offer to help their new friend Rainor rescue his sweetheart from them, anyway. And does that ever get them into a pack of trouble.
The city of the cyborgs is totally weird. In the first place, travelers who go in can’t get out. The Sleepers can’t get out. And what’s with the cyborg people? How come they all wear these antennas on their heads? And who in the world are the annihilators?
Watch Josh and Sarah and your other Sleeper friends tackle their rescue mission. And see them get the advice they need from Goel, their good leader, at just the right time.
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Spell Of The Crystal Chair
$7.99Add to cartThe Dark Lord has been busy, and once again Goel is sending the Seven Sleepers to spoil his plans. This time Josh and his friends are off to Whiteland, a place of sled dogs and igloos, polar bears, and seals. The Sleepers soon learn that Whiteland is also the home of the dreaded ice wraiths, the warlike Yanti people, and a crafty dark-hearted wizard. Then they hear the really scary news: their job is to destroy a special chair deep inside the wizard’s palace. But what about the fearsome creature that guards the Crystal Chair? And what about the wizard himself? See what happens when the Sleepers obey Goel, the good leader who always gives his friends just what they need.
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Sword Bearer
$25.99Add to cartThe Sword Bearer – It was John’s birthday. He would be thirteen. And what’s more, it was on this day that his grandmother would tell him the mystery of his locket … and of his parents. But it was not to be. Before he could find out, he was magically transported to the land of Anthropos where he was startled to be hailed as the Sword Bearer, the slayer of the Goblin Prince. Here, in this imaginative story of the early history of Anthropos, John White captures the excitement and wonder of another world.
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Iron Sceptre
$25.99Add to cartIVP Print On Demand Title
Anthropos is in danger. So Wesley, Kurt and Lisa are once again magically transported from their home in Winnipeg to help save this threatened land. The Iron Sceptre, the source of King Kardia’s power to rule, is in peril. The children, joined by their cousin Mary, are called on to stop Mirmah and her chief sorcerer, Archimago. But to do so, they must travel beneath the Northern Mountains, around Goldcoffin’s Palace and into the very heart of Mirmah’s kingdom. What awaits is much more than a mere adventure.
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Gaal The Conqueror
$25.99Add to cartIVP Print On Demand Title
When young Eleanor MacFarland runs away from home one winter night, John Wilson tries to find her. But as the boy follows her footsteps across a frozen Canadian Lake, he mysteriously passes through an invisible door – out of this world and into the greatest crisis yet to face the land of Anthropos. The two children suddenly find themselves swept into a conflict between the evil forces of the sorcerer Shagah and the rebels loyal to Gaal, Son of the High Emperor. Here is another exciting book of fantasy in the Archives of Anthropos from the creative pen of John White.
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Edge Of Eternity
$17.00Add to cartBest-selling author Randy Alcorn’s gripping, action-packed, and intensely spiritual thriller, Edge Of Eternity, is now available in abridged form on audio cassette.
A disillusioned business executive whose life has hit a dead end, Nick Seagrave has lost loved ones to tragedy and his family to neglect. Now, at a point of great crisis, he unbelievably and inexplicably finds himself transported to what appears to be another world. Suddenly he’s confronted with profoundly clear views of his own past and personality. And, he’s enabled to see, hear, taste, and smell the realities of both heaven and hell – realities that force him to face dangers and trials far greater than any he’s known before.
Pitted against flying beasts, a monstrous web that threatens to hold him captive, an evil, brooding intelligence, and undeniable evidence of a spiritual world, Nick must finally consider the God he claims not to believe in. Walking between two worlds, Nick Seagrave prepares to make decisions that will change his life forever as he stands on the Edge Of Eternity.
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My Life As A Human Hairball
$6.99Add to cartJust when you’re sure Wally has bungled through every misadventure imaginable, this nerdy kid stumbles, staggers, and k-splats his way smack dab into a brand new frontier – the human body. When he and Wall Street, his best friend (even if she is a girl), visit a local laboratory, they are accidentally miniaturized and swallowed by some unknown stranger. It is a race against the clock (let alone Wally’s own klutzoidness) as they fly through various parts of the body – from the stomach to the blood system to the brain to the eye – in a desperate search for a way out while all the time learning how “fearfully and wonderfully we are made.”
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My Life As A Toasted Time Traveler
$6.99Add to cart1. Just For Starters
2. The Plot Sickens
3. Guest Appearances
4. Pick A Wally, Any Wally
5. Decisions, Decisions
6. Grand Central
7. All Dressed Up And Everywhere To Go
8. A Not-So-Bright Future
9. The Final Chew Down
10. Wrapping Up
101 PagesAdditional Info
What could be more hilarious than one Wally McDoogle?
How about two?
Or six?
Or a dozen!?Wally travels back from the future to warn himself of an upcoming accident. But it takes more than one visit to get the message across. Before he knows it, there are more Wallys running around than even Wally can handle.
Catastrophes reach an all-time high as Wally tries to outthink God and rewrite history.
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Rosanna Of The Amish (Revised)
$17.99Add to cartWhat are the Amish really like? Why do they wear unusual clothes and preach against worldly wisdom? Find out in this true story of an Irish orphan who was raised by the Amish in central Pennsylvania in the 1800s. Follow Rosanna through childhood, youth, courtship, marriage, and child rearing.
See how her Amish lifestyle differs from that of her Catholic brothers and sister when they visit from Philadelphia. Learn how the Amish take care of their own and even now maintain time-honored traditions. -
Evidence Of Mercy
$17.99Add to cartTake a fast-paced flight into suspense, romance, and forgiveness! When Lynda Barrett’s plane malfunctions, the crash landing injures its prospective buyer, Jake. An investigation reveals that someone tampered with her plane—and it soon becomes clear that whoever it was has further murderous designs on Lynda.
