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Jam and Jerusalem volume 4
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Sal loses her job as practice nurse. When her son takes over as the new GP and his wife Yasmeen replaces Sal as Practice Nurse. Yasmeen finds there's a great deal to learn. Meanwhile the Guild enjoys a day out at the Beach attempting to 'Boogie Board'.
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Jam and Jerusalem volume 2
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The leader of Ladies Guild suggests to the Vicar that he needs a room in the church for coffee mornings. Elsewhere, recently widowed Sal decides it's time for her to get rid of her late husband's clothes, but she isn't offered much support from her children.
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Jam and Jerusalem volume 6
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Clatterford Ladies Guild receives a visitor from the Main Wheel of the Guild, Lady Anne Crump, who has the power to shut them down. When they finally arrive for the meeting they have made no effort at all. Will the Guild be closed down and merged with the guild at nearby Hole?
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Jam and Jerusalem volume 3
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The Ladies Guild are in charge of refreshments when the town takes part in the ancient tradition of 'Beating the Bounds' but Rosie has forgotten to order the Pasties. Sal and Tip discover that Eileen is adopted, after she has to put her father into a hospice.
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Jam and Jerusalem volume 1
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Sal Vine, the village nurse, and her best friend, Tip, is the surgery's receptionist. Sal is the lynchpin of the village. But she cannot bring herself to join the guild. Knitting and cake-baking are simply not her scene. But when tragedy hits her it's enough to change her mind.
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Jam and Jerusalem volume 5
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The Ladies Guild are helping to dress the church ready for Harvest Festival, Rosie discovers a potato with Jesus' face on it - a 'Holy Potato'. Meanwhile at the local Hunter Trial, a rather pushy Mother is thrown from a horse trying to show her daughter how to jump.
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Jerusalem prophecies novels volume 1
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History's greatest secret could be tomorrow's greatest threat. More historically and biblically accurate than The DaVinci Code and just as adventurous as an Indiana Jones movie, The Sacred Cipher, the first book in The Jerusalem Prophecies, combines action and mystery to draw readers into a world of ancient secrets and international escapades. When an ancient scroll appears in a secret room of the Bowery Mission in New York City, Tom Bohannon is both...
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The Eighth Veil is a mystery set in first-century Jerusalem during the Feast of Tabernacles. A murdered servant girl is found in the palace of King Herod Antipas. The prefect, Pontius Pilate, is in attendance. The populace has already been buzzing over the brutal death of one of their prophets, John, known familiarly as the Baptizer, and scandal is in the air. Pilate wants no trouble and insists that there be an independent investigation into the...
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Jerusalem prophecies novels volume 2
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Tom Bohannon's discovery of an ancient scroll led him on an international adventure and through mysteries of faith and politics, ending in a place not even he could imagine: the Third Temple of God hidden under Temple Mount in Jerusalem. But soon after his remarkable discovery, the future of the world changed again. Tom watched as a chasm tore apart Temple Mount, as new rivers swept through the Kidron Valley and into the streets of Old Jerusalem,...
10) Holy Smoke
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The year is 29 C.E., and Jerusalem chafes under the Roman Empire's oppressive rule. A badly scorched body is found behind the Veil of the Holy of Holies - the Temple's inner sanctum, the most sacred space on earth for the Jews. No one except the high priest may enter this place and he only on the Day of Atonement. This is no casual violation, and the authorities are in an uproar. Gamaliel, the rabban of the Sanhedrin, is the ranking rabbi in all of...
11) Nile Shadows
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Jerusalem quartet volume 3
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The third book in Edward Whittemore's acclaimed Jerusalem Quartet is a riveting tale of espionage and intrigue in which the outcome of World War II and the destiny of the Middle East could hinge on the true identity of one shadowy man On a clear night in 1941, a hand grenade explodes in a Cairo bar, taking the life of Stern, a petty gunrunner and morphine addict, nationality unknown, his aliases so numerous that it's impossible to determine whether...
12) Sinai Tapestry
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Jerusalem quartet volume 1
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2013
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Sinai Tapestry, the brilliant first novel of the Jerusalem Quartet,is an epic alternate history of the Middle East in which the discovery of the original Bible links a disparate group of remarkable people across time and space
In 1840, Plantagenet Strongbow, the twenty-ninth Duke of Dorset, seven-feet-seven-inches tall and the greatest swordsman and botanist of Victorian England, walks away from the family estate and disappears...
In 1840, Plantagenet Strongbow, the twenty-ninth Duke of Dorset, seven-feet-seven-inches tall and the greatest swordsman and botanist of Victorian England, walks away from the family estate and disappears...
13) When Jesus wept
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Jerusalem chronicles volume 1
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Lazarus occupies a surprising position in the Gospel accounts. Widely known as the man Jesus raised from the dead, his story is actually much broader and richer than that. Living as he did at Bethany, near Jerusalem, Lazarus was uniquely placed to witness the swirl of events around Jesus. When Jesus Wept, the first novel in The Jerusalem Chronicles series by bestselling authors Bodie and Brock Thoene, unfolds the turbulent times in Judea during Jesus'...
14) Take This Cup
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Jerusalem chronicles volume 2
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Based on Scripture and resonating with historical detail comes a beautiful, fully imagined story of a young child and his role in the Last Supper of Jesus Christ.
When Nehemiah, the child of Jewish exiles, begins hearing whispers and experiencing portentous visions, it quickly becomes clear to his father and his rabbi that the young cupbearer is meant for a higher purpose . . . but what? Certain that the Messiah is alive at that very moment, the...
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It's Passover. Gamaliel and his physician friend, Loukas, are crime-solving a third time - reluctantly. Pontius Pilate has been accused of murder. He denies the crime. If convicted, he might escape death but would be removed from Judea. Those rejoicing urge the Rabban to mind his own business. But Gamaliel is a just man which is, as Pilate says to him, "your weakness and also your strength." Knowing that exonerating the Roman could cost him his position,...
16) The Aleppo Code
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Jerusalem prophecies novels volume 3
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Will the code reveal history's most powerful weapon for destruction - or humanity's only hope? The living members of Tom Bohannon's band of adventurers gather again in Jerusalem - physically battered, emotionally exhausted, spiritually challenged, and in various stages of shock - to examine a copy of the tenth-century Aleppo Code, the oldest complete text of Jewish scripture. What the clues inside reveal could lead to the reuniting of the Ark of the...
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Jerusalem is a novel by the Swedish writer Selma Lagerlof. The narrative spans several generations in the 19th century, and focuses on several families in Dalarna, Sweden, and a community of Swedish emigrants in Jerusalem. It is loosely based on a real emigration that took place from the parish of Nas in 1896.
18) Behold the Man
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Jerusalem chronicles volume 3
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Encounter the death and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth in this culmination of the Jerusalem Chronicles.
How could Jesus-who preached righteousness before God, and love and mercy toward neighbors-be so hated and pursued? To the Temple officials, he was a threat to the livelihood and authority of the priesthood. To Herod Antipas, he was a threat to his ambition to be the King of the Jews. And to the Roman overlords, he was seen as a dangerous threat;...
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[2016]
Edition
First edition.
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"In the half a square mile of decay and demolition that was England's Saxon capital, eternity is loitering between the firetrap housing projects. Embedded in the grubby amber of the district's narrative among its saints, kings, prostitutes, and derelicts a different kind of human time is happening, a soiled simultaneity that does not differentiate between the petrolcolored puddles and the fractured dreams of those who navigate them. Fiends last mentioned...
20) Daughter of Cana
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Jerusalem Road volume 1
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Thomas and Tasmin, twin siblings hired to oversee a wedding feast in Cana, worry when the host runs out of wine . . . until a guest tells Tasmin to have the servants fill the pitchers by the gate with water from the cistern. Reluctantly, she obeys and is amazed when rainwater turns into the finest wine ever tasted in Cana.
When Thomas impulsively decides to follow the teacher from Nazareth, he and Tasmin argue--since the twins have been together...
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