Esther
Author: Angela Elwell Hunt
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781410478429
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen an ambitious tyrant threatens genocide against the Jews, an inexperienced young queen must take a stand for her people.
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Esther (A Dangerous Beauty Novel Book #1)
Author: Angela Hunt
Publisher: Baker Books
Published: 2014-12-30
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1441269290
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen an ambitious tyrant threatens genocide against the Jews, an inexperienced young queen must take a stand for her people. When Xerxes, king of Persia, issues a call for beautiful young women, Hadassah, a Jewish orphan living in Susa, is forcibly taken to the palace of the pagan ruler. After months of preparation, the girl known to the Persians as Esther wins the king's heart and a queen's crown. But because her situation is uncertain, she keeps her ethnic identity a secret until she learns that an evil and ambitious man has won the king's permission to exterminate all Jews--young and old, powerful and helpless. Purposely violating an ancient Persian law, she risks her life in order to save her people...and bind her husband's heart.
Delilah (A Dangerous Beauty Novel Book #3)
Author: Angela Hunt
Publisher: Baker Books
Published: 2016-06-07
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 1441269398
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Complex and Compelling Glimpse at One of the Bible's Baddest Girls Life is not easy in Philistia, especially not for a woman and child alone. When beautiful, wounded Delilah finds herself begging for food to survive, she resolves that she will find a way to defeat all the men who have taken advantage of her. She will overcome the roadblocks life has set before her, and she will find riches and victory for herself. When she meets a legendary man called Samson, she senses that in him lies the means for her victory. By winning, seducing, and betraying the hero of the Hebrews, she will attain a position of national prominence. After all, she is beautiful, she is charming, and she is smart. No man, not even a supernaturally gifted strongman, can best her in a war of wits.
Bathsheba
Author: Angela Elwell Hunt
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 519
ISBN-13: 9781410485526
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Bathsheba, a beautiful woman forced to become one of King David's wives, is committed to protecting her son while dealing with the dynamics of the king's household in this biblically based novel"--
A Reluctant Queen
Author: Joan Wolf
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2011-06-20
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 1595549838
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYou've read it as a biblical tale of courage. Experience it anew as a heart-stirring love story. She was a simple girl faced with an impossible choice. He was a magnificent king with a lonely heart. Their love was the divine surprise that changed the course of history. The beloved story of Esther springs to fresh life in this inspired novel that vibrates with mystery, intrigue, and romance. "Joan Wolf never fails to deliver the best!" —Nora Roberts
Bathsheba (A Dangerous Beauty Novel Book #2)
Author: Angela Hunt
Publisher: Baker Books
Published: 2015-08-25
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 1441269401
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Vivid and Moving Portrait of a Reluctant Queen After sending his army to besiege another king's capital, King David forces himself on Bathsheba, a loyal soldier's wife. When her resulting pregnancy forces the king to murder her husband and add her to his harem, Bathsheba struggles to protect her son while dealing with the effects of a dark prophecy and deadly curse on the king's household. Combining historical facts with detailed fiction, Angela Hunt paints a realistic portrait of the beautiful woman who struggled to survive the dire results of divine judgment on a king with a divided heart.
Esther
Author: Rebecca Kanner
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2015-11-03
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 1501108670
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the award-winning author of Sinners and the Sea comes a breathtaking new look into the timeless tale of Queen Esther, “a riveting tale of courage” (New York Times bestselling author Tosca Lee). A glittering Persian king has a vast empire that reaches farther than where the sun meets the horizon. He is bathed in riches and commands a frightening military force. He possesses power beyond any other mortal man and rules his kingdom as a god. Anything he desires, he has. Any woman he wants, he possesses. Thousands of them. Young virgins from all across his many lands. A Jewish girl is ripped from her hut by the king’s brutish warriors and forced to march across blistering, scorched earth to the capital city. Trapped for months in the splendid cage of the king’s palace, she must avoid the ire of the king’s concubines and eunuchs all while preparing for her one night with the king. Soon the fated night arrives, and she does everything in her power to captivate the king and become his queen. But wearing the crown brings with it a new set of dangers. When a ruthless man plies the king’s ear with whispers of genocide, it is up to the young queen to prevent the extermination of the Jews. She must find the strength within to violate the king’s law, risk her life, and save her people. This is a story of finding hidden depths of courage within one’s self. Of risking it all to stand up for what is right. This is the story of Queen Esther.
The Tale of Three Trees
Author: Angela Elwell Hunt
Publisher: David C Cook
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 62
ISBN-13: 9780745945934
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThree little trees stood and dreamed of what they wanted to become when they grew up.
The Gilded Chamber
Author: Rebecca Kohn
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2005-07-26
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 0143035339
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor centuries her name has been a byword for feminine beauty, guile, and wisdom. This sweeping, meticulously researched novel restores Esther to her full, complex humanity while reanimating the glittering Persian empire in which her story unfolded. Esther comes to that land as a terrified Jewish orphan betrothed to her cousin, a well-connected courtier. She finds a world racked by intrigue and unfathomable hatreds and realizes that the only way to survive is to win the heart of its king. Passionate, suspenseful, and historically authentic, The Gilded Chamber illuminates the dilemma of a woman torn between her heart and her sense of duty, resulting in pure narrative enchantment.
Threads and Flames
Author: Esther Friesner
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2010-11-24
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1101445386
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt's 1910, and thirteen-year-old Raisa has just traveled alone from a small Polish shtetl all the way to New York City. It's overwhelming, awe-inspiring, and even dangerous, especially when she discovers that her sister has disappeared and she must now fend for herself. She finds work in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory sewing bodices on the popular shirtwaists. Raisa makes friends and even-dare she admit it?- falls in love. But then 1911 dawns, and one March day a spark ignites in the factory. One of the city's most harrowing tragedies unfolds, and Raisa's life is forever changed. . . . One hundred years after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, this moving young adult novel gives life to the tragedy and hope of this transformative event in American history.
