Letters in the Jade Dragon Box
Letters in the Jade Dragon Box

Author: Gale Sears

Publisher: Deseret Book

Published: 2011-01-01

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9781606412480

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Teenage Wen-shan was taken from her family home in mainland China during the Cultural Revolution to live with her great-uncle, a former general in the Chinese army who became one of the first converts to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Hong Kong. For ten years, Wen-shan has carried the sorrow of abandonment in her heart, with few memories of her life before. But at the death of Chairman Mao, Wen-shan receives a mysterious wooden box that reveals the fate of the family she has not heard from in more than a decade. Through the letters in the jade dragon box, Wen-shan and her great-uncle discover a bond between each other, their family, and the gospel of Jesus Christ.

The Noel Letters
The Noel Letters

Author: Richard Paul Evans

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2020-10-27

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1982129611

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#1 New York Times bestselling author Richard Paul Evans returns this holiday season with a tale of love, belonging, and family, following a trail of letters that leads to a Christmas revelation about the healing miracle of hope and forgiveness. After nearly two decades, Noel Post, an editor for a major New York publishing house, returns to her childhood home in Salt Lake City to see her estranged, dying father. What she believed would be a brief visit turns into something more as she inherits the bookstore her father fought to keep alive. Reeling from loneliness, a recent divorce, and unanticipated upheavals in her world, Noel begins receiving letters from an anonymous source, each one containing thoughts and lessons about her life and her future. She begins to reacquaint herself with the bookstore and the people she left behind, and in doing so, starts to unravel the reality of her painful childhood and the truth about her family. As the holidays draw near, she receives a Christmastime revelation that changes not only how she sees the past but also how she views her future.

The Silence of God
The Silence of God

Author: Gale Sears

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781606416556

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At the turn of the century St. Petersburg offered the best of Imperial Russia. Few realized that the glitz and glamour of the Silver Age would soon dissolve into mass rebellion and revolution. For the wealthy Lindlof family, the only Latter-day Saints living in St. Petersburg at the time, life would never be the same--changed forever by an ideology that would persist for more than a century. The ravages of the Bolshevik Revolution are seen through the eyes of nineteen-year-old Agnes Lindlof and her lifelong friend, Natasha, in a powerful, extraordinary novel of devotion and loyalty.

One Candle
One Candle

Author: Gale Sears

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9781629723945

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"Bestselling author of The Silence of God"--Cover.

The Christmas Box
The Christmas Box

Author: Richard Paul Evans

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2023-11-07

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 1668015390

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A special anniversary edition of the unforgettable Christmas classic that has touched the hearts of millions of readersNthe touching story of a widow and the young family who moves in with her.

Birdwing
Birdwing

Author: Rafe Martin

Publisher: Arthur a Levine

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 9780439211673

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Prince Ardwin, known as Birdwing, the youngest of six brothers turned into swans by their stepmother, is unable to complete the transformation back into human form, so he undertakes a journey to discover whether his feathered arm will be a curse or a blessing to him.

The Fifth Favorite
The Fifth Favorite

Author: Gale Sears

Publisher: Crosslink Publishing

Published: 2019-11-29

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 9781633571853

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Eleven-year-old Allie Whitman is dealing with stress about her sixth-grade science project, embarrassment about her chicken costume for Halloween, and fear of the Mad Woman of Tahoe Meadow. Added to this, she feels that she is her mother's fifth favorite in their family of six. She tries hard to up her status, but competing with her dad, a charming older brother, a brainy older sister, and a younger sister with autism; Allie laments that she may be stuck forever as low man on the totem pole. The stakes escalate for Allie when her brother Paul, blackmails her into keeping a dark secret in exchange for his silence about one of her foolhardy decisions. When Paul's secret turns dangerous, Allie must decide between her mother's approval or saving her brother's life. The Fifth Favorite is a clever story filled with lovable characters, a bit of mystery, and plenty of hope.

Miles to Go
Miles to Go

Author: Richard Paul Evans

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-02-28

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 1439191468

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Continues the walking journey of Alan Christoffersen and recounts more of the experiences of betrayal and tragic loss that motivated his travels.

The Secret Empress
The Secret Empress

Author: Frank R. Heller

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2019-03-08

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1532068301

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Joe Wilder is focused on turning a successful bodybuilding career into a billion-dollar international health and fitness conglomerate. He thinks he’s safely left behind his dangerous past as a CIA field agent—except for nightmares about gunfire, screams, and holding the lifeless body of a boy he cannot save. Facing massive price increases that could bankrupt his company, Joe travels to China for a confrontation with the ministry of trade. To his surprise, the deputy minister offers a deal in exchange for Joe helping her twelve-year-old son, Charley, travel to America. But when the minister is murdered within hours of signing the new contracts, Joe becomes both a suspect and the guardian of a boy with a secret. Relying on skills from his former life to stay alive, Joe has just four days to get Charley to safety before the most powerful criminal gang in China tracks them down. Hunted by every drug dealer, thug, and petty criminal who owes allegiance to the gang, can Joe and Charley survive long enough to see America? The Secret Empress is the gripping tale of an American entrepreneur’s dangerous quest to fulfill the last wish of a Chinese official before she is brutally murdered.

Belonging to Heaven
Belonging to Heaven

Author: Gale Sears

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 9781609071592

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Retelling of the story of Jonathan Napela, one of the first--and most influential--converts to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.