Historical Fiction Bible

In Killing a Messiah, New Testament scholar Adam Winn weaves together stories of historical and fictional characters in a fresh reimagining of the events leading up to Jesus's execution. Based on what we know of the first-century context, Winn's narrative offers compelling explanations for gaps in the Gospel accounts. The social, political, and religious realities of Jesus's world come to life and shed new light on our reading of the biblical texts. In a city full of political entanglements, espionage, and competing interests, the blame for the crucifixion is complex.

Inspired by real accounts of the Forgotten Blitz bombings, The British Booksellers highlights the courage of those whose lives were forever changed by war—and the stories that bind us in the fight for what matters most. A tenant farmer’s son had no business daring to dream of a future with...

New York Times Bestseller USA Today Bestseller Publishers Weekly Bestseller People's Book of the Week Annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards Nominee for Fiction Adriana Trigiani, the New York Times bestselling author of the blockbuster epic The Shoemaker's Wife, returns with...

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Shelley Shepard Gray delivers the next novel in her Amish of Hart County series—a suspenseful tale of an Amish man who will risk all to protect the woman he loves. Mark Fisher has returned home to Hart County, determined to put the past behind...

Instant New York Times Bestseller People’s Book of the Week From Adriana Trigiani, the beloved New York Times-bestselling author of The Shoemaker’s Wife, comes an exhilarating epic novel of love, loyalty, and creativity—the story of an Italian-American family on the cusp of...

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Shelley Shepard Gray begins a new series—The Amish of Hart County—with this suspenseful tale of a young Amish woman who is forced to move to a new town to escape a threatening stalker. After a stalker went too far, Hannah Hilty and her family...

In the second installment of Susan McBride’s Debutante Dropout mystery series, Dallas heiress Andrea Kendricks must expose a high-society assassin … before she becomes the killer’s next target. Website designer and high-society rebel Andrea Kendricks would never have gotten involved with...

Against the backdrop of the 1893 World’s Fair, a new kind of crime comes to Gilded Age Chicago . . . and a lonely young woman is always at risk. Back on the farm in Wisconsin, Rosalind’s plan had seemed logical: Move to Chicago. Get hired on at Sloane House, one of the most gilded mansions...

In the fourth century of the Christian era, the Emperor Constantine ordered the Bishop of Jerusalem to make fifty copies of the Holy Scriptures in Latin. His mother, Saint Helen, had gone to Jerusalem where she reportedly found true cross of Christ and brought with her an earth shaking secret to her son. The Emperor passed that secret on to the Bishop of Jerusalem and swore him and all of his successors to secrecy forever on pain of death and the loss of his soul.

The Gospel According to Judas by Benjamin Iscariot is the result of an intense collaboration between a storyteller and a scholar: Jeffrey Archer and Francis J. Moloney. Their brilliant work—bold and simple—is a compelling story for twenty-first-century readers, while maintaining an...

Edinburgh, Scotland, 1766. One particular bible is printed in the Kincaid and Bell print shop and makes its way to its first family in Ayr, Scotland. For over 250 years, this small family Bible would weave its way throughout the United States of America beginning in Charleston, South Carolina, in the late 1790s, ending up in Tennessee in 2001, where it remains today.

Award-winning author Elizabeth Byler Younts delivers a powerful novel of grief, friendship, and forgiveness filled with her signature lyricism and emotional depth. "Younts's powerful novel reverberates with love that crosses religious and racial boundaries to find the humanity that connects us...

""Read it for twists on twists, meditations on faith, and a deeply thoughtful treatment of an evangelical community."" — Glamour, Beach Reads That Are Like Summer in a Book “A thoughtful and candid meditation on faith, family, and forgiveness . . . fabulous.” —Claire Lombardo, New...

“A finely atmospheric debut…Christie’s novel is a worthy tribute to the technological revolution it reimagines, as well as a haunting elegy to the culture of print…One thinks of Donna Tartt’s obsessive accounts of furniture decoration in The Goldfinch or even Philip Roth’s lovingly...

Jonah takes you on a miracle-filled journey from deep within the whale's belly over 500 war-torn miles and into the heart of ancient Nineveh. Here, the Bible’s most improbable hero discovers a path to redemption in a story of defiance, grace, and transformation. Feel Jonah's love for his beloved Naomi and his best friend, Amos. Tremble before the King and Queen of Nineveh. Jonah In the Time of the Kings, gloriously unveils God's tender heart, a love that reaches the most broken of men, delivered by a prophet as flawed as he is extraordinary.

If the past teaches anything, its lesson is that religious freedom isn’t always free, and some men and women must risk all to preserve this freedom. The year is 1777. “Yours is a cause most splendid,” Robert Aitken is told. Despite the threat of prison or the hangman’s noose if caught, Congressional Journal and Common Sense publisher Aitken is determined to print much-needed Bibles for American colonial troops, churches, and families.

When Makeda ascends the throne of Sheba, she inherits more than a crown—she inherits the weight of judgment, justice, and a people hungry for her guidance. Rumors soon reach her court of Solomon, king of Israel, whose wisdom is said to rival the ancients and whose riches dazzle the world. Determined to see if the tales are true—and to strengthen her own reign—Makeda embarks on a daring journey across the desert.

A wiseman had a dream, and it all began with a star. Three magi, Gaspar from India, Melchior from Persia, and Balthasar from Arabia, set out on a star-led journey to meet the newborn world ruler. What they encountered at their long journey's end astonished them all. But what awaits them 30 years later will change their lives forever. The most famous journey of all time begins.

A globe-spanning epic novel about a fractured New York family reckoning with the harms of the past and confronting humanity’s uncertain future, from award-winning author Jess Row For fifteen years, the Wilcoxes have been a family in name only. Though never the picture of happiness, they once...

Welcome to Smitten, Vermont. With the help of four friends, it’s about to become the most romantic town in America. The proposed closing of the lumber mill comes as unwelcome news for the citizens of Smitten. How will the town survive without its main employer? A close-knit group of women...