Love Amid the Ashes by Mesu AndrewsThis book is a little difficult to assign stars. The story is classic and widely known as this is a retelling of the story of Job in the bible. I liked lots about this story. I liked the history - how the author fit the story into biblical history. I think...
Mesu Andrews has written a beautiful story based on the Biblical book Song of Solomon. Arielah has known it was her destiny to become Solomon’s bride from the first time she laid eyes on him when she was seven years old. When an arrangement is made by Arielah’s father to marry Solomon as a trea...
This is the heartbreaking but ultimately beautifully redemptive story of Gomer and Hosea, based on the true Biblical account. Hosea is a prophet who is told by God to marry a prostitute. Their relationship is to be the reflection of God's relationship with Israel. Just as Gomer is distrustful ...
—JOB 42:3 Miriam, Moses, and Hur sat around their small mat for the evening meal and shoved morsels of food around their wooden plates. No one was hungry. Earlier in the day, when the slave drivers raided their village for Hebrews to replace the house slaves killed in the storm, they’d hidden Tal...
And rejoice before the LORD your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, the Levites in your towns, and the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows living among you. Jehoiada held his brokenh...
—PSALM 10:2 A quiet knock sounded on Anippe’s door, and Mehy looked up from where he and Miriam were playing with his wooden blocks on the goatskin rug. “Ankhe?” he asked. “Is it Ankhe?” As if summoned by her wide-eyed pupil, Ankhe entered, Captain Nassor a looming shadow behind her. “Good mornin...