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Passage into Light (Audio DAISY Book)

Book 7 in series The Russians
By: Judith Pella
Type: Fiction
Subject categories: Adventure, Historical
Read by: Vivienne McDonnell
Approximate time: 10 hours 39 minutes
Catalog number: 1515 (part of the Torch collection)
This is the seventh and final instalment in the Russians series. In 1917, Russia lies in ashes. The tsar has been imprisoned, and the government remains unstable. Amid the turmoil, Anna Fedorcenko's sons, Andrei and Yuri, face the consequences of their personal and political choices. As they gather what's left of their lives, they will need the faith and love that have become the Fedorcenko and Burenin legacy more than ever. A dark pall hangs over the Russian empire as it careens toward an unsettling future. Will the faith and love of the Fedorcenko-Burenin legacy shed enough light to make any difference?

A Pennyworth of Peppermints (Audio DAISY Book)

By: Mary Weeks Millard
Type: Fiction
For children
Subject categories: Christian Living, Historical, Marriage and Family
Read by: Margaret Allen
Approximate time: 3 hours 44 minutes
Catalog number: 1630 (part of the Torch collection)
Reading age 8-11 years. This delightful story captures a little of what life was like for families living through the Great War, and how faith in God can make a difference, whatever the circumstances.

Place of Repose, Saint Cuthbert's Last Journey (Audio DAISY Book)

Book 2 in series The Cuthbert Novels
By: Katharine Tiernan
Type: Fiction
Subject categories: Adventure, Historical, Suffering and Persecution, The Church, The Saints
Read by: Rosemary Pedley
Approximate time: 8 hours 23 minutes
Catalog number: 1121 (part of the Torch collection)
"The year is 875, and the Danish King of York, Halfden Ragnarsson, is carrying fire and sword across Northumbria, burning churches and monasteries and killing their inhabitants. The once-great Christian kingdom is at the mercy of the heathen. The monks of Lindisfarne flee, taking the relics of Saint Cuthbert and the Lindisfarne Gospels with them. Their journey in search of a new home for the Saint lasts for seven years and changes the lives of the men who bear him for ever." Tiernan's second novel is a tale of violence and intrigue, revenge and reconciliation and of true love lost and found.

Portraits of Christ in Genesis (Audio DAISY Book)

By: Martin Ralph DeHaan
Type: Non-fiction
Subject categories: Christian Disciplines, Christian Growth, Christian Living, Historical, Jesus Christ
Read by: Volunteer Narrator
Approximate time: 6 hours 4 minutes
Catalog number: 660
Genesis unfolds the following: Christ, in creation -- Christ, the living Word -- Christ, and Adam's rib -- Christ, the second man -- Christ, the willing servant -- Christ, the evidence of the resurrection -- Christ, the protevangelium -- three requirements in sacrifice -- Cain, the type of Israel -- the God-planned ark -- safe in the ark -- complete atonement -- delivered in joy -- son of promise -- a miraculous birth -- in God's own time -- a three days journey -- the substitute -- the bridegroom cometh -- three shepherds -- four steps in redemption -- Joseph, the deliverer -- the perfect antitype.

Queen of the Reformation: Katie Luther (Audio DAISY Book)

By: Charles Ludwig
Type: Fiction
Subject categories: Biography and Autobiography, Historical, The Church, The Saints
Read by: Joy Westmore
Approximate time: 8 hours 34 minutes
Catalog number: 1498 (part of the ABC collection)
A biographical novel about Katie Luther, one of the great women of the church and wife of the reformer Martin Luther.

Reliving the Passion: Meditations on the Suffering, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus as Recorded in the Gospel of Mark (Audio DAISY Book)

By: Walter Wangerin
Type: Non-fiction
Subject categories: Bible Characters, Bible Commentary, Bible Study, Biography and Autobiography, Christian Disciplines, Christian Growth, Christian Living, Commitment, Devotional, Historical, Miracles and the Supernatural
Read by: Hazel Steiner
Approximate time: 3 hours 6 minutes
Catalog number: 618
As you read this book, you will take 40 Steps to The Journey of a Lifetime. No story has more significance than the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The Passion is a story with which we are all familiar, a significant story, but one which may have lost much of its meaning through repetition. Now, by following the 40 meditations outlined in this book, we can truly experience the wonder and Glory of Christ's Passion. Beginning on Ash Wednesday, each day's devotion focuses on a passage from the Holy Scripture, enabling us to follow the wonderful story as given in the Gospel of Mark.

Repair My House (Audio DAISY Book)

By: Glen Williamson
Type: Fiction
Subject categories: Biography and Autobiography, Discipleship, Historical
Read by: Wayne Pederson
Approximate time: 4 hours 49 minutes
Catalog number: 261
This fictionalized biography of the youthful days of Francis of Assisi communicates the importance of Christian commitment as displayed in concern for fellow human beings. Being the founder of the Franciscan Order, the effect of the 12th century youth still makes its mark in our world today.

Return to the Hiding Place (Audio DAISY Book)

By: Hans Poley
Type: Non-fiction
Subject categories: Biography and Autobiography, Christian Disciplines, Christian Growth, Christian Living, Comfort, Commitment, Historical, Suffering and Persecution
Read by: Martha Arney
Approximate time: 5 hours 55 minutes
Catalog number: 650
Unspeakable faith in the face of Nazi persecution didn't come easily for 18-year-old Dutch student Hans Poley. But after months in hiding at Corrie ten Boom's home, Poley found an inner peace and freedom that defied even the Nazi peril. Composed of his wartime journals and letters, the book also includes exclusive photos documenting Poley's life in hiding.

The Scent of Love (Audio DAISY Book)

By: Keith Miller
Type: Non-fiction
Subject categories: Apologetics, Christian Growth, Evangelism, Historical
Read by: Martha Arney
Approximate time: 9 hours 55 minutes
Catalog number: 1200
An entirely new approach to the miss-understood field of Evangelism, based on what it was like during the time of Jesus, His disciples, and those who circulated to the people in that time and after.

Searching the Source of the River (Audio DAISY Book)

By: Diana Chapman
Type: Non-fiction
Subject categories: Biography and Autobiography, Historical, Holy Spirit, Miracles and the Supernatural, The Church
Read by: Shirley Hunt
Approximate time: 8 hours 55 minutes
Catalog number: 1524 (part of the Torch collection)
This book tells the stories of ordinary women who played key roles at the beginning of the Pentecostal Revival in Britain, including Smith Wigglesworth's wife Polly, as well as various missionaries and church secretaries who allowed the presence of the Holy Spirit to work through them.

Selected to Live (Audio DAISY Book)

By: Johanna-Ruth Dobschiner
Type: Non-fiction
Subject categories: Biography and Autobiography, Historical, Jewish Christians
Read by: Helen Crane
Approximate time: 11 hours 59 minutes
Catalog number: 1532 (part of the Torch collection)
Johanna-Ruth Dobschiner was a young Dutch girl, a Jewess living in Nazi Germany. She was picked out from thousands of condemned people and selected to live. But why? This is her compelling testimony of how she ultimately found hope through the Messiah, Jesus Christ.

Serving the Good and the Great (Audio DAISY Book)

By: Violet Liddle and Mary Batchelor
Type: Non-fiction
Subject categories: Biography and Autobiography, Happiness, Historical
Read by: Ann Barraclough
Approximate time: 5 hours 1 minute
Catalog number: 1337 (part of the Torch collection)
In the 1930s and 40s Violet Liddle worked as a maid for the good and the great. Whether she was serving Winston Churchill or George Bernard Shaw, Violet was always able to see things from a Christian perspective.

Seven Great Prayer Warriors (Audio DAISY Book)

By: Colin Whittaker
Type: Non-fiction
Subject categories: Historical, Prayer, The Saints
Read by: Tom Robertson
Approximate time: 9 hours 42 minutes
Catalog number: 1335 (part of the Torch collection)
Meet seven outstanding champions of prayer whose stories of patience and faithfulness have inspired generations of Christians. Included are Charles Finney, Hudson Taylor, and George Muller, among others.

Sigi and I: Journey to Christians Behind the Iron Curtain (Audio DAISY Book)

By: Gwen Schmidt
Type: Non-fiction
Subject categories: Adventure, Apologetics, Christian Growth, Discipleship, Evangelism, Historical, Missions and Missionaries
Read by: Martha Arney
Approximate time: 1 hour 51 minutes
Catalog number: 1195
For three years Sister Gwen had prayed, "God send me to my suffering brothers and sisters behind the Iron Curtain" and had waited for His, "Go Ye.

Sounds from Heaven, the Revival on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland,1949-1952 (Audio DAISY Book)

By: Colin Peckham
Type: Non-fiction
Subject categories: Biography and Autobiography, Historical, The Church
Read by: Robert Morris
Approximate time: 11 hours 41 minutes
Catalog number: 1345 (part of the Torch collection)
A blend of history, biography and reports as well as several testimonies of those blessed on the Isle of Lewis, off the west coast of Scotland, during the 1949-52 awakening. May this publication be used to provide a clearer understanding of revival.

A Special Place, the Story of the Garden Tomb Jerusalem (Audio DAISY Book)

By: Bill White
Type: Non-fiction
Subject categories: Bible Study, Historical, Israel and Jerusalem, Jesus Christ, Study
Read by: Ann Barraclough
Approximate time: 3 hours 48 minutes
Catalog number: 787 (part of the Torch collection)
This is The Garden Tomb in Jerusalem and is the story of its discovery and claims to authenticity. Bill White's conclusion goes beyond the authenticity of sites to the reality of the Resurrection and the availability of the risen Christ now.

Splendor in the Ordinary (Audio DAISY Book)

By: Brian R. Coffey
Type: Non-fiction
Subject categories: Bible Characters, Bible Commentary, Bible Study, Biography and Autobiography, Christian Disciplines, Christian Growth, Christian Living, Comfort, Commitment, Discipleship, Evangelism, Historical, Jesus Christ, Prophets and Prophecy, Suffering and Persecution, The Church
Read by: Grinnell Almy
Approximate time: 2 hours 49 minutes
Catalog number: 651
Matthew was an ordinary person, just like you and me, until Jesus came into his life. He was a crooked tax gatherer by his own admission, sometimes called Levi, later called an apostle, author of the Gospel that bears his name. The important lesson that Mathew learned from Jesus the King that he passes on to us is the extraordinary truth that this King builds his Kingdom using ordinary people like you and me. Here is a book to encourage you, to excite you to follow Matthew's example of turning away from the failures of the past to follow Jesus.

Strong at the Broken Places: a Personal Story (Audio DAISY Book)

By: Max Cleland
Type: Non-fiction
Subject categories: Adventure, Biography and Autobiography, Historical, Suspense
Read by: Martha Arney
Approximate time: 4 hours 36 minutes
Catalog number: 551
Strong at the Broken Places is Max Cleland's personal story of what it takes to do the impossible. It is a story of an inner battle that would drain the last ounce of will from a very willful man. It is also a story of a key inner discovery--that after all human effort is spent another source of strength is available. Max Cleland has served his state and nation for over a quarter of a century and was re-elected without opposition to a third term as Georgia's Secretary of State on November 4, 1990. Max has received more votes than any other statewide elected official every time he has appeared on the Georgia ballot. In 1990 Max became the first Georgia-elected official to ever garner more than one million votes. A native of Georgia, Max served two terms in the Georgia State Senate before being appointed by President Jimmy Carter as Administrator of the Veteran's Administration. Max Cleland has received over one hundred awards for his public service.

A Table in the Presence: the Dramatic Account of How a U.S. Marine Battalion Experienced God's Presence Amidst the Chaos of the War in Iraq (Audio DAISY Book)

By: Carey H. Cash
Type: Non-fiction
Subject categories: Adventure, Historical, Suspense
Read by: Bill Wallace
Approximate time: 9 hours 15 minutes
Catalog number: 1545 (part of the ABC collection)
Library of Congress Annotation: Lt. Carey Cash describes the nine-hour battle on April 10, 2003, to seize a presidential palace in Baghdad. The chaplain explains why he and the soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, believe God saw them through as they suffered only one death.

Ten Boys Who Made a Difference (Audio DAISY Book)

By: Irene Howat
Type: Non-fiction
For children
Subject categories: Biography and Autobiography, Historical, Marriage and Family, The Saints
Read by: Joan White
Approximate time: 3 hours 5 minutes
Catalog number: 1330 (part of the Torch collection)
Reading age 8-11 years. Would you like to make a difference? These ten boys grew up to do just that. Included are Augustine, John Knox, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Hugh Latimer, Jan Hus, Ulrich Zwingli, William Tyndale, Thomas Chalmers, and Lord Shaftesbury.

Ten Boys Who Made History (Audio DAISY Book)

By: Irene Howat
Type: Non-fiction
For children
Subject categories: Biography and Autobiography, Historical, Marriage and Family, The Saints
Read by: Barbara Hall
Approximate time: 3 hours 8 minutes
Catalog number: 1339 (part of the Torch collection)
Reading age 8-11 years. Read how these boys made history. Included are Robert Murray McCheyne, Martyn Lloyd Jones, George Whitefield, Charles Spurgeon, Jonathan Edwards, Samuel Rutherford, D L Moody, Billy Sunday, A W Tozer , and John Owen.

Ten Girls Who Made History (Audio DAISY Book)

By: Irene Howat
Type: Non-fiction
For children
Subject categories: Biography and Autobiography, Historical, Marriage and Family, The Saints
Read by: Barbara Hall
Approximate time: 3 hours 8 minutes
Catalog number: 1340 (part of the Torch collection)
Reading age 8-11. Would you like to make history? These ten girls grew up and did just that! Included are Florence Nightingale, Henrietta Mears, Mary Jane Kinnaird, Elisabeth Elliot, Ida Scudder, Betty Green, Jeanette Li, Bessie Adams, Emma Dryer, and Lottie Moon.

That Lydian Woman (Audio DAISY Book)

By: Winthrop Neilson and Frances Fullerton Neilson
Type: Fiction
Subject categories: Bible Characters, Historical
Read by: Wayne Pederson
Approximate time: 4 hours 13 minutes
Catalog number: 230
She followed her heart and almost betrayed the truest love she ever knew. Lydia was beautiful, independent and prosperous. A Jewish convert, she was the first person in Macedonia to follow the teachings of the Apostle Paul. This fictional account of this biblical character calls her to choose between the paganism of her society and the living God.

Then Sings My Soul (Audio DAISY Book)

By: Robert J. Morgan
Type: Non-fiction
Subject categories: Biography and Autobiography, Historical, Music and Hymnology, Worship
Read by: Kathleen, Care Ministries Volunteer
Approximate time: 7 hours 14 minutes
Catalog number: 1591
Briefly presents the stories behind 150 well-known hymns from ancient Gregorian chants to modern worship songs such as "His Name Is Wonderful." Each hymn includes an accompanying Scripture and representative lyrics. The book would be suitable for small-group study, daily devotional reading, or use in developing sermon illustrations.

Things We Couldn't Say (Audio DAISY Book)

By: Diet Eman
Type: Non-fiction
Subject categories: Biography and Autobiography, Historical, Suffering and Persecution
Read by: Irini Pappas
Approximate time: 12 hours 49 minutes
Catalog number: 1495 (part of the ABC collection)
Diet Eman and her fiance risked everything to rescue Dutch Jews under Nazi persecution in occupied Holland during World War Two. This is an unforgettable story of heroism, faith, and love.

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