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Readers who enjoyed The Big Book of Christmas: 140+ authors and 400+ novels, novellas, stories, poems & carols by Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, George MacDonald, L.M. Montgomery, Anne Brontë, Willa Cather, G.K. Chesterton, F. Marion Crawford, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nikolai Gogol, Jacob Grimm, Thomas Hardy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, O. Henry, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Washington Irving, James Joyce, Rudyard Kipling, H.P. Lovecraft, John Milton, Beatrix Potter, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Saki, Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Trollope, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Anton Chekhov, L. Frank Baum, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Emily Dickinson, Henry Van Dyke, Selma Lagerlöf, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Clement Clarke Moore, William Wordsworth, W.B. Yeats & Wilhelm Grimm also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers by Brian Sibley, Michael Bakewell
36 ratingsThe second instalment of Tolkien's epic tale, adapted from the original BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. Having fled the Shire in their escape from Sauron's Dark Riders, Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring have journeyed to Rivendell and beyond. Their mission is to reach the Mountain of Fire in Mordor, where the Ruling Ring can be destroyed, but already their campaign is in jeopardy...Categorized as:
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![The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by Paul McCusker, C.S. Lewis]()
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by Paul McCusker, C.S. Lewis
16 ratingsFully dramatized and produced with cinema-quality sound design and music, The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe is the second of seven audio dramas in the Focus on the Family Radio Theatre production of The Chronicles of Narnia. Hosted by Douglas Gresham, stepson of C. S...Categorized as:
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![Her Cowboy Billionaire Best Friend's Brother by Liz Isaacson]()
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![The Last Battle (Radio Theatre's Chronicles of Narnia, #7) by Paul McCusker, C.S. Lewis]()
The Last Battle (Radio Theatre's Chronicles of Narnia, #7) by Paul McCusker, C.S. Lewis
20 ratingsFully dramatized and produced with cinema-quality sound design and music, each title in Radio Theatre's Chronicles of Narnia is now available in a travel-friendly size. Hosted by Douglas Gresham, stepson of C. S. Lewis, these timeless classics have mesmerized millions around the world...Categorized as:
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![Heck's Gold by John Deacon]()
Heck's Gold by John Deacon
8 ratingsA heartwarming tale of courage and young love on a rugged frontier...After completing their fort, the residents of Heck’s Valley brace for winter. Many speak of spring—and the possibility of staying here and working together to build a town in this breathtaking wilderness.Heck and Hope don’t know what the future holds, but so long as they are together, they face it with confidence... -
![HINDS FEET ON HIGH PLACES COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED by Hannah Hurnard]()
HINDS FEET ON HIGH PLACES COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED by Hannah Hurnard
32 ratingsThis ebook is optimized for nook with linked Table of Content making navigation quicker and easier.Much-Afraid had been in the service of the Chief Shepherd, whose great flocks were pastured down in the Valley of Humiliation. She lived with her friends and fellow workers Mercy and Peace in a tranquil little white cottage in the village of Much-Trembling...Categorized as:
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![A Dancing Tide by Grace Greene]()
A Dancing Tide by Grace Greene
12 ratingsA Dancing Tide, the second book in the Barefoot Tides two-book series, continues the story of Lilliane Moore of Cub Creek in rural Virginia, who accepted a temporary companion job for ninety-year-old Merrick Dahl of Emerald Isle, North Carolina—and discovered it’s not always so easy to go home again. That even if you do, you’ll find your life has changed in unexpected ways... -
![The Silver Chair (Radio Theatre's Chronicles of Narnia, #6) by Paul McCusker, C.S. Lewis]()
The Silver Chair (Radio Theatre's Chronicles of Narnia, #6) by Paul McCusker, C.S. Lewis
20 ratingsFully dramatized and produced with cinema-quality sound design and music, each title in Radio Theatre's Chronicles of Narnia is now available in a travel-friendly size. Hosted by Douglas Gresham, stepson of C. S. Lewis, these timeless classics have mesmerized millions around the world...Categorized as:
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![Dylan by Christy Barritt]()
Dylan by Christy Barritt
8 ratingsHis job is to protect her. The trouble is . . . she doesn’t want protection.Former Navy SEAL Dylan Granger’s new assignment requires him to both use his tactical abilities and tap into his acting skills. Hired by Katie Logan’s father, his job is to protect the gutsy university professor. But Katie can’t know Dylan’s protecting her. Instead, Dylan must act as her assistant... -
![Breaking Dawn by Elle James]()
Breaking Dawn by Elle James
8 ratingsLance Rankin never wanted to marry. He loved his career in Delta Force and knew it wouldn’t be conducive to a relationship. Until he met the woman of his dreams on a secret mission. Paired with a female Israeli Special Forces operator, he infiltrates a Palestinian stronghold to rescue a captured diplomat... -
![The Road Home by Richard Paul Evans]()
The Road Home by Richard Paul Evans
18 ratingsFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Richard Paul Evans, the dramatic conclusion in the riveting Broken Road trilogy--a powerful redemption story about finding happiness on a pilgrimage across iconic Route 66.Chicago celebrity and pitchman Charles James is supposed to be dead. Everyone believes he was killed in a fiery plane crash, a flight he narrowly missed...Categorized as:
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![The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Chapter Book Box Set by Michael Flexer, Alison Sage]()
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Chapter Book Box Set by Michael Flexer, Alison Sage
10 ratingsNow available in a handsome paperback box set for the first time, these four paperback chapter books of "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" each have unique movie covers from the blockbuster Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media film and black-and-white interior movie photographs...Categorized as:
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![Mac's Way by Reg Quist]()
Mac's Way by Reg Quist
10 ratingsRaised in poverty in Missouri, Mac is determined to find a better life for himself and the girl who is still a vague vision in his mind. Work on the Santa Fe Trail, and on a Mississippi River boat give him a start, but the years of Civil War leave him broke and footloose in South Texas. There he discovers more cattle running loose than he ever knew existed...Categorized as:
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![Mountain Massacre: Rocky Mountain Saint Book 4 by B.N. Rundell]()
Mountain Massacre: Rocky Mountain Saint Book 4 by B.N. Rundell
10 ratingsWhen a grief-stricken young mountain man goes to Fort William to re-supply, he runs smack into a bully and a drunkard. That meeting leads Tate Saint to take on the responsibility of guiding a bunch of dirt-farmers across the beginnings of the Oregon Trail and to the distant Wind River mountains and South Pass... -
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![She Walks in Majesty by MaryLu Tyndall]()
She Walks in Majesty by MaryLu Tyndall
6 ratingsDanger around every corner. Intrigues in everyone’s past. And a romance that’s swoon worthy. She Walks in Majesty is all that and more, with a plot that twists and turns and truths that are hard-hitting... -
![Sunburst by Susan May Warren]()
Sunburst by Susan May Warren
6 ratingsWhen former Navy SEAL and lifelong bachelor Ranger Kingston is called upon to take part in a rescue mission to save his brother Colt, who has been kidnapped by terrorists in Nigeria, he is shocked to find among the hostages a woman he knows and could never forget... -
![Abiding Hope by Jennifer H. Westall]()
Abiding Hope by Jennifer H. Westall
6 ratings"For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it." After three years of bloodshed in the jungles of the Philippines, guerrilla leader, Matthew Doyle, finds himself on the brink of freedom. The Americans are coming, bringing with them the promise of an end to the terror inflicted by the Japanese army on his mind, body, and soul... -
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![Winning His Wife by George H. McVey]()
Winning His Wife by George H. McVey
6 ratingsAdelle Cordovia has gone from the frying pan into the fire. Hiring a gambler to escort her in secret from Denver, where her parents expect her to marry a man thirty years older than her, she ends up owing the gambler seventy-five dollars she doesn’t have. Now she’s indebted to the man who plans to collect his due from her body...Categorized as:
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![The Secret Baby Rescue by Jo Grafford]()
The Secret Baby Rescue by Jo Grafford
6 ratingsHunt Ryker vowed no Marine in his unit would ever be left behind, and that includes Marcus Zane who’s been missing for the better part of a year. As soon as Hunt recovers from his latest combat injury, he resumes his search for his missing comrade. He never imagined his search would land him in a temporary instructor position at an elite search and rescue training center... -
![The Stone Family Haven: Women's Fiction with a lot of Romance by Taylor Hart]()
The Stone Family Haven: Women's Fiction with a lot of Romance by Taylor Hart
6 ratingsA man who has been burned too many times. A woman who’s running from her ex. Will they help each other heal and find a second chance at love?Brooks Stone, FBI superhero, strike that, demoted FBI now … doesn’t want to talk about why he had a mental break a year ago. He doesn’t want to talk about his dead partner. He really doesn’t want to talk to about why the tremor in his hand won’t go away...Categorized as:
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![Christ Recrucified by Nikos Kazantzakis]()
Christ Recrucified by Nikos Kazantzakis
18 ratingsThe inhabitants of a Greek village, ruled by the Turks, plan to enact the life of Christ in a mystery play but are overwhelmed by their task. A group of refugees, fleeing from the ruins of their plundered homes, arrive asking for protection - and suddenly the drama of the Passion becomes reality...Categorized as:
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![The Celtic Stone by Nick Hawkes]()
The Celtic Stone by Nick Hawkes
8 ratingsChris Norman’s dreams of being a commercial pilot are shattered when he crashes his plane in central Australia. His life hangs in the balance—a balance that is swayed by the intervention of an Aboriginal bushman bent on his own murderous mission. The bushman leaves Chris with a mysterious and incongruous legacy, a Celtic cross made of stone... -
![Timberline Trail by B.N. Rundell]()
Timberline Trail by B.N. Rundell
8 ratingsTate Saint, man of the mountains, was grieving his wife when Jim Beckwourth brought word from Kit Carson that he was needed at Bent's Fort. Eager to put his loss behind him and anxious to know what his mentor and friend needed, Tate set out for the fort... -
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![Pathfinder Peril by B.N. Rundell]()
Pathfinder Peril by B.N. Rundell
8 ratingsIf the man of the mountains, Tate Saint, had a fault, it was that he had a hard time saying no whenever someone needed his help. But now he has a family and the wilderness makes many demands on anyone that tries to master the mountains... -
![Beginning Again by Lauraine Snelling]()
Beginning Again by Lauraine Snelling
8 ratingsA Journey Home Was Her Only Hope...Caught in the clutches of yesterday's nightmares, Maddy Morton finds herself in a position she vowed would never happen: desperate and penniless. Though her son, Nicholas, is wearing resentment like a badge, Maddy flees with him to her childhood home, only to find her widowed father a sullen and broken man... -
![Shiloh Ranch by Bobby Akart]()
Shiloh Ranch by Bobby Akart
10 ratingsI survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me. ~ Madison Ryman The strongest emotion of man is fear and ... Fear of the unknown is the greatest fear of all...Categorized as:
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![Ishmael by E.D.E.N. Southworth]()
Ishmael by E.D.E.N. Southworth
10 ratingsYou will never read a story that is more inspiring and challenging than Ishmael . The heights of success achieved by this young man reveal little of the utter poverty into which he was born. He entered life motherless and poor, and despite the wishes of everyone around, he survived and flourished in his paltry environment... -
![Pilgrim's Progress in Modern English by John Bunyan]()
Pilgrim's Progress in Modern English by John Bunyan
12 ratingsUse body text from hardback title 1-58960-13-4 replacing title pages uploaded digitally. Use promotion code (IBCTAP-FILE) as per Jim Patterson...Categorized as:
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![Amish Promises by Leslie Gould]()
Amish Promises by Leslie Gould
12 ratingsJourney Down a Quiet Lane in Lancaster County Where Love and Heartache and Friendship and Healing Meet When Joel and Shani Beck arrive at their new home, they're looking for peace. Shani is thrilled to have Joel back from Iraq, but he needs time to heal, and the quiet of Lancaster seems just the place...Categorized as:
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![Dangerous Journey: The Story of Pilgrim's Progress by Oliver Hunkin, John Bunyan]()
Dangerous Journey: The Story of Pilgrim's Progress by Oliver Hunkin, John Bunyan
14 ratingsThe world-famous, much-loved classic Pilgrim’s Progress is here retold for children. This abridged version uses the original words of John Bunyan as selected by Oliver Hunkin to present a gripping narrative. Filled with intricately detailed illustrations, this handsome, large-format book makes an ideal gift...Categorized as:
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![Evie by Caroline Fyffe]()
Evie by Caroline Fyffe
14 ratingsMAIL-ORDER BRIDES OF THE WEST is a new series created in collaboration by USA Today Bestselling Authors Caroline Fyffe and Debra Holland. Well-bred socialite and bride-to-be Trudy Bauer arrives at the St. Louis based Mail-Order Brides of the West agency full of excitement for an adventure of a lifetime...Categorized as:
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![The Keeper of The Bees by Gene Stratton-Porter]()
The Keeper of The Bees by Gene Stratton-Porter
16 ratingsThe very last novel that Gene Stratton-Porter wrote before her death. The tale of a wounded World War I veteran, a beekeeper and an impish tomboy all helped by each other...Categorized as:
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![Laddie: A True Blue Story: By Gene Stratton-Porter - Illustrated by Gene Stratton-Porter]()
Laddie: A True Blue Story: By Gene Stratton-Porter - Illustrated by Gene Stratton-Porter
18 ratings1913. Stratton-Porter was an American feminist, environmentalist, photographer and one of Indiana's most famous female authors. Many of her writings were moralistic and romantic novels. Laddie is a wonderful child's book and is thought to be based on her brother Leander who drowned in the Wabash River. Due to the age and scarcity of the original we reproduced, some pages may be spotty or faded...Categorized as:
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![The City of Joy by Dominique Lapierre, Elina Klersy Imberciadori]()
The City of Joy by Dominique Lapierre, Elina Klersy Imberciadori
18 ratingsMade into a movie starring Patrick Swayze, this is the inspiring story of an American doctor who experienced a spiritual rebirth in an impoverished section of Calcutta...Categorized as:
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![A Step of Faith by Richard Paul Evans]()
A Step of Faith by Richard Paul Evans
20 ratingsFollowing the #4 New York Times bestseller The Road to Grace, Richard Paul Evans’s hero Alan Christoffersen faces a life-changing crisis on his journey to grace.After the death of his beloved wife, after the loss of his advertising business to his once-trusted partner, after bankruptcy forced him from his home, Alan Christoffersen is a broken man...Categorized as:
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![The Return of the Ripper by Anna Elliott, Charles Veley]()
The Return of the Ripper by Anna Elliott, Charles Veley
6 ratingsDiamonds can be deadly! In October 1897, a deadly serial killer returns to London, just as Lucy and Jack are planning their wedding and Sherlock is launching a high-stakes investigation at the request of diamond mogul Cecil Rhodes. With Watson, the Baker Street team soon find themselves enmeshed in a deadly conspiracy, with tentacles that reach far beyond the shadows of Whitechapel...Categorized as:
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![The Emperor's Sword by Andrew Klavan]()
The Emperor's Sword by Andrew Klavan
6 ratings"The Emperor's Sword is a wildly entertaining adventure of overlapping worlds and titanic clashes between fundamentals of good and evil. Klavan's world-building is both amazing and all too plausible... -
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Expired Cache by Lisa Phillips
6 ratingsShe'll never agree to stay.He'll never stop trying to protect her.History Professor Ellie Ridgeman is back in her hometown for the reading of her grandfather's will. She only has to face her fears this one last time, and then she's off on sabbatical. But the former police chief's last words come with a cryptic instruction Ellie can't ignore. Even when it puts her life in danger... -
![The Rebound Rescue: A K9 Handler Short Story (Disaster City Search and Rescue) by Jo Grafford]()
The Rebound Rescue: A K9 Handler Short Story (Disaster City Search and Rescue) by Jo Grafford
6 ratingsAfter a bad breakup, former bodybuilder Jett Channing decides to go on a girlfriend diet. So when his normal responsibilities as a forest ranger are interrupted by a request to search for a missing camper, he jumps at the chance to work off his wounded pride by doing something so meaningful and worthwhile...Categorized as:
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![Missing by Margaret Daley]()
Missing by Margaret Daley
6 ratingsKidnapping. Evil. Redemption.When two young girls go missing, Dr. Emma Reichs, a child psychologist who worked with the two teens, turns to Brody Taylor, an ex-Green Beret, who founded the Pals Center, a safe haven for kids, to help her find the girls. Brody along with his retired military canine, Charlie, is determined to find the people behind the kidnapping of young people in his community... -
![Masquerade with a Prince: A Contemporary Christian Romance by Carol Moncado]()
Masquerade with a Prince: A Contemporary Christian Romance by Carol Moncado
6 ratingsHe knows she’s the one who got away.She’s just trying to forget.Is a masquerade the answer?Princes of New SargassoBook 2Lady RoseMarie knows all about loss.Her parents in an accident.Her big brother to a military incident.The love of her life moving on.But when she comes face to face with the prince who left her behind, she wants nothing to do with him... -
![One Woman's Heart by Delaney Cameron]()
One Woman's Heart by Delaney Cameron
6 ratingsEverybody knows the path to true love doesn’t always run smooth, but Holly and her boyfriend Scott seem to be going in opposite directions. When their relationship takes a turn for the worst, she finds comfort in the company of her next door neighbor. Holly accepts Devon’s friendship with no expectations of where it might lead... -
![What if I Loved You by Mandi Blake]()
What if I Loved You by Mandi Blake
6 ratingsSara Williams wasn’t always Sara Williams. Twelve years ago, she was Liz Jennings—small-town nobody and best friend of Ian Hart. The only future she could imagine included him, but after one tragic night, she’s forced to flee her home and leave behind the best friend she secretly loves.Ian Hart was sure of two things. He was in love with his best friend, and he’d do anything to protect her... -
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![Remember Home by Ginny Sterling]()
Remember Home by Ginny Sterling
6 ratingsDear John… For teacher Lily Hogan, those words would come to mean so much. She knew that giving back to the community brought joy into people’s lives. When her fourth-grade class writes letters to the military overseas in Afghanistan, she takes up her own pen and leads her students by example – writing a letter to an unknown soldier...Categorized as:
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![Stormcatcher by Colleen Coble]()
Stormcatcher by Colleen Coble
8 ratingsUncovering a modern-day crime scene was not how marine archaeologist Wynne Baxter expected to use her diving skills. Yet when handsome family friend Simon Lassiter fell under suspicion in the death of his cousin and former fiancée, Wynne vowed to help him learn the truth, even though it meant risking everything in Superior's stormy waters... -
![Start With Me by Kara Isaac]()
Start With Me by Kara Isaac
8 ratingsLacey O’Connor is finally a sure thing for the promotion she’s spent ten years working for. But when a scandal rocks her firm she finds herself on a collision course with the one person she has spent five years trying to forget...Categorized as:
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![The Singer Trilogy: The Mythic Retelling of the Story of the New Testament by Calvin Miller]()
The Singer Trilogy: The Mythic Retelling of the Story of the New Testament by Calvin Miller
10 ratingsThe Singer quickly became a favorite of evangelists, pastors, artists, students, teachers and readers of all sorts when it was originally published in 1975... -
![The Father's Tale by Michael D. O'Brien]()
The Father's Tale by Michael D. O'Brien
10 ratingsCanadian bookseller Alex Graham is a middle-age widower whose quiet life is turned upside down when his college-age son disappears from school in England. Leaving his safe and orderly world for the first time in his life, Graham travels to Oxford, Russia and beyond in search of his lost son who might have become involved with a high-brow, New Age group...Categorized as:
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![Dear California by Brooke St. James]()
Dear California by Brooke St. James
10 ratingsMartin Outfitters had a potentially lucrative partnership in the works with a clothing company based in California. A face-to-face meeting with the owner was all they needed to seal the deal. Cole Martin was confident he could take care of business, and he offered to make the trip. When his father suggested he take a vacation on the West Coast after the meeting, Cole refused...Categorized as:
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