Category: Fiction

Fiction

Coming Home

By Pamela Parizo  

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Coming Home is my first novel.  It is based loosely on the experience of my mother, who came from California in the 1940s from Arkansas to live with her brother.

It is December 1943, in the midst of World War II  and  Jennie Jones is a seventeen year old girl living quietly with her mother in northwest Arkansas.   Tragedy strikes when her mother is stricken with tuberculosis which requires a year of hospital treatment.  Jennie must travel to California to stay with her brother, and God intervenes in her situation in the form of a young Marine, Sam Treadwell, who is en route to a holiday with his sister to be followed by deployment in the Pacific. Through his faith and encouragement, she is lifted out of her situation, and over the ensuing days, Jennie learns about the love and protecting hand of God, and learns to trust in Him as he changes her life, through new friends, prayer, faith and His unchanging Word.

A War Within: The Gladiator

By Nathan D. Maki  

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“All the saints salute you, including those of Caesar’s household.”

Those words of the Apostle Paul, written to the Philippians, made me think.  What an amazing dynamic, that while the Caesars were trying to stomp out the Christians God had His people right within Caesar’s palace, right under his nose. Isn’t that just the way God works?

The protagonist of A War Within: The Gladiator is 17-year-old Antonius, whose father Titus is Emperor Commodus’ steward but also secretly leads a small church group.  When the Emperor sends Antonius to carry a message to the Praetorians Titus learns that it is an arrest warrant for his church, including his wife and daughter.  Antonius races to warn them, but arrives too late, and the resulting tragedy leaves him bitter and angry toward God and vowing vengeance on the Emperor.  The brutal gladiator master Scipio plans to mold this angry young man into a gladiator, leaving Antonius warring within.  Will he forsake his faith and fight or will he refuse?  If God is truly faithful how could this happen?  And how could God demand that he forgive?

A War Within: The Gladiator and it’s sequel, A War Within: The Legionnaire have been four years in the making.  Book one, The Gladiator, was published by Word Aflame Press in October, 2012.  Book two is in the editing and design process right now.

You can purchase The Gladiator in trade paperback at Pentecostal Publishing House,  or as an e-book at www.Amazon.com.  You can also like it on Facebook for updates, samples, and sneak peeks of upcoming titles.

The Last Bye (Skyport Chronicles) (Volume 3)

By Doug Joseph  

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If you loved The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis, then you are sure to enjoy Doug Joseph’s Skyport Chronicles, and especially this installment: The Last Bye. This exciting, fun, and heart-warming tale is a stand-alone read. Yet it is also the much-anticipated sequel to the amazing, uplifting story arc that began with Tess and Daniel in New Immortal and Tesseract (Books 1 & 2). In this thrilling episode, everything hinges on their alienated-yet-adventurous son, P’erry. While growing up on a distant moon-world, called Sset, P’erry suffers heartache, makes friends, discovers the Tirra (great flying creatures), has breath-taking adventures, and achieves phenomenal, crucial accomplishments for the people of his world.

Young Adults and Up | Fiction, Christian, Futuristic | Science-Fiction | Adventure

Tesseract (Skyport Chronicles) (Volume 2)

By Doug Joseph  

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Tess is smart, courageous, and beautiful, yet she has suffered a terrible tragedy. Daniel, her childhood sweetheart, strives to help her overcome it. Meanwhile, in another space-time, a moon world called Sset is home to the Corlan, a sinless race blessed with genetic memory. Not a single Corlan has ever died … yet. Eventually, Tess and Daniel are miraculously sent to Sset when a terrible evil blights the moon world’s surface and threatens to wipe out the Corlan. Their destiny seems overwhelming. Will they be able to spare the Corlan species from extinction? Teleport with Tess and Daniel to a place beyond time, space, & imagination. Tesseract will transform you in mind-stretching ways.

YA Fiction | Christian | Science-Fiction | Adventure | Romance