religious fiction

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The thorn birds

a novel
1998
Presents the saga of the Cleary family, beginning on an Australian sheep station in the early twentieth century and ending fifty years later, focusing on the forbidden love that develops between Meggie and Father Ralph de Bricassart.

City of God

a novel
2001
A New York novelist in search of a story becomes involved in the mystery of who stole the large brass cross that hung behind the altar of St. Timothy's Episcopal church in Manhattan and installed it on the roof of the Synagogue for Evolutionary Judaism on the Upper West Side.

The red tent

2007
Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, tells the story of her mothers, Leah, Rachel, Zilpah, and Bilhah, and the gifts they gave that sustained her through a damaged youth, a calling to midwifery, and a new home in a foreign land.

The shack

a novel
2011
After Missy is abducted during a vacation and evidence of her murder shows up at a shack in the forests of Oregon, Mackenzie Philips, her father, receives a strange note inviting him to return to the scene of the tragedy where he wrestles with nightmarish religious questions.

The rock

a tale of seventh-century Jerusalem
2001
A historical novel in which Ishaq, commissioned to design the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, meditates upon the reasons behind the creation of the contested relic that holds such significance for the Christian, Muslim, and Jewish faiths.

Blasphemy

2008
Nobel laureate Gregory North Hazelius and his team of scientists prepare to test the world's largest supercollider in the hopes of proving what happened at the first moment of creation, despite the objections of religious fanatics, who fear they will disprove the existence of God, and government officials, who hope to use the team's research to create a super weapon that could destroy the earth.

The shack

a novel
2007
After Missy is abducted during a vacation and evidence of her murder shows up at a shack in the forests of Oregon, Mackenzie Philips, her father, receives a strange note inviting him to return to the scene of the tragedy where he wrestles with nightmarish religious questions.

Fallen

2005
After being thrown out of the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve struggle to find their way in a harsh world while understanding God's motives.

Sarah

2000
The first novel in a trilogy on the women of Genesis, focusing on the life of Sarah, a devoted wife, and follower of the God of Abraham, who is chosen to experience a miracle.

Dragonlight

2008
Offers the final book of the Dragonkeeper Chronicles in which Kale and her father are busy hatching and releasing the younger generations of dragons and yet despite the peace around them now, a hidden evil is ready to spring on them once more.

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