Flame of Resistance
10 best books like Flame of Resistance (Tracy Groot): A Time of Angels, Darkness Under the Water, Wildflowers of Terezin, Defining Dulcie, I Am a Star: Child of the Holocaust, Dangerous Allies, Sons of Thunder, The Triumph of Grace, The Last Disciple, How Huge the Night
| Author | Karen Hesse |
| ISBN | 0786812095 |
As World War I rages in Europe, an influenza epidemic devastates Boston, forcing fourteen-year-old Hannah to leave home. Dangerously ill, she finds herself in Vermont, where a German man takes her in and nurses her back to health. Relying on her vision of an angel to help her find her way home, Hannah...
This gripping, ultimately hopeful tale of an Abenaki-French Canadian girl in 1920s Vermont explores a dark episode in New England history.
Just as the waters of a river roar through her town, Molly Ballou's life is riding on a swift current, where change comes faster than a spring flood. As...
| Author | Robert Elmer |
| ISBN | 1426701926 |
Wildflowers of Terezin is a sweeping historical novel set against a backdrop of danger. A Danish Lutheran pastor’s complacent faith is stretched to the breaking point during World War II when he meets a young Jewish nurse Hanne Abrahamsen and becomes deeply involved in Resistance efforts to save...
| Author | Paul Acampora |
| ISBN | 0803730462 |
This is another mediocre YA novel dealing with the death of a parent. Dulcie's father died in a school janitorial accident and her mother's way to deal with this tragedy is to move across the country. Dulcie steals her late father's truck and goes back home, only to discover that there are worse fates than...
| Author | Inge Auerbacher |
| ISBN | 0140364013 |
"I am a star : child of the Holocaust" was written by Inge Auerbacher. The purpose they had for this book was to inform you. It was written not only to tell you what the Holocaust was about but also to inform you on just one persons story during the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a very serious and horrible time....
| Author | Renee Ryan |
| ISBN | 0373828446 |
In Nazi Germany, British agent Jack Anderson risks his life working undercover as an SS officer. And his latest mission--to uncover intelligence about a secret Nazi weapon--is his most perilous yet. Especially since he'll have to work with Katarina Kerensky. The famous actress is too dangerous to...
| Author | Susan May Warren |
| ISBN | 1935416677 |
Sophie Frangos is torn between the love of two men and the promise that binds them all together. Markos Stavros loves Sophie from afar while battling his thirst for vengeance and his hunger for honor. Dino, his quiet and intelligent brother, simply wants to forget the horror that drove them from their...
| Author | Kay Marshall Strom |
| ISBN | 1426702132 |
A 2011 BookList Top Ten Inspirational Book
This riveting conclusion of Grace Winslow's fight for freedom carries her from England to America's Deep South. After learning that her husband, Cabeto, is on a South Carolina plantation, Grace dons a sailor's disguise and boards the only ship headed...
| Author | Hank Hanegraaff |
| ISBN | 0842384383 |
What if the Antichrist has already been revealed? The first book in a gripping new series by best-selling authors Sigmund Brouwer and Hank Hanegraaff explores the lives of Christians who struggle to survive and spread the Gospel during the climactic turbulence of “the last days.” With the enemy...
Fifteen-year-old Julien Losier just wants to fit in. But after his family moves to a small village in central France in hopes of outrunning the Nazis, he is suddenly faced with bigger challenges than the taunting of local teens. Nina Krenkel left her country to obey her father's dying command: Take your...
| Author | Maureen Lang |
| ISBN | 1414324375 |
By the fall of 1918, the Great War has ended and the world is at peace, but there is little to celebrate in Germany. After four years of fighting for his homeland, Christophe Brecht returns to find there is little left of what he once called home. So when family friends ask him to travel to Munich to bring back...
| Author | Tricia Goyer |
| ISBN | 0800733363 |
It is August 1944 and the Gestapo is mercilessly rounding up suspected enemies of the Third Reich. When Joseph Engel, a German physicist working on the atomic bomb, finds that he is actually a Jew, adopted by Christian parents, he must flee for his life to neutral Switzerland.
Gabi Mueller is...
| Author | Rita Gerlach |
| ISBN | 1426714149 |
In 1775, Hayward Morgan, a young gentleman destined to inherit his father's estate in Derbyshire, England, captures the heart of the local vicar's daughter, Eliza Bloome. Her dark beauty and spirited ways are not enough to win him, due to her station in life.
Circumstances throw Eliza in Hayward's...
| Author | Allison Pittman |
| ISBN | 1414366809 |
Dorothy Lynn Dunbar has everything she ever wanted: her family, her church, her community, and a budding romance with the young pastor who took over her late father's pulpit. Time spent in the woods, lifting her heart and voice in worship accompanied by her brother's old guitar, makes her life complete...
| Author | Jan Watson |
| ISBN | 1414339143 |
Lilly Gray Corbett has just graduated from medical school and decided to accept an internship in the coal camp of Skip Rock, Kentucky. Her beau, Paul, is doing his residency in Boston and can't understand why Lilly would choose to work in a backwater town. But having grown up in the mountains, Lilly is...
| Author | Cindy McCormick Martinusen |
| ISBN | 0842319069 |
I've set my year off on the right foot by reading Winter Passing. It's an epic tale of a woman's pursuit of her family's history.
When her grandmother passes on, Darby Evans latches onto the dying wish -- that Darby visits Austria and sets things aright, concerning her grandmother's best friend....
| Author | Sigmund Brouwer |
| ISBN | 0307446492 |
In the tradition of Brock and Bodie Thoene's Zion Chronicles and history-meets-contemporary mysteries like those of bestseller Kate Morton, this WWII drama is both exciting in its revelations and heart-rending in its truth about human nature and forgiveness.
In the early 1940s, Jeremiah...
| Author | Jill Barnett |
| ISBN | 0671035347 |
A sweeping adventure of World War II that is truly unforgettable
In a time when ordinary people became heroes, they lived hard, loved hard, and fought hard: Kitty Kincaid must rely on her wits to survive capture by a deadly enemy in a faraway land....U.S. Army officer J.R. Cassidy lives for dangerous...
