Tell Me the Secrets: Treasures for Eternity
10 best books like Tell Me the Secrets: Treasures for Eternity (Max Lucado): Nothing to See Here, Skybreaker, The Huntress of Thornbeck Forest, Airborn, The Beautiful Pretender, Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race, The Great Brain, Tales of the Kingdom, Treasures of the Snow, The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction
Author | Kevin Wilson |
ISBN | 0062913484 |
Kevin Wilson’s best book yet—a moving and uproarious novel about a woman who finds meaning in her life when she begins caring for two children with remarkable and disturbing abilities
Lillian and Madison were unlikely roommates and yet inseparable friends at their elite boarding school....
Author | Kenneth Oppel |
ISBN | 0060532297 |
A legendary ghost ship. An incredible treasure. A death-defying adventure.
Forty years ago, the airship Hyperion vanished with untold riches in its hold. Now, accompanied by heiress Kate de Vries and a mysterious gypsy, Matt Cruse is determined to recover the ship and its treasures. But...
The Huntress of Thornbeck Forest
Author | Melanie Dickerson |
ISBN | 0718026241 |
A beautiful maiden who poaches to feed the poor.
A handsome forester on a mission to catch her.
Danger and love are about to unite in Thornbeck Forest.
The margrave owns the finest hunting grounds for miles around—and who teaches children to read, but by night this young...
Author | Kenneth Oppel |
ISBN | 0060531827 |
Matt Cruse is a cabin boy on the Aurora, a huge airship that sails hundreds of feet above the ocean, ferrying wealthy passengers from city to city. It is the life Matt's always wanted; convinced he's lighter than air, he imagines himself as buoyant as the hydrium gas that powers his ship. One night he meets...
Author | Melanie Dickerson |
ISBN | 0718026284 |
What happens when a margrave realizes he’s fallen in love with a servant?
The Margrave of Thornbeck has to find a bride, fast. He invites ten noble-born ladies from around the country to be his guests at Thornbeck Castle for two weeks, a time to test these ladies and reveal their true character.
Avelina...
Author | Margot Lee Shetterly |
ISBN | 0062742469 |
Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden were good at math...really good.
They participated in some of NASA's greatest successes, like providing the calculations for America's first journeys into space. And they did so during a time when being black and a...
Author | John D. Fitzgerald |
ISBN | 0142400580 |
The best con man in the Midwest is only ten years old. Tom, a.k.a., the Great Brain, is a silver-tongued genius with a knack for turning a profit. When the Jenkins boys get lost in Skeleton Cave, the Great Brain saves the day. Whether it's saving the kids at school, or helping out Peg-leg Andy, or Basil, the...
Author | David R. Mains |
ISBN | 0891915605 |
These classic allegorical tales are ones I grew up reading, and they continue to be meaningful to me now as an adult and someone who can share them with the children around me. I have just taken my Wed. night Bible class of 1st - 3rd graders through this book and they all became fans. It is easy to draw out Biblical...
Author | Patricia St. John |
ISBN | 0802465757 |
A story of vicious revenge and hard repentance
Annette and Lucien are enemies. After Annette gets Lucien into trouble at school, he decides to get back at her by threatening the most precious thing in the world to her: her little brother Dani. But tragedy strikes. Annette is so filled with rage...
The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction
Author | Meghan Cox Gurdon |
ISBN | 0062562835 |
A Wall Street Journal writer’s conversation-changing look at how reading aloud makes adults and children smarter, happier, healthier, more successful and more closely attached, even as technology pulls in the other direction.
A miraculous alchemy occurs when one person reads to another,...
Author | K.P. Yohannan |
ISBN | 1595890653 |
“He would lock me in a small room with the animals. Days turned into weeks, and my stomach would growl. He never gave me enough to eat,” said Nadish. “Weeks turned into months, and my body would ache. The work was hard, and there was never enough time to rest. Months turned into years, and I began to...
The Secret Library: A Book-Lovers' Journey Through Curiosities of History
Author | Oliver Tearle |
ISBN | 1782435573 |
A fascinating tour through the curious history of Western civilization told through its most emblematic invention – the book.
As well as leafing through the well-known titles that have helped shape the world in which we live, Oliver Tearle also dusts off some of the more neglected items...
Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity
Author | Nabeel Qureshi |
ISBN | 0310515025 |
An Unexpected Journey from Islam to Christianity In Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus, Nabeel Qureshi describes his dramatic journey from Islam to Christianity, complete with friendships, investigations, and supernatural dreams along the way. Providing an intimate window into a loving Muslim home,...