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  Fiction Favours the Facts - Book 1

  Mark Morgan

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  A first book of Bible-based micro-tales 
  “Fiction Favours the Facts” is a collection of the first 22 micro-tales from the Bible Tales Newsletter. 
  Micro-tales?  What are they?  Short stories about Bible characters or events. 
  Bible-based fiction – the facts of the Bible rounded out with imaginative detail to help us recognise the lives and feelings of real people. 
  Some are about Bible characters you have never heard of, while others concentrate on an incident in the life of one of the more famous Bible characters. 
  Cain and Abel, Noah and his family, Moses and Aaron, Daniel, Ebed-Melech, Mark, Peter, Paul and Silas and Judas Iscariot share their experiences with us. Lives from long ago are made real so that we can share their difficulties, triumphs and failures – and expand our own understanding of what makes our life worthwhile to God. 
  In “Fiction Favours the Facts” Old Testament heroes interact with ordinary people and we learn their lessons of hospitality and faith. 
    
  Even the life of the most famous traitor – Judas Iscariot – is opened for us to look at in a possible reconstruction of how he became a traitor. 
    
  A wide variety of Biblical characters walk across the pages of this book and each micro-tale gives us something to think about. Lives presented by the Bible in just a few words are thoughtfully expanded, tinted with colour and life – but without straying from God’s word. 
  Old Testament: 
  Cain’s confessions 
  A Blissful Silence 
  An afternoon at the well 
  The Golden Calf 
  Confessions of a Dancer-Snatcher 
  Achish – What might have been… 
  Another three today 
  The widow of Zarephath 
  185,000 times 55 
  El or Bel? 
  I’m incistern on this! 
  New Testament: 
  No more waiting 
  Follow me! 
  The Wind and the Waves are Real 
  To go or not to go? 
  A gift for God 
  I’m glad it was dark! 
  He promised us life 
  Here is your mother 
  A Vacant Place 
  The Ethiopian Eunuch 
  Praise can open doors

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  The True Story of Hansel and...

  Louise Murphy

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  In the last months of the Nazi occupation of Poland, two children are left by their father and stepmother to find safety in a dense forest. Because their real names will reveal their Jewishness, they are renamed "Hansel" and "Gretel". They wander in the woods until they are taken in by Magda, an eccentric and stubborn old woman called "witch" by the nearby villagers. Magda is determined to save them, even as a German officer arrives in the village with his own plans for the children. 
   
  Combining classic themes of fairy tales and war literature, Louise Murphy's haunting novel of journey and survival, of redemption and memory, powerfully depicts how war is experienced by families and especially by children. The True Story of Hansel and Gretel tells a resonant, riveting story.

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  The Court Dancer

  Kyung-Sook Shin

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  When a novice French diplomat arrives in Korea for an audience with the Emperor, he is enraptured by the Joseon Dynasty's magnificent culture. But all fades away when he sees Yi Jin perform the delicate traditional Dance of the Spring Oriole. Although well aware that women of the court belong to the palace, the young diplomat confesses his love to the Emperor and gains permission for Yi Jin to accompany him back to France. A world away in Belle Epoque Paris, Yi Jin lives a free, independent life away from the gilded cage of the court and begins translating and publishing Joseon literature into French with another Korean student. But even in this new world, great sorrow awaits her, and Yi Jin's grieving and suffering is only amplified by homesickness. But her homecoming ends up being an unhappy one. Betrayal, jealousy, and intrigue abound, culminating with the tragic assassination of the last Joseon empress...

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  A Woman's War

  Marjorie Daley

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  In 1914, the world descended into war. Nineteen-year-old Elodie Fabien finds herself a refugee in France when Reims is overrun. She yearns to help her country, and her determination leads her to the women of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry. The FANYS are on their way to Calais, where the Belgian Army has an understaffed hospital. Elodie discovers courage and resiliency as her work takes her from the hospital to the trenches and eventually as a courier for Madame Curie. Elodie, with her firsthand experience of the terror of trench warfare, meets a young British lieutenant and learns the pain of loving someone on the front lines. Throughout the long years, Elodie experiences all the facets of a woman's war.Meticulously researched and based on real women who served in WWI's trenches, clearing stations, and hospitals, A Woman's War is a testament to the forgotten women on the front lines of the most brutal war in human history. This historical accuracy brings to life the untold stories of these brave women, making the narrative all the more compelling.

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  Journey to Bliss (Saskatchewan...

  Ruth Glover

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  Each novel in Ruth Glover's Saskatchewan Saga is filled with enchanting characters, surprising plots, and fascinating historical detail. Set in the late 1800s, the stories introduce Scottish and English emigrants who bravely journey to the wild Canadian frontier. 
   
  In Journey to Bliss, Glover's third book in the saga, Tierney Caulder loses Robbie Dunbar, the man she loves, when he leaves Scotland for Canada. When Anne Fraser, her best friend, is attacked by a man her family will not fight against, the two girls share their fear of a hopeless future. That is, until the British Women's Emigration Society makes them an offer they can't refuse--freedom and independence working as domestics in the wilds of Canada.  
   
  On their trip across the sea, the two young women meet the frail Pearly Chapel, whose faith in God makes her a tower of strength in uncertain times. But will Pearly's prayers be enough to keep them safe? What will happen in their new homes? Will Tierney and Robbie ever be together again?

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  The River Is Home - A Novel

  Patrick D. Smith

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  Award-winning Florida novelist Patrick Smith's first novel, The River Is Home, revolves around a Mississippi family's struggle to cope with changes in their rural environment. Poor in material possessions, Skeeter's kinfolk are rich in their appreciation of their beautiful natural surroundings. The river on which they live—with its food supply, steamboats, and floods—figures strongly in their lives as the source of life, change, and death. Though their life is a simple one, it's filled with friendship, loyalty, love, and compassion.

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