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  Crossings of Promise Set
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Save 10%! The Crossings of Promise Set includes all six books in the series. Titles include When Lightning Strikes, When the River Calls, Calm Before the Storm, Eye of the Storm, Keeper of Hearts. and The Cost of Passage
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When Lightning Strikes
by Hugh Alan Smith
paperback, 180 pages, $12.95
The year is 1873, and Paul Wipf is enchanted by dreams of America. But when lightning strikes, killing his parents, his dreams are shattered and buried in the ashes of sadness and guilt.

How can Paul be happy, knowing it is his parents' death that makes it possible for him to leave Russia? How can he be happy living with his sour old aunt and her group of Hutterites, whose life seems controlled more by rules than by love? How can he be happy when all he wants is what can never be--life as it used to be?

Then there is Hannah, the peculiar girl with shining brown eyes that probe straight into the darkness of his soul. Can Paul trust her with his story? And there is the adventurous journey to America--a dangerous storm at sea, encounters with thieves and gamblers, seemingly endless train rides, and a deadly dysentery epidemic.

Can Paul be saved from the bitterness he feels for God and himself? Will he abandon Hannah and the Hutterites, and run to the wild life of the American west? Only Paul can decide what will become of his life as the awesome power of God is revealed once more, when lightning strikes.

For Youth to adult. Copyright 2001.

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When the River Calls
Huge Alan Smith
paperback, 262 pages, $12.95
Six years have passed since the Hutterites arrived in South Dakota from the Russian steppes. In that time Hannah's relationship with Paul appears to have deepened-until he abandons the colony, disappearing somewhere up the Missouri River. The deathbed intuition of Paul's aunt pushes Hannah on a quest to find Paul and save him from an unknown danger. Hannah's journey takes her from Split Rock Colony to the farthest reaches of Americ. Will she find Paul in time and find the love she is looking for?

Sequel to When Lightning Strikes. Copyright 2004 Herald Press

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Calm Before the Storm
by Janice L. Dick
paperback, 368 pages, $14.95
South Russia, 1914. The world is war, and revolution threatens. Against this backdrop of fear and danger, three young people search for hope and love.

Mennonite Katarina Hildebrandt leads a tranquil life in the beauty of her family's Crimean estate. But change is coming, and Katarina's faith will be put to the test. Johann Sudermann arrives at the estate to teach, but finds he has much to learn. His new, true faith is about to turn his life upside-down. Meanwhile his friend Paul Gregorovich Tekanin searches for answers in the decadent city of St Petersburg. Paul soon discovers that the revolutionary movement demands his soul as well as his wit and strength.

Will these young people find the faith to weather the coming storm?

Ages youth to adult. Copyright 2002.

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Eye of the Storm
Janice L. Dick
paperback, 360 pages, $14.95
The world of Katarina Hildebrandt and Johann Sudermann is being torn apart by world war, a civil war in their homeland, Russia, disagreements in church, and family conflicts. Meanwhile, Paul Tekanin has chosen what he thought to be the path to Utopia, but is instead finding it to be a way of darkness and death. Will he embrace the violence of revolution or will the memory of his childhood friend, Johann, call him in a different direction? As history unfolds, these young people look desperately for a source of balance and safety within the eye of the storm and ask: where is God when life betrays?

Continues the story begun in Calm Before the Storm. Copyright 2003 Herald Press.

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Out of the Storm
Janice L. Dick
paperback, 380 pages, $14.95
Johann Suderman works with Benjamin Janz to secure permission for Mennonite emigration, but they are faced with seemingly insurmountable obstacles at every turn. Meanwhile, Katarina attempts to sustain her family and friends amid chaos and uncertainty, and Paul Gregorovich Tekanin tries to survive in anonymity. The Mennonites of South Russia face a fierce struggle for faith and survival as their dreams are dashed one by one.

Sequel to Eye of the Storm. Copyright 2004 Herald Press.

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Keeper of Hearts
by Dianne Christner
paperback, 304 pages, $14.95
It is 1545, a dangerous time for Anabaptists. Anna van Vissers despises Menno Simons and the other heretics who caused her father's death. Caught in a storm of rebellion, Anna faces the choice of faith and love. Who will be the keeper of Anna's heart?

Copyright 2002.

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The Cost of Passage
by Heather Tekavec
paperback, 112 pages, $12.95
Fourteen year old Anna knows her family must get out of Russia soon. Anna knows that their only hope of survival is to get to Canada where her friend, Johnny, and all her dreams await. Just when Anna's dreams seem completely unreachable, a drawer of moldy bread and an unusual friendship help her to understand trust and sacrifice.

Copyright 2004. Herald Press

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The books in this series are historical fiction for ages youth to adult. 

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