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Like Brown, this series offers shadowy organizations and history-changing documents at the center of these religion-oriented suspense novels. Fast-paced stories with (unlike Brown) the addition of supernatural danger in the Order of the Sanguines, supernatural danger. Start with <>The Blood Gospel .

Like Brown, Khoury uses religious iconography as a background to conspiracy and treasure. Both write thrilling accounts of histories lost to time and societies bent on keeping ancient secrets buried. Start with The Last Templar.

In a hail of fire and flashing sword, as the burning city of Jerusalem falls from the hands of the West in 1291, a young Templar knight, his mentor, and a handful of others escape to the sea carrying a mysterious chest entrusted to them by the Order's dying Grand Master. The ship vanishes without a trace, but centuries later, in present day Manhattan, four masked horsemen dressed as Templar Knights emerge from Central Park and ride up the Fifth Avenue steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art during the blacktie opening of a Treasures of the Vatican exhibit.

Based on actual events Harris engages readers by realistically portraying wartime England. A mix of cerebral and visceral thrills, Enigma features puzzles within puzzles.

Tom Jericho, master cryptologist and code-breaker, joins Britain’s finest mathematicians and cryptologists gathered together in secret to decode German’s cipher, Enigma. It’s a race to break the code and save an extra-large American convey bringing needed supplies.

A story about divine female power and the transforming power of love. It's 1964 in South Carolina. Fourteen-year-old Lily and motherly servant Rosaleen flee from Lily's abusive father T. Ray and the police who battered Rosaleen for defending her new right to vote granted by the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Lily is both fleeing and seeking the truth about her mother's death ten years before. Among her mother's possessions, Lily finds a picture of a black Virgin Mary with "Tiburon, S.C." on the back so she and Rosaleen head there and find more than they hoped. . .

Before Eve, there was Lilith. Lilith and Adam are equal and happy in the Garden of Eden. Until Adam decides Lilith should submit to his will and lie beneath him. She refuses--and is banished forever from Paradise.

Demonized and sidelined, Lilith watches in fury as God creates Eve, the woman who accepts her submission. But Lilith has a secret: she has already tasted the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. Endowed with Wisdom, she knows why Asherah--God's wife and equal, the Queen of Heaven--is missing. Lilith has a plan: she will rescue Eve, find Asherah, restore balance to the world, and regain her rightful place in Paradise.

A smart, powerful, charismatic preacher brought back to life On October 15, 1974, Johnny Carson welcomed his next guest on The Tonight Show with these words: "I imagine there are very few people who are not aware of Kathryn Kuhlman. She probably, along with Billy Graham, is one of the best-known ministers or preachers in the country." But while many people today recognize Billy Graham, not many remember Kathryn Kuhlman (1907-1976), who preached faith and miracles to countless people over the fifty-five years of her ministry and became one of the most important figures in the rise of charismatic Christianity. In The Miracle Lady Amy Collier Artman tells the story of Kuhlman's life and, in the process, relates the larger story of charismatic Christianity, particularly how it moved from the fringes of American society to the mainstream. Tracing her remarkable career as a media-savvy preacher and fleshing out her unconventional character, Artman also shows how Kuhlman skillfully navigated the oppressive structures, rules, and landmines that surrounded female religious leaders in her conservative circles.

From the author of Discovering the Da Vinci Code, this book is the result of a ten-year study that offers concrete evidence to reconcile the Jesus of history with the Christ of faith.

Is Jesus who he said he was? Some say he was just a man; others claim he was the Son of God. Historian Darrell Bock tests the authenticity of Jesus' claims against the rules of history to find out if he truly is the Christ of Faith.

A fast-paced and accessibly-written and engaging biography of Jesus of Nazareth. Aslan focuses on how Jesus the man evolved into Jesus the Christ from an academic perspective.

Ehrman specifically addresses some of the more controversial ‘facts’ from Brown’s The da Vinci code as well as offering a wealth of background material on early Christianity, such as the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Ehrman also outlines how scholars determine which sources are most reliable and explores other Gospels found in the last half century. Ehrman endeavors to separate historical realities from Brown’s “flights of literary fancy”.