Religious Fantasy

Master storyteller Walter Wangerin Jr. sweeps you into the life and times of the man who brought Christianity to the world. Here is Paul the person, viewed through the eyes of his contemporaries.

It’s 2125 and aliens live among us on earth. They are Verndari - the defenders. At the turn of the 22nd century they came, with solutions for world hunger and disease and with ground-breaking technology beyond anything mankind could ever imagine, but they are not what they seem. Five years earlier, in January 2120, Officer Danielle Almonzo, of the New Atlantis police department finds herself at ground zero of the worst terrorist attack in her nation’s history. When the multi-domed structure that keeps the Atlantic Ocean from devouring the aquatic city begins to shatter, she loses all ...

The Longest Day is one man's search for truth. A man searches for his daughter. He doesn't know it, but she's been looking for him for two years. In six hours, he will leave the Earth never to return. Adam Lang is an astronaut. He's tasked with traveling to the ends of the Universe in search of intelligent life. A self proclaimed atheist, Adam finds a planet where Adam and Eve had not eaten from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. A perfect world. No death. No sin. No sickness or disease. There he finds what he least expects to find. God.

Three brothers embark on separate journeys to fulfill their father's dying wish. In their journeys, they go to distant lands, find curious treasures, and learn the true meaning of giving. Illustrated by Baird Hoffmire.

Bethany Church is an angel sent to Earth to keep dark forces at bay. Falling in love was never part of her mission, but the bond between Beth and her mortal boyfriend, Xavier Woods, is undeniably strong. But even Xavier’s love, and the care of her archangel siblings, Gabriel and Ivy, can’t keep Beth from being tricked into a motorcycle ride that ends up in Hell. There, the demon Jake Thorn bargains for Beth’s release back to Earth.

As a slave in the war-weary kingdom of Faelen, 17-year-old Nym isn’t merely devoid of rights, her Elemental kind are only born male and always killed at birth - meaning, she shouldn’t even exist. Standing on the auction block beneath smoke-drenched mountains, Nym faces her 15th sell. But when her hood is removed and her storm-summoning killing curse revealed, Nym is snatched up by a court advisor and given a choice: be trained as the weapon Faelen needs to win the war or be killed.

Written after The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe but designed by C.S. Lewis to be read first, this enchanting prequel, with its story of time travel, sorcery, and magic rings, is essential reading for anyone who wants to learn the backstory to the biggest movie release of the year. Hurled back in time to the birth of a new world, two young friends get caught in the epic struggle between Aslan and his nemesis the White Witch.

Fight the Horde...or die with love. Separated by time and space, our heroes finally return home. But five years have passed, and they find a nightmarishly changed world. The despised Horde are now in control. The healing lakes of Elyon are now blood red. And mighty Thomas Hunter and his Forest Guard have disappeared. Take a stand with the chosen but be wary, for not all is as it seems. Now the chosen themselves are questioning their very sanity. For the only way to win may be to lose. The only way to live may be to die. And the only one to lead may be a lunatic.

Josh Adams, 14, awakes from a 50-year sleep. Ancient prophecy commands him and the other Sleepers to unite in battle against the evil priests and combat the doubt that threatens their faith.

After the accident, Meg would do anything to wake her best friend from his deadly coma. At least, that’s what she whispered into the woodland shadows. She never imagined her wish would trap her in a gray other-earth, void of any color. Meg's vibrant humanity is a priceless artifact in the gray kingdom, coveted by the royal court. All she wants to do is find a way back home. Until she discovers the other-earth contains healing powers that can save her friend. But only if Meg becomes what the gray people need—a human bride for Kalmus, the powerful king of the capital city.

Will Wilder yearns to join the Perilous Falls Middle School football team. But he was never big enough or strong enough to make the cut, until he comes in contact with a talisman containing the fabled locks of Samson. But using the Amulet of Power attracts dark forces to Perilous Falls like moths to a flame. Suddenly, hunched creatures are shadowing people around town, graves are being disturbed, the music of a mysterious DJ lulls half of Perilous Falls into a stupor, and to top it all off, Will is convinced that a teammate may be a demon himself!

For the Jews of Eastern Europe, demons are everywhere: Dancing on the rooftops in the darkness of midnight, congregating in the trees, harrowing the dead, even reaching out to try and steal away the living. But the demons have a land of their own: A Far Country peopled with the souls of the transient dead, governed by demonic dukes, barons, and earls. When the Angel of Death comes strolling through the little shtetl of Tupik one night, two young people will be sent spinning off on a journey through the Far Country.

Living in a house that’s actually a gateway between the past and present, the King siblings have to be ready for anything. It’s a painful fact they discovered after moving to Pinedale eight days ago. Desperately trying to rescue their mother from an unknown time and place, brothers Xander and David have lunged headlong into the chaos of some of history’s greatest - and most volatile - events. But their end goal has continually escaped their grasp.

In her new role as High Priestess, Emma wants to bring about the release of the people arrested for heresy and sent for retraining. It’s her biggest challenge yet. But she doesn’t have a clue what to do. Well, she has ideas, but they’re nothing more than fanciful imagination. Each is unrealistic—totally impractical, with no hope for success. But when Joshua goes missing, she knows she must act. Without a plan, she and her ragtag band set out to do the impossible. They don’t know where they’re going or what they’ll do when they get there. The Sovereign merely says, “Trust me....

When the Rapture occurred, many young people were left behind. Four of these, orphaned teenagers Judd, Vicki, Lionel, and Ryan, have turned to Christ and are learning about the coming events from their spiritual teacher, Bruce Barnes. But they have many questions and want to know what signs they should look for. One question that burns brightest in their minds is, "Who is the Antichrist?" Bruce Barnes thinks he knows, and shares this with the group. They have trouble believing him. But when they meet Buck Williams and hear his eyewitness account of one man’s evil powers, the four young people resolve to stand in faith against the Antichrist.

The Dark Lord's power has spread to the mysterious Caves of Mondar. The Seven Sleepers are called to free the people there by teaching them the virtues of honor, dignity, and generosity.

Some doors are better left unopened. Some doors, you don’t want to find out what lies behind them. In the Forbidden Doors series by best-selling author Bill Myers, teenager Rebecca “Becka” Williams, her younger brother, Scott, and her friend, Ryan Riordan, are swept into heart-stopping encounters with an all-too-real invisible world - a world fraught with deception and spiritual adversaries that promise goodness and enlightenment but will stop at nothing to destroy life, sanity, and human souls. Witchcraft. Reincarnation. Ouija Boards. UFOs. Shamanism.

There is more after death. When Maya dies as a young child, she trains in Heaven with her guardian angel. She wants to earn her wings and become an Archein: a warrior angel. Her greatest wish is to discover the location of Zephon where exiled traitors find refuge. Such a feat would put her on the same playing field as her boyfriend and could make her irreplaceable to the Archangels. Not everything is as it seems. Maya’s boyfriend commits a First-Tier crime and an Archangel zeroes in on her with foul intentions. Two deaths force her guardian angel’s hand and he sends her through a one-...

The MindWar Realm is a computerized world created by a deranged terrorist named Kurodar. Built through a link between Kurodar's mind and a network of supercomputers, The Realm is a pathway through which the madman can project himself into any computer system on the planet. Twice before, Rick Dial has entered The Realm as a Mind Warrior and come back alive. But now something has gone terribly wrong.

Aeons ago an ancient war ravaged the land, and no one knows why. Havoc has gripped the Endless Plains. The Ondilaani hordes have assaulted Redtail hold, beaten back by the unlooked-for army of the Vale. But that army did not come to save the Hold. No. The elven army has another purpose, a purpose their leader has abandoned Lord Maorilan to pursue. In Silverlake, the troop has rescued the survivors from a slow death. But after days of rest and healing they were assaulted in the night, ambushed amidst a well-deserved celebration. Taken by surprise, during a moment of peace. What is happening ...