Angela Hunt

A Vivid and Moving Portrait of a Reluctant QueenAfter sending his army to besiege another king's capital, King David forces himself on Bathsheba, a loyal soldier's wife. When her resulting pregnancy forces the king to murder her husband and add her to his harem, Bathsheba struggles to protect her son while dealing with the effects of a dark prophecy and deadly curse on the king's household. Combining historical facts with detailed fiction, Angela Hunt paints a realistic portrait of the beautiful woman who struggled to survive the dire results of divine judgment on a king with a divided heart.

When an ambitious tyrant threatens genocide against the Jews, an inexperienced young queen must take a stand for her people. When Xerxes, king of Persia, issues a call for beautiful young women, Hadassah, a Jewish orphan living in Susa, is forcibly taken to the palace of the pagan ruler. After months of preparation, the girl known to the Persians as Esther wins the king's heart and a queen's crown. But because her situation is uncertain, she keeps her ethnic identity a secret until she learns that an evil and ambitious man has won the king's permission to exterminate all Jews--young and old, powerful and helpless. Purposely violating an ancient Persian law, she risks her life in order to save her people...and bind her husband's heart.

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but in the case of a shelter animal, a picture may mean the difference between life and death. Novelist Angela Hunt has been photographing shelter animals for more than a year, and in this book she shares information and tips for working with a shelter, handling the animals, and making their inner spirit shine in a photograph. If you've ever wanted to do something to help homeless animals, this book will give you all the information you need. Plus, who wouldn't enjoy looking at pictures of beautiful, photogenic animals? Yes, the price is high for this slim book, but that's because it's expensive to print pages with color images. It is also available in a much less expensive ebook version. Note: The author's previous books, SNAPPING SHELTER DOGS and SNAPPING SHELTER CATS, have been combined and updated in this new edition.

When Cassie and her best friend, Andrea, enter the Prestige Model Search, they do it just for kicks. But Andrea wins And asks Cassie to go with her to New York.At first the trip is a lot of fun. Then things change--Andrea's attitude, for example. Suddenly she thinks Cassie is thing between a secretary and a slave; and suddenly she gets involved in things that will land her in BIG trouble.Now Cassie isn't so sure she can take care of herself, let alone anyone else Ages 12-15

Whatever beauty advice you seek, you will find it in BEAUTY FROM THE INSIDE OUT. Angela Elwell Hunt, author of more than one hundred titles for children and adults, and Laura Krauss Calenberg, a professional New York model, bring you guidance not only for achieving outer beauty but inner beauty as well--because true beauty lies in the confident attitude that comes from knowing the One who created you. Why not be the best you can be?

One innocent mistake... a lifetime of consequences. After growing up an only child, Amanda Lisandra wants a big family. But since she and her soldier husband can't afford to have more children right away, Mandy decides to earn money as a gestational carrier for a childless couple. She loves being pregnant, and while carrying the child, she dreams of having her own son and maybe another daughter. . . . Just when the nearly perfect pregnancy is about to conclude, unexpected tragedy enters Mandy's world and leaves her reeling. Devastated by grief, she surrenders the child she was carrying and struggles to regain her emotional equilibrium. Two years later she studies a photograph of the baby she bore and wonders if the unthinkable has happened--could she have inadvertently given away her own biological child? Over the next few months Mandy struggles to decide between the desires of her grief-stricken heart and what's best for the little boy she has never known.

Three sisters with opposing temperaments have a fiery reunion at the family estate in an unexpected journey of the heart in the latest novel from bestselling author Angela Hunt. If these three sisters don't change direction, they'll end up where they're going. Darlene Caldwell has spent a lifetime tending Sycamores, an estate located five miles south of a small town called Peculiar. She raised a family in the spacious home that was her grandfather's legacy, and she enjoys being a pillar of the community. Sycamores is the kingdom where she reigns as queen . . . until her limelight-stealing twin sister unexpectedly returns. Carlene Caldwell, veteran of the Broadway stage, is devastated when she realizes that an unsuccessful throat surgery has spelled the end of her musical career. Searching for a new purpose in life, she retreats to Sycamores, her childhood home. She may not be able to sing, but she hopes to use her knowledge and experience to fashion a new life in Peculiar, the little town she left behind. Haunted by a tragic romance, Magnolia Caldwell is the youngest of the Caldwell girls. Nolie has never wanted to live anywhere but Sycamores. She spends her days caring for her dogs and the magnificent gardens she's created on the estate, but when she meets a man haunted by his own tragedy, she must find the courage to either deny her heart or cut the apron strings that tie her to a dear and familiar place. Can these sisters discover who they are meant to be when life takes an unforeseen detour? In a season of destiny, three unique women reunite and take unexpected journeys of the heart.

Om du fick möjlighet att lämna ett sista meddelande till ditt barn, vad skulle det vara? När det otänkbara händer På sin väg från New Yorks flygplats LaGuardia till Tampa International Airport, exploderar Flight 848 och störtar i Tampa Bay. Samtliga 261 passagerare och anställda ombord omkommer. Under den följande veckan arbetar tidningskolumnisten Peyton MacGruder och hennes kollegor med rapporteringen från en av landets värsta flygolyckor och känslorna är överväldigande och bedövande. Då kommer en okänd kvinna till Peyton med en plastpåse som har spolats upp bakom hennes hus. Inuti plastpåsen, som med största säkerhet kommer från det störtade planet, finns ett meddelande med ett enkelt men hjärtskärande budskap: T Jag älskar dig. Allt är förlåtet. Pappa Peyton söker igenom passagerarlistan för att hitta de offer som hade barn med namn som börjar på T, fast besluten att ge meddelandet till dess rätta mottagare. Det leder henne in i ett sökande som visar sig bli lika viktigt för Peytons eget liv som för den mystiska personen T.

When the unthinkable happens . . .En route from New York's LaGuardia Airport to Tampa International, Flight 848 bursts into flames and crashes into Tampa Bay. All 261 passengers and crew are killed. For one week, newspaper columnist Peyton MacGruder and her fellow reporters cover one of the nation's worst air disasters in years with overwhelming and numbed emotions.Then a woman Peyton's never met gives her a plastic bag that has washed up behind her house. The bag contains a note, almost certainly from the doomed flight, with a simple yet wrenching message: T- I love you. All is forgiven. -DadCombing through the passenger list to find the victims whose children's names begin with T, Peyton is determined to deliver the note to its proper owner. A quest which will prove as important to Peyton's own life as to the mysterious T.

After fleeing a painful and compromising past, Emma Rose Howard settled eagerly into the role of a pastor's wife. She and her husband, Abel, dedicated themselves to parenting a mega-church and influenced thousands of lives through its related ministries.But when Emma Rose receives a phone call from a living, breathing remnant of her troubled past, she finds herself wondering if something in her life is woefully out of balance. The presence of this unexpected intruder soon threatens everything Emma Rose has believed about her calling, her marriage, and her relationship with God.The Debt not only invites readers to embrace the painful heartache and incomparable joy that accompany a soul's redemption, but it challenges us to follow Christ to new and unexpected places.

She had the perfect life until the accident. Now science offers an opportunity to replace what she has lost--but at what cost?Diana and Steve Sheldon had it all--successful careers, nice home, a lovely teenage daughter, an adorable five-year-old son. But when a freak accident ravages their happy family, Diana, a professional radio counselor, finds herself viewing the world through new eyes of grief--and accepting ideas and situations she would have considered unacceptable only a few weeks before.When a research foundation offers to restore her loss through a medical marvel, Diana is convinced she has found the answer to her family's anguish. Determined to sacrifice anything that stands between her and healing for her broken heart, she proceeds along a dangerous course, never dreaming that healing might prove more destructive than hurt...As timely as today's newspaper, The Pearl is an honest, heart-rending look at life and faith through a contemporary mother's eyes.