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  • Bibliography:
    64 Books (11 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1986
  • Latest Book:
    February 2016
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Full Series List in Order

A.D. Chronicles

1 - First Light (Jul-2003)
2 - Second Touch (Mar-2004)
3 - Third Watch (Nov-2004)
4 - Fourth Dawn (Sep-2005)
5 - Fifth Seal (Oct-2006)
6 - Sixth Covenant (Apr-2007)
7 - Seventh Day (Jan-2008)
8 - Eighth Shepherd (Aug-2008)
9 - Ninth Witness (Oct-2008)
10 - Tenth Stone (Apr-2009)
11 - Eleventh Guest (Sep-2009)
12 - Twelfth Prophecy (May-2011)
13 - When Jesus Wept (Jan-2013)
14 - Take This Cup (Feb-2014)
15 - Behold the Man (Feb-2016)

The Galway Chronicles

1 - Only the River Runs Free (Sep-2008)
2 - Of Men and of Angels (Oct-1998)
3 - Ashes of Remembrance ()
4 - All Rivers to the Sea ()

Jerusalem

1 - When Jesus Wept (Jan-2013)
2 - Take This Cup (Feb-2014)
3 - Behold the Man (Feb-2016)

Saga of the Sierras

1 - The Man from Shadow Ridge (Apr-1990)
2 - Riders of the Silver Rim (Jul-1990)
3 - Gold Rush Prodigal (Feb-1991)
4 - Sequoia Scout (Sep-1991)
5 - Cannons of the Comstock (Mar-1992)
6 - The Year of the Grizzly (Aug-1992)
7 - Shooting Star (Apr-1993)
8 - Flames on the Barbary Coast (Apr-1994)

The Shiloh Legacy

1 - In My Father's House (Jun-1992)
2 - A Thousand Shall Fall (Jan-1992)
3 - Say To This Mountain (Aug-1993)

Wayward Wind

1 - Winds of Promise // Delta Passage (Jun-1998)
2 - To Gather the Wind // Hangtown Lawman (Jul-1998)
3 - Winds of the Cumberland // Cumberland Crossing (Feb-1999)

The Zion Chronicles

1 - The Gates of Zion (1986)
2 - The Daughter of Zion (1987)
3 - The Return to Zion (1987)
4 - A Light in Zion (1988)
5 - The Key to Zion (1988)

Zion Covenant

1 - Vienna Prelude (Jan-1989)
2 - Prague Counterpoint (Jan-1989)
3 - Munich Signature (Apr-1990)
4 - Jerusalem Interlude (Oct-2000)
5 - Danzig Passage (Oct-2000)
6 - Warsaw Requiem (Oct-2000)
7 - London Refrain (Jul-2005)
8 - Paris Encore (Jul-2005)
9 - Dunkirk Crescendo (Jul-2005)

Zion Diaries

1 - The Gathering Storm (Aug-2010)
2 - Against the Wind (Mar-2011)

Zion Legacy

1 - Jerusalem Vigil (Mar-2000)
2 - Thunder from Jerusalem (Oct-2000)
3 - Jerusalem's Heart (Apr-2001)
4 - The Jerusalem Scrolls (Oct-2001)
5 - Stones of Jerusalem (Mar-2002)
6 - Jerusalem's Hope (Nov-2002)

The Zion Memoirs

Evensong (Apr-2010)

Book List in Order: 64 titles



  • A Sweeping Historical Novel of a Young Woman and a Young Nation Searching for Identity, for Meaning to Life. Ellie Warne, a young American photojournalist, finds herself in Jerusalem in 1947. She unwittingly becomes a pawn in a political chess game ...



  • The Nation Was Gripped in a Life-and-Death Struggle for Survival. No Less Momentous Was Rachel's Own Personal Struggle. Rachel Lebowitz had survived the Holocaust, but only at a great personal cost. Joining the thousands of Jewish people streaming i...



  • Their Enemies Vowed to Strangle the Ancient City, but There Were Those Who Remembered the Promise to Israel.... The Jewish people, gazing down the vista of time, had longed for the rebirth of their nation. Out of the ashes of the Holocaust, thousand...



  • Encompassed by Enemies Bent on Their Destruction, Their Hopes Were Fixed on-The Key to Zion

    The fifth book in THE ZION CHRONICLES, The Key to Zion opens with the British in the final stages of their military evacuation from Palestine. Haj Amin ...



  • Would the Eve of Passover hold Another Miracle for the Nation's Survival? With only six weeks before the final evacuation of the British from Israel, the dream of the rebirth of the Jewish nation appears doomed to extinction. The British have ...



  • She had escaped the Nazi terror. But a nation's priceless treasures were compelling her to return. In Vienna Prelude, Elisa Lindheim risked her life helping others escape pre-World War II Austria. The climactic ending finds her safely in Czechoslo...



  • No one is safe... IN 1936 NAZI DARKNESS DESCENDS UPON EUROPE. Every person is only one step away from being swept into the nightmarish tide of evil. Blond Elisa Lindheim, a violinist with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, adopts an Aryan stage name...




  • One Signature Could Seal the Fate of Europe Under Hitler's Tyranny In Prague Counterpoint, Elisa Murphy and Leah Feldstein risked everything to stand against the tide of Nazi terrorism and to buy a chance at life for two small boys. When Elisa is at...








  • He Knew the Ways of the Wilderness. Can He Survive the Clash of Cultures?

    Ten years of trapping had brought Will Reed to the High Sierras. Ten years in search of fortune. Ten years since the mountain men had come east with their stories of the ...





  • Max Meyer, a Jew from New York, Ellis Warne, a doctor's son, Birch Tucker, an Arkansas farmer, and Jefferson Canfield, the son of a Black sharecropper, return from World War I with changed expectations...











  • A retelling of World War II intertwines the stories of two American journalists' escape from the collapse of Warsaw, with those of an orphaned baby's journey to Jerusalem, a mathematician's attempt to crack Nazi code, and more. $250,000 ad/promo. Tou...




  • One-hundred-year-old Jim Canfield was the living legend of Storey County. This first installment of his memoirs transports readers back to the 1860s, when the horrors of the Civil War and the fabulous bonanza silver mines of the Comstock Lode were on...



  • The Legends of the West series covers the tumultuous 1830s through the 1860s in California, Nevada, and Utah -- from when the American Military and Mexican bandits warred over the riches of Spanish California, to the Bear Flag rebellion that carried ...



  • It's a journey full of danger, excitement--and surprises. Eighteen thousand miles between New York and California. The threat of pursuit, the perils of yellow fever, the problems of taking on unexpected passengers, and the rigors of rounding the Horn...




  • An Irishman must stand for what's right when political strife and an English oppressor shatter the peaceful kingdom.

    Joseph Connor Burke has reclaimed his ancestral acres and the manor he was born to rule. But in a turbulent time, as England...



  • It's 1862 and the Civil War has swept over the Cumberland Mountains into the heart of Tennessee. Jesse Dodson and his wife, Alcie, want only to farm the land and raise their children in peace. But instead the cataclysmic forces of war have torn their...



  • "For fast-paced, often riveting action, the Thoenes come through with scenes of horror and fear that rival those of James Michener." --The New York Post

    Bodie and Brock Thoene's superb storytelling comes alive in Jerusalem Vigil, a novel of the st...






  • Opening in 1936, the Zion Covenant series tells the courageous and compelling stories of those who risk everything to stand against the growing tide of Nazi terrorism that is sweeping through central Europe under the dangerous and deceitful guise of ...



  • Opening in 1936, the Zion Covenant series tells the courageous and compelling stories of those who risk everything to stand against the growing tide of Nazi terrorism that is sweeping through central Europe under the dangerous and deceitful guise of ...



  • Early on the morning of May 19, 1948, the long siege of Jerusalem's Old City is lifted as patriot soldiers break through the Zion Gate. But the celebration is short-lived-a long battle ensues. Moshe Sachar, a professor and strategist for the Haganah ...



  • Opening in 1936, the Zion Covenant series tells the courageous and compelling stories of those who risk everything to stand against the growing tide of Nazi terrorism that is sweeping through central Europe under the dangerous and deceitful guise of ...



  • It is May 23, 1948, and Jewish and Muslim forces have been in brutal conflict since the new State of Israel was proclaimed nine days ago. The Zion Gate is closed and the Haganah patriots, struggling to hold on to the Old City, are running out of supp...



  • In The Jerusalem Scrolls, bestselling authors Bodie and Brock Thoene take the story back in time from the battle for Jerusalem in 1948 to tell an ancient tale of love, faith, and redemption. After days of brutal fighting against Arab forces, Moshe Sa...



  • The latest novel from bestselling authors Bodie and Brock Thoene continues the extraordinary story of faith and love in the first century a.d. that they began in their previous book, The Jerusalem Scrolls. The Old City has fallen and Moshe Sachar, th...



  • In this bestselling series Bodie and Brock Thoene have thrilled readers with an epic tale chronicling the struggle for the world's holiest and most turbulent city. As Jerusalem's Hope opens, strategist Moshe Sachar remains hidden in a secret tunnel b...



  • Jerusalem: the ancient city where hatred, deceit, longing and desperation smolder in every heart. Spiritual and political darkness shroud the world's holiest and most turbulent city. Ruled by Rome and manipulated by religious rulers with only self...



  • 2005 Gold Medallion Award finalist!
    Be transported once again to the dark and tumultuous times of first-century Jerusalem. Return to the story of Peniel, the no-longer-blind beggar who still longs for the connection of home and family. Meet new ...






  • Journey back to first-century Jerusalem, a dark and hopeless time, when citizens are searching for their promised Messiah to return. Meet new characters Zahav, a Jewish woman who is very strong in her faith, and Alexander, a Greek with a past. Can th...



  • This description covers #7 London Refrain, #8 Paris Encore, and #9 Dunkirk Crescendo.

    These three additions to the Zion Covenant series are “director's cuts.” They include portions of the Thoene classic The Twilight of Courage and thril...



  • This description covers #7 London Refrain, #8 Paris Encore, and #9 Dunkirk Crescendo.

    These three additions to the Zion Covenant series are “director's cuts.” They include portions of the Thoene classic The Twilight of Courage and thril...



  • This description covers #7 London Refrain, #8 Paris Encore, and #9 Dunkirk Crescendo.

    These three additions to the Zion Covenant series are “director's cuts.” They include portions of the Thoene classic The Twilight of Courage and thril...



  • In their most dramatic, ambitious, and significant historical series to date, Bodie and Brock Thoene once again transport readers back in time to first century AD and the most critical events in the history of the world. In Fourth Dawn, Herod, the ki...



  • The little town of Nazareth is a long way from Jerusalem and King Herod's evil clutches. Yet is anywhere in Judea far enough? In their most dramatic, ambitious, and significant historical series to date, Bodie and Brock Thoene once again transport re...



  • Who in Bethlehem could guess that their tiny, obscure village, populated by shepherds, would become the hinge upon which all history turns . . . and the focus of a terrifying rampage? Sixth Covenant is the conclusion of the three-book Nativity story ...




  • After Yeshua of Nazareth has raised his friend El'azar from the dead, news of Yeshua travels fast and the Sanhedrin begin their plot to kill him. Despite the danger, Yeshua and his followers begin the journey to Jerusalem for Passover. Meanwhile, Zac...



  • The Village is in sore need of a miracle. Struggling under grinding poverty and a greedy overlord, Bllynockanor is the story of a thousand Irish Villages where an English usurper is despised by his Irish tenants. When a stranger crosses the river and...






  • Riots and revolts spread across Judea. Twelve-year-old Yeshua is in Jerusalem―“about his Father's business” in the Temple―as his panic-stricken parents search for him amidst the chaos. Readers will enjoy reading this interesting story from Ch...



  • They all need miracles. But will the healer come in time? Yod, born in the Valley of Mak'ob, where lepers live out the end of their days, is heartbeats away from eternity in the Dying Cave. Stories abound about Yeshua of Nazareth, the miracle worker...



  • The lepers in the Valley of Mak'ob hear rumors that a miracle worker is walking the earth. Ten are chosen to search for him, knowing that outside the Valley lies almost certain death. Could this healer be the Messiah they long for? And will they find...




  • A CENTURY -- OLD SECRET IS ABOUT TO BE REVEALED IN LAHAINA, HAWAII. 1973. For four-and-a-half lonely years, Sandi Smith has wondered if her husband, a soldier missing in action in Viet Nam, is alive or dead. A research trip to Hawaii provides a welc...



  • As Nazi forces tighten the noose, Loralei Kepler, daughter of a German resistance leader, must flee her beloved Germany. But is any place safe from Adolf Hitler's evil grasp? Loralei's harrowing flight leads her into the arms of needy child refugees,...



  • As Nazi forces tighten their net of evil over Europe in 1940, famed Jewish concert violist Elisa Lindheim Murphy escapes from Vienna to England. But both Elisa and her American newsman husband, John Murphy, are convinced that nowhere in Europe is saf...



  • She is a singer of sweet songs . . . and a sinner. A searcher for truth . . . and an outcast. Life is fraught with danger in the village of Sychar in the first-century A.D. But for Abigail, the Samaritan woman, the danger lies not as much from the e...





  • When a nativity display on public property is torched by a former US Senator, the media spotlight falls on the forgotten small town of Leonard, Texas, and the new pastor of its only church---Adam Wells. Emboldened by the prospect of leading his tiny ...



  • Lazarus occupies a surprising position in the Gospel accounts. Widely known as the man Jesus raised from the dead, his story is actually much broader and richer than that. Living as he did at Bethany, near Jerusalem, Lazarus was uniquely placed to wi...



  • Woven into the fabric of prophecy, a young boy named Nehemiah must choose to embrace his destiny as cupbearer to the King of Kings. When Nehemiah, the child of Jewish exiles, begins hearing whispers and experiencing portentous visions, it quickly ...



  • Behold the Man is the culmination of the Jerusalem Chronicles and brings readers to an encounter with the death and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. How could Jesus -- who preached righteousness before God, and love and mercy toward neighbors --...




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    Newlywed Kate relies on her faith to sustain her when her husband is arrested on a false charge of treason while she and the other residents of the Irish village of Ballyknockanor struggle to protect their way of life from British oppression. Reprint...


Award-Winning Books by Bodie Thoene; Brock Thoene

The Key to Zion
1989 Gold Medallion Book Award -- Fiction
Munich Signature
1991 Gold Medallion Book Award -- Fiction
Say To This Mountain
1994 Gold Medallion Book Award -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Bodie Thoene; Brock Thoene has published 64 books.

Bodie Thoene; Brock Thoene does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Behold the Man, was published in February 2016.

The first book by Bodie Thoene; Brock Thoene, The Gates of Zion, was published in January 1986.

Yes. Bodie Thoene; Brock Thoene has 11 series.