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Jack Cavanaugh
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Most Recent
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The Guardians
Spring 2008
(David C. Cook Publishing)
Tartarus
Spring 2008
(Howard Publishing)
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Jack Cavanaugh is an award-winning
full-time freelance author who has published 23 books to
date. His eight-volume "American
Family Portrait" series spans the history of our nation from
the arrival of the Puritans to the Vietnam war. The first
volume in the series, The Puritans, won a ECPA Silver
Medallion Award.
He has also written novels about South Africa, the English
versions of the Bible and German Christians who resisted
Hitler. He has published with Victor/Chariot-Victor, Moody,
Howard, Zondervan, Bethany House, and Fleming H. Revell. His books
have been translated into six languages. His novels While
Mortals Sleep and His Watchful Eye both won Christy
Awards for excellence in Christian fiction.
Jack has been writing full-time since 1993. A student of the
novel for nearly a quarter of a century, he takes his craft
seriously, continuing to study and teach at Christian
writers conferences. He is the former pastor of three
Southern Baptist churches in San Diego County. He draws upon
his theological background for the spiritual elements of his
books. Jack has three grown children and lives with his wife
in Southern California.
For more information visit his web site
at
www.jackcavanaugh.com.
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Hideous Beauty
Volume 1 - Kingdom Wars series
Hideous Beauty
is a story of man vs. angel. On a day that should have
been the highlight of his literary career, Grant Austin
discovers that his success has been no accident, but a
carefully orchestrated plot by rebel angels who have been
inserted into history as sleeper agents to alter human
history. Now, Grant must battle forces of evil to stop them
from assassinating the subject of his prize winning
biography, the President of the United States.
Howard Publishing (2007)
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Fury
Volume 4 - Great Awakening series
2nd Great Awakening, 1825-26. Witness to a murder, a
young man flees for his life and travels to upstate New York
where he discovers evangelist Charles Finney is powerfully
preaching that the Holy Spirit is the unrelenting hound of
heaven. But he is also being pursued by his worried uncle
and the killer who will stop at nothing to keep his crime a
secret. Set against the historic events of the Second Great
Awakening, this thriller also presents a spiritual journey
of a bitter skeptic whose heart is changed by the messages
he hears and the friendship offered by a trio of young
believers. Fury is ablaze with suspense and intrigue.
Howard Publishing (2006)
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Storm
Volume 3 - Great Awakening series
As the spiritual fervor of the Great Awakening begins to
decline in America, a young student at Yale College becomes
the target of both academic and personal attacks as he takes
a stand for his faith. In time, he discovers that this is no
coincidence but rather the work of a secret society bent on
squelching a spiritual revival that breaks out on campus.
Written with the intensity of a political thriller, this
compelling novel—set against the historical backdrop of
America in the late 1800s—reminds readers how the Holy
Spirit can shape not only individual lives, but an entire
nation.
Howard Publishing (2006)
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Death Watch
In a world rocked by 9/11, novice Los Angeles television
reporter Sydney St. James is teamed with veteran
international news anchor Hunz Vonner when people randomly
begin receiving notices informing them that they have
forty-eight hours to live. With chilling precision, every
one who receives an official death watch notice dies at the
tick of the clock at the forty-eighth hour. From an unlikely
source, as time is running out, Sydney and Hunz are
presented with a bizarre scenario, and they suddenly find
themselves facing the ultimate terrorist.
Zondervan Publishing (2005)
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Fire
Volume 2 - Great Awakening series
Like a deadly disease, sin has infected the American
colony of Havenhill, Connecticut, and Josiah Rush seems to
be the only person who sees the evil that has gripped the
town. Blamed for a fire that nearly destroyed the colony
seven years ago, Josiah spent seven years in exile. Now,
having returned as pastor of First Church, his cries of
alarm fall on deaf ears. Determined to save the town he
loves, Josiah Rush endures personal attacks as he battles an
insidious unseen enemy who is equally determined to use the
town for its own immoral purposes.
With historical appearances by Great Awakening preachers
Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield, this novel portrays
spiritual revival as the only cure for a sin-sick nation.
Howard Publishing (2005)
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Dear Enemy
Nurse Annie Mitchell, after seeing firsthand the
atrocities of war, has concluded, along with most of her
fellow Americans, that the enemy is inhuman and thoroughly
depraved. But when a rogue rescue mission ends in tragedy, a
bereft Annie finds herself in the middle of Belgium's
Ardennes Forest, behind enemy lines—and captured.
What transpires in the bitter
cold of the following days, however, is impossible for Annie
to reconcile with her preconceived ideas about the enemy.
Her captor, Karl Hausmann, doesn’t fit the stereotype she
has embraced—and the encounter changes everything for her.
Tested by prejudice and the separation of time and
continents, Annie must build on this awakening if life and
love are ever to hold any true meaning for her again.
Dear Enemy is a story of heroic love, faith, and the
unexpected, emerging in the wake of one of WWII's most
fierce and bloody battles—the Battle of the Bulge.
Bethany House Publishers (2005)
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Proof
Volume 1 - Great Awakening series
When his daughter experiences a life-changing conversion
to Christianity, a celebrated New York attorney takes the
Holy Spirit to court in an attempt to win her back. With a
hand-picked jury and a sympathetic judge, the atheistic
attorney sues the church in which his daughter was saved,
accusing them of teaching fictional religious concepts that
will undermine America.
In a dramatic courtroom
thriller, a young defense attorney -- boyfriend to the
daughter and former intern to the celebrated lawyer --
defends the church by attempting to prove the Holy Spirit
exists, only to discover that the Holy Spirit is fully
capable of proving himself.
Howard Publishing (2005)
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Above All Earthly Powers
Volume 3 - Songs in the Night series
Master storyteller Jack Cavanaugh brings the absorbing
saga of surviving Hitler's Germany full circle in this
culminating episode of the SONGS IN THE NIGHT series.
Following World War II, little has changed in Berlin. The
swastika has been replaced by the hammer and sickle, but a
life of daily oppression and fear remains. Inspired by the
vision of Pastor Josef Schumacher, rescuers and survivors of
one of the Nazis’ heinous extermination facilities now risk
their lives to complete what Josef began decades before.
Betrayed by American military forces, hunted by Stasi secret
police, and blackmailed by one of their own, Mady Schumacher
and Colonel Matthew Parker, form a contentious coalition
whose sole purpose, freedom for those society disregards,
seems like a fool’s errand.
Bethany House Publishers (2004)
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Beyond Sacred Page
Christy Award finalist 2004
Swept up in the turbulent world of sixteenth-century England
and King Henry VIII, where William Tyndale’s English New
Testament translation has been outlawed as heresy, Meg is
about to align herself with those who risk their lives to
read and distribute God’s Word. A thrilling espionage game
of cat and mouse . . . a shocking discovery that threatens
to shatter both a career and a marriage . . . a front row
seat in the court of Henry VIII, where politics and religion
mean life and death . . . Beyond the Sacred Page is an
electrifying read—historical fiction at its best.
Zondervan (2003)
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The Puritans
Book One - American Family Portrait series
Young Drew Morgan has an enviable position. Handpicked by
Bishop Laud, next to the king the most powerful man in
England, it is his assignment to infiltrate Puritan
villages, turn over "traitors" to the church and crown, and
discover the secret identity of the notorious pamphleteer
Justin.
But when Drew falls in love with a Puritan curate's
daughter, his personal fortunes begin to falter as his
spiritual yearnings take root. After unwittingly betraying
what he knows to be right, the stage is set for his
conversion.
At last Drew sails to the New World colony of Massachusetts
and sets out to win the forgiveness of those whom he has
wronged--especially the woman he loves. Only as Bishop Laud
reaches his long arm across the ocean in one final threat
can Drew prove his true mettle and affections.
Trace this unforgettable adventure of one of America's first
families of faith, the beginnings of a vibrant spiritual
heritage that will span generations.
Cook Communications (reissued 2005)
ISBN: 1589190653
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