Religious Adventure

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In this audiobook, The Fragile Angel author Stanley G. Buford describes a tragic event experienced by an adventurous young girl. She breaks a cherished heirloom; a small angel figurine, while playing with it without consent of her parents. She runs away from home and realizes her mistake through the love of an adoring neighbor; whose daughter just happens to be her best friend, and learns a valuable lesson. This episode in her life changes the way she sees herself and her relationships with those she loves.

A random email containing what purports to be news of the Lost Temple of Solomon sends day-dreaming New York-based reporter Matthew Fishbane on a journey halfway around the world - to the Solomon Islands. There, in the remote jungles of Malaita, he encounters self-described Melanesian Israelites with apocalyptic visions, dreamers guarding archaeological ruins of unknown but apparently ancient provenance, and a warlord who rallied an ethnic militia under the Star of David, as well as canny modern politicians who are leveraging the tiny island nation's greatest asset - sovereignty - for development assistance from the modern Jewish state.