Books with author Michael Roydon

Lexington, Kentucky, 1859. After saving John Hunt Morgan from a puma attack, fifteen-year-old farm boy Will Crump joins Hunt’s militia, the Lexington Rifles. Morgan mentors Will and enrolls him in the local university, where he hopes to study law. As tensions rise between the North and South, Will is torn between his loyalty to Morgan and his love for his family. Will’s father, sisters, and sweetheart follow the Union, while Morgan and Will commit to the South. As part of Morgan’s band, Will participates in ambushes and unconventional warfare until his first real battle at Shiloh. He fights bravely, but increasingly questions what the war is accomplishing, and whether his devotion to honor has led him astray. And where is God in all this killing?Will’s sister Albinia, friend of the Clay family, becomes increasingly aware of the plight of the slaves. When she finds Luther, a slave she knows, trying to escape, she must decide between her conscience, and her friends. She becomes involved in the Underground Railroad, helping slaves to freedom – but will it cost her love and her freedom?Will’s other sister, Julia, is approaching spinster status and despairs of ever meeting a man who can give her more than life on a farm until she meets Hiram Johannsen, a son of immigrants who owns a steamship company. They marry and she makes a new life in the North. When Hiram answers the call to fight for the North, Julia runs the steamboat company in her husband’s absence and uses her boats to help Albinia ferry escaped slaves to freedom. Her business relations put her in the perfect position to spy for the North. When the Confederates capture her, will she survive?Luther is one of the first slaves Albinia helps flee the South after his master cruelly abuses his mother and sister. He escapes with his family, and when war breaks out, he fights for the North as an auxiliary of the Third Ohio Cavalry, alongside Julia’s husband, Hiram, and against Morgan and Will. Luther has to confront the demons of his past, an abusive master, and a slave catcher that kills his little sister. Will the desire for revenge destroy him?Throughout the war, Will is forced to examine and question everything he believes in—his faith in God, his love for his family, his loyalty to Morgan, and his worth as a human being.Will and his family must somehow mend the torn fabric of relationships to find peace, and reach Across the Great Divide.

Welcome to Parr's Landing, Population 1,528 . . . and shrinking. The year is 1972. Widowed Christina Parr, her daughter Morgan, and her brother-in-law Jeremy have returned to the remote northern Ontario mining town of Parr’s Landing, the place from which Christina fled before Morgan was born, seeking refuge. Dr. Billy Lightning has also returned in search of answers to the mystery of his father’s brutal murder. All will find some part of what they seek―and more. Built on the site of a decimated 17th-century Jesuit mission to the Ojibwa, Parr’s Landing is a town with secrets of its own buried in the caves around Bradley Lake. A three-hundred-year-old horror slumbers there, calling out to the insane and the murderous for centuries, begging for release―an invitation that has finally been answered. One man is following that voice, cutting a swath of violence across the country, bent on a terrible resurrection of the ancient evil, plunging the town and all its people into an endless night.

This book contains five short stories suitable for reading to, or reading by, children aged 5 to 10.Can you imagine a world without soap, time, money, glass, or fire? Join Millie, Mikey, and Dizzy dog as they step through Millie’s Mirror. Each journey finds Mirrorworld without an important scientific discovery or principle ever having been made. With the help of Irene the Inventor, and Webster, a friendly internet surfing computer, our heroes always put everything right, with comical confusion and sometimes in a very unexpected way, before returning back home.

Packed with personal stories about teens (Reality Bytes), mind-bending discussion starters (Lets Talk), daily devotionals (Truth Encounters), and cool ideas to help teens share their faith (Salt and Light), Get Real, Get Ready, Get Going is the perfect training guide to prepare teens for whatever the next year holdswhether thats a short-term missions trip or another year in the chalkboard jungle.In each of four week-long sections, teens will explore what it means to be a Christian, get grounded in the basics of the Christian faith, learn to mature in seven important areas of spiritual growth, and discover how to pursue Gods will for their lives. Written by the editor of Focus on the Familys Breakaway magazine, Get Real, Get Ready, Get Going is ideal for use by individuals, youth groups, small groups, Sunday school classes, and discipleship groups.

If it's true that we learn best by example, here are sixty extreme examples of those boldly living their faith in the world. This unique book for young adults uses the real-life stories of contemporary Christian musicians as the basis for two months of devotional reading. Featuring artists such as toby Mac, Jars of Clay, Staci Orrico, Third Day, Michael W. Smith, Nicole C. Mullen and Rebecca St. James, Faith That Breathes addresses issues relevant to daily living. Organized by weekly topics-Dreams, Transitions, Faith Foundations, and Relationships-this book stimulates a radical Christianity. . .an extreme life of service and devotion to God. . .a living faith that walks, talks, and breathes.