Bodie Thoene Books in Order

Co-written with stuntman Chuck Roberson, this memoir looks back on decades as John Wayne's double. It is part movie history, part behind-the-scenes life story.

Jewish survivors stream into British Mandate Palestine after World War II, hoping to build a homeland at last. But British limits, Arab unrest, and the scars of the Holocaust make every step toward Zion costly.

The struggle for a Jewish homeland grows more dangerous as families, fighters, and refugees face tightening pressure in Palestine. Personal loyalties and public history collide on every page.

Hope pulls more refugees toward Palestine, but the road home is lined with violence, politics, and grief. This installment deepens the fight to survive and belong in a contested land.

As conflict intensifies around Jerusalem and the dream of statehood nears, the people at the center of the series are tested again. Faith and endurance become as necessary as food and weapons.

After Austria falls under Nazi control, Elisa flees to Prague and finds that no refuge lasts for long. Saving children and loved ones now means moving in secret and trusting very carefully.

A practical guide to protecting earnings, planning for setbacks, and making decisions that keep a family financially secure. It focuses on preparation, not panic.

In 1936 Vienna, Jewish violinist Elisa Lindheim and reporter John Murphy see the threat of Hitler's rise earlier than most. Their lives are drawn into rescue work, betrayal, and the first dark turn of the Nazi era.

The Zion Covenant story widens as exile, rescue, and the pull of Jerusalem begin to converge. Refuge and homeland both come at a price.

Europe edges closer to war as the Zion Covenant cast faces camps, betrayals, and political cowardice. Every rescue grows riskier, and time is running out.

Joshua Roberts heads west looking for fortune and finds raw trouble instead. In mining country, greed and danger close in fast, and survival takes more than luck.

In 1863 California, rancher Tom Dawson thinks he has left his troubles behind. Then a stagecoach robbery and murder drag his past back into the open and force a painful reckoning.

Bodie and Brock Thoene offer straightforward advice on craft, discipline, editing, research, and getting started in publishing. It is a practical guide for working writers, not a dreamy pep talk.

With Poland on the brink, escape routes narrow and endangered children must be moved fast. The port of Danzig becomes a desperate point of hope and loss.

Missionary son David Bollin rejects his father's faith and chases fortune from a whaling ship to the California gold fields. Greed soon traps him in a darker world of deceit, power, and murder.

The Zion Chronicles moves toward decisive struggle as the costs of statehood and survival come fully due. The question is no longer whether the fight will come, but what will still be standing after it.

German tanks storm into Poland and Warsaw burns. Families, rescuers, and children race against invasion as the Zion Covenant reaches one of its most harrowing turns.

Civil War loyalties split California as Tom Dawson infiltrates a Confederate plot against the silver and gold mines. The danger deepens when he must trust a brave young former slave to help stop it.

Set against the peril and temptation of San Francisco's waterfront world, this western follows people caught between opportunity, crime, and catastrophe. The city offers reinvention, but never safely.

Four young soldiers return from World War I expecting peace and find a divided America instead. In the battles waiting at home, race, class, and faith become deeply personal.

Another frontier life is thrown off course by ambition, danger, and the raw promise of the West. In boomtime California, a fast rise can turn just as quickly into a fall.

As Europe tips into World War II, linked lives in Warsaw and beyond are tested by terror, moral compromise, and the need to resist evil. Courage here is costly and never abstract.

In 1931, the Tucker and Canfield families watch their Arkansas world collapse with the cotton market. Based on the lives of Bodie's grandparents, it is a Depression-era story of loss, faith, and grit.

In an Irish village crushed by poverty and an English landlord, a stranger arrives on Christmas Eve and stirs dangerous hope. Freedom suddenly feels possible, and costly.

Pilot Rafer Maddox takes an 18,000-mile voyage around Cape Horn toward California's gold country to save his paddle wheeler. Instead, he stumbles into theft, danger, and a test of what he really values.

Wells Fargo lawyer Jack Ryland rides into outlaw country and finds stage robberies, lynch mobs, and killers waiting for him. Winning Eliza Richardson's heart may be harder than surviving the trail.

Kate and Joseph's marriage begins under a shadow when a false charge of treason tears them apart. Deportation, danger, and British oppression leave their village fighting for its future.

Joseph Connor Burke has reclaimed his family land, but violence and betrayal threaten his dream of peace. Ireland's political unrest sweeps straight through Ballynockanor and the people he loves.

Young trader Will Reed enters California after Mexico's break from Spain and finds a land divided by culture, power, and loyalty. His journeys force him to choose what kind of man he will be.

The frontier turns brutal as wilderness danger and human conflict collide. In a year marked by fear and survival, courage has to be learned the hard way.

Jessie Dodson wants a quiet farm life, but when his son runs off to war he crosses Civil War battle lines to find him. It is a hard journey through grief, danger, and hope for reunion.

In 1844, with famine still scarring Ireland, Joseph hides in London while Kate waits at home for their child. Their fight to reunite unfolds against hunger, unrest, and the roots of mass emigration.

As the British prepare to leave Jerusalem in 1948, the city braces for all-out violence. This opening Zion Legacy novel follows the first fierce days of Israel's war for survival.

Five days after Israel's birth, Jerusalem is under attack from every side. The siege lifts briefly, but the battle for the city is only beginning.

With supplies running out in the Old City, strategist Moshe Sachar races through enemy territory to reach Rachel and the defenders. Jerusalem's fate feels painfully close and deeply personal.

Hiding beneath Jerusalem during the 1948 war, Moshe Sachar opens ancient scrolls and is carried into a first-century tale of love, faith, and redemption. It is a story within the larger battle for the city.

Still hidden beneath the Temple Mount during the 1948 war, Moshe Sachar opens another ancient scroll as chaos rages above. The final Zion Legacy novel joins present danger to older promises of hope.

The story-within-a-story deepens as the scrolls beneath Jerusalem continue to link the 1948 war with a much older sacred history. The city carries more than one struggle at once.

In first-century Jerusalem, a blind beggar's world begins to change as he hears of the man called Yeshua. The novel opens the A.D. Chronicles with healing, rumor, and rising expectation.

Lives changed by Yeshua's touch are still being tested in a city full of fear, disease, and suspicion. The second book widens the circle of people forced to decide what they believe.

Darkness and waiting shape this early A.D. Chronicles entry as ordinary people navigate Rome, religion, and the growing mystery around Jesus. Faith arrives under pressure, not comfort.

The final director's-cut style Zion Covenant addition carries the surviving characters toward one more wave of danger and decision. Old losses and new hopes come together at wartime pitch.

The series turns toward the Nativity as prophecy, danger, and imperial power begin to converge around Mary and Yosef. A dawn is coming, but nothing about it feels safe.

This later Zion Covenant volume expands the saga with new scenes and linked fates from wartime Europe. It revisits beloved characters and shows what survival still costs.

Part continuation and part expansion, this volume returns to familiar Zion Covenant lives and follows their unfinished stories deeper into wartime Europe. The past is not done with them yet.

Trudy, Birch, and Jefferson are swept into postwar unrest and the long countdown to the 1929 crash. Their separate roads force each of them to confront fear, faith, and what home means now.

Far from Jerusalem, Mary and Yosef try to keep the promised child safe while Herod's reach grows darker. The Nativity story gathers suspense as well as wonder.

After the stock market collapse, the families of Shiloh try to rebuild amid intolerance, grief, and Depression hardship. The mountains in their lives are social as much as economic.

This gentle picture book helps children understand why Jesus came in such humble surroundings. It turns one simple Christmas question into a clear, warm answer.

An omnibus that gathers *Sequoia Scout*, *The Year of the Grizzly*, and *Shooting Star*. It is a big doorway into the Thoenes' frontier fiction.

This collection brings together *Gold Rush Prodigal*, *Delta Passage*, and *Hangtown Lawman*. It follows the lure of California wealth and the trouble riding alongside it.

The A.D. Chronicles returns to the turbulent world of Jesus's ministry, where crowds grow, enemies sharpen their plans, and ordinary people are asked to choose a side.

The Nativity arc closes as Mary, Yosef, and baby Yeshua face fear, flight, and the cost of protecting what God has entrusted to them. The danger remains close.

A short picture book that explains why kingship matters in the story of Jesus. It gives younger readers a simple way into a big idea.

This picture book explores why shepherds matter in the Christmas story. It connects an ordinary job to the larger meaning of God's welcome and care.

As Jesus's influence spreads, humble lives and public danger keep crossing paths. Hope reaches unexpected people, but so does opposition.

An omnibus containing *The Man from Shadow Ridge*, *Cannons of the Comstock*, and *Riders of the Silver Rim*. Civil War danger and western ambition meet in one volume.

This volume collects *Hope Valley War*, *The Legend of Storey County*, and *Cumberland Crossing*. The frontier grows older here, but no safer.

Passover approaches and Jerusalem grows more dangerous by the day. Every witness to Jesus now carries real personal risk.

This short book explains why the star matters in the Christmas story and what it points toward. It is written to meet a child's question with warmth and clarity.

Unexpected guests, old secrets, and gathering danger pull several lives toward betrayal, sacrifice, and belief. The long A.D. arc is nearing its breaking point.

Religious power, Roman politics, and private loyalties all tighten around Jesus and those near him. The closer the story moves to Jerusalem's crisis, the higher the stakes feel.

A contemporary novel of faith and mystery in which a powerful image draws damaged lives into danger, memory, and the possibility of change. It is one of the Thoenes' modern departures from historical fiction.

Set in Lahaina, this inspirational romance blends island atmosphere with questions of belonging, faith, and unexpected love. The setting does a lot of the emotional work.

This Zion-centered story follows lives under mounting pressure as danger gathers and hope is tested. Public turmoil and private faith begin to collide.

The story continues as its characters push forward against fear, pressure, and the current of history. Hope survives here by refusing the easy road.

In this modern-day story of betrayal, forgiveness, and redemption, a wounded family is forced to face secrets it has long avoided. The novel was also adapted for film.

The A.D. Chronicles reaches its climax as prophecy, politics, and personal loyalty collide in Jerusalem. The final reckoning is both public and deeply intimate.

The Jerusalem Chronicles begins with a fictionalized retelling of Lazarus and the people around him in Bethany. Friendship, grief, and the power of Jesus stand at the center.

The Jerusalem Chronicles concludes with the death and resurrection of Jesus. It is the most direct and solemn book in the trilogy.

Co-written with Samaa Habib, this memoir tells a former Muslim's account of a near-death experience, an encounter with Jesus, and the difficult path into Christian faith.

The story moves deeper into Passover week as tension rises around Jesus in Jerusalem. Friends, enemies, and onlookers are all pulled toward Gethsemane and the cross.

A present-day suspense novel that blends prophecy, Israeli history, and political danger. It opens the Elijah Chronicles with intrigue rooted in the meaning of the land itself.

After a terrorist attack leaves Bette Deekmann fighting for her life, Jack Garrison is drawn through visions into Israel's past and present. Prophecy and modern violence meet in unsettling ways.

Jack and his allies face a bigger collision of prophecy, geopolitics, and danger as events around Israel accelerate. The questions are global, but the threats stay personal.

Ancient warnings begin to feel immediate as the Elijah Chronicles pushes further into end-times territory. The world Jack sees around him looks less stable with every revelation.

The Elijah Chronicles closes with prophecy, conflict, and testimony converging around Israel's future. One final witness may carry more weight than anyone expects.

A collection of nostalgic historical stories that ranges from Depression-era Arkansas to Cold War Berlin. The through line is faith, family, and quiet grace under pressure.

A companion collection of heartland stories shaped by winter settings, memory, family, and endurance. It keeps the warm, reflective tone of the first volume.