The best books of 2024

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My favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Discovering the City of Sodom

John R. Dougherty ❤️ loved this book because...

I am just always intrigued by history of the ancient world. Learning about how archeological investigations confirm what is recorded in the Bible are fascinating to me.

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    👍 Liked it
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    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Steven Collins, Latayne C. Scott,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Discovering the City of Sodom as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

The fascinating, true account of the quest for one of the Old Testament’s most infamous cities.

Like many Christians today in the academic world, Dr. Steven Collins felt pulled in different directions when it came to apparent conflicts between the Bible and scholarly research and theory—an intellectual crisis that inspired him to lay it all on the line as he set off to locate the lost city of Sodom.

Recounting Dr. Collins’s quest for Sodom in absorbing detail, this adventure-cum-memoir reflects the tensions that define biblical archaeology as it narrates a tale of discovery. Readers follow “Dr. C” as he…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of A Man Called Justice

John R. Dougherty ❤️ loved this book because...

Old fashioned westerns seem to be becoming a thing of the past, but I always still enjoy a well-written 1800's era western, with good character development.

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    ❤️ Loved it
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    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By John Deacon,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked A Man Called Justice as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

They left me for dead, but she needed my help...Justice is a drifter with no fear and no memory, trailed by a violent past.

Nora is a beautiful widow bravely raising her young son on an isolated New Mexican ranch.

When a ruthless cattle baron pushes longhorns into the valley, Justice vows to protect Nora and her boy. But how can he succeed against thirty hired guns… including the four outlaws who left him for dead?

A finalist for the Spur Award and Peacemaker Award, A Man Called Justice is a classic Western with a touch of romance. It’s perfect…


My 3rd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Justice Returns

John R. Dougherty ❤️ loved this book because...

This book was a continuation of the first book, A Man Called Justice, so I was very happy to get to continue the story. I believe there is still yet one more book in the series to be published, so I'll be anxious for that one's release.

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    ❤️ Loved it
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    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By John Deacon,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Justice Returns as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

To reach the future he desires, he must unlock the past he can’t remember.Justice heads to a wild Colorado boomtown to uncover his forgotten life and track down the powerful crime boss Ruble Cochran.. But in Leadville, nothing is simple. Every answer leads to new questions, and Justice faces Cochran’s gang, including the mysterious killer known only as The Dragon.. Can Justice take down a crime syndicate, uncover his past, and find a way to marry Nora Eckert?. Justice Returns is another classic John Deacon Western with a touch of romance.


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Holy Terror

By John R. Dougherty,

Book cover of Holy Terror

What is my book about?

The Miami police force is utterly baffled by the horrific crime scenes they are finding. The victims are being executed in unimaginable ways, and unlike most crimes perpetrated against humanity, these victims do not fit the usual murder victim profile. These victims are themselves criminals. In fact, some are very well-known criminals. But this scenario is not unique to Miami. Locales worldwide are seeing the same kind of maniacal homicides.

Who is responsible for carrying out these crimes, and how can they be stopped?

Two of Miami PD’s finest, Detectives Ian Jelani and Lane Madigan, are on the prowl, trying to solve these mysterious crimes. But they are being drawn into something far beyond their imaginations, something more than they have ever bargained for. These men may think they have seen it all, but that is quite the understatement. They are on a collision course with the most terrifying vigilante they have ever encountered. When their families become embroiled, the gloves come off, no holds are barred, and the rage of the vigilante spills onto them as well.

The forces of good and evil have waged war since long before Creation. Angels of heaven, both good and evil, have struggled to expand the borders of their kingdoms, and humankind has long been caught in the middle of that raging turf war. Men and women have faced the choices of good and evil since the Garden of Eden, and everyone knows where that original choice landed the rest of us. But humans are not the only ones tempted by the wares of evil. Angels have stared those same choices in the face too. Some have fallen away from the Creator, while some have remained faithful to Him. What of an angel caught betwixt good and evil, an angel who thinks he is serving his Master, but he is actually teetering on the edge of his own fall? What if that angel was the greatest warrior angel of all time, and decided to take it upon himself to rid the Earth of evil people? What might happen to those evil people who are trying to exert their malevolent power and intentions upon their fellow humans if such an angel was to go after them?

In Holy Terror, Thumos, the greatest warrior of the Creator’s angelic army, the fiercest of all heavenly soldiers, has had enough of what he perceives to be a pattern of deference. He decides to take matters into his own hands. But the path he starts down is a path that other angels have traversed before. And many of them have ended up in the camp of the Evil One, the most destructive force the universe has ever known. Thumos comes face to face with Satan himself, and he have even more decisions to make.
Meanwhile, Detectives Jelani and Madigan face demons of their own, and they too, are going to be faced with tough decisions. Their families’ lives are on the line, as well as their own. They are in for the fight of their lives as they must come to terms with The Holy Terror and what he means for humankind.

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