Tommy Tenney Books In Order

Hadassah Books In Order

  1. One Night with the King (2004)
  2. The Hadassah Covenant (2005)
  3. The Girl Who Became Queen Esther (2005)

Novels

  1. The Road Home (2007)

Non fiction

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Tommy Tenney Books Overview

One Night with the King

Tommy Tenney’s powerful fiction debut, Hadassah: One Night with the King, has been adapted for the big screen with a planned spring 2005 release. This major box office production includes the introduction of Tiffany Dupont as Esther, with starring roles for Omar Sharif and Peter O Toole, along with John Rhys Davies and John Noble both from the ‘Lord of the Rings’ movie trilogy. This movie edition of the novel includes stills from the movie sets, bringing vivid images to this already gripping novel of intrigue and suspense, love and hate.

The Hadassah Covenant

This sequel to Hadassah parallels the lives of Hadassah and Queen Esther in modern day Israel and the Persian kingdom. Each woman must remain strong as she fights for her people. The modern day Hadassah, introduced to readers in the previous novel, is the wife of Israel’s Prime Minister, with all its reflected power but also its isolation. The inner pain she feels as her beloved land and people are terrorized by political strife and bombings is made even more personal as her own father comes under attack. And then she learns of information that could have tragic repercussions on Jews living in Iraq, where Queen Esther had laid her own life on the line to save her people. The successor to Xerxes has no love for the Jews, and when he discovers the Star of David medallion on Leah the young queen’s candidate Esther wrote to in Hadassah, he is outraged. Leah is delegated to the ‘rejected’ category, virtually a prisoner for life in the king’s palace, with no hope and no future. Will Queen Esther and Mordecai be able to rescue Leah from the ‘ash heap’ of Persian royal tradition? And even if they can, will Leah ever be able to truly love someone after all she has been through?

The Girl Who Became Queen Esther

Young Hadassah has survived a terrible loss, and now as a lovely teenager, her beauty catches the eye of Persian soldiers looking for candidates to become Queen of Persia. Captured and taken to the palace, Hadassah once again must call on the God of her Jewish heritage to protect her. If she is chosen to be the new queen, what will this mean for her and her fellow Jews living in exile among the Persians? Will she be able to protect her people from those who hate the Jews? Pre teen and early teen readers will be captivated by this suspenseful retelling of the story of the young girl who became Queen Esther.

The Road Home

For Las Vegas widow Naomi, memories of a Pennsylvania Dutch childhood are an ache from the distant past, a painful memory of abandoned roots and lost connections. She has long since reconciled herself to the shattered dream of what had once enticed her from her heritage a tiny apartment thick with loneliness and regret, the sad lives of her two sons, and her sole consolation: the friendship with daughter in law Ruth. But when hard living claims both of Naomi’s boys, she and Ruth turn Naomi’s creaky Impala eastward in a desperate last chance bid for hope and meaning. Thus begins an adventure: a cross country odyssey that brings Naomi home to her old farm in Lancaster County and to the values and rhythms of a life once spurned. Although never having seen the East before, Ruth finds a home here too, among the slow and authentic cadences of Pennsylvania farm country. Can two women from different backgrounds and generations, overwhelmed with life and loss, find healing for wounds once thought too deep to heal? Does life offer any real second choices and chances? Can modern paths, after leaving all that was good and true, ever truly lead home?

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