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Sarah Hagerty | We each long to be seen and understood. Yet most of our days pass seemingly unwitnessed. Drawing from both personal and biblical story, Sara Hagerty explores the spiritual richness of being hidden in God--'wasting' resources, time, and ourselves at His feet even when no one else sees.
How do we find… | Books | ||
Washington, Booker T. | Historically acknowledged as one of America's most powerful orators, Washington challenged racial prejudice when such behavior from a black man was unheard of. Here is the dramatic, autobiographical account of how he stood fast against the social and ideological bias prevalent in his day. | Biography & History | ||
Dyck, Peter | Epic story of how the Dycks helped Mennonite refugees escape Europe during and after WWII. | Biography & History | ||
Margery Williams, Illustrated by William… | The beloved tale of a toy rabbit's quest to become real through the love of his young owner. This gift edition features the original illustrations by William Nicholson and an elegant new book design.
"What is REAL?" a shy stuffed animal asks an older and wiser plaything. Generations of children have… | Books ⋅ Children's Books ⋅ Picture Books | ||
Bianco, Margery Williams | Nursery magic is very strange and wonderful, and only those playthings that are old and wise and experienced like the Skin Horse understand all about it. "What is REAL?" asked the Rabbit one day. "Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?" "Real isn't how… | Picture Books | ||
Hoberman, Mary Ann | It's fun to read aloud! It's fun to read together! Each short, rhymed story in this book is like a little play for two voices. Sometimes the voices are separate; sometimes they speak in unison. The stories are about all kinds of things: cats and puppies, bears and mice, snakes… | Children's Books ⋅ Picture Books | ||
Hoover, Katrina | Bombs fall. Buildings explode. People die. The war in Syria is a seemingly endless cycle of death and destruction. Yet behind the numbing statistics and finger-pointing headlines are real people - men, and women, and children whose voices are seldom hear. Millions of them have fled their homeland in a… | Biography & History | ||
Plank, Norma | As a farewell gesture to good friends, Johan and Margaret Blankenburg (Plank) travel with Karl & Susie to the Rotterdam Port. Here Karl and Susie plan to sail for the land of freedom - America. Charming Captain Boswell convinces Johan and Margaret to spend their last night with Karl and… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | ||
Lewis, C.S. | The story of Prince Caspian's voyage in search of the lords his uncle Miraz had sent off to sea. | Literature ⋅ Classics | ||
Malcolm Guite | Advent is a season of waiting and anticipation in which the waiting itself is strangely rich and fulfilling. Poetry can help us fathom the depths of Advent's many paradoxes: dark and light, emptiness and fulfilment, ancient and ever new.
For every day from Advent Sunday to Christmas Day and beyond, the… | Literature ⋅ Poetry | ||
Meyer, Mary Clemens | Twenty true stories about people who followed Jesus' way when going the other way would have been much easier. With God's help, the main characters of these stories return good for evil, risk their lives to help others, or become peacemakers when conflict erupts. Written by Mary Clemens Meyer for… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading ⋅ Level 43 items | ||
Flack, Marjorie | The classic tale by award-winning author Marjorie Flack is back in print for the first time in decades!
Walter is a lazy mouse. He is so lazy that he always misses school and spends all his time in bed. He is so lazy that eventually his family forgets about him and… | Books ⋅ Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | ||
Tolstoy, Leo | Set in the years leading up to and culminating in Napoleon's disastrous Russian invasion, this classic novel focuses upon an entire society torn by conflict and change. Here is humanity in all its innocence and corruption, wisdom and folly, painful defeats and enduring triumphs. Here is the seemingly effortless artistry… | Classics | ||
Landis, James | In War Chief Conquered, the young Moravian missionary, John Heckewelder, prods Glikkikan into telling his life story. But the famous Indian chief is wary of the white men's corrupted treaties and requires Heckewelder to write his story exactly as he tells it.
Historically accurate and filled with emotion, War Chief Conquered brings the reader… | Biography & History | ||
Tripp, Paul David | Paul Tripp identifies the attitudes and assumptions behind our words and shows how to develop God-honoring communication. | Christian Living ⋅ Relationships & Mentoring | ||
Hershberger, Guy Franklin | Guy Hershberger made a significant contribution to the development of peace theology in the (Old) Mennonite Church. Perhaps the greatest service of this book is to explain clearly the centuries-old doctrine of nonresistance as understood by Mennonites in the mid-1900s.
Although nonresistance was held as a doctrine since the early days… | Theology & Worldviews ⋅ Topical Studies | ||
Leman, Dr. Kevin and Pentak… | What do you want from your employees? Loyalty? Excellence?
If it's greatness you want, it's greatness you must give. Written as a heartwarming contemporary parable, this book points you beyond worn-out fads and flavor-of-the-month management techniques to the strategies that will make you a truly outstanding leader. | Leadership | ||
Croutch, Gloria | This planner is designed very specifically for conservative weddings that utilize a seamstress, ceremony and reception coordinators, and more. We expect large guest lists, provide space for a variety of music types, and will help you to create a practical timeline that will have you well prepared for the events… | Books | ||
Allberry, Sam | In What God Has to Say About Our Bodies, Sam Allberry explains that all of us are fearfully and wonderfully made, and should regard our physicality as a gift. He offers biblical guidance for living, including understanding gender, sexuality, and identity; dealing with aging, illness, and death; and considering the physical… | Theology & Worldviews ⋅ Doctrine of Humanity | ||
Schaeffer, Edith | In an age when the survival of the family as a living, loving unit is being threatened as never before, Edith Schaeffer presents a heartening view of family life. The family: It is an ever-changing mobile of life ... a center for the formation of human relationships ... a perpetual… | Christian Living ⋅ Family | ||
Hamilton, James M. Jr. | The Bible recounts a single story - one that began at creation, encompasses our lives today, and will continue until Christ's return and beyond. In What Is Biblical Theology?, Jim Hamilton introduces us to this narrative, helping us understand the worldview of the biblical writers so that we can read the Old… | Theology & Worldviews ⋅ Theology | ||
Chesterton, G.K. | Chesterton's style is light and humorous - but also deadly serious and philosophical - as he provides witty commentary on feminism, education, family, and other timeless topics.
In the aptly titled treatise What's Wrong With the World, one of the twentieth century's most memorable and prolific writers takes on education, government… | Theology & Worldviews ⋅ Worldviews | ||
Steig, William | This is the Story of when I was a boy, almost 100 years ago, when fire engines were pulled by horses, boys did not play with girls, kids went to libraries for books, there was no TV, you could see a movie for a nickel, and everybody wore a hat. ~William… | Children's Books ⋅ Picture Books | ||
Corbett, Steve and Fikkert, Brian | Good Intentions are not enough. Unleashing and equipping people to effectively help the poor requires repentance and the realization of our own brokenness. When Helping Hurts articulates a biblically based framework concerning the root causes of poverty and its alleviation. | Christian Living ⋅ Missions & Service | ||
Welch, Edward T. | Need people less. Love people more. That's the author's challenge... He's talking about a tendency to hold other people in awe, to be controlled and mastered by them, to depend on them for what God alone can give... [Welch] proposes an antidote: the fear of God... the believer's response to… | Christian Living ⋅ Relationships & Mentoring | ||
Hellerman, Joseph H. | Spiritual formation occurs primarily in the context of community. But as the modern cultural norm of what social scientists call "radical American individualism" extends itself, many Christians grow lax in their relational accountability to the church. Faith threatens to become an "I" not "us," a "my God" not "our God"… | Theology & Worldviews ⋅ Topical Studies | ||
Fritz makes history accessible once more in this wry biography of a legendary explorer. A "School Library Journal" Best Book of the Year. Illustrations. | Children's Books ⋅ Early Reading | |||
Yancey, Philip | If there is a loving God, then why is it that ... ?You've heard that question, perhaps asked it yourself. No matter how you complete it, at its root lies the issue of pain. Does God order our suffering? Does he decree an abusive childhood, orchestrate a jet crash, steer… | Christian Living ⋅ Pain & Grief | ||
Rawls, Wilson | Billy has long dreamt of owning not one, but two, dogs. So when he’s finally able to save up enough money for two pups to call his own—Old Dan and Little Ann—he’s ecstatic. It doesn’t matter that times are tough; together they’ll roam the hills of the Ozarks.
Soon Billy and… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | ||
Butterfield, Herbert | The Whig historian studies the past with reference to the present. He looks for agency in history. And, in his search for origins and causes, he can easily select those facts that give support to his thesis and thus eliminate other facts equally important to the total picture. The Whig… | Biography & History | ||
Burgess, Thornton W. | As the days grow colder, little Whitefoot the Wood Mouse decides it is time to find a warm, safe place to spend the winter. The happy little creature finds the perfect spot in Farmer Brown's barn, where he meets a friendly stranger, tumbles into a life-threatening situation, and learns the… | Children's Books ⋅ Early Reading | ||
Zacharias, Ravi and Geisler, Norman | In the quest for the truth, you need to know what you believe and why you believe it. Who Made God? offers accessible answers to over 100 commonly asked apologetic questions. Bringing together the best in evangelical apologists, this guide is standard equipment for Christians who want to understand and talk about… | Books ⋅ Theology & Worldviews ⋅ Apologetics | ||
Fritz, Jean | Using her trademark humorous style, Jean Fritz tells the story of Plymouth Rock--the granite boulder upon which it was decided the Pilgrims must have set foot upon their arrival in the New World--telling how it came to be the impressive monument it is today. | Children's Books ⋅ Early Reading | ||
Burkholder, Kendra | Knock! Knock! Knock! ... The door burst open... "Peirsom, run for your life. Titelman is on his way to get you." Again the scene of peaceful family life was changed to confusion and terror.
This is the second time the Inquisitors have come after Peirsom Des Mulliers of Flanders, an Anabaptist… | Literature ⋅ Anabaptist | ||
Martin, Michael S. | God is so effective at bringing good out of evil circumstances that it may look like He planned the entire event, evil and all. But a God who would have to plan everything would be much weaker than our God. Our God is so capable and wise that in events… | Pain & Grief | ||
Bulkley, Ed | With deep insight and candor, Bulkley, a pastoral counselor of twenty-five years, answers the question, "Are psychology and the Bible compatible?" and provides clear and practical answers about healing damaged souls in a way that pleases and glorifies God. | Counseling & Psychology | ||
Gordon, T. David | T. David Gordon has identified a problem, one that affects us all and needs fixing. Our preaching is just not communicating properly anymore. Fortunately, Gordon not only explains the causes of this failure but also shows us how to make things better. | Leadership | ||
Bercot, David W. | Sex and money scandals. An exploding divorce ate. Drug-addicted youths. And an ever-growing worldliness. Today's church is fighting battles on all fronts. And we seem to be losing these battles to the relentlessly encroaching world. Perhaps the answers to our problems are not in the present, but in the past… | Church History | ||
Bercot, David W. | When Christianity was young, the focus was on Jesus Christ and His kingdom, not theology. To be sure, there are foundational doctrines that Christians have always considered essential to the faith. But somehow the things considered essential have grown from a few sentences to a long list of theological tenets… | Church History | ||
Meloche, Renee Taft | A preacher, William Carey, sailed
in seventeen ninety-three
from England's shore to India
with great expectancy.
He took a boat and traveled up
a river, where he spied
amazing new and wondrous sights
along the riverside.
At a time when most Christians never considered the millions of people in other countries who didn't know Jesus, William Carey dedicated… | Children's Books ⋅ Picture Books | ||
Finlayson, Linda | This book will introduce you to a young lad who learned to make shoes but who also became the father of today's missionary movement. William Carey knew that we should expect great things from God and attempt great things for God. | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | ||
Grahame, Kenneth | Heeding the call of spring, Mole sets out from his underground home and heads down to the river bank. His outing leads to friendship and adventures with Ratty, Badger, and irrepressible Mr Toad.
Their idyllic life changes when Mr Toad's car-crazy antics land him in jail. What are the friends to… | Books ⋅ Children's Books ⋅ Intermediate and Young Adult Reading ⋅ Early Reading | ||
Kenneth Grahame | One glorious spring day, Mole suddenly tires of his spring-cleaning and sets out on a stroll to see the wider world. When he meets the Water-Rat, his life is permanently changed. Read about the idyllic days of "messing about in boats" with the dreamy, poetic Rat, the terrors of the… | Books ⋅ Children's Books ⋅ Intermediate and Young Adult Reading ⋅ Early Reading | ||
Milne, A. A. | Here are Pooh and Piglet, Eeyore, Kanga, Roo, and of course Christopher Robin, doing what they've done for generations--enchanting young readers in A. A. Milne's tales from the Hundred Acre Wood. | Children's Books ⋅ Early Reading | ||
Martin, Mildred A. | Make Proverbs come alive for the children in your home, church, or school. Here is a character-building collection of stories by an Amish Mennonite author. Each chapter explains and illustrates a passage from the book of Proverbs with a story. | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | ||
McCracken, Brett | We're facing an information overload. With the quick tap of a finger we can access an endless stream of addictive information - sports scores, breaking news, political opinions, streaming TV, the lates Instagram posts, and much more. Accessing information has never been easier - but acquiring wisdom is increasingly difficult.
In… | Christian Living ⋅ Media & Technology | ||
Speare, Elizabeth George | Sixteen-year-old Kit Tyler is marked by suspicion and disapproval from the moment she arrives on the unfamiliar shores of colonial Connecticut in 1687. Alone and desperate, she has been forced to leave her beloved home on the island of Barbados and join a family she has never met. Torn between… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | ||
Ferris, Jeri Chase | Biddy Mason never dreamed of becoming a pioneer. She was forced to by her master, to whom she had been given as a "wedding gift" at just eighteen years of age. Walking 1700 miles across the Great Plains, Biddy herded cattle, set up camp, fed a large family, and cared… | Books ⋅ Children's Books ⋅ Early Reading | ||
Stahl-Wert, John | This is an excellent and deeply personal reflection on life and God. It provides great insights into the character of God and our relationship with the Creator.
A young boy and his tender-hearted uncle. A bride who betrays her young husband just as he ships off to war. A toddler lost… | Biography & History | ||
Guite, Malcolm | A collection of poems for Lent and Easter by a number of classical and contemporary poets. | Literature ⋅ Poetry |