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Wilkerson, David | Gangfighters. Drug addicts. Teenage runaways and prostitutes. The toughest and most hopeless kids that New York's ghettos had to offer. Then a young preacher from the Pennsylvania hills arrived on their turf and began preaching a message of renewal, miracles, and God's love. This is one of the century's great… | Biography & History | ||
Landis, James G. | In The Final Conquest, the Revolutionary War rages through the Ohioland, further testing the faith of the believers in three Christian Indian villages along the Muskingum River. Threatened with death and destruction on every side, the believing Indians and their beloved teachers cannot determine who are their real friends or enemies.
The seventh… | Biography & History | ||
Brother Yun | The dramatic autobiography of one of China's dedicated, courageous, and intensely persecuted house church leaders. This is the gripping story of how God took a young, half-starved boy from a poor village in Henan province and placed him on the front line for Jesus, in the face of impossible odds… | Biography & History | ||
Elliot, Elisabeth | After several preliminary overtures of friendship, five young missionary men set out on a crucial January day in 1956 for a meeting with the Auca tribesmen who had reacted with apparent tolerance to earlier gifts and messages. This is the poignant story of their martyrdom told by the widow of… | Biography & History | ||
Landis, James G. | Under Attack lets you in on the desperation and frustration of Moravian missionaries and converted Indians as the duplicity and greed of the Whites force them to leave their prosperous villages and start over again... and again... and again.
Book 4 of 7 in The Conquest series. | Biography & History | ||
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 | ||
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 | ||
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 | ||
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 | ||
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 |