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Vanauken, Sheldon | A Severe Mercy is an autobiographical book by Sheldon Vanauken, relating the author's relationship with his wife, their friendship with C. S. Lewis, conversion to Christianity, and subsequent tragedy. It was first published in 1977. | Biography & History | ||
Yoder, Pablo and Wadsworth, Kristy | Night falls early in Waslala, and the dark evenings are long- especially if you're waiting...During their first two years in Nicaragua, Pablo and Euni Yoder and their five children had endured more than a dozen robberies. Their trials had drawn them closer to each other and to God, but as… | Biography & History | ||
Nyiszli, Miklos | Dr. Nyiszli embodies the compassionate victim to the activities of Josef Mengele in Auschwitz. As the Forensic expert for Menegeles race experiments, he lived in the Crematoria with the Sondercommando, the living dead who did the dirty work for the Nazi executioners. Nyiszli gives us insight on how the daily… | Biography & History | ||
Moore, Charles E. & Timothy… | What does it cost to follow Jesus? For these men and women, the answer was clear. They were ready to give witness to Christ in the face of intense persecution, even if it cost them their lives. From the stoning of Stephen to Nigerian Christians persecuted by Boko Haram today… | Biography & History | ||
Landis, James G. | The Conquest Series is a historical narrative of American history through the eyes of the Delaware tribe of Native Americans, especially one Glikkikan.
Black Clouds over the Ohioland is volume 6 of 7. | Biography & History | ||
Chacour, Elias | Chacour blends his riveting life story with historical research to reveal a little-known side of the Arab-Israeli conflict and the birth of modern Israel. He touches on controversial questions, such as "What behind-the-scenes politics touched off the turmoil in the Middle East?" "What does Bible prophecy really have to say?"… | Biography & History | ||
Olson, Bruce | What happens when a nineteen-year-old boy heads into the jungles to evangelize a murderous tribe of South American Indians? For Bruce Olson it meant capture and torture, but what he discovered revolutionized the world of missions. | Biography & History | ||
Olson, Bruce and Lund, James | Bruchko and the Motilone Miracle, the powerful sequel to Bruce Olson's best-selling missionary classic, Bruchko, is a remarkable tale of adventure, tragedy, faith, and love. It shows how, despite incredible dangers and obstacles, one humble man and a tribe of primitive, violent Indians by joining together in simple obedience have… | Biography & History | ||
Pablo Yoder | The gripping story of a drug dealer and murderer trying to find peace. | Biography & History | ||
Stutzman, Ervin R. | When Christian Hochstetler returns to the Amish after seven years in captivity, he finds that many things have shifted. Captured as a child during the French and Indian War, Christian has spent much of his life among Native Americans, who cared for him and taught him their ways. Now that… | Biography & History | ||
Derstine, Darryl | Vince Lewis was on the ladder to success. As an Air Force pilot, he had achieved all his childhood dreams. He had everything he ever wanted... but trouble was brewing.
Committed is a gripping true story of repairing relationships, seeking God's will, and finding a higher purpose. | Biography & History | ||
Esh, Claudia | A historical fiction story about a young girl wrestling with the cost of Anabaptism in the 16th century Netherlands. | Biography & History | ||
Plett, Loreen | Growing up in a Mennonite village in Russia, young Knals Plett became a man of sincerity and conviction - and stubbornness. When hidden bitterness drove him to commit a terrible deed, his stubborn will separated him from God, church, and family until he repented.
An older and wiser Knals, now a… | Biography & History | ||
Frank, Anne | Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic -- a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish… | Biography & History | ||
VanStone, Doris | This is the thrilling, true account of what God's love can do in a life. Doris Van Stone takes readers through the hard years of her childhood into her fascinating years as a missionary with her husband to the Dani tribe in New Guinea. | Biography & History | ||
Saint, Steve | Steve Saint was five years old when his father, missionary pilot Nate Saint, was speared to death by a primitive Ecuadorian tribe. In adulthood, Steve, having left Ecuador for a successful business career in the United States, never imagined making the jungle his home again. But when that same tribe… | Biography & History | ||
Hoover, Katrina | Description. Faces of Syria is a collection of heartwarming photos and heartbreaking stories of Syrian refugees who are living in Lebanon and Jordan. Although the refugees have escaped the brutal civil war that is destroying Syria, their lives are not easy. | Biography & History | ||
Stauffer, Romaine | On January 21, 1525, a group of fifteen people gathered to pray. Before the night was over, something had happened that would change the world forever. The Anabaptist movement had begun. In this easy-to-read book, you will get a glimpse of the lives of five of the founders of Anabaptism:… | Biography & History | ||
Bender, Marcia | Persecution is not something we like to think about. But throughout history, it has been a reality for countless Christians. These twenty stories adapted from the Martyrs Mirror Will inspire us as we see the unshakable faith of these brave men and women. We will be sobered at the suffering they… | Biography & History | ||
Carson, Ben | Ben Carson, M.D., works medical miracles. Today, he's one of the most celebrated neurosurgeons in the world. In Gifted Hands, he tells of his inspiring odyssey from his childhood in inner-city Detroit to his position as director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital at age 33. Ben Carson is… | Biography & History | ||
Revell, Glenda | Glenda was desperate for love and a sense of belonging. Her home life was school-- and the welcoming shade of a willow tree, under which she would lie and dream of another life in another family, and pray to the God she did not know yet. (softcover) | Biography & History | ||
Andrew V. St. Marie, Mike… | The second volume in the Cross Bearers Series, I Appeal to Scripture is a well-researched, accessible biography of Jacob Amman, remembered as the founder of the Amish. He has often been viewed as a troublemaker whose zeal for a pure church led to schism, but he was also a humble… | Biography & History | ||
Landis, James G. | The Conquest Series is a historical narrative of American history through the eyes of the Delaware tribe of Native Americans, especially one Glikkikan.
Homeland in My Heart is volume 2 of 7. | Biography & History | ||
Moody, Ralph | "Horse of a Different Color" ends the "roving days" of young Ralph Moody. His saga began on a Colorado ranch in "Little Britches" and continued at points east and west in "Man of the Family," "The Fields of Home," "The Home Ranch," "Mary Emma & Company," "Shaking the Nickel Bush,"… | Biography & History | ||
Stoltzfus, Alison | How Beautiful the Dusty Road is the author's story of serving as a volunteer nurse in the largest refugee camp in the world. Through the dust and disease, through patients rescued and lost, through relationships and trials, God gave her a greater understanding of what it means to love as… | Biography & History | ||
Andrew V. Ste. Marie | The second volume in the Cross Bearers Series, I Appeal to Scripture is a well-researched, accessible biography of Michael Sattler, one of most influential leaders in the first years of the Anabaptist movement. Numerous quotations from primary sources provide historical veracity, while extensive sidebars and illustrations introduce readers to the… | Biography & History | ||
Stutzman, Ervin R. | Jacob Hochstetler is a peace-loving Amish settler on the Pennsylvania frontier when Native American warriors, goaded on by the hostilities of the French and Indian War, attack his family one September night in 1757. Taken captive by the warriors and grieving for the family members just killed, Jacob finds his… | Biography & History | ||
Stutzman, Ervin R. | Unwilling captive or adopted son? Amish teen Joseph Hochstetler is taken into captivity by Native Americans during the French and Indian War. Initially he resists the Indians' attempts to help him adapt to their ways - their food, games, and relaxed pace of life - but slowly he changes.
In this… | Biography & History | ||
Miller, Anne | Anne was articulate, poised, and appeared to have her life well put together. But her life was held together by the glue of control - control over an inner world devastated by experiences too complex for a child's heart to handle. The sin of sexual abuse had left wreckage, turmoil… | Biography & History | ||
Lee, Katrina Hoover | The amazing true story of seventeen missionaries kidnapped and held for two months by gangs in Haiti. | Biography & History | ||
Stauffer, Romaine | Stories from Merle Burkholder's forty years in missions | Biography & History | ||
Moody, Ralph | Ralph Moody was eight in 1906 when his family moved from New Hampshire to a ranch in Colorado. Through his eyes we experience the pleasures and perils of ranching there early in the 20th century. This wonderfully told true story is full of excitement and adventure. Paper. 260 pp. | Biography & History | ||
Richardson, Don | This unforgettable tale of missionary Stan Dale and his family and thousands of Yali tribesmen brings unlikely characters together in a swirl of agony and bloodshed climaxing in a dramatic, unexpected ending. | Biography & History | ||
Schott, Hannah | Love in a Time of Hate paints an intimate portrait of Magda and Andre Trocme, who transformed a small town in France into a place of safety during the Holocaust. At great risk to their own lives, the Trocmes led efforts in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon to hide more than three thousand… | Biography & History | ||
Moody, Ralph | Fortified with Yankee ingenuity and western can-do energy, the Moody family, transplanted from New England, builds a new life on a Colorado ranch early in the 20th century. Father has died and Little Britches shoulders the responsibilities of a man at age eleven. Continues the true pioneering adventures as unforgettable… | Biography & History | ||
Andrew V. Ste. Marie and… | The first volume in the Cross Bearers Series, March Forward with the Word is a well-researched, accessible biography of Conrad Grebel, one of the original founders of the Anabaptist movement. Numerous quotations from primary sources provide historical veracity, while extensive sidebars and illustrations introduce readers to the cultural context of this story… | Biography & History | ||
Anonymous | A tale of the persecution of Christians in ancient Rome. | Biography & History | ||
Kauffman, Christmas Carol | The 1500s were stirring times in Europe. Luther nailed his ninety-five theses to a church door in Germany, exploding a powder keg of unrest that seethed for decades. Against this background, Regina Strahm found herself caught between two religious factions in Switzerland. Her parents repeatedly warned her against the Anabaptist… | Biography & History | ||
Richardson, Don | "On every continent, in every nation, God is at work in and through the lives of believers. From the streets of Amsterdam to remote Pacific islands to the jungles of Ecuador and beyond, each international adventure that emerges is a dramatic episode that could be directed only by the hand… | Books ⋅ Biography & History | ||
Plett, Loreen | Born in Prussia in 1765, the son of a wealthy landowner, Johann Plett was heir to an estate so vast he could ride for miles without covering it all. Raised and baptized in the Mennonite church, his marriage seemed likely to secure his happiness.But Johann had always scorned his father's… | Biography & History | ||
Chesterton, G.K. | Chesterton captures the spirit of the world's most popular saint like no one else.
All [Francis's] life was a series of plunges and scampers; darting after the beggar, dashing naked into the woods, tossing himself into the strange ship, hurling himself into the Sultan's tent and offering to hurl himself into… | Biography & History | ||
Enos D. Stutzman | Second Chances, the enjoyably thought-provoking autobiography of Enos Stutzman, is a delight to read. Richly informative, it sheds much light on the life-values, ethos, and beliefs of the Amish communities in Ohio during the 1940s and 1950s, and still later during the transition to the Beachy Amish position. I have… | Biography & History | ||
Elliot, Elisabeth | The murder of Jim Elliot and four fellow missionaries by the Auca Indians in 1956 shocked the nation and motivated thousands to a life of service. The story of what led Elliot to the jungles of Ecuador, told by his wife, Elisabeth, has become a modern Christian classic. Drawing from… | Biography & History | ||
Keller, Helen | The Story of My Life, first published in 1903, is Helen Keller's autobiography detailing her early life, especially her experiences with Anne Sullivan. | Biography & History | ||
Yoder, Mark | The gripping story of the translation of the Bible into Spanish in spite of the Spanish Inquisition. | Biography & History | ||
Kaufman, Arlene and Yoder, Lori | This is the story of one woman's triumph over indescribable pain, multiple surgeries, and multiple setbacks. Her hospital experiences were in a number of the leading universities of the eastern United States. Names were changed to protect doctors and universities. Arlene's illness was regarded by the medical profession as extremely… | Biography & History | ||
Lewis, C.S. | "A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere . . . God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous." This book is not an autobiography. It is not a confession. It is, however, certainly one of… | Biography & History | ||
Kamkwamba, William | The inspiring true story of a Malawi teenager who brought electricity to his struggling village--now in the ideal classroom-ready edition.
William Kamkwamba grew up in a tiny farming village in Malawi, Africa, without electricity. When a drought destroyed the crops and famine resulted, William's family could no longer afford his school… | Books ⋅ Biography & History ⋅ Intermediate and Young Adult Reading ⋅ Living History Weavings | ||
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 | ||
Moody, Ralph | Ralph Moody, just turned 20, had only a dime in his pocket when he was put off a freight train in western Nebraska. It was the 4th of July, 1919. Three months later he owned 8 teams of horses and rigs to go with them. Everyone who worked with him… | Biography & History |