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Yoder, Pablo and Wadsworth, Kristy |
Night falls early in Waslala, and the dark evenings are long- especially if you're waiting... |
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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… |
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Hoover, Dorcas |
Awaiting the Dawn takes the reader through the dark night of trauma and grief the Troyer family experienced at the hands of terrorists in Guatemala. The final chapters show the unexpected ways God brought healing to bleeding hearts. |
Biography & History ⋅ Books |
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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 |
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Landis, James |
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 |
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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 ⋅ Books |
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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 |
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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… |
Biography & History |
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Kuhn, Isobel |
Isobel Miller gave up God for worldly pursuits. But as graduation approached and her engagement was broken, she questioned that decision. God heard her prayers and reached out to her. She dedicated her life to missionary service in China. |
Biography & History |
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Pablo Yoder |
The gripping story of a drug dealer and murderer trying to find peace. |
Biography & History |
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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… |
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Esh, Claudia |
A historical fiction story about a young girl wrestling with the cost of Anabaptism in the 16th century Netherlands. |
Biography & History |
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Wilkerson, David R. |
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… |
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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. |
Biography & History |
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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… |
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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 |
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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 shared in his… |
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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… |
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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 |
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Moody, Ralph |
The author's share of hardships and heart-throbs, revealed in 'Little Britches' and 'Man of the Family' continue when the family, moved from Colorado to the East, send him to work on his grandfather's farm in Maine. |
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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… |
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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 |
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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 |
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Hattaway, Paul |
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… |
Biography & History |
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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 |
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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,"… |
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Taylor, Howard |
J. Hudson Taylor was truly Gods chosen servant. From his early life in England, through the founding of the China Inland Mission, to reaching millions of Chinese, his life of faith gives glorious testimony to God. His spiritual secret could change your life. |
Biography & History |
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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… |
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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 beliefs… |
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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… |
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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… |
Biography & History |
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Lee, Katrina Hoover |
The amazing true story of seventeen missionaries kidnapped and held for two months by gangs in Haiti. |
Biography & History |
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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 |
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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 |
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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… |
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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… |
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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… |
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Anonymous |
A tale of the persecution of Christians in ancient Rome. |
Biography & History |
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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 ⋅ Books |
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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… |
Biography & History ⋅ Books |
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Bear, Lily A. |
John's hand fell limply against the postcard that had just come in the mail. "War Department," he read. There was no question; he was being called into military duty. |
Biography & History |
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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. |
Biography & History |
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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… |
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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. |
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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 her… |
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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 |
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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… |
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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 the most beautiful… |
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Kamkwamba, William |
The inspiring true story of a Malawi teenager who brought electricity to his struggling village--now in the ideal classroom-ready edition. |
Biography & History ⋅ Books ⋅ Intermediate and Young Adult Reading ⋅ Living History Weavings |
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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 one… |
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