Memoir of an experiment in communal subsistence living in Jamaica, VT, from 1941-1945, based on community journals and correspondence.

Hilltop Farm

Parenting & Relationships

Write Place

For more than 30 years, from 1930 to the early 1960s, nearly 300 men, women and children lived, worked, played, and built an isolated but vibrant, caring community at Island Falls, Saskatchewan, 75 roadless miles from the nearest civilization. In winter, only dog teams, and in summer, only canoes and portages reached or left Island Falls. For six weeks at spring break-up, and another six weeks at fall freeze-up, the isolateion was total. Read of the frantic race to save a three-year-old from slow asphyxiation during one fall freeze-up; a lineman's comical buck-naked escape from a bear; and the spectacular explosion of an entire winter's supply of gasoline and oil. These and many more memories and true tales are recorded here for others to share. Whether you know if Island Falls or not, you will marvel at the people who created and lived at CampNorth of 55. Readers will thrill to the marvelous story of a marriage of people with a time and a place that was nearly idyllic, is now no more, and never can--or will--exist again. Fully indexed; more than 90 photographs.

Camp: North of 55

Cole, Carole Osborne

Lidge Siwingyama is determined to find out why sacred (and secret) Hopi ceremonies are so much like the things he reads in the Book of Mormon. Only the Pahana, the elder white brother of the Hopi who has promised to return someday, could know these things. Where is he? Who is he? Why hasn't he come back to the Hopi as he promised but instead has allowed things sacred to the Hopi in a white man's book? Lidge will not rest until he knows the answers. Readers of Lidge And The Pahana Legend will not rest either until they follow Lidge on his quest and discover along with him the beautiful and stunning similarities between the religion of the Latter-day Saints and the Hopi Way of Peace.

Lidge and the Pahana Legend

Carole Osborne Cole

Hank Springer a remarkable man who offers of himself and creates a home for three orphaned children after raising his own family as a single father with the help of his own adoptive parents. He blends three families into one cohesive family while creating a Montana horse and cattle ranch. The extended family overcomes rustlers, attempted murder and the near rape of Hank's adoptive daughter.
Hank finds Bess who gives him unconditional love but he is held back from committment by guilt from the past. Springer's Heart is a western romance with all the excitement and adventure of the modern open range with romance and love from a cast of great characters.

Springer's Heart

Romance

Manion, Bob

Contemporary

Retired surgeon Charles F. Schafer knows firsthand that reading about health can be boring. He did just that for four years while researching for Health and Humor.  Charlie hates to bore folks; hence, he spiced the Health and Humor with many funny moments. Readers will smile—and laugh—as they read through Charlie’s ten zones for health and long life, including exercise, diabetes, food, heart health, obesity, smoking, brain health, use of alcohol and of health supplements. If Health and Humor bores you, Charlie says to email him. He won’t refund your money; but he will drop to his knees and beg you to forgive him.

Health and Humor

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Schafer, Charles Frederick

Reference

Treasury of Gems offers words to live and laugh by. Its "one-liners" cover a variety of subjects - from attitude to success, belief to money, daffynitions to love, and more. The the wit and wisdom found in its short quotations were collected by the author over a sixty-year period. Its verbal gems will encourage and enlighten you. Beyond that, on the blank pages provided, you can add your own favorites to the collection, whether you hear them, read them, or write your own . You can create your personal treasure - and leave your own legacy.

Treasury of Gems: Humor and Wisdom Collected Over a Lifetime

Mary Addink

A Virginia man's fight against poverty, disease, and discrimination forms the background of Fight On, My Soul. Set largely in rural Lancaster County, Virginia, Fight On, My Soul tells the story of Morgan E. Norris, one of Virginia's first black physicians, who believed in himself enough to overcome the daily struggles of his life and his time. Told by his son, this meticulously researched biography is a moving story that captures Norris's struggle to provide better conditions for his family and beloved patients. James Norris says of his father. "When barriers were raised and obstacles thrown, his modus operandi would be first to try to wend his way around them, and failing that, to blast them down!" Norris's life spanned the contentious period from post-Reconstruction to the relentless erosion of civil liberties for blacks, the encoding of segregation into law, and finally the collapse of Jim Crow. Norris died in 1966, just about the same time as Jim Crow, but when he died it was still illegal for a white to marry a Negro in Virginia, and the American Medical Association had yet to disavow local and state societies that discriminated against Negro physicians. Norris could have chosen to go with the flow, to move north to less conflicted environs, or even pass for white. But for Norris, none of these choices fit. He chose first to become educated and then to return to boyhood home in remote Virginia. In doing so, he fulfilled a pledge he had made to his dying father: to become a doctor and make sure no one in his little insular community would suffer as his father had. In telling his father's narrative, James Norris illuminates the delicate balance between defiance of systemic racial practices and working within a system that stubbornly resisted change.

Fight On, My Soul

Biographies & Memoirs

Norris, James E. C.

Community & Culture

Timothy, the Rat-Tailed Cat

Alyssa Starkey Jackie Van Wyk

Teen & Young Adult

For ten years, physician Peter Boelens and his wife Eleanor have been practicing a new treatment for depression and anxiety—healing prayer that invites Christ into clients' painful memories. Clients still remember past hurtful events, but their pain is gone. Released to Soar describes the Boelens' healing prayer process, documents its effectiveness, and demonstrates its practice-for readers' personal use or to help others. Over their lifetime, Dr. Peter and Eleanor Boelens have founded and worked in Christian medical ministries: a community health, church-planting program in postwar South Korea; Cary Christian Health Center in the delta of Mississippi; indigenous, worldwide community health ministries through the Luke Society; and Shalom Prayer, a psycho-spiritual healing prayer ministry. Released to Soar is their third book. The stories of their other ministries are told in Delta Doctor and Where Next, Lord? The Boelens divide their time between Mississippi and Michigan. Maureen Rank, author or coauthor of fourteen books, has assisted the Boelens with all three books about their ministries.

Released to Soar

Religion & Spirituality

Rank, Maureen

Boelens, Peter

Boelens, Eleanor

Christian Books & Bibles

Outrageous. That's how one person described the vision of a transformed Nicaragua. This goal was born more than a decade ago, when a group of North American missionaries from different organizations and denominations joined forces with Nicaraguan leaders to form a community of Christians known as the Nehemiah Center. This community has launched training programs to lead Nicaraguan people to see what a God-centered society might look like. The training has led many to change their lives and their marriages, then to transform their churches and communities. In these pages, you'll meet Lourdes Rivas, an uneducated pastor's wife forced to make her home behind a curtain inside the church building, and Daniel Aragón, once a leader in the Sandinista army and a drug addict. You'll read about villagers who scavenge in the town dump to survive, and about Nelson, a gang member who lost his leg by machete when other gang members turned on him. Through these stories and many others, you will learn how Nicaraguans are being transformed and then working in their communities to transform others. Although significant, these transformations within Nicaragua are only part of the story. The Nehemiah Center recognizes that people around the globe are in need of transformation. It seeks to help North American visitors recognize their own poverty-influenced by materialism and selfishness-in ways that will lead them to develop their own strategies to transform their lives, churches, and communities in North America. In a very personal way, On Mended Wings shares firsthand the stories of people who discovered healing and who work to heal others. Transforming Nicaragua is happening-one individual, one marriage, one church, one community at a time. Their stories reveal that this work of transforming a country is, in the end, not outrageous. It's contagious.

On Mended Wings: Transforming Lives and Communities in Nicaragua (The Nehemiah Center - Nicaragua)

Van Klompenburg, Carol

Biddle, Donna

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