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Subtitled "Will the War Ever End?" this children's book is based on the childhood of the author's father, Clair Schnupp, author of Flying Canada (Item #3449). The author grew up hearing her father tell these stories of faith and love during World War II. Also includes his favorite childhood recipes. This is a companion volume to Sharon's earlier book, Little Prairie Girl (Item #3534), which is based on the story of her mother, Clara Durksen. Also available Little Prairie Girl Growing Up (Item #3934) which is book 2 in the series. (95pp. illus. Masthof Press, 2010.) Also read the sequel Little Pennsylvania Dutch Boy Growing Up: Will the Vision Die? (item #4108).
Author: Sharon Schnupp Kuepfer Publisher: ISBN: 9781601265043 Category : Languages : en Pages : 130
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This sequel to "Little Pennsylvania Dutch Boy: Will the War Ever End?", is based on the later childhood of Clair Schnupp, the author¿s father. The author grew up hearing her father tell many of these stories of Christian faith and love. Now she longs to pass them down the generations. This is a companion volume to the "Little Prairie Girl Series" of "Little Prairie Girl" and "Little Prairie Girl Growing Up."
Author: Ira Wagler Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. ISBN: 1414360703 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 283
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New York Times eBook bestseller! One fateful starless night, 17-year-old Ira Wagler got up at 2 AM, left a scribbled note under his pillow, packed all of his earthly belongings into in a little black duffel bag, and walked away from his home in the Amish settlement of Bloomfield, Iowa. Now, in this heartwarming memoir, Ira paints a vivid portrait of Amish life—from his childhood days on the family farm, his Rumspringa rite of passage at age 16, to his ultimate decision to leave the Amish Church for good at age 26. Growing Up Amish is the true story of one man’s quest to discover who he is and where he belongs. Readers will laugh, cry, and be inspired by this charming yet poignant coming of age story set amidst the backdrop of one of the most enigmatic cultures in America today—the Old Order Amish.
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Little Prairie Girl Growing Up: Moving! is a riveting and inspiring sequel to Little Prairie Girl. This book is sure to hold the interest of young and old alike, with tales of Clara's adolescent years from the "good ole days." Follow Clara and her family as she moves from the Prairies of Manitoba to the fruit farming area of southern Ontario. The author grew up hearing her mother, Clara Durksen, tell these stories about her growing up years and God's faithfulness. This is the second book in the Little Prairie Girl Series. Also available are Little Prairie Girl (Item #3534), Little Pennsylvania Dutch Boy (Item #3657) and Little Pennsylvania Dutch Boy Growing Up (item #4108). (152pp. illus. Masthof Press, 2013.)
Author: Rebecca Johnsen Publisher: ISBN: 9781601265517 Category : Languages : en Pages : 46
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"Angels in Action" is a delightful children¿s book about what angels do. Their jobs, gleaned from the Bible, are told through poetry that can be sung to the tune of ¿Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.¿ The book is illustrated with various art genres, including children¿s drawings and classical art. The first angels presented are from the Old Testament and then the focus moves to the work of angels at Christmas and Easter. (Ages 4-8) (46pp. full-color illus. Masthof Press, 2017.)
Author: Merritt George Yorgey Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1462815553 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 190
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This book paints a portrait of how the Pennsylvania Dutch, or correctly, the Pennsylvania German people are changing. Originally the predominant ethnic group in Pennsylvania, with a population of hundreds of thousands, they are now losing their Pennsylvania Dutch dialect, their Dutchified English accents, and their German cultural traditions. They are falsely perceived as being the Plain people, as symbolized by an Amishman of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It relates how the influences of the great depression of the 1930s and of World War Two swept through the group and turned their culture upside down. Through a memoir that chronicles their struggles, triumphs and realizations, and suffused with the zeitgeist of the era, it celebrates, through the life of a real Pennsylvania Dutch Boy, a beautiful heritage, and is an invitation for readers to explore the essence of identity and culture.
Author: Shirley Hershey Showalter Publisher: MennoMedia, Inc. ISBN: 0836198719 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 282
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“I promise: you will be transported,” says Bill Moyers of this memoir. Part Mennonite in a Little Black Dress, part Growing Up Amish, and part Little House on the Prairie, this book evokes a lost time, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, when a sheltered little girl named after Shirley Temple entered a family and church caught up in the midst of the cultural changes of the 1950”s and ‘60’s. With gentle humor and clear-eyed affection the author, who grew up to become a college president, tells the story of her first encounters with the “glittering world” and her desire for “fancy” forbidden things she could see but not touch. The reader enters a plain Mennonite Church building, walks through the meadow, makes sweet and sour feasts in the kitchen and watches the little girl grow up. Along the way, five other children enter the family, one baby sister dies, the family moves to the “home place.” The major decisions, whether to join the church, and whether to leave home and become the first person in her family to attend college, will have the reader rooting for the girl to break a new path. In the tradition of Jill Ker Conway’s The Road to Coorain, this book details the formation of a future leader who does not yet know she’s being prepared to stand up to power and to find her own voice. The book contains many illustrations and resources, including recipes, a map, and an epilogue about why the author is still Mennonite. Topics covered include the death of a child, Pennsylvania Dutch cooking, the role of bishops in the Mennonite church, the paradoxes of plain life (including fancy cars and the practice of growing tobacco). The drama of passing on the family farm and Mennonite romance and courtship, as the author prepares to leave home for college, create the final challenges of the book.
Author: Randy Pausch Publisher: ISBN: 9780340978504 Category : Cancer Languages : en Pages : 0
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The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
Author: Phuc Tran Publisher: Flatiron Books ISBN: 1250194725 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 256
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For anyone who has ever felt like they don't belong, Sigh, Gone shares an irreverent, funny, and moving tale of displacement and assimilation woven together with poignant themes from beloved works of classic literature. In 1975, during the fall of Saigon, Phuc Tran immigrates to America along with his family. By sheer chance they land in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, a small town where the Trans struggle to assimilate into their new life. In this coming-of-age memoir told through the themes of great books such as The Metamorphosis, The Scarlet Letter, The Iliad, and more, Tran navigates the push and pull of finding and accepting himself despite the challenges of immigration, feelings of isolation, and teenage rebellion, all while attempting to meet the rigid expectations set by his immigrant parents. Appealing to fans of coming-of-age memoirs such as Fresh Off the Boat, Running with Scissors, or tales of assimilation like Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Displaced and The Refugees, Sigh, Gone explores one man’s bewildering experiences of abuse, racism, and tragedy and reveals redemption and connection in books and punk rock. Against the hairspray-and-synthesizer backdrop of the ‘80s, he finds solace and kinship in the wisdom of classic literature, and in the subculture of punk rock, he finds affirmation and echoes of his disaffection. In his journey for self-discovery Tran ultimately finds refuge and inspiration in the art that shapes—and ultimately saves—him.
Author: Sharon Schnupp Kuepfer
Author: Sharon Schnupp Kuepfer
Author: Ira Wagler
Author: Sharon Schnupp Kuepfer
Author: Rebecca Johnsen
Author: Jocelyn Hoffman
Author: Merritt George Yorgey
Author: Shirley Hershey Showalter
Author: Randy Pausch
Author: Phuc Tran