The Wasted Years: The Story of Yonie Kauffman . . . and the Rest of the Story
This is an account of a young Amish man living in the fertile farming area known as “Big Valley” in central Pennsylvania. He had a yearning to travel in search...
1000
Menno & Susan: The Chronicle of an Amish and Mennonite Family
Menno Z. Troyer (1863-1945), son of Levi B. and Leah Zook Troyer, m. Susan B. Miller (1867-1962), dau. of Joe C. and Barbara Yoder Miller, in 1888. They had 10...
2500
Lancaster's Good Man, John Piersol McCaskey: A Biography
John Piersol McCaskey (1837-1935) was a beloved Lancaster, PA, public school teacher and principal, editor of The Pennsylvania School Journal, mayor of Lancaster, publisher, journalist, and compiler of some of...
1800
Ed Nolt's New Holland Baler: "Everything Just Went Right"
Subtitled “Everything Just Went Right,” this book shows how Ed Nolt’s early life shaped him and that the resources and relationships he formed allowed him to develop the baler, in...
1200
Never Alone
Never Alone is the story of the Livingston family while living in Korea as missionaries during their 10-year stay from 1956 to 1966. Excerpts are taken from the letters written home, prayer...
2000
The Livingston Chronicles
This book chronicles several well-known families of Washington, Iowa, including the McMillans and Livingstons. Although this contains biographical sketches, most chapters include vignettes, where both the characters and circumstances are...
Chasing the Amish Dream: My Life as a Young Amish Bachelor
Life in author Loren Beachy’s Indiana Amish community brims with old-fashioned box socials, smart-alecky students, and pranks involving pink duct tape and black pepper. Meet the young women who manage...
1299
In the Shadow of Mt. Zion and Buchland School
The author’s life story begins at the one-room Buchland Schoolhouse in the Narvon area of Lancaster Co., Pa., with Mrs. Mabel Geiger as teacher; then continues through adulthood with his years...
1599
A Grateful Mennonite
Growing up in a Mennonite environment, speaking only Low German until school-age, the author grew to fully appreciate this background later in adulthood as he encompassed the globe. Observing many...
1199
The Long Green Heritage
Reprinted in a new format, this book records many pleasant memories the author had as a child growing up in the Long Green Valley northeast of Baltimore, Md. This Mennonite...
600
Like a Watered Garden
Over the years the author has written down events, thoughts, ideas, meditations, anecdotes, all in a most disorganized way on bits of paper, notebooks, a diary, and even in the...
899
First Farm on the Right
This pictorial memory of the George Ernst and Leah Weaver Martin Lehman family is much more than a family history. The events of the author's life at home are weaved...
A Medley of Memories: The Recollections of Arvilla Shenk Bechtel
Spanning 90 years of recollections, this book includes amusing anecdotes; sketches; photos; some genealogy on the Shenk, Bechtel, and related families; selected illustrations from penmanship, birthday, and autograph books; remembered...
Dirk Willems: His Noble Deed Lives On
Dirk Willems is one of the best-known Anabaptist martyrs of all time. This unique book not only recounts the story of Dirk's martyrdom, but also traces the many places his...
Called and Faithful
This is the story of Elva B. Landis, her call and faithful service as a nurse/midwife to Africa, beginning in 1949. She spent 27 years at a clinic in the...
1500
The Rest of the Journey
In Hard Economic Times God Shall Supply All Your Needs (item #3535, sells for $6.95), tells of the author's incredible search for work and housing covering 3,500 miles, while receiving...
599
A Cup of Coconut
Mary Louise Uchida, author of A Slice of Pineapple (Item #3477), again captures the readers with her witty and sometimes poignant stories from Hawaii and elsewhere. She takes pleasure in...
795
Though I Walk Through the Valley of the Shadow
This autobiography is a gripping story of a little girl and teenager who experienced verbal and physical abuse in a number of ways, but overcame the sufferings a remarkable account...
699
Faith of Our Fathers: From Barbarians to Mennonite and Beyond
This book is more than a family genealogy; it is the story of every Pennsylvania Dutch person, tracing their lifestyle and religious beliefs back to the Germanic barbarians. Their Christianization...
1695
By the Grace of God
A "potpourri" of stories and records of the Burkholder and Heatwole families in their flight from Switzerland and Germany and in their coming to America. Here are colorful stories about...
1250
