Genre search:Biography

A severe mercy

by Sheldon Vanauken
Paperback, 1977
Tags
Christian life - Biography, Grief, Clive Staples Lewis
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Series
A Severe Mercy (1)
Status
Available
Call number
248 V217s

Reason for hope : a spiritual journey

by Jane Goodall
Paperback, 1999
Tags
Chimpanzees, Spiritual journey
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
590 G646r

Born again

by Charles W. Colson
Paper Book, 1976
Tags
Conversation, Watergate affair
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
248 C717b

Two-part invention : the story of a marriage

by Madeleine L'Engle
Paperback, 1988
Tags
Marriage, Death
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Series
The Crosswicks Journal (book 4)
Status
Available
Call number
920 L566t

In a rocket made of ice : among the children of Wat Opot

by Gail Gutradt
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
Orphanages - Cambodia, Cambodia - Social conditions, HIV-positive children
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
362.73 G984i

Life and death in Shanghai

by Nien Cheng
Hardcover, 1986
Tags
China - Cultural Revolution 1966-69
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
951.05 C518l

A grief observed

by C. S. Lewis
Paperback, 1961
Tags
Death
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
155 L673g

Living faith

by Jimmy Carter
Hardcover, 1996
Tags
Christian life, Presidents
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
248 C323l

The spirit catches you and you fall down : a Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures

by Anne Fadiman
Paperback, 1997
Tags
Transcultural medical care, Hmong Americans - Medical care, Intercultural communication
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
306.4 F145s

Making friends among the Taliban : a peacemaker's journey in Afghanistan

by Jonathan P. Larson
Paperback, 2012
Tags
Dan Terry 1946-2010, Peacemakers, Taliban, Afghanistan
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
958.104 T329l

Rainbow's end : a memoir of childhood, war and an African farm

by St. John, Lauren
Paperback, 2007
Tags
Zimbabwe (Rhodesia), Horses, Patriotism
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
968 S143r

Saigon to Singers Glen: one hundred moments in the life of a Mennonite farm boy

by Jim Bowman
Paperback, 2017
Tags
Mennonites - Virginia - Biography
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
298.7 B787s

Saigon to Singers Glen: one hundred moments in the life of a Mennonite farm boy

by Jim Bowman
Paperback, 2017
Tags
Mennonites - Virginia - Biography
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
298.7 B787s

Still waters

by Jennifer Lauck
Hardcover, 2001
Tags
Orphans, Adoption, Abuse
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
920 L366s

Rachel's tears : the spiritual journey of Columbine martyr Rachel Scott

by Darrell Scott
Paperback, 2000
Tags
Rachel Scott, Columbine school shootings, Christian life
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
920 S713n

Enchantment and despair: Montana childhood stories, 1925 - 1937

by Calvin Wall Redekop
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
Mennonites - Autobiography
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
289.7 R314e

Joni

by Joni Eareckson Tada
Paper Book, 1976
Tags
Religious life - Handicapped
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Series
Joni (1)
Status
Available
Call number
362 Ea7

Eric Liddell : pure gold : a new biography of the Olympic champion who inspired Chariots of Fire

by Dave McCasland
Hardcover, 2001
Tags
Eric Liddell; 1902-1945, Runners - Scotland, Missionaries - China
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
266 L712m

Swing low : a life

by Miriam Toews
Hardcover, 2001
Tags
Mel Toews, Manic depressive persons - Biography, Mennonites - Canada - Biography, Teachers - Biography
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
616.89 T643s

On my way : the view from the ninth decade

by Daniel Hertzler
Paperback, 2013
Tags
Editors, Mennonites - Biography
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
289.7 H576o

Shadow of the Almighty; the life & testament of Jim Elliot

by Elisabeth Elliot
Paper Book, 1958
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
921 ELL

Forbidden lessons in a Kabul guesthouse : the true story of a woman Who risked everything to bring hope to Afghanistan

by Suraya Sadeed
Hardcover, 2011
Tags
Afghanistan - Relief work, Women reformers - Biography, Help the Afghan Children, Schools - Afghanistan
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
958.104 S125f

House calls and hitching posts : stories from Dr. Elton Lehman's career among the Amish

by Elton Lehman
Hardcover, 2004
Tags
Elton Lehman M.D., Physicians - Ohio - Holmes County, Amish - Medical care
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
610 L523h

Do they hear you when you cry

by Fauziya Kassindja
Hardcover, 1998
Tags
Refugees - Biography, Muslim women - Togo, Female circumcision - Togo, Right of asylum - U.S.
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Checked out
Due 2021-01-03
Call number
305.48 K19d

Limbo : a memoir

by A. Manette Ansay
Paperback, 2001
Tags
Pianists, Writers
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
928 A616l

My loyalist origins

by Herb Swartz
Paperback, 2015
Tags
Historical fiction, North America - History - Military history
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
813.6 S973m

Messenger : the legacy of Mattie J.T. Stepanek and Heartsongs

by Jennifer Smith Stepanek
Paperback, 2009
Tags
Mattie J.T. Stepanek, Poets - Biography, Muscular dystrophy - Children, Peace
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
811.54 S827m

Refuge: an unnatural history of family and place

by Terry Tempest Williams
Paperback, 2001
Tags
Cancer of the breast - Utah, Great Salt Lake - Natural history, Radioactive fallout
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
362.1 W727r

Tramp for the Lord

by Corrie Ten Boom
Hardcover, 1974
Tags
Christian life
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
269 TEN

Amazing grace : a vocabulary of faith

by Kathleen Norris
Paper Book, 1998
Tags
Christian life, Christianity - Terminology
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
230 N856a

The fortunate years: an Amish life

by Aaron S. Glick
Paperback, 2004
Tags
Amish - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Social life and customs
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
974.8 G559f

A princess found: an American family, an African chiefdom, and the daughter who connected them all

by Sarah Culberson
Paperback, 2010
Tags
Adopted children, Africa - Sierra Leone, Racially mixed people, Identity
Collections
Adult Nonfiction, ~Resources on race, racism and privilege; BIPOC authors
Status
Available
Call number
362.734 C967p

Sacred journey: a memoir of early days

by Frederick Buechner
Paperback, 1991
Tags
Pastors - Biography
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Series
Family Album - Frederick Buechner (1)
Status
Available
Call number
285.1 B928s

Love in a time of hate : the story of Magda and André Trocmé and the village that said no to the Nazis

by Hanna Schott
Paperback, 2017
Tags
Pacifists - France, World War II
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
940.53 S375l

God's smuggler

by Brother Andrew
Paper Book, 1967
Tags
Brother Andrew
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
921 SHE

From the Oder to the Bitterroot : memories of an uncommon life

by Werner H. Will
Paperback, 2011
Tags
Immigrants, Mennonites, Professors
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
920 W689f

What a life! : a memoir

by Donald R. Jacobs
Paperback, 2012
Tags
Mennonites - Tanzania - Bishops - Biography; Mennonites - Missionaries - Biography; Africa - Church history - Personal narrative
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Checked out
Due 2023-12-21
Call number
289.7 J17w

Our endangered values : America's moral crisis

by Jimmy Carter
Hardcover, 2005
Tags
Social values - U.S., Religious fundamentalism - U.S., Christianity and politics, Church and state - U.S., Human rights - Government policy - U.S.
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
306 C323o

Mother Teresa : a complete authorized biography

by Kathryn Spink
Paper Book, 1997
Tags
Mother Teresa 1910-1997, Missionaries of Charity, India
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
271 T757s

A school for my village : a promise to the orphans of Nyaka

by Twesigye Jackson Kaguri
Paperback, 2011
Tags
Nyaka AIDS Orphans School, Orphans, AIDS, Uganda
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
372 K11s

Kitchenary: birth to zucchini: a memoir

by Peggy H. Landis
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
Memoirs, Mennonites - Virginia, Cooking
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
920 L257k

In my father's house : the years before "The Hiding Place"

by Corrie Ten Boom
Paperback, 1976
Tags
Christian biography
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
921 TEN

Teach with your heart: lessons I learned from the Freedom Writers

by Erin Gruwell
Paperback, 2007
Tags
Teachers - High school, Teenagers, Freedom Writers
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
373 G893t

The faith club : a Muslim, a Christian, a Jew-- three women search for understanding

by Ranya Idliby
Paperback, 2007
Tags
Interfaith relationships, Religions, Study guide
Collections
Adult Nonfiction, ~Resources for small groups
Status
Available
Call number
201 I19f

God grew tired of us

by John Bul Dau
Hardcover, 2007
Tags
Dinkas - Sudan, Lost Boys, Sudan
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
920 B933g

Plain secrets : an outsider among the Amish

by Joe Mackall
Hardcover, 2007
Tags
Amish (Swartzentruber) - Ohio
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
289.7 M153p

Making a Difference in the Journey: The Geography of Our Faith (ACRS Memoirs)

by Nancy V. Lee Editor
Paperback, 2017
Tags
Easter Mennonite University - Biography
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Series
Anabaptist Center for Religion and Society Memoirs (4)
Status
Available
Call number
289.7 M235

C.S. Lewis : through the shadowlands

by Brian Sibley
Paper Book, 1985
Tags
C.S. Lewis - Biography - Marriage, Joy Davidman - Biography - Marriage, Christian biography
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
921 L673s

Lenten lands : my childhood with Joy Davidman and C.S. Lewis

by Douglas H. Gresham
Hardcover, 1988
Tags
Joy Davidman - Biography, C.S. Lewis - Biography
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
929 G831l

Sweeping up the heart : a father's lament for his daughter

by Paul W. Nisly
Paperback, 1992
Tags
Grief
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
248.8 N725s
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