Genre search:Biography

Liberating Lomie: memoir of an Amish childhood

by Saloma Miller Furlong
Paperback, 2022
Tags
Memoirs, Amish women, Mothers and daughters
Collections
Adult Nonfiction, ~Recent additions
Status
Available
Call number
921 F985l

Disarmed: the radical life and legacy of Michael "MJ" Sharp

by Marshall V. King
Paperback, 2022
Tags
Central African history, Social activism
Collections
Adult Nonfiction, ~Recent additions
Status
Checked out
Due 2023-01-22
Call number
289.7092 K54d

Wholehearted faith

by Rachel Held Evans
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
Personal essays, Faith, Theology
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
248.4 E92w

The blistering morning mist: a memoir

by Kathleen Weaver Kurtz
Paperback, 2021
Tags
Mennonites - Virginia - Biography, Eastern Mennonite University - Biographies
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
921 K96

Cousins: connected through slavery, a Black woman and a White woman discover their past―and each other

by Betty Kilby Baldwin
Paperback, 2021
Tags
Autobiographies, Virginia - Race relations - History - Biography
Collections
Adult Nonfiction, ~Resources on race, racism and privilege; BIPOC authors
Status
Available
Call number
975.5209 B181c

Be the bridge : pursuing God's heart for racial reconciliation

by LaTasha Morrison
Paperback, 2019
Tags
Racism - Religious aspects - Christianity, Reconciliation - Religious aspects
Collections
Adult Nonfiction, ~Resources on race, racism and privilege; BIPOC authors
Status
Available
Call number
241 M879b

How to be an antiracist

by Ibram X. Kendi
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
Racism - Psychological aspects, United States - Race relations
Collections
Adult Nonfiction, ~Resources on race, racism and privilege; BIPOC authors
Status
Available
Call number
305.8 K33h

The God who sees: immigrants, the Bible, and the journey to belong

by Karen González
Paperback, 2019
Tags
Emigration & immigration, Immigrants, Hispanic American women - Biography
Collections
Adult Nonfiction, ~Resources on race, racism and privilege; BIPOC authors
Status
Available
Call number
277.3 G643g

Inspired : slaying giants, walking on water, and loving the Bible again

by Rachel Held Evans
Paperback, 2018
Tags
Bible, Christian life
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
248 E92i

Almost everything : notes on hope

by Anne Lamott
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
Spirituality, Hope - Religious aspects
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
170 L235a

Gathering of sisters: a year with my Old Order Mennonite family

by Darla Weaver
Paperback, 2018
Tags
Mennonite women - Biography, Old Order Mennonites
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
289.7092 W363g

Mystics and misfits : meeting God through St. Francis and other unlikely saints

by Christiana N. Peterson
Paperback, 2018
Tags
Mysticism, Spirituality, Study guide
Collections
Adult Nonfiction, ~Resources for small groups
Status
Checked out
Due 2023-07-21
Call number
248.2 P485m

A prairie girl's faith: the spiritual legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder

by Stephen W. Hines
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
Women pioneers - Biography
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
813.52 W673p

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

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

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

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

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

Recollections of a sectarian realist : a Mennonite life in the twentieth century

by J. Lawrence Burkholder
Paperback, 2016
Tags
Mennonites - U.S. - Biography
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
289.7 B959r

Between the world and me

by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
Race discrimination - United States, African Americans - Social conditions, United States - Race relations
Collections
Adult Nonfiction, ~Resources on race, racism and privilege; BIPOC authors
Status
Available
Call number
305.8 C652b

Searching for Sunday : loving, leaving, and finding the church

by Rachel Held Evans
Paperback, 2015
Tags
Women - Religious aspects - Christianity, Christian women - Religious life, Church membership
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
265 E92s

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

Mama Maggie : the untold story of one woman's mission to love the forgotten children of Egypt's garbage slums

by Marty Makary
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
Nuns - Egypt - Cairo - Biography, Maggie Gobran
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
305 M235m

The sound of gravel : a memoir

by Ruth Wariner
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
Mormons, Abuse, Family
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
920 W276s

A Charlie Brown religion : exploring the spiritual life and work of Charles M. Schulz

by Stephen J. Lind
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
Charles M. Schulz, Peanuts comic strip
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
741.5 L742c

Just mercy : a story of justice and redemption

by Bryan Stevenson
Paperback, 2015
Tags
Social reformers - U.S. - Biography, Administration of criminal justice - U.S.
Collections
Adult Nonfiction, ~Resources on race, racism and privilege; BIPOC authors
Status
Available
Call number
353.48 S847j

My calling to fulfill : the Orie O. Miller story

by John E. Sharp
Paperback, 2015
Tags
Orie O. Miller 1892-1977, Mennonites - Biography, Study guide
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
289.7 M649s

Emma: A Will to Surrender

by Becky McGurrin
Hardcover, 2014
Collection
Adult Fiction
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Bonnet strings : an Amish woman's ties to two worlds (c.4)

by Saloma Miller Furlong
Paperback, 2014
Tags
Amish women, Extra copies available
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
289.7 F985b c.4

Bonnet strings : an Amish woman's ties to two worlds (c.3)

by Saloma Miller Furlong
Paperback, 2014
Tags
Amish women, Extra copies available
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
289.7 F985b c.3

Bonnet strings : an Amish woman's ties to two worlds (c.2)

by Saloma Miller Furlong
Paperback, 2014
Tags
Amish women, Extra copies available
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
289.7 F985b c.2

Mister Owita's guide to gardening : how I learned the unexpected joy of a green thumb and an open heart

by Carol Wall
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
Gardening, Cancer
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
635 W187m

The unbreakable boy : a father's fear, a son's courage, and a story of unconditional love

by Scott Michael LeRette
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
Osteogenesis imperfecta, Autistic children, Fathers and sons
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
618.92 L615u

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

Wish you happy forever : what China's orphans taught me about moving mountains

by Jenny Bowen
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
Adoption - China, Orphans - China
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
362.73 B786w

Bonnet strings : an Amish woman's ties to two worlds (c.1)

by Saloma Miller Furlong
Paperback, 2014
Tags
Amish women
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
289.7 F985b copy 1

Chasing the Amish dream : my life as a young Amish bachelor

by Loren Beachy
Paperback, 2014
Tags
Amish - Indiana
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
289.7 B365c

Blush : a Mennonite girl meets the glittering world

by Shirley Hershey Showalter
Paperback, 2013
Tags
Educators - U.S., College presidents - U.S., Mennonite women - Autobiography, Extra copies available
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
370.92 S559b c.1

Kinship concealed: Amish Mennonite--African American family connections

by Sharon Cranford
Paperback, 2013
Tags
Amish Mennonites, African Americans, Slavery, Family
Collections
Adult Nonfiction, ~Resources on race, racism and privilege; BIPOC authors
Status
Available
Call number
929 C891k

Preemptive love : pursuing peace one heart at a time

by Jeremy Courtney
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
Medical charities, Cardiology - Iraq, Iraq - NGOs
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
956.70 C865p

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

I am Malala : the girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban

by Malala Yousafzai
Paperback, 2013
Tags
Pakistan, Education for girls, Large print
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
371.8 Y82i

Blush : a Mennonite girl meets the glittering world

by Shirley Hershey Showalter
Paperback, 2013
Tags
Educators - U.S., College presidents - U.S., Mennonite women - Autobiography, Extra copies available
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Checked out
Due 2023-02-19
Call number
370.92 S559b c.2

Twelve years a slave

by Solomon Northup
Paperback, 2013
Tags
Slaves - U.S. - Biography, Plantation life
Collections
Adult Nonfiction, ~Resources on race, racism and privilege; BIPOC authors
Status
Available
Call number
306.3 N876t

Branch: a memoir with pictures

by John L. Ruth
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
Mennonites - Pennsylvania - Autobiography, Pastors - Mennonite, TourMagination
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
289.7 R974b

It happened in Moscow : a memoir of discovery

by Maureen Klassen
Paperback, 2013
Tags
Mary Krieger Klassen, Erika Reimer Gurieva, Jakob Reimer, Mennonites - Russia, Mennonites - Canada
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
289.7 K63i

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

Seven thousand ways to listen : staying close to what is sacred

by Mark Nepo
Hardcover, 2012
Tags
Spiritual life, Listening - Religious aspects
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
204 N441s

Prague winter : a personal story of remembrance and war, 1937-1948

by Madeleine Korbel Albright
Paperback, 2012
Tags
Czechoslovakia - History 1938-1945, World War II - Czechoslovakia, Jewish families - Czech Republic
Collection
Adult Nonfiction
Status
Available
Call number
943.71 A342p

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
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