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| Annie… Through It All |
Betty Barkman |
10.99
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108 pages, paperback.
With vivid memory and attention to detail, Annie Reimer recalls her childhood and adolescence, then moves on to recount her marriage, life as a young mother and a middle-aged woman, all the while reflecting with great honesty on why things turned out as they did. It is a compelling story that will keep the reader turning pages, as well as an interesting look into Mennonite rural life of the past. |
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| Prairie Pilgrim: Wilhelm H. Falk, A |
Mary Neufeld |
25.00
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self-published
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461 pages, paperback.
A Prairie Pilgrim is the remarkable life of Wilhelm H. Falk, a father, husband, brother, son, farmer, and a man of great faith. Driven by intense love and a deep, unwavering belief in God, Wilhelm raised a blended family of twelve while being thrust into the role of founder and first bishop of a rural Mennonite Gemeinde. His daughter, Mary Neufeld, details a passionate story of loss, conflict and achievement, and reveals a man of humility, dignity and grace. |
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| Ben Horch Story, The |
Peter Letkemann |
23.58
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Old Oak Publishings
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490 pages, paperback.
Once in a generation or two, a gifted, charismatic leader emerges within a religious and ethnic community to leave an indelible cultural and spiritual legacy… Ben Horch was such a leader in the sphere of music. The Ben Horch Story will supply a rich fund of information for a fresh generation of scholars, authors and musical leaders. |
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| Bent By Grace |
Elma Friesen |
25.00
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Squeaky Cheese Publications
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562 pages, hardcover.
Martin T. Friesen was born into a traditional south-eastern Manitoba Mennonite family in 1942, where means were scant and life was tough. The death of his mother in the mid-1940s changed the course of life for him and his eight siblings. The older ones dutifully took charge while their sole caregiver virtually became an absentee father. Did he have the strength of character needed for that awesome duty? This story takes you through the 1950s and through the rough and troubled environment of daily life in Winnipeg. |
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| Beyond our Wildest Dreams |
Verna Martens |
28.00
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Self-published, 2007. Paperback, 353 pages
In her unique and somewhat easy conversational style with a Low German flavour, Verna Martens tells the true story of how she and her husband Jake and two small children leave their "honeymoon" home in Canada with the vision of helping people. They had very few funds and everybody was wondering what they would live on. The plan to go for six months turned into almost twenty years of ministry in the jungles of Belize. In touch with unschooled farmers and labourers to the highest echelons of government officialdom, they are afforded the ability to build schools, a church, a medical clinic and a very successful credit union. To overcome the frequent isolation due to floods and impossible roads, Jake assists the community in the building of an airstrip and flying his own airplane. The events come alive as Verna tells you all about this modern, pioneering story.
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| Breaking Ground: Three generations of Mennonite women in the Canadian West |
Josephine Friesen |
19.95
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Ocean Park Publications
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2001 186 pages
Glimpse vanishing history as the lives of these Mennonite families change with the landscape they shape, starting with the daring elopement of Annie and Jacob, at the turn of the last century. They face the elements together, but are they strong enough to withstand the very community that they rely on for support? Can they avoid repeating their parents' mistakes on their own daughter, Eva? In turn, Eva comes to terms with her own sense of groundlessness as her life and that of her own family move farther away from their roots. Her daughter, Josie, looks for her place among a more modern, a more integrated generation. Throughout the generations, their stories are woven with the prairie landscape that both nurtures them and threatens their very existence. An insight into living history. |
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| Fence Posts of My Life |
Linda Penner |
29.95
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| God Will Provide |
Mary Penner |
8.50
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110 pages, paperback.
This book is a testimony of the faithfulness of God in Mary and Irvin Penner’s journey of faith. In 1968 they left the teaching profession committing themselves to full time ministry. This book relates how they experienced the excitement of miraculous answers to prayer. How God took care of Mary’s health needs, and provided food, shelter and clothing as they stepped out in faith trusting God to lead. |
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| I am Hutterite |
Mary-Ann Kirkby |
21.95
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Polka Dot Press
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203 pages, paperback.
In 1968, Ann-Marie Dornn’s parents did the unthinkable. They left a Hutterite colony near Portage la Prairie, Manitoba with seven children and little else, to start a new life. Overnight, the family was thrust into a society they did not understand and which knew little of their unique culture. The transition was overwhelming. Desperate to be accepted, ten-year-old Ann-Marie is forced to deny her heritage in order to fit in with her peers. I Am Hutterite chronicles her quest to reinvent herself as she comes to terms with the painful circumstances that led her family to leave community life. |
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| J.J. Thiessen; a leader for his time |
Esther Epp-Tiessen |
26.99
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CMBC Pulications/Christian Press, 2001
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346 pages
A biography of Jacob Johann Thiessen and the story of the Mennonite Church in Canada. |
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| Journey into Freedom |
Edith Elisabeth Friesen |
34.95
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Raduga Publications
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242 pages, hardcover.
This book is an intimate portrait of a Mennonite family caught within the sweep of world events during the 1930s and 40s and beyond. Through the voices of Anne, Lydia, John and Martha Dyck, history becomes richly-coloured and alive. This true and dramatic story takes us from their childhood in Stalinist Russia, to the war zones of Poland, East Prussia, Germany, and finally to Canada. We are at once drawn into the political and social realities that imprison and free millions of people |
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| Margareta: A Woman of Courage |
Helene Penner Kroeger |
22.95
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self-published
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268 pages, paperback.
This story based on the life of the author’s grandmother tells of a woman who kept her strong faith in spite of a life of hardships and tragedies in Russia from the 1880s to the 1930s. |
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| Mennonite in a Little Black Dress |
Rhoda Janzen |
17.00
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2010
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paperback
Written with wry humor and huge personality - and tackling faith, love, family, and aging - Mennonite in a Little Black Dress is an immensely moving memoir of healing, certain to touch anyone who has ever had to look homeward in order to move ahead. |
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| Of this Earth |
Rudy Wiebe |
22.00
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Random House
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One Who Dared: Life Story of
Ben D. Reimer, 1909-1994 |
Doreen Reimer Peters |
5.00
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307 pages, paperback.
Ben D. Reimer’s story is a story with profound significance and historical implications to the development of so many individuals connected to the Western Gospel Mission, the Steinbach Bible College, and the EM Church. Reimer was a “mover and a shaker” within the EM Conference, a man with a burning desire to serve his God so that others could experience not only what he had, but become part of a new generation of Christians who would in turn give their lives to the service of God. |
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| Peeking through the knothole |
Alma Barkman |
15.00
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self-published
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235 pages, paperback.
Alma Barkman tells these true stories of growing up, and growing in faith, as she looks back upon her life in Manitoba, Canada in the 1940s. |
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| Prairie Pilgrim: Wilhelm H. Falk, A |
Mary Neufeld |
25.00
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self-published
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461 pages, paperback.
A Prairie Pilgrim is the remarkable life of Wilhelm H. Falk, a father, husband, brother, son, farmer, and a man of great faith. Driven by intense love and a deep, unwavering belief in God, Wilhelm raised a blended family of twelve while being thrust into the role of founder and first bishop of a rural Mennonite Gemeinde. His daughter, Mary Neufeld, details a passionate story of loss, conflict and achievement, and reveals a man of humility, dignity and grace. |
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| Sand in My Shoes |
Albert Martens |
20.00
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self-published
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228 pages, paperback.
Ultramarathoner Albert Martens tells stories about his extreme running adventures. He describes how these challenges relate to his personal faith. He also features other elite ultramarathon runners in this book like Dean Karnazes, USA; Ray Zehab, Canada; Lisa Smith, USA; Dr. Holger Finkernagel, Germany and many others that he has become acquainted with through these ultramarathon races. |
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| Steppes are the Colour of Sepia, The |
Connie Braun |
21.95
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Ronsdale Press
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245 pages, paperback.
Connie Braun’s narrative continues where Sandra Birdsell’s historical fiction The Russlaender has left off – back to the catastrophic events of twentieth-century Eastern Europe. Braun intimately ushers us into the life of one extended Mennonite family, and in particular the life of her father and grandfather, living under the terror of Stalin, and later, under the military expansion of Hitler’s Nazi regime in the Ukraine. In a memoir that is historically faithful to documents, letters, old photographs and personal testimony, Braun offers a second-generation witness to all those who have suffered displacement in history’s disasters, and whose obscure stories must be told. In doing so, she honours the spirit of resilience embodied by the refugees who have created and transformed Canadian society. |
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| Stolen Life |
Rudy Wiebe |
23.00
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Random House
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444 pages, paperback.
This is a chronicle of justice and injustice, the true story of events that put Yvonne Johnson behind bars for life at the age of twenty-seven. Above all, it is the unforgettable story of a Native woman who has broken a lifetime of silence to share the understandings that sustain her. Written with the compassion that is the hallmark of Rudy Wiebe’s work, and informed by Yvonne Johnson’s own intelligence and poetic eloquence, this award-winning book unites one of Canada’s foremost writers and the great-great-granddaughter of Chief Big Bear in a collaboration that speaks to us all. |
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| Swing Low: a Life |
Miriam Toews |
19.95
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Random House
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228 pages, paperback.
One morning, Mel Toews put on his coat and hat and walked out of town, prepared to die. A loving husband and father, faithful member of the Mennonite church and immensely popular school teacher, he was a pillar of his close-knit community. Yet after a lifetime of struggle, he could no longer face the darkness of manic depression. In Swing Low, his daughter Miriam recounts Mel’s life as she imagines he would have told it, right up to the day he took his final walk. A gracefully written and compassionate recounting of a man’s battle with depression in a small Mennonite community, Swing Low is a moving meditation on illness, family, faith and love. |
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| Tales from the Gravel Ridge |
Maria Falk Lodge |
8.95
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self-published
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88 pages, paperback.
This collection of stories, most of which have appeared in Manitoba’s weekly rural newspaper, The Carillon, detail the author’s memories of growing up on a Mennonite farmstead, and her reflections on the wider scope of meaning behind day-to-day activities. |
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| Ted Friesen, Memoirs |
Ted Friesen |
19.95
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self-published
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180 pages, hardcover.
Ted Friesen’s book of memoirs documents the life and legacy of the last surviving brother of the three who founded Friesens Corporation. He was an active participant in Mennonite Central Committee, the Mennonite Historical Society of Canada, the Manitoba Mennonite Historical Society, the Canadian Conference of Mennonites, Eden Mental Health, and two Altona churches. As he states, there is much in his experience to pass on to future generations. |
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| What Do You Do If You Don’t Die? |
Linda McIntosh |
20.99
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Heartland Publications
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