Eat the Beetles!: An Exploration of Our Conflicted Relationship with Insects by David Waltner-Toews

by John Gingerich | Oct 16, 2019 | Blog, Library

Eat the Beetles!: An Exploration of Our Conflicted Relationship with Insects by David Waltner-Toews • GoodReads Review • Publishers Review • Amazon Customer Reviews In our library ready for checkout!

The World of the Kalapuya: A Native People of Western Oregon by Judy Rycraft Juntunen

by John Gingerich | Sep 4, 2019 | Blog, Library

 “The Kalapuya are a Native American ethnic group, which had eight independent groups speaking three mutually unintelligible dialects. The Kalapuya tribes’ traditional homelands were the Willamette Valley of present-day western Oregon in the United States,...

Red Quarter Moon: A Search for Family in the Shadow of Stalin By Anne Konrad Foreword by Hiroaki Kuromiya

by John Gingerich | Sep 3, 2019 | Blog, Library

Anne Konrad’s Red Quarter Moon is the gripping account of her search for family members lost and disappeared within the Soviet Union. Konrad’s ancestors, Mennonites, had settled the Ukrainian steppes in the late 1790s. An ethno-religious minority, they...

A Place for Ruth; The True Story of Ruth Reimer Yoder Growing Up in Nazi Germany

by John Gingerich | Aug 30, 2019 | Blog, Library

This is the true story of Ruth Reimer Yoder, a German Mennonite girl, growing up in Nazi Germany. Near the end of World War II, she and her family became refugees in Denmark before being reunited with their father, who was a prisoner of war because he had been an SS...

Chasing the Amish Dream My Life as a Young Amish Bachelor by Loren Beachy

by John Gingerich | Aug 25, 2019 | Blog, Library

“Life in author Loren Beachy’s 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 to be late for church twice in one day and the man who plans to...

In Pursuit of Faithfulness Conviction, Conflict, and Compromise in the Indiana-Michigan Conference by Rich Preheim

by John Gingerich | Aug 25, 2019 | Blog, Library

“In 1841, four Amish Mennonite families left their homes in southwestern Pennsylvania and traveled in horse-drawn wagons to Elkhart County, Indiana. Their journey was distinctly American, as they joined a wave of white settlers searching for new and cheaper...