Plain and Simple: A Journey to the Amish
10 best books like Plain and Simple: A Journey to the Amish (Sue Bender): Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law, To Hell and Back, Living the Simple Life: A Guide to Scaling Down and Enjoying More, The Road Home, Not for Nothing: Glimpses Into a Jersey Girlhood, Amish Women, Jeter Unfiltered, A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows through Loss, Suffering Is Never for Nothing, The Christmas Remedy
Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
| Author | Haben Girma |
| ISBN | 1478992816 |
The incredible life story of Haben Girma, the first deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School, and her amazing journey from isolation to the world stage.
Haben grew up spending summers with her family in the enchanting Eritrean city of Asmara. There, she discovered courage as she faced off...
| Author | Audie Murphy |
| ISBN | 0805070869 |
The classic bestselling war memoir by the most decorated American soldier in World War II, back in print in a trade paperback
Originally published in 1949, To Hell and Back was a smash bestseller for fourteen weeks and later became a major motion picture starring Audie Murphy as himself. More...
| Author | Elaine St. James |
| ISBN | 0786882425 |
If you've thought about simplifying, but don't know where to begin, LIVING THE SIMPLE LIFE is the blueprint you need. And if you've already started to simplify, it will give you new insights and ideas for what to do next on your journey to a more balanced, peaceful life.
In these pages, you'll...
| Author | Beverly Lewis |
| ISBN | 0764219677 |
Lena Rose Schwartz hadn't planned to leave her Old Order community in Centerville, Michigan. But then, she could not have foreseen the accident that made her and her siblings orphans. After her parents' funeral, her younger brothers and sisters are farmed out to various nearby relatives. But when...
Not for Nothing: Glimpses Into a Jersey Girlhood
| Author | Kathy Curto |
| ISBN | 1599541297 |
Kathy Curto gives readers a glimpse into her New Jersey childhood from the 1970s. ”Not For Nothing” is a collection of memories as viewed from the youngest daughter in an Italian - American family. Kathy’s father owned a gas station while her mother tended the house while watching over her children....
| Author | Louise Stoltzfus |
| ISBN | 1561482285 |
Written by a woman who grew up in an Old Order Amish community and church, Amish Women: Lives and Stories offers a gentle, lyrical inside view of Amish womanhood. How are Amish women unique? How are they typical? How do they find expression in a place that values community togetherness...
| Author | Derek Jeter |
| ISBN | 1476783667 |
The only authorized full-color book commemorating Derek Jeter’s iconic baseball career with the New York Yankees, featuring archival images and original photos of his final 2014 season from renowned photographer Christopher Anderson.
Derek Jeter’s twentieth and final season in...
A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows through Loss
| Author | Jerry Sittser |
| ISBN | 0310258952 |
An expanded edition of this classic book on grief and loss with a new preface and epilogue.
Loss came suddenly for Jerry Sittser. In an instant, a tragic car accident claimed three generations of his family: his mother, his wife, and his young daughter. While most of us will not experience such...
Suffering Is Never for Nothing
| Author | Elisabeth Elliot |
| ISBN | 1535914157 |
Elisabeth Elliot (1926-2015) was a Christian author and speaker. She, having lived through great loss, taught on God’s grace in the midst of hardship, as well as teaching wives and mothers to fulfill the high calling of Titus 2.
In her final book, Elisabeth Elliot describes how it is often...
| Author | Cindy Woodsmall |
| ISBN | 0735291047 |
When an Old Order Amish woman takes a job at a small-town pharmacy struggling to survive in a world of "big box" stores, her motive is to help her Plain community. But the advent of the holiday season brings an unusual mystery to the surface--and possibly love.
Twenty-four-year-old Holly Zook...
| Author | Marge Piercy |
| ISBN | 0060937025 |
Suzanne Blume has known success and disappointment in equal measure. A respected lawyer who survived two marriages and put two children through college, she now faces the disquieting prospect of her wayward older daughter moving back home. But more troubling still is the news that her mother, a woman...
| Author | Jane Sassaman |
| ISBN | 1571201033 |
Important Note about PRINT ON DEMAND Editions: You are purchasing a print on demand edition of this book. This book is printed individually on uncoated (non-glossy) paper with the best quality printers available. The printing quality of this copy will vary from the original offset printing edition...
Devil's Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth-Century American West
| Author | Hal K. Rothman |
| ISBN | 0700610561 |
The West is popularly perceived as America's last outpost of unfettered opportunity, but twentieth-century corporate tourism has transformed it into America's "land of opportunism." From Sun Valley to Santa Fe, towns throughout the West have been turned over to outsiders--and not just to those...
Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture
| Author | William R. Leach |
| ISBN | 0679754113 |
In Land of Desire, William Leach delineates the factors that led to the emergence of the contemporary consumer culture among Americans. He states that beginning in the late nineteenth century, American culture began to evolve (or, more appropriately, regress) into one that increasingly saw the...
Magic Lands: Western Cityscapes and American Culture After 1940
| Author | John M. Findlay |
| ISBN | 0520084357 |
The American West conjures up images of pastoral tranquility and wide open spaces, but by 1970 the Far West was the most urbanized section of the country. Exploring four intriguing cityscapes—Disneyland, Stanford Industrial Park, Sun City, and the 1962 Seattle World's Fair—John Findlay shows...
Downtown America: A History of the Place and the People Who Made It
| Author | Alison Isenberg |
| ISBN | 0226385086 |
Downtown America was once the vibrant urban center romanticized in the Petula Clark song—a place where the lights were brighter, where people went to spend their money and forget their worries. But in the second half of the twentieth century, "downtown" became a shadow of its former self, succumbing...
Rethinking Multiculturalism: Cultural Diversity and Political Theory
| Author | Bhikhu C. Parekh |
| ISBN | 0674004361 |
Bhikhu Parekh argues for a pluralist perspective on cultural diversity. Writing from both within the liberal tradition and outside of it as a critic, he challenges what he calls the moral monism of much of traditional moral philosophy, including contemporary liberalism--its tendency to assert...
Atomic Spaces: Living on the Manhattan Project
| Author | Peter Hales |
| ISBN | 0252068319 |
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