Good Books imprint: 202 books
Hope on the Plains
The Dakota Series, Book 2
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Hannah, a feisty young Amish woman, lives on her family’s farm in North Dakota. After moving halfway across the country and struggling to land on their feet, Hannah’s family is finally feeling settled. The cattle business is doing well, and other Amish families have moved into the area.
Feeling...
Home Is Where the Heart Is
The Dakota Series, Book 3
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Hannah, feisty and independent as ever, has put everything into building up her family’s homestead in North Dakota. Despite tragedy and almost unimaginable hardship due to the Great Depression, unpredictable weather, and unforgiving landscape, she and her new husband Jerry are leading their Amish...
The Homestead
The Dakota Series, Book 1
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Hannah is a fifteen-year-old Amish girl who lives on her family’s farm in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. When her family, hit hard by the Great Depression, loses their farm, Hannah’s father decides it’s time for a fresh start. Destitute but inspired by grand plans and dreams of a better future west...
by Stephen Scott
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2002
A study of three Amish homesteads: one in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, one in Holmes County, Ohio, and one in LaGrange County, Indiana. Scott examines the history and cultural development of a typical Amish house and barn, one in each of the three largest Amish communities in North America. Home...
The Faith-Filled Grandmother
Promises, Prayers & Practical Advice for Today
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
A prayerful guidebook and spiritual resource for the modern-day Nana
Grandmothers, with their lifetime of experience, have more wisdom than anyone since Solomon. Nanas, simply put, have a hotline to God! But how can she fulfill her role as a godly grandma today? The modern-day grandmother faces...
Let Go and Let God
A Devotional for Decluttering Your Heart
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
This beautifully designed daily devotional helps readers focus on what’s important, rather than getting caught up in the endless cycle of worry, stress, and panic that characterizes the busy lives of today’s families. Every page offers an inspirational quote, a Scripture verse, and a suggestion...
God's Shalom Project
An Engaging Look At The Bible's Sweeping Store
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
The author sees God as a gracious parent, intent on a restored relationship with humans. It is that ongoing effort which Ott calls the Shalom Project. Ott believes that "God wants a Shalom people," a community of the faithful who together love God and each other, and then live in the world within that strength.
Seeking Places of Peace
A Global Mennonite History
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Perhaps the most inclusive, sweeping, and insightful history ever written about the North American Mennonite saga. Both authors are eminent historians. Royden Loewen is Professor of History, with a chair in Mennonite Studies, at the University of Winnipeg. Steven M. Nolt is Professor of History at...
Quiet and Peaceable Life
People's Place Book No.2
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1997
John L. Ruth, a Mennonite storyteller/historian, captures the spirit of Old Order Mennonite and Amish groups in his essays, along with photographs, poetry, and quotations. If the "plain people" of North America are to be understood in terms of their own concerns, we must consider sympathetically their...
Introduction to Old Order and Conservative Mennonite Groups
People's Place Book No. 12
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1996
This book tells a story which until now has not been available in such an interesting and comprehensive form. What holds these people together? Why are they growing in number? Where do they live? The Old Order Mennonites are less well known than the Amish, but are similar in many beliefs and practices....
Churches Engage Asian Traditions
A Global Mennonite History
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Churches Engage Asian Traditions is the first comprehensive history of Mennonite and Brethren in Christ churches in Asia. From the first Mennonite church in Asia in 1851, to 265,000 Mennonites and Brethren in Christ church members in 13 countries today. From the Introduction to the volume: This vast...
Mission and Migration
A Global Mennonite History
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Mission and Migration is the first comprehensive history to be written by Latin American Mennonite historians about Mennonite church life in Central and South Americas from its beginnings. From the Introduction to the volume: "The story of the coming of Anabaptist-descended churches to Latin America...
Testing Faith and Tradition
A Global Mennonite History
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
The Anabaptist movement had its beginning in scattered places throughout Europe during the 16th century. Today these Anabaptist-descended Mennonite churches are declining in membership, but they are not without reinvigorated faith and hope. Frequent wars during the past 480 years strained these Mennonite...
by Dorcas Smucker
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Downstairs the Queen Is Knitting is Dorcas Smucker's brand new chronicle of family life with six fast-growing up kids. Downstairs the Queen Is Knitting follows Dorcas' two earlier and beloved collections, "Upstairs the Peasants Are Revolting" and "Ordinary Days." The kids are a bit older now, and...