Books for Youth & Adults

Go with the Dan Troyer family as they experience God’s timely provisions and protecting hand time and again. Many moves and a large, active family make for a very interesting read. Paperback, 187 pages

“What happened, Jurian?” Jurian didn’t answer immediately. Opening his pack, he lifted out and precisely arranged a sheaf of parchment, several scrolls, and a few ornate little books on the rough-hewn table. “I bring news,” he said. “It’s not good.” “Is it you? Jurian, have you been reported?” Jurian glanced up. “I wouldn’t have come back here if I had been.” “Tell me, Jurian. What...

The Conquest Series, Volume 2 Sage Meas, an Indian man, strains to comprehend the meaning of life as he interacts with settlers, traders, pirates, governors, Mennonites, soldiers, slaves, traitors, and his own people. He launches scathing attacks on the religious pretenses of Whites and mounts a defense of Lenape values and practices. Homeland in My Heart challenges many of the basic tenets of Whites by telling the...

Meadow Flower faced a hard future. Society scorned her people. Her father was old and unwell, and her mother repeatedly abandoned the family. Picking crops with migrant people during the Great Depression, sleeping under the stars, and scavenging for food for her siblings forced nine-year-old Meadow Flower to become tough and self-reliant. A social worker took the neglected children to an almshouse, where terrible...

Whether hunting for deer on a frosty morning, making cabinets, or dipping sludge from an outhouse, Robert Stauffer finds ways to learn from his experiences. Here is a sampling of stories he shares in this book: “What was that noise?” I sat up in bed, instantly awake. It sounded like barbed wire being stretched through fence staples. Suddenly I heard my son yell, “There’s a bear in the beeyard!” I had never...