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Writing honestly about first love, marriage, divorce, sexuality, and the struggle to find home within herself, Tricia Gates Brown tells a story that is at once personal and universal. Her memoir is the story of a woman coming to understand divine love-for herself, for women, and for everyone who has stumbled his or her way into awareness and grace.

Copyright 2011 Cascadia Publishing House

Copyright 2011 Cascadia Publishing House

A Mennonite Woman explores how the shapes people live among in turn shape them. Mennonite Christians are called to be intentional about giving a God-shape to their lives. This book argues that spiritual formation is necessarily changing from a spiritual-formation-by-just-living-in-community to a more intentional spiritual formation-by-contemplative-and communal-disciplines.

But more than that, here is simply a good story! Here the author integrates her Mennonite background, her encounter with Irish Catholic faith, and the spiritual life she discovers in her grandmother and in her own everyday life.

Copyright 2010 Cascadia Publishing House

Drawing on her own experience, Donoghue reaches out to all who parent alone and invites them to build with her a community of mutual encouragement and trust in God.

A unique personal flavor, Meditations for Single Moms will inspire single parents as well as those who support them.

Marlene Epp explores women's roles within the contests of immigration, family, church life, work, education, and social life. Comparing how Mennonites dictate women's "place" within society with how women actually behave, Epp finds a contradiction between behavioral ideals and practicalities. Also women's responses to dictates about their proper place vary widely, unsettling a clear delineation of their roles. Using diaries, oral histories, genealogies and memoirs, Epp presents a fascinating story of Canadian Mennonite women.

Copyright 2008 University of Manitoba Press

copyright 2000.

First there is An in Holland in the early 1940's, fighting to keep the War from taking over her young, promising life. Despite being from a well-to-do family, she risks her life repeatedly to care for war-time refugees-hiding a baby in her hand-luggage while on a ferry that draws gunfire; distracting the guard at a bridge so a fugitive without a pass can be bicycled across; stuffing documents under a body lying in state in a room in her home when soldiers suddenly launch a raid; and much more.

At the same time, groups of women across North America meeting sewing circles, concerned that the War is destroying homes and families throughout Europe. They know they can't stop the devastation. But they can make quilts-and then bundle them up and send them off to do their part to give comfort and courage during the war.

Lynn comes 20-some years later, showing up in Amsterdam fresh from America in the mid-1960's, a little rebellious and tired of another war. She didn't know An then, and quilts were not something she ever made. But her grandmother and aunts and other older women in her childhood church did.

One weekend, Lynn discovers the quilts that survived the War and goes searching for their owner and stories. She found An and, ultimately, herself.

The book brings together these true, yet nearly unbelievable stories; it pictures 19 work-worn quilts, along with many historic photographs of the places where the War reached An, as well as current photos of An and Lynn together today. This is a treasure that will inspire women everywhere not to turn aside from helping others-in little ways, in ordinary ways.

Copyright 2005 Good Books.