by Sarah Purdy | Aug 31, 2012 | Nonfiction, Our Books
by Helen Boertje From township to township, When One Room Fit All is a complete overview of the country schools of Marion County, Iowa. The book pinpoints the location of each school and lists the teachers who taught there. Through excerpts from old newspapers and...
by Sarah Purdy | Jul 20, 2012 | Novels, Our Books
by Sheryl L. Carter Hannah Munroe stumbles through the snow towards a cabin, nearing exhaustion, with no memory of her past—not her name, not why she is wandering alone in the woods in the dead of winter with nothing but the clothes on her back. Within this sanctuary...
by Sarah Purdy | Jul 12, 2012 | Memoirs, Our Books
by Chuck Hackenmiller A story of growing up on a family farm in Iowa in the 1950s and 60s—when the moldboard plow was considered practical and not anti-conservation, when chickens roamed freely around the farmyard, when home-cooked food beat “eating out”...
by Sarah Purdy | Jul 5, 2012 | Memoirs, Our Books
by Clarence Vos On the fateful day of March 29, 1983, Winnie and Clarence Vos heard the news that they had been dreading for years—Winnie had Huntington’s disease. They knew that the devastating, hereditary, degenerative brain disorder had no cure and only one...
by Sarah Purdy | Dec 29, 2011 | Memoirs, Our Books
by Gregg Bruxvoort “This is more than just a story about a dog.” In the silence of an early morning, Gregg Bruxvoort asked God to show him the meaning of the life and death of his beloved dog, Cole. Cole’s Epiphany tells the story of God’s...
