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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The Damnation of Theron Ware The Damnation of Theron Ware Harold Frederic A fledgling Methodist preacher rotates into an up-state New York town and learns disorienting lessons in how life is, and other ways life could be. OL103394W
Yesterday in the Texas hill country Yesterday in the Texas hill country Gilbert John Jordan The simplicity of rural life appears in vivid detail in this account of German Texas heritage as it was lived in the early 1900s. Gilbert Jordan describes a way of life familiar to much of rural Texa… OL1287304W
The Ramparts of Heaven (The Wakefield Dynasty #5) The Ramparts of Heaven (The Wakefield Dynasty #5) Gilbert Morris Two families—the Wakefields of nobility and the lower-class Morgans—are the focus of this sweeping generational saga, joined by intriguing personalities such as Elizabeth I, William Tyndale, and John… OL14854759W
The Blood and Thunder Adventure on Hurricane Peak The Blood and Thunder Adventure on Hurricane Peak Margaret Mahy Relates the tangled events that lead the students of the Unexpected School on Hurricane Peak to foil the wicked Sir Quincey and his accomplices and to solve several mysteries. OL15012721W
The Sunday wife The Sunday wife Cassandra King She's been married to a Methodist minister for 20 years, but Dean Lynch has never quite adjusted her temperament to the demands of a "Sunday wife." When she becomes friends with Augusta Holderfield, … OL16059680W
The dairyman's daughter The dairyman's daughter Legh Richmond One of the 19th century's most well-read stories for girls. Over three (3) million copies sold before 1900. Read this once and you'll wonder why you never heard this story before. Told by her pastor,… OL1636092W
With an attitude of gratitude With an attitude of gratitude Donald Charles Lacy "In this yearlong accounting of his life and life's work, Donald Charles Lacy regularly greets the early morning in a posture of gratefulness, and with a heart of remembrance and receptivity. With da… OL18146014W
The Missouri bishops The Missouri bishops Ivan Lee Holt These are autobiographies of the bishops who served the Methodist Church in Missouri. OL20945536W
On God's polishing wheel On God's polishing wheel Kurt Leichter Leichter's life journey has taken him from Vienna to Belgium, and eventually to Oklahoma, where he has been a prominent philanthropist for decades. At age 14, the Jewish-Protestant Leichter was force… OL24289965W
The village blacksmith The village blacksmith James Everett As far as I know the earliest publication of this book by James Everett was 1858, the 100th anniversary of Samuel Hick's birth. It is a biography of his life, how he came to be inspired by his faith… OL245293W
Susanna Wesley, mother of John and Charles Susanna Wesley, mother of John and Charles Charles Ludwig A biography of the woman who married the well-known preacher, Samuel Wesley, and was the mother of John, founder of Methodism, and Charles, famous for the more than 6,000 hymns he wrote during his li… OL3016870W
Wilderness rider Wilderness rider Leonard T. Wolcott A biography of Noah Fidler, a circuit-riding Methodist preacher of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. OL4713636W
The backwoods preacher The backwoods preacher Peter Cartwright This famous Methodist circuit-rider made an exploratory trip through Illinois in 1823 and located the following year in Sangamon County. He had charge of several districts in the central and northern… OL5110467W
Recollections of frontier life Recollections of frontier life Elizabeth Ann Lyon Roe The author wrote in the Preface, “In these pages many recollections of frontier life in different localities are sketched. The climate, the soil, society, schools and churches, in many places in Kent… OL6557503W
Memoirs of Puget Sound Memoirs of Puget Sound David Blaine David Blaine was the first Christian minister in Seattle, Washington Territory, and founder of the Methodist Episcopal Church (now First United Methodist Church) in that city. OL6803804W