Current Reading Program Titles
BB=Bonus Book, LP=Large Print, CB=Children’s Book, YB=Youth Book
Education for Mission2019
Escape from the Green Mansion by Christine Taylor Threading my Prayer Rug by Sabeeha Reham 2018 A House in the Sky by Amanda Lindhout & Sara Corbett Massacre at Sand Creek by Gary Roberts (BB) Hiding in the Light by Rifqa Bary 2017 Wherever the River Runs by Kelly Minter Journey with JW by Daphna Flegal (CB) 2016 Chasing the Divine in the Holy Land by Ruth Everhart The Underground Girls of Kabul by Jenny Nordberg Twenty-Two Cents by Paula Yoo (LP) Our Rights by Janet Wilson (YB) (BB) Up Rising by Sally Armstrong (BB) 2015 Good God, Lousy World and Me by Holly Burkhalter (BB) Chasing Chaos by Jessica Alexander Faith and Struggle on Smokey Mountain by Benigno Beltran (BB) The Golden Cage by Shirin Ebadi What’s so Blessed About Being Poor? by Susan Slavin and Coralis Salvador (BB) My Name is Blessing by Eric Walters (CB) A Girl Called Problem by Katie Quirk (YB) 2014 Awake by Noel Brewer Yeatts Radio Shangri-La by Lisa Napoli The Dressmaker by Khair Khana (LP) |
Leadership Development2019
Eleanor: A Spiritual Biography by Harold Ivan Smith Red by Jan De Kinder (CB) Step Up To The Plate by Maria Singh (YB) 2018 Feathered by Deborah Kerbel (YB) Stick up for Yourself by Gershen Kaufman, Lev Raphael & Pamela Espeland (CB) The Amazing age of John Roy Lynch by Chris Barton (CB) 2017 Pig Park by Claudia Guadalupe Martinez (YB) 2016 I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai The Weight of Mercy by Deb Richardson-Moore Girls with Swords by Lisa Bevere (LP) Because I am a Girl by Rosemary McCarney and Jen Albaugh (CB) 2015 Fulfilled by Kirk Byron Jones Sum It Up by Pat Summitt This Girl Is Different by J.J. Johnson (YB) 2014 Back to Zero by Gil Rendle Grace and Grit by Lilly Ledbetter Lord, I Love the Church and We Need Help by Virginia Bassford (LP) Yours for Justice by Philip Dray (CB) Spiritual Growth2019
All Around Us by Xelena Gonzalez (YB) The Soulmaking Room by Dee Dee Risher 2018 The Pilgrim Messiah by Richard Cheatham Adventure of Ascent by Luci Shaw Tattered and Mended by Cynthia Ruchti (CB) 2017 Soul Repair by Rita Nakashima Brock & Gabriella Lettini Living Into Hope by Joan Brown Campbell (LP) The Reason by Lacy Sturm (YB)2016 Tilly by Monique Gray Smith Coaltown Jesus by Ron Koertge (YB) 2015 Finding God in a Bag of Groceries by Laura Lapins Willis 2014 Traveler by Mary Alice Parmley (CB) A Faithful Heart by Sally Dyck Embraced by God by Babbie Mason |
Nurturing for Community2019
BETTER Waking Up To Who We Could Be by Melvin Bray The Hidden Life Awakened by Kitty Crenshaw & Cathy Snapp The Same Sky by Amanda Eyre Ward When Did Everyone Else Get Old by Jennifer Grant 2018 Detained and Deported by Margaret Regan Trouble I’ve Seen by Drew Hart Three Feathers by Richard Van Camp (YB) The Book of Joy by Dalai Lama & Desmond Tutu (LP) 2017 Slowing Time by Barbara Mahany The Perfect Place by Teresa E. Harris (YB) Remember Dippy by Shirley Reva Vernick (YB) 2016 House of Purple Cedar—Tim Tingle I Love Growing Older, But I’ll Never Grow Old by J.Ellsworth Kalas Miss Brenda and the Loveladies by Brenda Spahn & Irene Zutell Crazy by Linda Vigen Phillips (YB) 2015 When Pastors Prey by Valli Boobal Batchelor Bully.com by Joe Lawlor (YB) The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe January First by Michael Schofield The Round House by Louise Erdrich Whatever Happened to Dinner by Melodie Davis Across Many Mountains by Yangzom Brauen (LP) Because Amelia Smiled by David E. Stein (CB) 2014 Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin Small Things With Great Love by Margot Starbuck Unplugged by Laura Padersen (CB) Wonder by R.J. Palacio (YB) Up by Patricia Ellis Herr Simply Salsa by Janel Perez Eckles |
Social Action2019
Nobody Cries When We Die by Patrick B. Rays (BB) Walking on Lava by Chelsea Green (BB) The Feathered Bone by Julie Cantrell (not available from UMW Mission Resources) 2018 Pushout by Monique Morris (BB) Hospitable Planet by Stephen Jurovics (BB) 13 Steps to Sustainability by UMW (download copy or watch at https://www.youtube.com/watchv=w0x8rVnuiAI&feature=youtu.be) 2017 America and its Guns by James E. Atwood (BB) What We’re Fighting for Now is Each Other by Wen Stephenson (BB)2016 Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson (BB) The White Umbrella by Mary Francis Bowley 2015 Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Kind of Kin by Rilla Askew Refuse to do Nothing by Shayne Moore & Kimberly Yim (YB) Return to Sender by Julia Alvarez (YB) 2014 Dear White America by Tim Wise An Invisible Thread by Laura Schroff & Alex Tresniowski (LP) Sheila Says We’re Weird by Ruth Ann Smalley (CB) Finding Higher Ground by Amy Seidl (BB) Which Side Are You On by George Lyon (YB) |