United Methodist Women Reading List - 2012 Through 2017 Lynn Gammell Listed by Category Program Resource Coordinator

Bonus = Counts as 2 books in the same category, or as one book in both Social Action & Education for Mission E-book= Books are available electronically, feel free to purchase yourself if you prefer reading electronically

2012 Books in St. James UMW Library 2013 Books in St. James UMW Library 2014 Books in St. James UMW Library 2015 Books in St. James UMW Library 2016 Books in St. James UMW Library 2017 Books in St. James UMW Library

Year Title Author Category Special E-book 2012 Beaded Hope Liggett Education for Mission 2012 Because He Lives Guess Education for Mission Bonus 2012 Cesar Chavez: A Photographic Essay Stavans Education for Mission 2012 Forgotten Girls: Stories of Hope and Courage Strom & Rickett Education for Mission 2012 It's Easier to Reach Heaven Than the End of the Street: A Jerusalem Memoir Williams Education for Mission 2012 We Wait You: Waiting on God in Eastern Europe Hutchison Education for Mission 2012 Bamboo People Perkins Education for Mission 2012 14 Cows for America Deedy & Naiyomah Education for Mission Child 2012 Faith Ajmera & Nakassis Education for Mission Child 2012 Thundar Over Kandahar (2017) Education for Mission Youth 2013 Becoming a Justice Seeking Congregation McElvaney Education for Mission 2013 Everyday Justice Clawson Education for Mission 2013 How Coffee Saved My Life and Other Stories of Stumbling to Grace Roscher Education for Mission 2013 Rubble Nation - Haiti's Pain, Haiti's Promise Herlinger & Jeffrey Education for Mission 2013 I Am Hutterite Kirkby Education for Mission Large Print 2013 Mali Under the Night Sky (2nd copy 2017) Youme Education for Mission Child 2013 One World Kids Cookbook Mendez Education for Mission Bonus, Child 2013 Cry of the Giraffe Oron Education for Mission Youth 2014 Growing Up Muslim: Understanding the Beliefs and Practices of Islam Sumbul Ali-Karamali Education for Mission Child 2014 Tara's Lookout Eugene R. Caputi Education for Mission Large Print 2014 The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman WhoGayle Risked Tzemach Everything Lemmon to Keep ThemEducation Safe for Mission Large Print 2014 Awake: Doing a World of Good One Person at a Time Noel Brewer Yeatts Education for Mission 2014 We are the Romani People Hristo Kyuchukov and Ian HancockEducation for Mission 2014 On This Spirit Walk Henrietta Mann and Anita PhillipsEducation for Mission 2014 Radio Shangri-La: What I Discovered on My Accidental Journey to the Happiest Kingdom onLisa Earth Napoli Education for Mission 2014 A Twist of Faith: An American Christian’s Quest to Help Orphans in Africa John Donnelly Education for Mission Bonus 2015 Holy Sacrifice - Korean Keunho Lee Education for Mission 2015 Deep in the Sahara Kelly Cunnane Education for Mission Child 2015 Good God, Lousy World and Me Holly Burkhalter Education for Mission Bonus 2015 My Name Is Blessing Eric Walters Education for Mission Child 2015 What's So Blessed About Being Poor? L. Susan Slavin & Coralis SalvadorEducation for Mission Bonus 2015 Chasing Chaos Jessica Alexander Education for Mission 2015 Faith and Struggle on Smokey Mountain Benigno P. Beltran Education for Mission Bonus 2015 The Golden Cage Shirin Ebadi Education for Mission 2015 A Girl Called Problem Katie Quirk Education for Mission Child 2016 Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption Bryan Stevenson Spiegel & Grau Education for Mission Bonus Yes 2016 We Shall Not Be Moved: Methodists Debate Race, Gender and Homosexuality Jane Ellen Nickell Education for Mission Bonus Yes 2016 Chasing the Devine in the Holy Land Ruth Everhart Education for Mission Yes 2016 Coffee, Tea, and Holy Water: One Woman's Journey to Experience Christianity Around the Globe Amanda Hudson Education for Mission Yes 2016 Unbound: The Transformative Power of Youth Mission Trips Jann Treadwell Education for Mission Bonus 2016 The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan Jenny Nordberg Education for Mission Yes 2016 Uprising: A New Age is Dawning for Every Mother's Daughter Sally Armstrong Education for Mission Yes 2017 Journey with J. W. John Wesley's Ride Through Methodist History Daphna Flegal Education for Mission Child 2017 Boundless What Global Expressions of Faith Teach Us About Following Jesus Bryan Bishop Education for Mission 2017 Love Casts Out Fear A Jihad Survivor's Journey from Revenge to Redemption Brother Nathan and David Culross Education for Mission 2012 The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope Kamkwamba Leadership Development 2012 Change the World; Recovering the Message and Mission of Jesus Slaughter Leadership Development 2012 More Bad Girls of the Bible Essex Leadership Development 2012 Old Testament Prophets for Today Sharp Leadership Development 2012 Women Lead the Way: your Guide to Stepping Up to Leadership and Changing the World Whelan Leadership Development 2012 Why Women Should Rule the World Myers Leadership Development Large Print 2013 Do It Anyway - The New generation of Activists Martin Leadership Development 2013 Her Place at the Table - A Woman's Guide to Negotiating Five Key Challengest to LeadershipKolb, Success Williams, Frohlinger Leadership Development 2013 Outcasts United St. John Leadership Development 2013 This Will be Remembered of Her McKenna Leadership Development 2013 Agatha's Feather Bed Deedy Leadership Development Child 2013 Do Hard Things Harris Leadership Development Youth 2014 Back to Zero: The Search to Rediscover the Methodist Movement Gil Rendle Leadership Development 2014 Grace & Grits: My Fight for Equal Pay and Fairness at Goodyear and Beyond Lilly Ledbetter Leadership Development King Peggy: An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny and the Inspiring Story of How 2014 She Changed an African Village Peggielene Bartels and Eleanor HermanLeadership Development Kathe Schaaf, Kay Lindahl, 2014 Women, Spirituality And Transformative Leadership: Where Grace Meets Power Kathleen S. Hurty and Guo Leadership Development Cheen 2014 Lord I Love the Church And We Need Help Virginia O. Bassford Leadership Development Large Print 2014 The Herd Boy Niki Daly Leadership Development Child 2014 Yours for Justice, Ida B. Wells: The Daring Life of a Crusading Journalist Philip Dray Leadership Development Child 2014 A Native American Throught of it: Amazing Inventions and Innovations Rocky Landon and David MacDonald Leadership Development Youth 2015 Sum It Up Pat Summitt Leadership Development 2015 The Girl is Different J.J. Johnson Leadership Development Youth 2015 Tough Cookies Kathy Cloninger Leadership Development 2015 The New Feminist Agenda Madeleine M. Kunin Leadership Development 2015 Fulfilled Kirk Byron Jones Leadership Development 2016 The Andrew Paradigm: How to Be a Lead Follower of Jesus Michael J. Coyner Leadership Development Yes 2016 I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban Malala Yousafzai Leadership Development Yes 2016 The Weight of Mercy: A Novice Pastor on the City Street Deb Richardson-Moore Leadership Development Yes 2016 Girls With Swords: How to Carry Your Cross Like a Hero Lisa Bevere Leadership Development Large Print Yes 2016 Because I Am A Girl: I Can Change the World Rosemary McCarney & Jen Albaugh Leadership Development Children 2016 Nature Girl: A Guide to Caring for God's Creation Karen Whiting & Rebecca White Zonderkidz Leadership Development Youth Yes 2017 Falling Into Place A Memoir of Overcoming Hattie Kauffman Leadership Development 2017 Not Safe for Church Ten Commandments for Reaching New Generations F. Douglas Powe Jr. and Jasmine Rose Smothers Leadership Development 2012 Allow God to Wear Your Face: Sipiritual Care for Those Who are Ill Knotts Nurturing for Community 2012 Asylum Denied Kenney & Schrag Nurturing for Community 2012 Breathe: Finding Freedom to Thrive in Relationships After Childhood Sexual Abuse Bromley Nurturing for Community 2012 I am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced Ali Nurturing for Community 2012 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Skloot Nurturing for Community 2012 Creative Aging: Rethinking Retirement and Non-Retirement in a Changing World Bankson Nurturing for Community Large Print 2012 Amazing Faces Hopkins Nurturing for Community Child 2012 What Will You Be Sara Mee? Avraham Nurturing for Community Child 2013 A Country for All Ramos Nurturing for Community 2013 Alone and Invisible No More Teel Nurturing for Community 2013 Every Day is a Good Day Mankiller Nurturing for Community 2013 Love in a Headscarf Janmohamed Nurturing for Community 2013 Mind on the Run Pacharis Nurturing for Community 2013 Radical Welcome Spellers Nurturing for Community 2013 Plain Wisdom Woodsmall & Flaud Nurturing for Community Large Print 2013 The Smell of Old Lady Perfume Martinez Nurturing for Community Child 2013 Violet Stehlik Nurturing for Community Child 2013 Fatty Legs Fenton & Fenton Nurturing for Community Youth 2013 THINANDBEAUTIFUL.COM Shaw Nurturing for Community Youth 2014 100 Simple Things you Can do to Prevent Alzheimer’s And Age Related Memory Loss Jean Carpenter Nurturing for Community 2014 Wonder R.J. Palacio Nurturing for Community Youth 2014 Silent Star: The Story of Deaf Major Leaguer William Hoy Bill Wise Nurturing for Community Child 2014 Unplugged: Ella Gets Her Family Back Laura Pedersen Nurturing for Community Child 2014 The Power of Serving Others: You Can Start Where You Are Gary Morsh and Dean Nelson Nurturing for Community Large Print 2014 Please Look After Mom Kyung-Sook Shin Nurturing for Community 2014 Simply Salsa: Dancing Without Fear at God's Fiesta Janet Perez Eckles Nurturing for Community 2014 Small Things with Great Love: Adventures in Loving Your Neighbor Margot Starbuck Nurturing for Community 2015 Heroes Ordinarios Gabriel Salcedo Nurturing for Community Spanish 2015 En La Sala De Espera Awilda Nolla Nurturing for Community Spanish 2015 The Power to Prevent Suicide Nelson & Galas Nurturing for Community Youth 2015 The Era of Climate Crisis Nurturing for Community Korean 2015 When Pastors Prey: Overcoming Clergy Sexual Abuse of Women Valli Boobal Batchelor Nurturing for Community 2015 Because Amelia Smiled David Ezra Stein Nurturing for Community Child 2015 January First Michael Schofield Nurturing for Community 2015 The End of Your Life Book Club Will Schwalbe Nurturing for Community 2015 Whatever Happened To Dinner? Melodie M. Davis Nurturing for Community 2015 The Round House Louise Erdrich Nurturing for Community 2015 Across Many Mountains Yangzom Brauen Nurturing for Community Large Print 2015 Vicious Hope Vanderberg Nurturing for Community Youth 2015 The Chickens Build A Wall Jean-François Dumont Nurturing for Community Child 2015 Bully.com Joe Lawlor Nurturing for Community Youth 2014 Up: A Mother and Daughter’s Peakbagging Adventure Patricia Ellis Herr Nurturing for Community 2016 Crazy Linda Vigen Phillips Nurturing for Community Youth 2016 Dreaming In Indian: Contemporary Native American Voices Lisa Charleyboy & Mary Beth Leatherdale Nurturing for Community Youth 2016 Lend A Hand: Poems About Giving John Frank & London Ladd Nurturing for Community Child 2016 A Waist Is A Terrible Thing To Mind: Loving Your Body, Accepting Yourself, and Living withoutKaren Regret Scalf Linamen Nurturing for Community Large Print Yes 2016 Dreamers: An Immigrant Generation's Fight for their American Dream Eileen Truax Nurturing for Community Yes 2016 House of Purple Cedar Tim Tingle Nurturing for Community Yes 2016 I Love Growing Older, but I'll Never Grow Old J. Ellsworth Kalas Nurturing for Community Yes 2016 Miss Brenda and the Loveladies: A Heartwarming True Story of Grace, God, and Gumption Brenda Spahn & Irene Zutell Nurturing for Community Yes 2016 Not Worth Saving: How a Severely Handicapped Boy Transformed Lives Ann Joyner Nurturing for Community Yes 2017 Remember Dippy Shirley Reva Vernick Nurturing for Community Youth 2017 #Stolen Is Social Media Stealing Your Identity? Jessica Fralin Nurturing for Community Youth 2017 Launch Your Encore Finding Adventure and Purpose Later in Life Hans Finzel and Rick Hicks Nurturing for Community 2017 Slowing Time Seeing the Sacred Outside Your Kitchen Door Barbara Mahany Nurturing for Community 2017 Money on Purpose Finding a Faith-Filled Balance Shayna Lear Nurturing for Community 2012 Color Blind: The Rise of Post-racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity Wise Social Action 2012 The Death of Josseline: Immegration Stories from the Arizona Borderlands Regan Social Action 2012 Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril Moore & Nelson Social Action Bonus 2012 The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Alexander Social Action Bonus 2012 The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today Bales & Soodalter Social Action 2012 The Bit of the Mango Kamara Social Action 2012 Rediscovering Values: On Wall Street, Main Street and Your Street Wallis Social Action 2012 Branded Walters Social Action Youth 2012 Going Blue: A Teen Guide to Saving Our Oceans, Lakes, Rivers and Wetlands Kaye & Cousteau Social Action Youth 2012 Sold McCormick Social Action Youth 2012 Seeds of Change: Planting a Path to Peace Johnson Social Action Child 2012 Green Church: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rejoice! Simon-Peter Social Action Large Print 2013 A Hopeful Earth Dyck and Ehrman Social Action 2013 Get Up, Stand Up Levine Social Action 2013 In Our Backyard Belles Social Action 2013 Make Poverty Personal Barker Social Action 2013 The Power of Half Salwen & Harcourt Social Action 2013 Why Africa Matters Mayson Social Action Bonus 2013 One Simple Act Macomber Social Action Large Print 2013 Only the Mountains Do Not Move Reynolds Social Action Child 2013 The Mangrove Tree Roth & Trumbore Social Action Bonus, Child 2013 Free? Stories about Human Rights Almond Social Action Youth 2014 A Twist of Faith: An American Christian’s Quest to Help Orphans in Africa John Donnelly Social Action Bonus 2014 Which Side are You on: The Story of a Song George Ella Lyon Social Action Youth 2014 Puffling Patrol Ted Lewin Social Action Child 2014 Sheila Say's We’re Weird Ruth Ann Smalley Social Action Child 2014 An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales ExecutiveLaura and an Schroff Unlikely and Meeting Alex Tresniowski With DestinySocial Action Large Print 2014 Breaking the Cycle: Healing From an Abusive Relationship Tracy S. Deitz Social Action 2014 Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority Tim Wise Social Action 2014 Finding Higher Ground: Adaptation in the Age of Warming Amy Seidl Social Action Bonus 2014 A Place at the Table: 40 Days of Solidarity With the Poor Chris Seay Social Action 2014 Year of Plenty: One Suburban Family, Four Rules, and 365 Days of Homegrown Adventure Craigin Pursuit Goodwin of Christian Living Social Action 2015 That Used To Be Us T Friedman & M Mandelbaum Social Action Bonus, Large Print 2015 Accion Social Hugo Magallanes Social Action Spanish 2015 Dances With Peace - Korean Soon Kwan Hong Social Action Korean 2015 The Eye of The Whale Jennifer O’Connell Social Action Child 2015 Return To Sender Julia Alvarez Social Action Youth 2015 The Promise Nicola Davies Social Action Child 2015 Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Social Action 2015 Ecoliterate Goleman, Bennett & Barlow Social Action 2015 Refuse To Do Nothing Shayne Moore Social Action Youth 2015 Kind of Kin Rilla Askew Social Action 2015 Behind the Kitchen Door Saru Jayaraman Social Action Bonus 2015 A New Dawn In Beloved Community Linda Lee Social Action 2015 Not Just a Pretty Face Social Action 2016 Unbound: The Transformative Power of Youth Mission Trips Jann Treadwell Social Action Bonus 2016 Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption Bryan Stevenson Spiegel & Grau Social Action Bonus Yes 2016 Blue Gold Elizabeth Stewart Social Action Youth Yes Laura Kutner, Suzanne Slade, & 2016 The Soda Bottle School A True Story of Recycling, Teamwork, and One Crazy Idea Social Action Aileen Darragh Child Yes 2016 Rewilding Our Hearts: Building Pathways of Compassion and Coexistence Marc Bekoff Social Action Yes 2016 In Defense Of Food: An Eater's Manifesto Michael Pollan Social Action Large Print Yes 2016 We Shall Not Be Moved: Methodists Debate Race, Gender and Homosexuality Jane Ellen Nickell Social Action Bonus Yes 2016 The White Umbrella: Walking with Survivors of Sex Trafficking Mary Francis Bowley Social Action Yes Chuck Collins, Jennifer Ladd, Maynard 2017 Class Lives Stories From Across Our Economic Divide Seider and Felice Yeskel Social Action 2017 Wage Theft Comics Crime and Justice #1 Jeffrey Odell Korgen Social Action 2012 All Creation Sings: The Voice of God in Nature Kalas Spiritual Growth 2012 Hidden in the Rubble: A Haitian Pilgrimage to Compassion and Resurrection Straub Spiritual Growth 2012 Laugh Your Way to Grace: Reclaiming the Spiritual Power of Humor Sparks Spiritual Growth 2012 Ostriches, Dung Beetles and other Spiritual Masters: A Book of Wisdom From the Wild McLaughlin Spiritual Growth 2012 Wasabi Gospel: The Startling Message of Jesus Wood Spiritual Growth 2012 Outlive Your Life: You Were Made to Make a Difference Lucado Spiritual Growth 2012 Francis the Saint of Assisi Mueller Spiritual Growth 2012 True When Whispered: Hearing God's Voice in a Noisy World Escamilla Spiritual Growth 2012 Seasons of Salt: Meditations Horlacher Spiritual Growth Large Print 2012 Lacey and the African Grandmothers Hollar Spiritual Growth Youth 2012 Thunder Over Kandahar McKay Spiritual Growth Youth 2012 The Beatitudes: From Slavery to Civil Rights Weatherford Spiritual Growth Child 2013 From Preparation to Passion Brown Spiritual Growth 2013 In From the Wilderness Weekley Spiritual Growth 2013 Morning Coffee with James Brumbaugh Spiritual Growth 2013 Praying for Strangers Jordan Spiritual Growth 2013 Reluctant Pilgrim Okoro Spiritual Growth 2013 Signs of Life Jeremiah & Nelson Spiritual Growth 2013 When Christians Get It Wrong Hamilton Spiritual Growth Large Print 2013 Psalms for Young Children Delval Spiritual Growth Child 2013 Permission to Speak Freely Jackson & Nelson Spiritual Growth Youth 2014 Esther John Piper Spiritual Growth Youth 2014 Traveler: A Story of Trust, Faith and Hope Encircled by Love Mary Alice Parmley Spiritual Growth Child 2014 Jesus: A Biography From a Believer Paul Johnson Spiritual Growth Large Print 2014 Embraced by God: Celebrating Who and Whose You Are Babbie Mason Spiritual Growth 2014 A Faithful Heart: Daily Guide for Joyful Living Sally Dyck Spiritual Growth 2014 Silence and Other Surprising Invitations of Advent Enuma Okoro Spiritual Growth 2014 Strong Was Her Faith: Women of the New Testament J. Ellsworth Kalas Spiritual Growth 2014 You're Already Amazing: Embracing Who You Are, Becoming All God Created You to Be Holley Gerth Spiritual Growth 2015 Fiesta en la Casa de Dios Irving Cotto Pérez Spiritual Growth Spanish 2015 Orando para Cambair tu Vida Suzette T. Caldwell Spiritual Growth Spanish 2015 Open Mind, Open Heart Thomas Keating Spiritual Growth Korean 2015 Eat with Joy Rachel Marie Stone Spiritual Growth 2015 Help, Thanks, Wow Anne Lamott Spiritual Growth Large Print 2015 Finding God In A Bag of Groceries Laura Lapins Willis Spiritual Growth 2015 No Longer Silent Susan Dehn Matthews Spiritual Growth 2015 The Seven Paths in the World Anasazi Foundation Spiritual Growth 2015 I Can Pray Suzette T. Caldwell Spiritual Growth Child 2015 Praying to Change Your Life Suzette T. Caldwell Spiritual Growth 2015 The Well Woman Ladine Housholder Spiritual Growth Large Print 2015 Nasreddine Odile Wuelersse Spiritual Growth Child 2015 Shopping Michelle A. Gonzalez Spiritual Growth 2016 Coaltown Jesus Ron Koertge Spiritual Growth Youth Yes 2016 Before We Eat: From Farm to Table Pat Brisson & Mary Azarian (Illus.) Spiritual Growth Youth Yes 2016 Cured But Not Healed: How to Experience Deeper Faith on Your Journey with God Kymberley Clemons-Jones Spiritual Growth 2016 Key United Methodist Beliefs David F. Watson Spiritual Growth Yes 2016 My Life and Lesser Catastrophes: An Unflinchingly Honest Journey of Faith Christina Schofield Spiritual Growth Yes 2016 Things Your Mother Never Told You: A Women's Guide to Sexuality Kim Gaines Eckert Spiritual Growth Yes 2016 Tilly: A Story of Hope and Resilience Monique Gray Smith Spiritual Growth 2017 Femmevangelical The Modern Girl's Guide to the Good News Jennifer D. Crumpton Spiritual Growth 2017 Extraordinary Grace How the Unlikely Lineage of Jesus Reveals God's Amazing Love Gary Chapman and Chris Fabry Spiritual Growth Large Print 2017 Living into Hope A Call to Spiritual Action for Such a Time as This Joan Brown Campbell Spiritual Growth