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This is the story of John Henry Weidner. A Dutch man who was a majoy player in the Dutch-Paris underground during WWII. An organization that was involved in getting people out of Nazi areas. Not just Jews but anyone caught in the cross hairs of the Nazi war machine.

He worked to get the papers needed to allow people to travel and get out of the country. Developed routes over mountains, via rail or any way possible to move people to safer places where they would not be murdered or tortured.

He was one of the top 'most wanted' on the Nazi's list. He was captured a couple of times, tortured and excaped, never giving away any info regarding the underground people he worked with.

THe book gives you a good idea of how deadly it was to live during this period and how irrational the people could become to save their own skins.

The story of a girl raised in a Christian home who faces the question of whether or not a modern Nazi can pray without violating her code of living. She chooses to change gods and worship Hitler but God remained close during chaotic, post-war Germany. Ultimately, He saves her life and shows that He really does exist and care.

Like millions of other Europeans, Walter Logé was caught in the violent vortex of World War II. An ambulance driver in the German army, he was taken prisoner toward the end of the conflict and shipped by boxcar deep into Russia to the gloomy labor camp of Makeyevka. But Logé's indomitable spirit rose above it all, because he was a remarkable man who looked at the world through kindly eyes, who empathized with peasants, guards, soldiers-nearly everyone. All kinds of people, whether German, Romanian, or Russian, were his friends. Though a German himself (with a French surname inherited from Huguenot ancestors), he could strike up a tune on the Russian balalaika and watch the light come back into the eyes of a yardful of gaunt, discouraged prisoners as they began to sing and clap their hands. While in a state of near starvation, he could still joke with his captors: "Why do I want to work in the kitchen? That's where they keep the food, isn't it? "And what other German prisoner just escaped from a coal mine ever marched along a country road with a passel of Russian peasant girls singing the Sunday School song, "Always Cheerful"? Though a pleasant and gentle man, with an almost childlike faith in the goodness of God and in the innate decency of men, Logé owned nerves of Swedish steel, lightning-fast wits, and an incredible determination to escape and somehow cover the many hundreds of miles across the reaches of the Ukraine and Poland westward to Berlin, where his beloved show more wife and three children awaited him- if they were still alive. This is not just another war story, or merely another chapter in the long, bitter story of man's inhumanity to man. It is not told to work off a grudge. It is not simply a dreary chronicle of misery and brutality, nor is it written to remind us that war brings suffering to the innocent and arouses the worst of human passions. Rather, it is a document of human freedom and brotherhood. show less

"When we go into combat, Doss, you're not comin' back alive. I'm gonna shoot you myself!" The men of the 77th Infantry Division couldn't fathom why Private Desmond T. Doss would venture into the horrors of World War II without a single weapon to defend himself. "You're nothing but a coward!" they said. But the soft-spoken medic insisted that his mission was to heal, not kill. When Desmond knelt by his bunk to pray, his fellow soldiers hurled boots and insults at him. Even his commander wanted to throw him out of the army. But when his unit arrived on the battlefield, the intrepid medic quickly proved he was no coward. One terrifying day in the vicious battle for Okinawa, dozens of Desmond's former tormenters lay wounded and bleeding atop Hacksaw Ridge. As Japanese bullets rained down, their fate seemed hopeless. Could one unarmed man save their lives? This page-turner will keep you riveted to your seat as you discover how Desmond Doss became the first conscientious objector to receive the Medal of Honor. Desmond's dramatic true story of integrity, redemption, and heroism will inspire you to live by the courage of your convictions.

Teen-aged Esther Harrison had been told that she had less than a year to live. Then Dr. Charles Send entered her life. His concepts of diet and exercise restored her health. She became devoted to him and to his mission of service to others.

But Esther also plunged into a bizarre world of reincarnation and spiritism. What she really Charles Send's daughter, who had died 16 years before? Will the aged Dr. Send really reincarnate himself in her first child, as he promised? Did he really know truths and insights beyond that of other men? What was the source of this tremendous power?

Helen Godfrey Pyke recounts one of the most amazing true stories you will ever read. Esther Harrison had to find truth in a world that cunningly mix truth and deception. End of a Masquerade reminds us how we must cling to biblical truth in a world of satanic illusion and delusion. It is a book that you will never forget.

Sometimes in life you find that hearing someone else’s story can strangely mirror your own experience. This is one of those stories.

With remarkable openness, Nancy Carver Abbott shares the journal of her struggles with depression, an aging gather, and doubts about her childhood religion. As she reaches across time to recapture her father’s childhood and her own, she seeks to understand her father’s faith in God. And she poignantly speaks of the changes and concerns as her father ages—yet frequently drops a good laugh to lighten up the distraction of his worn condition.

This unique narrative is not only a memoir of the past but also an articulate journey of spiritual growth you will find fascinating and inspiring.

No history of the rise and development of the remnant church could claim to be complete if it failed to mention Joseph Bates and to emphasize the important place he played. Joseph Bates devoted the last twenty-five years of his life to keepint the commandments of God - to the task of proclaiming, exalting, and champoining the binding obligations of the seventh-day Sabbath. It should be remembered that he was fifty-four when he began to proclaim the Sabbath truth. He had been a preacher of the first angel's message for years before the great desappointment in 1844. Never seeking the limelight, he was perfectly satisfied to do his duty as he saw it, trusting the Lord from day to day to reveal to him him particular work and then give him strength to accomplish it. In these days when the feeble resources of the pioneers - what they achieved with them still amazes us today - have been multiplied a thousandfold, it is hoped that this story may inspire the remnant peopl of God anew, leading them to throw into the task that sill faces them the same ardor and devotion, the same sacrificial service and fearless courage, that maked the life of Joseph Bates.

John N. Loughborough lived at a time when men went forth fearlessly to proclaim the three angels' messages, often traveling from place to place on foot or by borrowed conveyance, not knowing where they were to sleep at night or how they or their families would be fed and clothed. He was born in Victor, New York, a village on the stage line between Albany and Buffalo. John's grandfather had been a soldier in General George Washington's army in the American Revolution. Grandson John remembered the incident of George Washington's father telling him, "Son, make up your mind that if there are but two men going to heaven, you will be one of them, and live accordingly." During his 92 years he lived accordingly to this advice.

In the years just after the American Revolution, the tiny mountainous island of Haiti was seething with unrest. A colony of France in those days, it had half a million Negro slaves ad fewer than 40,000 whites. Brutally the French planters beat their black slaves, forcing them to work from dawn to dusk in the cane fields, driving them to starvation and misery. Then into the foreground came a small misshapen figure of a man wearing a yellow turban - Toussaint Louverture, the grandson of an African chieftain. Among the oppressed and tortured mass he was one of the few slaves of Haiti who was acquainted with the affairs of history and dedicated to the rights of man. At first the French ridiculed him as 'the monkey in the yellow turban,' but soon they realized this little man was in reality a giant of intellect and leadership. Vividly and dramatically, Katharine Scherman tells the story in The Slave Who Freed Haiti.

This is about the high school basketball star, John Rudometkin, who enjoyed a storied college career at the University of Southern California and was dubbed "the Reckless Russian". He later spent three seasons playing in the NBA for the New York Knicks. When health issues led him away from the game, they led him on a journey toward faith.

When the ex-governor of Idaho was murdered in 1905, Harry Orchard was arrested and charged with his murder. Orchard later confessed not only to the assassination of ex-governor Frank Steunenberg, but to a series of murders, assassinations and terrorist acts at the orders and payment of the leaders of the Western Federation of MIners, known as the most radical and violent of the early unions. Although the officers of the WFM escaped prison, the evidence shows that for years the leaders of that organization served not the workers of their union, but their own political and social interests, and - with the help of men like Orchard - rained violence on labor relations for many, many years. Orchard's confession and story is not only compelling reading, but a lesson in abuse of power that should not be forgotten.

Not promising. That would sum up the childhood of Jose Rojas. Born into an abusive home, Jose grew to fear his father's drunken rampages. "Mama, what's wrong with me? Why do I make you and Dad fight so much?"

Then things got worse. In school th other kids laughed at his accent, tormented him, called him"skunk" and "dirty Mexican."

His mom called him "my dreamer."

Then the Rojas family stumbled onto some followers of an ancient Jewish carpenter. Several of them saw something extraordinary in Jose, this young, would be upholsterer. They mentored him. Believe in him. Encouraged him...and prayed with him.

Jose overcame failing grades, fanaticism, and institutional inertia to develop a life changing youth outreach based on love and prayer. Follow him through a street ministry in Fresno, where he becomes the target of a gang who trash his house, to meeting with the president of the United States. Today his preaching is in worldwide demand, and he serves as a mentor to others.

And his dad has become a loving, spiritual presence in the family.

Before his baby eyes were even open, Loony Coon got into trouble. The antics of one of Andrea's babies will keep kids and adults fascinated for hours.

Shelley was a city girl, no doubt about it. And when her family took her--dragged her--to the wilds of Oregon it was simply exile. And would you believe the nearest neighbor her age was a tall skinny mouse--a creep? This fellow like skunks and fainting robins and dead flowers--all kinds of unpleasant things, actually. But of course there was the snow--great fluffy piles of it, and the squirrel family that neatly tucked away 10 pounds of grain, and Orioles--these things were nice.

But the spoil at all, there was Lucifer. But, actually, maybe the bull didn't spoil things. Maybe it was he who finally made Shelley realize that the best things in life are those we do for other people.

A delightful book about a girl growing up--delightfully.

George Bennett's father got gold fever and took the family to Missouri, where they joined a wagon train bound for "the promised land"--California. Four months later, with short tempers, a scarcity of food, and winter about the set in, the group found themselves only in Utah, several months journey short of their goal. Because their own supplies were meager, the Mormons would not allow the wagon train to winter in Salt Lake City.

At last the migrants found themselves trapped in death Valley. They lost some of their rationed food when someone stole it right from the cooking pot. Scorched by the desert sun, and short on water for several days, they found a patch of snow on a mountain slope. Later they were surrounded by miles of jagged salt flats in the valley and hemmed in by mountains on all sides. Their condition grew desperate. Of the 110 wagons that started out only to have held together till now.

What kept them going? At the greed for gold, for that have been long forgotten. Did they reach the "promised land"?

You'll find the answer in Vinnie rRuffo's true, unforgettable story, "trapped in death Valley".

"Men are strange creatures! I think I'll hunt one some day just to teach him a lesson," says Lightfoot the Deer to his new friend, Peter Rabbit.

Lightfoot is glad of all the animal friends he meets in the Green Forest -- especially Paddy the Beaver, who saves him from harm. But what about these men? There's that strange one -- the farmer. Should Lightfoot trust this man -- when a second one is stalking him with a terrible gun?

Thornton Burgess's tales of woodland and meadow have delighted readers young and old for nearly a century.

12-year-old Sigi Ettinger and his sister, Steffi, spend the summer at grandfather's farm. The train takes them from the city--filled with high-rise apartments, congestion, and noise--to the beautiful mountains of Bavaria where grandfather lives.

On the farm butter is made by churning cream, there is no running hot water, and horses pulled the plow.

But the lack of modern conveniences is not their main difficulty. They arrived to find that their cousin dislikes them, and grandfather carries an unforgiving grudge against their pop up.

Your mouth water as you read about Aunt Matilde's larder where boards are dotted with miniature cheeses, baskets are heaped with eggs, crocks are brimming with cream, jars are jammed with fruit, and crusty breads line the shelves.

You'll puzzle at the mystery of the secret door, smile at the surprise birthday party, and wonder what the future holds when fire roars through the haymow.

Forced to move from their spacious home, the Randalls find themselves crammed into a tiny apartment, unable to pay their bills. Data can't work. Mom's about to lose her job. In Barb's afraid she'll lose her happy family.

Just when things seem at their worst, Barb and Judi become good friends. Always cheerful, kind, and deeply in love with God, Judi's like no one Barb's ever met. And so was her nice-looking brother Tom!

Little by little Judi begins to make a difference in Barb's life as she helps or realizes not the kind of house who live in that makes you happy, but the kind of people who live in that house.

When the Three B's--Bette, Barbara, and Bob--beg for a puppy, that he did not think it would be a very good idea, because the family was away from home so much of the time; but after the children decided to take things into their own hands, he had second thoughts.

A dog's life is the true story of ring, a small dog came to live with the three B's in the beehive, as mother called their home. He seemed to be forever in some sort of exciting adventure, such as the day he was mistaken for a rat. Other episodes involved a fire, cars, Christmas, and, of course, cats. Many times these experiences not only taught ring a thing or two, but the Three B's learned a lesson as well.

Rob grimaces in despair at having to put up with his cousin Susan for a whole summer. What fun can you have with the prissy city girl? And what fun can you have anyway, if you're in a wheelchair?

As it turns out, Susan is just one of the summers surprises.

What is the treasurer of lower Butternut Lake? Who is leaving the clues--Mother, Miss Mildred, Dr. Mark? What do those mysterious code letters M-ILK case stand for?

In their search Rob and Susan explore lightning oak, the treehouse, and even the berry patch. They swim, the scheme, they puzzle. And in the end… Well, follow the trail yourself to the treasurer of lower Butternut!

Endless, wind-swept skies, endless prairies, endless summer days, and a horse all your own to enjoy them with. What is been only a dream for thousands of boys was reality for Harold Jewkes during the early years of his life in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada. As he ranged over the prairies, becoming acquainted with coyote and gopher, rabbit and squirrel, Harold's natural love for the out-of-doors grew and deepened and has never left him.

In 1926 he moved to the United States, where he took teachers training at Walla Walla College. Since then he has taught, spent five years in overseas mission service, as teacher, preacher, and youth leader, and has been busy at many other activities. Returning home from the mission field, he became youth director of several conferences. And, of course, director of the Seventh-day Adventist youth camp, Au Sable, Michigan. Which is what this book is all about--the Michigan woods, raccoons, skunks, squirrels, birds, deer, and the young people who enjoy them.

"I wish…" Melody stopped short when she saw the look in her little sister's eyes. June believed in prayer, not wishes, and she made herself very clear. Well, maybe wishing was a waste of time. It hadn't kept her parents together or make you out of trouble. It certainly had helped her get a horse. But wanting to live with dad and his new wife was different. This wish would deliver in a big way!

She live in a nice house, right around in a great car, eat out often, and even where cool close. For once there would be plenty of money. And she have a mom and dad together under one roof again.

Melody was sure things will be different at dads. And she was absolutely right. Getting this wish would change everything forever. Especially her.

Read how memory versus helped Timmi-ti keep his sanity.

Enjoy other lively and exciting stories of modern-day conversions written in a stimulating way with elements of humor, courage, loyalty, and resourcefulness. The day of God's miracles is not passed, for in many of these stories of children and young people faith and devotion to God were blessed and rewarded.

10-pointed lessons conclude most of the 23 stories in this book, making it easy for the reader to get personally involved discovering a God who really cares about his children.

Sam and Giny have no more than just said, "No baby animals this year" than fate dooms it. The Campbells have no choice but to "adopt" in rapid succession: Zipper, a half starved fawn, Zowie, a baby fox, Zanie, a taffy-colored puppy, and Zinnia, a tiny skunk!

Enjoy the adventures with Sam as the family continues to grow when seven young beavers are literally dumped into his lap, and then later Sam’s "buck fever" experience when at last he finds the mountain lion. Living Forest Series, volume 7.

Sheriff Allen leaves the just-captured criminal in the guard of his young son Earl while he goes for the state troopers. But what happens when Earl falls asleep?

"Snakebite! Grandma rushes Linda to the doctor's office. "She's pretty far gone," Dr. Champion says, shaking his said. Does God always answer prayer?

Someone has been trapping beavers, and it's Steve's job to catch in. But the beaver poachers set up a sneaky trap to catch Steve.

Les can't understand what he has to be born to missionary parents until mom takes him on a mysterious side trip in New England.

Kathy has a happy surprise the morning after violin solo with the Willowdale Symphony. Sherril has a surprise, too, the morning after she attends The Electric Grass Company's concert. But of a different kind.

Earliteens will love reading these and other stories.