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UMW Reading Program books available in Mid-York Library System (8/2011) To download a copy in MS Word, click here. To download in PDF format, click here (faster).
2012 Reading Program Books available in the MidYork Library System · Note: Many of these books are fairly new and the home library keeps them for their patrons first. Education for Mission Beaded Hope by Cathy Liggett 1 copy It’s Easier to Reach Heaven Than the End of the Street: A Jerusalem Memoir by Emma Williams 1copy 14 Cows for America by Carmen Agra Deedy and Wilson Kimeli Naiyomah 2 copies THIS IS A CHILDREN’S PICTURE BOOK… it is beautiful and worth the read! Thunder over Kandahar by Sharon E. McKay 2 audio and 2 hard copy YOUTH Leadership Development The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by Wm. Kamkwamba 11 copies Why Women Should Rule the World by Dee Dee Meyers 4 copies Nurturing for Community I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced by Nujood Ali 5 copies The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot 18 copies Creative Aging: Rethinking Retirement and Non-retirement in a Changing World by Marjory Zoet Bankson 1 copy Social Action The Death of Josseline: Immigrations Stories From the Arizona Borderlands by Margaret Regan 1 copy The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander 1 ebook, 1 hardcopy Bonus Book : Counts as 2 books!!! Rediscovering Values on Wall Street, on Main Street, on Your Street by Jim Wallis. 2 copies Seeds of Change: Planting a Path to Peace by Jen Cullerton Johnson 1 Copy CHILDREN’S Book Going Blue: A Teen Guide ot Saving Our Oceans, Lakes, Rivers and Wetlands by Cathryn Berger Kaye and Philippe Cousteau 1 copy YOUTH SOLD by Patricia McCormick 5 copies YOUTH The Bite of Mango by Mariatu Kamara 2copies Spiritual Growth Outlive Your Life: You Were Made to Make a Difference by Max Lucado 4 copies
2011 Leadership Development 1.Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn 6c. plus electronically
2. This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa’s First Woman President By Ellen Johnson Sirleaf 2c
Nurturing for Community 1.Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History. By Thomas Norman DeWolf (1 sound ) 2.The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang 2c. 3. Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern Day Slave,an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together. By Ron Hall and Denver Moore 2c, 1 sound 4. Warrior Princess: Fighting for Life with Courage and Hope by Princess Kasune Sulu with Belinda Collins 1c 5. I Have Seen Him In The Watchfires by Cathy Gohlke 6. Just Another Girl: A Novel by Melody Carlson Youth 1c.
Spiritual Growth 1.The Noticer: Sometimes, all a person needs is a little perspective by Andy Andrews 2c. 2. Five-Minute Bible Stories by Lois Rock Children’s 1c
Education for Mission 1.Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid by Jimmy Carter 21c. 2.Stones Into Schools by Greg Mortensen 4c (sound) 3.Listen to the Wind by Greg Mortensen 13c
Social Action 1.Seeing Gray In A World of Black and White by Adam Hamilton 1c 2. When This World Was New by D.H. Figueredo 1c Children’s
2010 Nurturing For Community:
Caring For Mother: A Daughter’s Long Goodbye by Virginia Stem Owens
A Single Thread by Marie Bostwick
Something to Sing About by C.C. Payne
Social Action:
Can We Talk About Race? And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation by Beverly Daniel Tatum
Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty By Mark Winne
The Road Of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine by Somaly Mam
Spiritual Growth:
Bless This Food by Adrian Butash The Shack by William P. Young Great Joy by Kate DiCamillo (Children’s Book)
Education for Mission:
Cecilia’s Year by Susan and Denise Gonzales Abraham (Youth Book)
Additions to 2010 list 1.The Undertaker’s Wife by Loren D. Estleman 1c. 2.Cecilia’s Year by Susan Gonzales Abraham Youth 2c
2009 Education for Mission 1.End of the Spear by Steve Saint. (4 c. 1 recording) 2. They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky by Benson Deng ( 3c) 3. Brothers in Hope by Mary Williams. Children’s book. 1c. 4. Librarian of Basra by Jeanette Winter. Children’s book 14c.
Nurturing for Community 1.I Choose to Stay by Salome Thomas-El 1c. 2. Who’s Raising Your Child? By Laura J. Buddenberg 1c.
Social Action 1.Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario 1c 2. When River’s Run Dry by Fred Pearce 3c 3. Heck-Superhero by Martine Leavitt- youth 4 copies
Spiritual Growth 1.Leap of Faith by Queen Noor 1 recording, 2c
2008 Education for Mission 1.End of the Spear by Steve Saint. (4 c. 1 recording) 2. They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky by Benson Deng ( 3c) 3. Brothers in Hope by Mary Williams. Children’s book. 1c. 4. Librarian of Basra by Jeanette Winter. Children’s book 14c.
Nurturing for Community 1.I Choose to Stay by Salome Thomas-El 1c. 2. Who’s Raising Your Child? By Laura J. Buddenberg 1c.
Social Action 1.Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario 1c 2. When River’s Run Dry by Fred Pearce 3c 3. Heck-Superhero by Martine Leavitt- youth 4 copies
Spiritual Growth 1.Leap of Faith by Queen Noor 1 recording, 2c
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