2015 UMW Reading Program Kindle Books

Education for Mission

Chasing Chaos; My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid, Jessica Alexander
Faith and Struggle on Smokey Mountain; Hope for a Planet in Peril, Benigno P. Beltran
Good God, Lousy World and Me; the Improbable Journey of a Human Rights Activist from
Unbelief to Faith, Holly Burkhalter
Whats So Blessed about Being Poor? Seeking the Gospel in the Slums of Kenya, L. Susan
Slavin & Coralis Salvador
Leadership Development
Fulfilled; Living and Leading With Unusual Wisdom, Peace and Joy, Kirk Byron Jones
The New Feminist Agenda, Madeleine M. Kunin
Sum It Up; 1,098 Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses and a Life in Perspective, Pat
Summitt
Tough Cookies; Leadership Lessons from 100 Years of the Girl Scouts, Kathy Cloninger
Nurturing for Community
The End of Your Life Book Club, Will Schwalbe
January First; A Childs Descent into Madness and Her Fathers Struggle to Save Her,
Michael Schofield
The Round House, Louise Erdrich
Whatever Happened To Dinner? Recipes and Reflections for Family Mealtime, Melodie M.
Davis
Social Action
Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Behind The Kitchen Door, Saru Jayaraman
A New Dawn in Beloved Community; Stories with the Power to Transform Us, Linda Lee
and Safiyah Fosua
Ecoliterate; How Educators Are Cultivating Emotional, Social and Ecological Intelligence,
Daniel Goleman, Lisa Bennett and Zenobia Barlow
Kind of Kin, Rilla Askew
Not Just a Pretty Face; the Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry, Stacy Malkan
Spiritual Growth
Eat with Joy; Redeeming Gods Gift of Food, Rachel Marie Stone
Finding God in a Bag of Groceries; Sharing Food, Discovering Grace, Laura Lapins Willis
No Longer Silent; the Empowerment of Women in the Gospels, Susan Dehn Matthews
Praying To Change Your Life; a Guide to Productive Prayer, Suzette T. Caldwell
The Seven Paths; Changing Ones Way of Walking in the World, Anasazi Foundation
Large Print
Nurturing for Community: Across Many Mountains; A Tibetan Familys Epic Journey From
Oppression to Freedom, Yangzom Brauen
Social Action: That Used to Be Us; How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and
Howe We Can Come Back, Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum
Spiritual Growth: Help, Thanks, Wow, Anne Lamott
Children
Education for Mission: Deep in the Sahara, Kelly Cunnane

Social Action: The Eye of the Whale; A Rescue Story, Jennifer OConnell
Youth
Leadership Development: This Girl Is Different, J.J. Johnson
Nurturing for Community: Vicious; True Stories by Teens about Bullying, Hope
Vanderberg
Nurturing for Community: The Power to Prevent Suicide; A Guide for Teens Helping
Teens, Richard E. Nelson and Judith C. Galas
Social Action: Refuse To Do Nothing; Finding Your Power to Abolish Modern-day Slavery,
Shayne Moore and Kimberly McOwen Yim
Social Action: Return to Sender, Julia Alvarez
Recommended Reading
Leadership Development: Get Off Your Donkey; Help Somebody and Help Yourself,
Reggie McNeal
Leadership Development: Vital Voices, Alyse Nelson
Nurturing For Community: Have You Seen Marie? Sandra Cisneros
Nurturing For Community: Journey Out of Silence; an Autobiography, William Rush
Social Action: Against A Tide of Evil; How One Man Became the Whistleblower to the First
Mass Murder of the Twenty-first Century, Mukesh Kapila and Damien Lewis
Social Action: The Enough Moment; Fighting to End Africas Worst Human Rights Crimes,
John Prendergast and Don Cheadle
Social Action: Hunting Season; Immigration and Murder in an All-American Town, Mirta
Ojito

2014 UMW Reading Program Kindle Books

Education for Mission
On This Spirit Walk, Henrietta Mann & Anita Phillips
Radio Shangri-La, Lisa Napoli
A Twist of Faith, John Donnelly
Leadership Development
Back to Zero, Gil Rendle
Grace and Grit, Lilly Ledbetter
King Peggy, Peggielene Bartels and Eleanor Herman
Women, Spirituality and Transformative Leadership, Kathe Schaaf et all.
Nurturing for Community
100 Simple Things You Can Do to Prevent Alzheimers and Age-Related Memory Loss,
Jean Carper
Please Look After Mom, Kyung-Sook Shin
Simply Salsa, Janet Perez Eckles
Small Things With Great Love, Margot Starbuck
Up, Patricia Ellis Herr
Social Action
Break the Cycle, Tracy S. Deitz
Dear White America, Tim Wise
Finding Higher Ground, Amy Seidl
A Place at the Table, Chris Seay

Year of Plenty, Craig Goodwin

Spiritual Growth
Embraced by God, Babbie Mason
A Faithful Heart, Sally Dyck
Silence and Other Surprising Invitations of Advent, Enuma Okoro
Strong Was Her Faith, J. Ellsworth Kalas
Youre Already Amazing, Holley Gerth
Youth
Growing Up Muslim, Sumbul Ali-Karamali
A Native American Thought Of It, Rocky Landon & David MacDonald
Wonder, R. J. Palacio
Esther, John Piper

2013 UMW Reading Program Kindle Books

Education for Mission
Becoming a Justice Seeking Congregation, by William K. McElvaney
Everyday Justice, by Julie Clawson
How Coffee Saved My Life, by Ellie Roscher
Leadership Development
Do It Anyway, by Courtney E. Martin
Her Place at the Table, by Deborah M. Kolb, Judith Williams, Carol Frohlinger, J.D. JosseyBass
Outcasts United, by Warren St. John
This Will Be Remembered of Her, by Megan McKenna
Nurturing for Community
A Country for All, by Jorge Ramos
Alone and Invisible No More, by Allan S. Teel
Radical Welcome, by Stephanie Spellers
Social Action
A Hopeful Earth, by Sally Dyck and Sarah Ehrman
Get Up, Stand Up, by Bruce E. Levine
In Our Backyard, by Nita Belles
Make Poverty Personal, by Ash Barker
The Power of Half, by Kevin Salwen and Hannah Salwen
Spiritual Growth
Morning Coffee with James, by Renae Brumbaugh
Praying for Strangers, by River Jordan
Reluctant Pilgrim, by Enuma Okoro
Signs of Life, by David Jeremiah
Youth
Cry of the Giraffe, by Judie Oron

Do Hard Things, by Alex & Brett Harris

Permission to Speak Freely, by Anne Jackson

2012 UMW Reading Program Kindle Books

Education For Mission
Forgotten Girls, by Kay Marshall Strom and Michele Rickett
We Wait You, by Taryn R. Hutchison
Leadership Development
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, by William Kamkwamba
Change the World, by Mike Slaughter
Old Testament Prophets for Today, by Carolyn J. Sharp
Women Lead the Way, by Linda Tarr-Whelan
Why Women Should Rule the World, by Dee Dee Myers
Nurturing for Community
Asylum Denied, by David Ngaruri Kenney and Philip G. Schrag
Breathe, by Nicole Braddock Bromley
I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced by Nujood Ali
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
Creative Aging, by Marjory Zoet Bankson
Social Action
The Death of Josseline, by Margaret Regan
Moral Ground, by Kathleen Dean Moore and Michael P. Nelson, editors
The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander
Rediscovering Values, by Jim Wallis
The Slave Next Door by Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter
Green Church, by Rebekah Simon-Peter
Spiritual Growth
All Creation Sings, by Jl. Ellsworth Kalas
Laugh Your Way to Grace, by Susan Sparks
Wasabi Gospel, by Shawn Wood
All Creation Sings, by J. Ellsworth Kalas
Laugh Your Way to Grace, by Susan Sparks
Wasabi Gospel, by Shawn Wood