The Book Catalog
WORLD HISTORY
Enlightenment to Modern Age

Amy Carmichael:
Let the little children come

Lois Hoadley Dick
Moody Press; Paperback; 160 pp.

Arriving in India as a missionary, Amy Carmichael sees little children married to pagan priests for temple prostitution. Amy rescues these children and provides a safe, healthy home for them.

Eric Liddel:
Something greater than gold

Janet Benge
YWAM; Paperback; 208 pp.

A biography of the Scottish missionary and runner who won a gold medal in the 1924 Olympics and went on to do missionary work in China. Eric's refusal to run on Sunday in the Olympic 100-meter race had stunned the world. Now his incredible victory in the 400-meter race further strengthened his belief in God's promise, "He who honors Me, I will honor." Years later, Eric Liddell would be tested far beyond mere physical ability as a missionary to China. His character, perseverance, and endurance are a challenging example for all who would obey the call to bring the gospel to the nations.

Florence Nightingale:
God’s servant at the battlefield  

David Collins
Mott; Paperback; 160 pp.

A biography of the well-to-do woman who defied social convention in order to establish nursing as a respectable career for women and bring about reforms in hospital conditions and nursing care.

Growth of The British Empire  

M.B. Synge
Yesterday’s Classics; Paperback; 284 pp.

Book V in The Story of the World series, by M. B. Synge, "The Growth of the British Empire," treats the revolutions in South America and Mexico, the Boer War in South Africa, and the exploration of Central Africa, the Greek and Italian wars for independence, the Crimean War, the American Civil War, the opening of trade with Japan and China, and the rebellion in India. Suitable for children ages 13 and up to read to themselves and for children as young as 10 as a read-aloud.

Hiding Place

Corrie Ten Boom
Bantam Books; Paperback; 256 pp.

An old watchmaker in Holland. His two daughters, Corrie and Betsie. Simple, ordinary people. Yet these three unlikely heroes became the center of a major underground operation: To hide Jewish refugees from the occupying Germans. Their home became a hiding place, but the cost of their bravery was betrayal and in the dreaded Ravensbruck concentration camp, they had to create another hiding place for those around them.

Lawrence of Arabia

Alistair Maclean
Sterling Point Press; Paperback; 176 pp.

Colorful characters, a larger-than-life hero, stirring battles, death-defying desert treks, and an adventure rich in mystery and romance, are all depicted by a great writer. That and more is what readers will find in this spellbinding biography of Lawrence of Arabia that is impossible to put down. Bestselling author and screenwriter Alistair MacLean follows Lawrence as he breaks with tradition to live with Arabs and, using modern-day guerrilla tactics, helps them defeat the Turks and gain an independent state.

Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens
Puffin; Paperback; 416 pp.

Oliver Twist is the story of a young boy who seeks his fortune on the streets of London. After Oliver asks nasty Mr Bumble for more food, he has to flee the workhouse for the streets. Here he meets the Artful Dodger, who leads him to Fagin and his gang of pickpockets. What happens next is the classic and delightful end to a brilliant picture of life in Victorian England.

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes

Eleanor Coerr
Puffin; Paperback; 80 pp.

Born in Hiroshima in 1943, Sadako was the star of her school's running team, until the dizzy spells started and she was forced to face the hardest race of her life—the race against time. Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy

Story of David Livingstone

Vautier Golding
Yesterday’s Classics; Paperback; 92 pp.

A clear, moving account of Livingstone's pioneer work in Africa as explorer, medical missionary, and suppressor of the slave trade. Emphasizes his indomitable courage and persistence in the face of countless difficulties to achieve his lifelong goal of doing as much good as he could for those most in need of it.

Struggle for Sea Power

M.B. Synge
Yesterday’s Classics; Paperback; 276 pp.

Book IV in The Story of the World series, by M. B. Synge, "The Struggle for Sea Power" focuses on the age of empire and world colonization. The histories of European colonies in America, Australia, South Africa, and India are related. Also covered are the Revolution in America, the French Revolution, and campaigns of Napoleon.

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson
Oxford University Press; Paperback; 256 pp.

Set sail to the heart of adventure with cabin boy, Jim Hawkins, aboard with the legendary scoundrel, Captain Long John Silver. A secret treasure map becomes the key to heart-pounding thrills, danger and swashbuckling action as a boy faces the high seas and the grandest pirate of all in the adventure of a life time.

William Wilberforce, the Freedom Fighter

Derick Bingham
Christian Focus; Paperback; 128 pp.

The conditions on slave ships were sickening, and many never survived to reach their destination. Thousands of men, women and children suffered heart-rending separations from their family, even their own children, parents and siblings. This was what life was like for countless people before the slave trade was abolished. William Wilberforce fought to bring freedom and relief from the terrors of the slave trade. His exciting story shows the amazing effect his faith in Christ and his love for people had on transforming a nation.

Winged Watchman

Hilda Van Stockum
Bethlehem Books; Paperback; 191 pp.

During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, ten-year-old Joris and his older brother Dirk Jan become involved in the resistance movement and, with the help of their parents, help conceal a British airman. This is a gripping story that your family will not be able to put down.