Buying Reading Program Books
Buy Reading Program books through our E-store, by phone at 1-800-305-9857 or download the 
order form (PDF, 1M). Prices and availability are subject to change by publishers.
- Circulate books among your unit members
- Check out Reading Program books at your local library
- Suggest titles to your local and church library if no Reading Program books are available
- Exchange books with other United Methodist Women units or circles
- Ask your district or conference leaders to buy books for circulation for local units
Reluctant Pilgrim: A Moody, Somewhat Self-Indulgent Introvert's Search for Spiritual Community
by Enuma Okoro
Reluctant Pilgrim traces Okoro's search for a community in which she can embrace both her turbulent love of God and her passion for gorgeous shoes. It's a story of longing and promise, and God's persistent presence. She discovers God in art museums and on street corners, in cathedrals and gymnasiums, and through girlfriends and other seekers she meets along the way.
e-reader version available
$17.95
Rubble Nation: Haiti's Pain, Haiti's Promise
by Chris Herlinger & Paul Jeffrey
Rubble Nation takes readers back to this complicated and fragile world of promise and pain. The photos and descriptions tell the story of what life is like on the ground twenty months after the earthquake.
Signs of Life: Back to the Basics of Authentic Christianity
by David Jeremiah
The book discusses signs of life – signs that Jesus has transformed us and that we are committed to him and his kingdom. Signs of Life will lead the reader on a journey to a fuller understanding of the marks that identify one as a Christian, that advertise your faith – the imprints that can impact souls for eternity and help one become a person of influence who radiates relevancy, authenticity, generosity and compassion every day, just like Jesus did.
e-reader version available
The Smell of Old Lady Perfume
FOR CHILDREN
by Claudia Guadalupe Martinez
Sixth grader Chela is a soccer-playing nerd excited about starting school. After her best friend turns on her and acts like she doesn't exist, she buries herself in schoolwork and in the warm comfort of her family. This small world is turned upside down when her father is rushed to the hospital and her grandmother arrives to help the family.
thinandbeautiful.com
FOR YOUTH
by Liane Shaw
While 17-year-old Maddie has always felt a hole in her life, she now thinks she has found a way to fill it with her quest to mold her body into her ideal, thinnest shape. When she comes across the world of "thinspiration" websites, where young people encourage each other in their mission to lose weight, she quickly becomes addicted. Finally she has found a place where she is understood and where she can belong. Or has she?
This Will be Remembered of Her: Stories of Women Reshaping the World
In This Will be Remembered of Her, three strands – stories from Scripture, stories of select women from around the globe and stories from religious, folk and wisdom traditions worldwide – are woven into one strong braid showing how life can be made more compelling, communal and just for all people. In the end the book asks: How will you be remembered?
e-reader version available
Violet
FOR CHILDREN
by Tania Duprey Stehlik
Violet goes to school with children who are all different colors – some are red, some are yellow and some are blue. But she is the only one who is purple. When one of her friends at school asks about her skin color she wonders – Why am I Violet?
When Christians Get it Wrong
by Adam Hamilton
When young adults talk about the problems they have with Christianity and the church, they name attitudes and behaviors they believe are practiced too often by Christians: judging others, condemning people of other faiths, rejecting science, injecting politics into faith and being anti-homosexual. With his familiar style, Adam Hamilton tackles these issues and addresses the hows and whys of Christians getting it right when it comes to being Christ in the world.
This is a large print book; e-reader version available
Why Africa Matters
by Cedric Mayson
So many books give the data on the geography, the population and the problems of Africa, but this astonishing book reveals the richness of Africa's peoples, traditions and cultures and why this is good news for the world. The book explores the heart and soul
of a great continent and allows us to appreciate the beauty while not ignoring the reality.
Youth Books
Titles for 2012:
Branded, Going Blue: A Teen Guide to Saving Our Oceans, Lakes, Rivers and Wetlands, Lacey and the African Grandmothers, Sold. Thunder Over Kandahar
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