On the Trail of the Spirit
Back to God Hour, 2000

Sixteen stories of Christians from around the world, people affected deeply by the ministry of the Back to God Hour, who is celebrating its 60th year by the publication of this collection of stories from its own files. The varied means by which these people come to know the Lord is itself a rich blessing of the book.
 
     
 

Romey's Place
Baker's Books, 1999

This is a novel about growing up.  Two boys from distinctly different families face the difficult passage from childhood together.  "The conflicts," Walt Wangerin wrote about the novel, are "dramatic, powerful, and complex." Try to put the novel down.
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Our Family Album
CRC Publications, 1998

If you believe the history of the Christian Reformed Church of North America is boring, you've not read Our Family Album.  This book tells the story of that denomination in a manner Cornelius Plantinga, Jr. described this way: "Our Family Album comes to us with the beauty of a revelation."
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Intermission
CRC Publications, 1998

This recently-updated book of devotionals has been a favorite of parents and Christian school teachers for more than a decade.  The meditations take readers from Genesis to Revelation.  The target audience is an eighth grade reader, but much younger and much older readers have enjoyed this devotional collection.
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Near Unto God
Eerdmans and CRC Publications, 1995

The adaptation and modernization of Abraham Kuyper's meditational classic To Be Near Unto God, a book which many Dutch-Americans treasured for decades.
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Secrets of Barneveld Calvary
Baker Books, 1995

A novel in the form of collected stories, Secrets is a series of stories told by a preacher in a small town in Iowa, a man convinced that the stories believers rarely tell are most powerful and full of grace.
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In the Silence There Are Ghosts
Baker Books, 1995

Schaap's second novel is the story of Emily Doorn, who returns to her small-town home after suffering through some difficult times in California.  As Emily begins to attempt to reestablish herself, she begins to unravel a mystery which has shaped her life unknowingly. Silence, like so many of Schaap's works, is a novel of discovery.
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Things We Couldn't Say
Eerdmans, 1994

Recently featured on Dr. James Dobson, Diet Eman is the subject of this biography of Resistance fighting in occupied Holland during World War II.  This is a love story- Diet and her fiance Hein, two young people, set about to engage the Nazis because of their firmly held belief that what was happening in the Netherlands in the early 1940s simply had to be resisted.
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Still Life
Dordt College Press, 1994

Schaap's second collection of published fiction, these stories, like those in Privacy of Storm, appeared in a variety of magazines and journals.  The collection includes "Pitcher's Hands," a story frequently used in high school classrooms, as well as "Booty," a version of which became the first chapter of the novel Romey's Place.
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Privacy of Storm
Dordt College Press, 1990

The author's first collection of short stories, all of them published in magazines and journals.  The title story was originally published in Minnesota Monthly, and later anthologized in Stiller's Pond.  Included also is "Paternity," a much-loved story about fathers and would-be fathers.
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Home Free
Crossway Books, 1985

Schaap's first published novel tells the story of a furloughed missionary who has come home, where he slowly discovers some things about his family and himself that change the way he has come to understand himself and his world.
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35 and Counting
Dordt College Press, 1985

Stories, essays, and reminiscences originally published in magazines and newspapers, including a number of pieces set in the author's hometown in Wisconsin.
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Sign of a Promise
Dordt College Press, 1979

Schaap's first book, a series of stories recounting the tales of immigrant Dutch people who came to the upper Midwest, includes "The Heritage of These Many Years," the story of the Phoenix disaster, a Great Lakes shipwreck which took the lives of 200 Dutch immigrants six miles from Sheboygan, Wisconsin, their destination.
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