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41) The first love
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Language
English
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1951. Despite struggling with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, Maggie Esh is sweet-spirited. When her Dat remarries, less than a year after Maggie's mother died, her stepmother-- though kind-- simply doesn't understand Maggie or her illness. An unsettling family situation occurs, and hope begins to seem elusive. Maggie attends some tent revival meetings out of curiosity, but the words of the evangelist begin to stir something deep inside her. Dare she...
Author
Series
Publisher
Shiloh Run Press, an imprint of Barbour Publishing, Inc
Language
English
Description
"Join Mandy Frey as she and three friends leave their Amish community in Indiana for the trip of a lifetime to Hawaii. But when Mandy and one of her friends miss the cruise ship after a port of call on Kauai, how will they adjust and get back home?"--Goodreads.com.
Author
Series
Indiana cousins volume 2
Language
English
Description
Traumatized after surviving an automobile accident in which her boyfriend was killed, Katie Miller struggles to find her way out of depression, while Freeman Bontrager tries to gain Katie's trust in hopes of winning her heart.
Author
Series
Daughters of the promise volume 4
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
Description
Longing to reconnect with her daughter, Josephine Droberger travels to Paradise, but what she finds is more than she bargained for, as her world collides with the Amish of Lancaster County.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
More Danger, Adventure, Romance in Dale Cramer's Next Installment! Bandit troubles intensify as Caleb Bender's family tries to settle into their new life in 1920s Paradise Valley. When El Pantera kidnaps Rachel and leaves her brother, Aaron, for dead, Jake Weaver and the Mexican native Domingo pursue the bandit leader to his mountain stronghold in a hopeless rescue attempt. Jake and Domingo manage to escape with Rachel, with the bandits hot on their...
46) The timepiece
Author
Language
English
Description
Adeline Pelham drives up in a sleek, red sports car to an Amish farm and upends the family inside, claiming to be a long lost daughter from another mother.
Sylvia Miller's Old Order family is upended with the arrival of Adeline Pelham. It isn't that Adeline means to be a threat, but her very existence is a reminder of a painful secret. As Sylvia and her mother struggle to come to terms with the news, it is a challenging time to welcome an Englisher--...
47) Lydia's charm
Author
Publisher
Barbour Pub
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
376 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Lydia King suddenly finds herself widowed and jobless, she moves to Charm, Ohio, to be close to her mother and help with her grandfather. But when tragedy strikes her young life yet again, can she find strength in a family of young boys who need a mother, or will the gifts from a secret admirer prompt her to pursue an impossible love?
48) Plain Promise
Author
Series
Daughters of the promise volume 3
Language
English
Description
Young Amish widow, Sadie Fisher, leads a simple life in the quiet countryside of Lancaster County selling Amish goods to a steady stream of tourists. Though it is a good life, lately she’s wondered if it is God’s will for her to remain without a husband and a family.
Winters can be brutally cold and lonely in Pennsylvania, so Sadie rejoices when a renter signs up for a three month stay in her guest cottage. But when wealthy, impulsive Englischer...
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Series
The Amish of Apple Creek volume 3
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
250 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A newcomer and apprentice to Heart Beachy's blacksmith father, Clayton Glick vows to teach this adorably flustered woman a thing or two about courtship as he sets out to convince her to join him on the road to happily ever after"--
Author
Series
Indiana cousins volume 1
Language
English
Description
Loraine must decide whether she will pledge her love to Wayne Lambright who, crippled after a tragic accident, feels unworthy of her love, or Jake Beechy who, after leaving their Amish community, returns to renew their courtship.
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Series
St. Lawrence County Amish volume 1
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Language
English
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Description
Bestselling Amish fiction author Jerry Eicher returns with the first of three stand-alone books in The St. Lawrence County Amish series.
Cousins Lydia and Sandra Troyer and their friend, Rosemary Beiler have always been close. The two cousins, however, both have eyes for handsome Ezra Wagler, leaving Rosemary to watch from the sidelines. But when the cousins' fathers face financial ruin, Lydia and Sandra make a deal as to who should have Ezra's affections...at...
52) The homestead
Author
Series
The Dakota volume 1
Publisher
Good Books
Physical Desc
349 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Hannah and her family move from Lancaster, Pennsylvania to North Dakota, where they face harsh realities far from any Amish communities, forcing her to work on a cattle ranch, where she meets a charismatic English boy named Clay Jenkins.
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
ix, 271 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Describes the author's Amish childhood, his departure from his community at age seventeen, his struggles to return to the Amish way of life, and his final acceptance of his own identity and his past.
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Series
The friendship letters volume 2
Publisher
Barbour Publishing
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Doretta Schwartz used to be so happy and passed her positive attitude along to friends in several letters she wrote each month. But that all changed the day she learned of her fianc�e's death and a heavy weight of depression fell upon her. Feeling empty, she puts away her letter writing and won't even respond to calls from friends. William's twin brother, Warren, is also grieving his loss, while at the same time, trying to be supportive to...
Author
Series
Indiana cousins volume 3
Language
English
Description
An accident leaves Jolene Yoder deaf and rebuilding her life as a teacher to deaf children in her hometown. Ella Miller, Jolene's cousin, worries Jolene will have her heart broken by Jake Beechy, but Jake has his heart set on someone else. What will it take to make these young people find love?
Author
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
233 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The mother of the man who shot many young Amish schoolgirls before taking his own life tells of the grace she's received from the Amish, the relationships she's built with the victims and their families, and the healing and forgiveness she's found"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Zondervan
Language
English
Description
In this first book of a three-book series, author Vannetta Chapman brings a fresh twist to the popular Amish fiction genre. She blends the familiar components consumers love in Amish books-faith, community, simplicity, family-with an innovative who-done-it plot that keeps readers guessing right up to the last stitch in the quilt. When two women-one Amish, one English-each with different motives, join forces to organize a successful on-line quilt auction,...
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Series
Season in Pinecraft volume 1
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
"A wallflower in her Amish community, Mary Margaret hopes a trip will offer her a chance to come out of her shell. When a chance meeting brings new friends and a gentle young man into her life, she imagines a whole new life in Florida. But will it all disappear once vacation ends?"-- Provided by publisher.