Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Amish Country is known for an atmosphere of peace and quiet, perfect for front-porch sitting with a good book. Join New York Times bestselling author Wanda E. Brunstetter, her daughter-in-law, and granddaughter, as they share 18 heartwarming stories from Amish Country. These fictional short stories include journeys we can all relate to as we seek how to live led by love, joy, peace, patience, and other Fruits of the Spirit. Meet Anna, who struggles...
22) The covenant
Author
Series
Abram's daughters volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Four sisters in Lancaster County witness the secrets of their tiny home community as Leah suffers from her sister Sadie's shameful loss of innocence with an English boy and finds her own dreams of love with Jonas spinning out of control."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The quiet Amish lifestyle isn't all that it seems in this debut cozy mystery series, for fans of Amanda Flower and Wanda E. Brunstetter. Petunia Yoder is Blueberry, Pennsylvania's youngest old maid, at twenty-two years of age, and completely unmarriageable. But she's determined to celebrate her friends' weddings with joy and a full heart. Unfortunately, Petunia's best friend, Eden Beiler, is playing a dangerous game with a man who is ruining her...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Liz looked up to find his eyes on hers, with an expression completely undecipherable. Instantly, the words she had been planning to say became [e]mbedded in her throat, her knees weakened, and all common sense evaporated." -- Back cover.
Liz had been in love once: the wedding planned, the barn cleaned, and the celery set to be harvested to make the traditional wedding soup. Just two weeks before the day she was to exchange vows with her beloved,...
Author
Series
Long road home volume 2
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Having nowhere else to go, May decides to return to the Amish community she lived in as a child before her parents died. There she is taken in by Clara, who helps her reintegrate into the community, but she sinks into depression. Will May ever see her brother, Oba, again? How can she heal from her past? Can she ever open her heart to another man?
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When Lizzy Hershberger turns fourteen, her schooling ends at eighth grade, and she has no choice but to leave home to work as an unpaid maid for another family. To avoid being shunned by her ultra-conservative Swartzentruber Amish family and community, Lizzy is forced to abandon her dreams because they are "too worldly." After being raped by an Amish deacon over two dozen times, Lizzy makes her first attempt at "jumping the fence" to pursue a non-Amish...
Author
Series
Amish New World volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Outgoing and irrepressible, young Christina has her choice of suitors. But she and her practical-minded older sister, Hilda, have built a thriving life in the rugged Pennsylvania backcountry. Hilda has given up her marriage dreams as foolish - and Christina vows she'll never marry until she finds her sister a husband. So when two handsome newcomers arrive, Christina engages in a bit of secret matchmaking - with disastrous results . . .Johan is used...
Author
Series
Apple Ridge volume Bk. 3
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Annie Martin loves the Plain way of her Old Order Mennonite people, like those revered by her beloved grandfather. Retreating from a contentious relationship with her mother, Annie goes to live with her Daadi Moses in Apple Ridge. As spring moves into Pennsylvania and Annie spends time amongst the cherry trees with handsome Aden Zook, she wishes she could forget how deeply the lines between the Old Order Amish and Old Order Mennonite are drawn. Can...
30) The reckoning
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Shunned by the township she was raised in, a young Amish woman finds herself enjoying an affluent life in the secular world and engaged to a successful businessman. When a long lost love unexpectedly returns from her past with a startling revelation, she is torn between her newfound modern life and the simplicity of her humble past, and must now choose the life, and the man, that wll finally give her peace of mind.
Author
Series
Between two worlds volume Bk. 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Rachel Beiler loves her job as the teacher in her Amish community. She's obedient, humble, and compliant and tries to keep the ordnung to the best of her ability. But Rachel has a secret--something that could get her shunned if she's found out. She loves knowledge and yearns for a college education. After serving a dozen years in the Army, Rob Lanier has returned from Afghanistan. But now that he's home again, he's constantly reminded of his family's...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Raised by an Amish family, Katie Lapp starts a quest to find her birth-mother, Laura Mayfield-Bennett. Along the way, two very different men try to help her overcome a devious scheme to steal her rightful inheritance and divide her heart between two worlds.
33) The forgiven
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"When three women, all cousins, are given the task of sorting through the treasures of several generations of their Amish family, they each discover a story from the past that provides insights and inspiration for their own lives"--
Author
Series
Amish Inn novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Sisters Esther and Lizzie have a new employee, Rose Petersheim, to help them tend to The Peony Inn. But their old matchmaking ways have stayed the same. The sisters focus their efforts on the lovely twenty-five-year-old Rose. Though Rose is witty and outspoken, her nervous chattering makes her the best match for someone calm and good at listening. Someone like Benjamin--the handsome handyman who recently moved to town. But when Esther receives an...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request