After five years as an Englisher, Amanda Dienner is shocked to learn her mother has passed away and left her Lancaster County's most popular Amish bed-and-breakfast. What's more, the inn will only truly be hers if Mandy can successfully run it for twelve months. Reluctantly, Mandy accepts the challenge, no matter that it means facing the family she left behind--or that the inn's clientele expect an Amish hostess! Can Mandy fulfill the terms of her...

Leona Speicher got the "sister" she'd always dreamed of the day Gloria Gingerich and her family moved to Lancaster County Amish farmland. The Arkansas newcomers seem to be everything a devout Plain family should be, and Leona can't help comparing Gloria's's engaging young parents to her own. Leona's cousin shows a romantic interest in Gloria around the same time as Gloria's older brother expresses his fondness for Leona--it seems likely the two young...

The Byler family is on a hunt for their father's will while relations continue to deteriorate among the siblings and between Joel Byler and his fiancée. Joel is desperate for closure to his father's estate -- but how far is he willing to go in order to restore the chaotic turn his life has taken? Will his quest ignore the needs of those closest to him?

"Takes you to six working Amish gardens, from January through December."--Jacket flap.

An updated look at various aspects of the Amish community, including its history, the world view beliefs of the Amish, and the simplicity of their lifestyle. Shows various activities of the family.

Katie Lapp's identity had been shattered the moment she found the satin baby dress in the attic of her parents Amish home. Painfully torn from her close-knit community in the frightening ordeal called the shunning, Katie - now Katherine Mayfield - sets out to find the ailing birth mother she has never known. Her journey takes her to the peaceful home of Lydia Miller, where electric lights and telephones sets Katherine's mind whirling with "fancy"...

Ten-year old Rachel is driving her Amish friends and family "buggy" with her lack of patience, which brings her trouble at every turn - from sledding into a creek to ruining a yummy shoofly pie, to flunking a test in school, to being dragged facedown in the snow. Will Rachel spend the entire winter getting into more trouble than her Lancaster County family and schoolmates can handle? Or will she finally discover that patience has its own rewards?

When Henry Edison turns up in Lancaster County to survey farm women about their domestic contributions during the Great Depression, the last thing Amish housewife Gloria Grabill has time for is the government agent's questions. Gloria's hands are already full trying to balance farm life, with a husband, children, an extended family, in addition to an English neighbor, Minera Swain. While the Great Depression shadows the country in gloom, can Amish...