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Author
Series
Sadie's Montana volume 3
Publisher
Good Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Sadie and Mark settle into their new home, they are visited by FBI agents who warn them that Sadie's valuable horse may put them in grave danger.
Author
Series
Long road home volume 2
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
Publisher
Good Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
201 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Mary Stoltzfus is thirty years old, splashed with freckles, and unmarried. In her Amish world, that qualifies her to be called an old maid. She is living her quiet schoolteacher life in the Lancaster County Amish community when she gets a surprising invitation in the mail one day. Would she come to Montana to teach? Of course not, she decides, fully at home in eastern Pennsylvania, where she can go out to eat in dozens of restaurants, do her laundry...
Author
Series
Sadie's Montana volume 2
Publisher
Good Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sadie must choose between Mark, who finds it hard to tell her the secrets of his past, and Daniel, a visitor from Lancaster County who's funny, well-mannered, and completely dedicated to his family. Meanwhile, there's horse trouble in Montana again - only this time, horses aren't being stolen, they're being shot by snipers in a blue pickup truck.
Author
Series
Publisher
Good Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1,075 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In colonial America, a Native American orphan raised among the Amish explores her identity, torn between two cultures and unsure of where she belongs. When she's forced to leave everything behind and forge her own path, where--and with whom--will Hester choose to make her new home? Hester on the Run, Book 1: One April morning, an Amish couple finds a Native American infant, wrapped in deerskin and placed next to the spring where they gather water....
8) Wild horses
Author
Series
Sadie's Montana volume 1
Publisher
Good Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Miller family's move from Ohio to Montana was uneventful. But now, Sadie's close-knit family is falling apart. And who is this fascinating Mark who helps to rescue a dying horse and shows up at the Amish hymn sing though he is English? And what is the story behind the mysterious wild horse?
Author
Series
Long road home volume 3
Language
English
Description
"As May settles into family life, she has so much to be grateful for. Yes, there are plenty of challenges as she continues to heal from the demons of her past, but her loving husband and sweet children are the greatest earthly gift she could ask for. And having Oba in their home is almost more precious than she could have imagined at least, if it weren't for his ongoing anger and hardness of heart. May's children are steadily growing older, and eventually...
Author
Series
Lancaster burning volume 1
Language
English
Description
The Amish community of Lancaster is being terrorized by barn fires. David and Malinda Beile''s barn was the first to go. The clues are sparse, but Levi, the Beilers' oldest son, happened to be awake in the middle of the night and spotted a white vehicle driving past the house with its lights off. Sarah, David and Malinda's daughter, is in her late teens and old enough to observe her parents' agony. Not only is she afraid, too, and wishing she could...
Author
Series
Lizzie searches for love volume 2
Publisher
Good Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
Will Lizzie Glick, a high-spirited Amish teenager, give up her dream of teaching school so that her wish for a family and a marriage can come true? Based on the true experiences of the author's extended family.
Author
Series
Long road home volume 1
Language
English
Description
"It was the early 1900s when Obadiah (Oba) and Merriweather's (May's) parents died tragically, leaving them orphans at ten and eleven years old. When none of their nearby relations volunteer to take them in, they are set on a train to Arkansas to go live on their Amish aunt and uncle's cotton farm. Once there, it didn't take long to discover they would be treated cruelly, no matter what they did. May, always anxious to be a godly young lady, took...
13) Big decisions
Author
Series
Lizzie searches for love volume 3
Publisher
Good Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
Questions and indecision as well as answers and certainty enter Lizzie's life as she must decide whether to join the Amish church, to marry Stephen, and to continue teaching. Based on the true experiences of the author's extended family.
Author
Series
Lizzie searches for love volume 1
Publisher
Good Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
345 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A hot-tempered, high-spirited teenaged girl who hates housework, dislikes babies, and loves driving fast horses tries to fit in among the members of her Amish community. Based on the true experiences of the author's extended family.
15) Davey's daughter
Author
Series
Lancaster burning volume 2
Language
English
Description
Sarah Beiler grows increasingly concerned about Ashley, her friend who also works at the farmers market. Ashley acts strange, even nervous, when anyone talks about the rash of fires. When Sarah asks her what she knows, Ashley only heightens Sarah's suspicions. But that is not Sarah's only trouble. She remains distracted by Matthew Stoltzfus, who says that God is calling him to leave the Amish community. When he begs her to join him, Sarah's heart...
Author
Publisher
Good Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
227 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Annie and Fannie are twins and the youngest of twelve siblings. They're in the little Amish school's Christmas play, which they must practice for regularly, but what they're really passionate about is horses. Oh, what they would give to have a horse of their own to ride and groom and care for. It's all they can think about. Well, that and the way their older sister Anna is swooning over Isaac, a sixteen-year-old boy who goes to the hymn singings on...
17) Which way home?
Author
Series
Hester's hunt for home volume 2
Publisher
Good Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Born a Native American, but brought up Amish, Hester Zug, at age 20, flees her Amish home. Her father's too-tender care of her has made her stepmother wildly jealous, and so Hester sets off, knowing only that she can't stay. Hester's natural instincts for navigating the forests in colonial Pennsylvania along with the book of medicines and remedies given to her by an aged Native American woman allow her to survive until she gets sick from drinking...
Author
Series
Dakota (Linda Byler) volume 3
Publisher
Good Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hannah has put everything into building up her family's homestead in North Dakota. Despite the Great Depression, unpredictable weather, and unforgiving landscape, she and her new husband Jerry stay on even after their Amish friends and family move back east. When a plague of grasshoppers destroys every last morsel of vegetation after yet another drought, Hannah and Jerry return to the fertile soil of Pennsylvania, where life will be safe and predictable....
Author
Series
Dakota (Linda Byler) volume 2
Publisher
Good Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hannah, a feisty young Amish woman, lives on her family's farm in North Dakota. After moving halfway across the country and struggling to land on their feet, Hannah's family is finally feeling settled. The cattle business is doing well, and other Amish families have moved into the area. Feeling betrayed by Clay Jenkins and unimpressed with her own father, Hannah is hesitant to trust the men around her. Jerry Riehl, intrigued by her intelligence and...
20) The witnesses
Author
Series
Lancaster burning volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Witnesses is the third novel in Amish novelist, Linda Byler's current series, "Lancaster Burning." Byler takes readers inside the home of the leader of the local Amish community, Davey Beiler, who finds himself at the center of mounting fear and controversy. Fires have destroyed two more nearby Amish barns, and many of the farmers are ready to ask for police protection, an unheard of action. Beiler counsels against this, but then his beloved...
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