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Sisters of the quilt volume 3
Language
English
Description
Returning to the home she fled in disgrace, will Hannah find healing for the wounds of the past?
After receiving a desperate and confusing call from her sister, Hannah Lapp reluctantly returns to the Old Order Amish community of her Pennsylvania childhood.
Having fled in disgrace more than two years earlier, she finally has settled into a satisfying role in the Englischer world. She also has found love and a new family with the...
After receiving a desperate and confusing call from her sister, Hannah Lapp reluctantly returns to the Old Order Amish community of her Pennsylvania childhood.
Having fled in disgrace more than two years earlier, she finally has settled into a satisfying role in the Englischer world. She also has found love and a new family with the...
Author
Series
Amish vines and orchards volume 2
Language
English
Description
The tornado that devastated Kings' Orchard pushed Rhoda, Samuel, and Jacob to make a new start in Maine. Are they strong enough to withstand the challenges of establishing an Amish community -- and brave enough to face the secrets that move with them?
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Although most Old Order Amish women her age spend their hours managing a household and raising babies, Sylvia Fisher has just one focus - tending and nurturing her family's dairy herd. Then a dangerous connection with an old beau forces her to move, and she decides to pour her energy into reviving another family's failing farm. But after months in rehab, Aaron Blank returns home to sell his Daed's farm and give his parents an easier lifestyle. Can...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Old Order Amish Ivy Zook is wrestling with her need to shed her community's ways so she can grow the business of her dreams: planning parties. As long as she's stuck living without modernization, she can barely get her business on its feet. But if she leaves too soon, she'd cause trouble for her sister, Holly, who is planning her wedding to Joshua Smucker. All of their plans become twice as complicated when an old car crashes into the storefront of...
Author
Series
Amish vines and orchards volume 1
Language
English
Description
Old Order Amish Rhoda Byler's unusual gift and her remarkable abilities to grow herbs and berries have caused many to think her odd. As rumors mount that Rhoda's "gift" is a detriment to the community, she chooses isolation, spending her time in her fruit garden and on her thriving canning business. Miles away in Harvest Mills, Samuel King struggles to keep his family's apple orchard profitable. As the eldest son, Samuel farms with his brothers, the...
Author
Series
Amish vines and orchards volume 4
Language
English
Description
"More settled in her heart than ever before, Rhoda Byler feels a newfound confidence living in the Old Order Amish settlement she helped establish in Orchard Bend, Maine. Time has helped to heal the wounds of Rhoda's recent severed relationship, and she finds that even her unusual gift of profound intuition is less of a burden as she continues to seek God's wisdom for her future. She is happy to be working alongside the King family and the love of...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
441 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Old Order Amish wife and mother Jemima has put her marriage and family ahead of herself for years. She's set herself aside. Raising four children, she's followed all the rules and has been patient in looking forward to her time to chase a dream of her own.
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Series
Language
English
Description
"A husband and son abandoned to forge a path alone. A young woman who sacrificed her dreams. How will the God of grace and hope help them find their way? At nineteen years old, Old Order Amish Jolene Keim was on the brink of happily-ever-after when everything changed, stealing the future she expected and burdening her with an unbearable decision. For the next ten years, Jolene throws herself into family life--and then she meets Andy Fisher. The horse...
Author
Series
Amish of Summer Grove volume 1
Language
English
Description
"An Old Order Amish young woman and an unsuspecting college student are on a collision course that neither could have foreseen"--
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
547 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Raised in foster care in Asheville, North Carolina, Tara Abbott has been rearing her two younger half-brothers since she turned eighteen. When both Sean and Nicholas are lost to a devastating tornado and Tara suffers a head injury, she flees to St. Simons Island, looking for a connection to her Nana Phi. But the effects of her head injury blur the lines between imagination and reality, and after her wallet and phone are lost Tara must take refuge...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
299 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Holly Zook is the lead technician for Greene's Pharmacy, which looks out for the Amish community, a group largely without secure healthcare plans. She's Amish, and knows she can't marry and hold onto her professional job. She spurns love and works toward addressing diseases like the one that claimed her father's life. Joshua Smucker is the one man who draws her like a warm hearth in winter. When something unexpected threatens Greene's Pharmacy, Holly...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
551 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
After months away in the Englisch world, Ariana Brenneman is overjoyed to be in the Old Order Amish home where she was raised. Yet her excitement is mixed with an unexpected apprehension as she reconciles all she's learned from her biological parents with the uncompromising teachings of her Plain community. Although her childhood friend, ex-Amish Quill Schlabach, hopes to help her navigate her new role amongst her people, Ariana's Daed doesn't understand...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
375 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
At twenty-seven, Hadley is still trying to get free of the weight she's carried all her life: entering foster care at age five, getting arrested at seventeen for arson, and losing her boyfriend, Monroe, when she needed him most. Monroe never wanted to walk out on Hadley. He'd understood her, from her desire to help children with speech issues to her intense temper. But when she was arrested, he became haunted by what he knew and convinced his only...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
When an Old Order Amish woman, Rose Kurtz, is asked to leave her family to travel deep into West Virginia and help Joel Dienner with his children in the wake of tragedy, the quiet young woman recognizes a place where she might find kindness instead of criticism. She agrees to stay in Forest Hill and become Joel's wife for the sake of his family needs, but their marriage is to be a partnership, one built from need, not love and affection. As the years...
15) Yesterday's gone
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
541 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Eliza Bontrager and Jesse Ebersol have fallen in love and are determined to marry, despite the belief of their Amish community and respective families that there's a hidden curse--one that only shows up when an Ebersol and Bontrager marry. Before the ceremony on the day of the wedding, Eliza's great-aunt Rose gives her a family heirloom quilt and tells her that she may use it to change one event in the past. Eliza appreciates the woman's heart, but...
Author
Series
Amish of Summer Grove volume 2
Language
English
Description
Family, community, faith, and love. These "quilt blocks" sewn together made Ariana's beautiful life. When they are pulled to pieces, will anything familiar remain? The Old Order Amish life Ariana Brenneman loved vanished virtually overnight with the discovery that she was switched at birth twenty years ago. Now she's immersed in the Englischer world, getting to know her mother, and under the authority of her biological father, an atheist intellectual...
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