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Author
Series
Seasons of Lancaster novel volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Books trade paperbacks
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
As Sadie King participates in the Amish rumspring, a tradition outside of her community, she discovers different ways to express her musical talents and unexpectedly falls in love with Mike Trueherz, a non-Amish youth.
Author
Series
Publisher
Barbour Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Meredith longs to hear the sound of her husband's voice, to know that he arrived safely in Indiana, and to share her big news. Instead of the call she's waiting for, Meredith receives news that tears her heart to shreds and leaves her in a dark pit of despair.
Author
Series
Women of Lancaster County volume 4
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Amish-raised Izzy Mueller doesn't fit in with her family or her community. She works as a caregiver and is in love with with Mennonite-raised Zed Bayer who is leaving soon for college. When she learns some unsavory news about her own past she begins to question many things about her life.
Author
Series
Publisher
Barbour Pub
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Meredith Stoltzfus could never love anyone like she loved her husband, Luke. When a friend from her past stops by her home to offer a helping hand, Meredith hesitantly agrees. But deep down, she feels uneasy about it. How would it look to others, seeing Jonah around so often?
46) Courting Cate
Author
Series
Courtships of Lancaster County volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
In Paradise, Pennsylvania, Cate, knowing her sister, Betsy, cannot marry until after she does and having scared away most of her suitors, questions the intentions of Pete Treger, who seems to want her hand but may be just playing a game.
Author
Series
Men of Lancaster County volume 2
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Six years after the death of her mother in an accident, Priscilla Kinsinger returns to Lancaster County from Indiana, and her uncle asks his employee, blacksmith Jake Miller, to help Priscilla reconnect with community life.
48) The Amish nanny
Author
Series
Women of Lancaster County volume 2
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
When Ada Rupp has the chance to travel to Switzerland as the caregiver of a young child, she leaps at the opportunity. Anxious to learn more about her forebears, Ada enlists the help of a young Mennonite scholar named Daniel, but even as she develops feelings for him, she cannot get her first love, Will, out of her head or heart.
Author
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling author of "Shadows of Lancaster County" comes an exciting new romantic mystery set in Amish country. Finding herself unemployed, Samantha Collins moves to sleepy Harmony Grove, Pennsylvania to run a bed-and-breakfast. However, when the manager she fires is later found murdered on the property, Samantha's troubles take a serious turn.
51) Crossroads
Author
Series
Amish roads volume 2
Publisher
Abingdon Press, a novel approach to faith
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Emma decided long ago that she was going to marry Isaac Stoltzfus. Since she was ten, she'd dreamt of being Isaac's wife, of fixing up a small farmhouse, of raising boppli together. But now, Isaac's rumschpringe has introduced him to new ways--and much to Emma's dismay, Isaac seems to be enjoying them.
52) A time for peace
Author
Series
Quilts of Lancaster County volume 3
Publisher
Abingdon Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Jenny Bontrager is finally at a place of love and belonging with her husband, Matthew, and his children. Life seems golden with both her family and career as a writer. But everything Jenny now believes in is thrown into question with the discovery of a long-lost letter from her father. Her sense of peace and contentment destroyed by betrayal, Jenny struggles with her renewed faith--and the love of everyone around her.
Author
Series
Lancaster Crossroads volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"When a tragic accident occurs in Halfway, the entire community of Amish folk, Englishers, and tourists draw together to face the aftermath. Haley Donovan, an Englisher Halfway resident who comes upon the crash, finds herself drawn into the Amish community through the friendships born in crisis, and to social worker Dylan Monroe. Elsie Lapp suffers greatly from the loss of her father in the accident, but her burden is eased by another survivor of...
54) The hope jar
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"What happens when making an elderly Amish couple very happy means going along with a lie that gets bigger by the day? Michelle Taylor is not who her new family in Lancaster County believes her to be. The Lapps were looking for their long-lost granddaughter when they met Michelle and she assumed the identity of Sara Murray. Once homeless and hopeless, Michelle has come to love her new Amish friends and even considers the idea of romance among them....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the final installment of Amy Clipston's Amish Homestead series, Cindy Riehl finds herself searching outside of her community for fulfillment and, with the help of a special friend, realizes what she was looking for was right in front of her all along"--
The youngest of the Riehl children, Cindy has watched her siblings find love and happiness in Lancaster County. But Cindy continues to grieve her mother, whose death left an enormous hole in her...
56) Home to Paradise
Author
Series
Coming home novels (Barbara Cameron) volume 3
Publisher
Abingdon Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Rose Anna Zook has watched her two older sisters marry two Stoltzfus men and has always thought she and John, the third Stoltzfus brother, would marry, make a home together, and have children. But John has other ideas. He's enjoying his Rumschpringe in the Englisch world a little too much and isn't interested in returning to the Amish community--especially to marry. Rose Anna is determined to bring her man back into the Amish fold. John is equally...
Author
Series
Lancaster County secrets volume 4
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Mattie Riehl was hoping to give her husband, Sol, the Christmas gift they have both longed for--news that a baby was on the way. But as usual, she is disappointed. The holidays bring an acute awareness to Mattie that her dream of a big Amish family isn't likely to become a reality. Will those empty chairs at the table ever be filled? Then a winter storm raging outside blows an impatient young woman and her husband into the Riehl home on Christmas...
58) A simple singing
Author
Series
Sisters of Lancaster County volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publisheing group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When a Mennonite farmhand, Gordon Martin, shows interest in Amish Marie Bachmann, she can't help but be flattered. But her mother sends her off to Florida, where she begins spending time with bad-boy Eli Jacob, the bishop's son from back home. When Gordon shows up in Florida to volunteer in a homeless shelter, her life becomes even more complicated. Returning home, Marie grapples with whether she should court Eli or leave the church for Gordon.
59) A time to love
Author
Series
Quilts of Lancaster County volume 1
Publisher
Abingdon Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
War correspondent Jennie King thinks she{u2019}s just a temporary guest in her grandmother{u2019}s Amish community while she recuperates from the devastating injuries sustained in a car bomb attack that changed her world. But when she meets Matthew Bontrager, the man she had a crush on as a teenager, she wonders if God has a new plan for her. Jennie has emotional and physical scars and though she feels she has come home to this man and this place,...
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