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1) The outcast
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
"Rachel Stoltzfus has led a contented life among her Old Order Mennonite community. But when she becomes pregnant and refuses to reveal the identity of the father, the sect shuns her, and the bishop, who is Rachel's brother-in-law and who has secrets of his own, forces her to leave."--Library Journal.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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When Leora Ebersole sees the small plane crash in her Old Order Mennonite community, she has no idea its a foreshadowing of things to come. When the young pilot, Moses Hughes, regains consciousness, they realize his instruments were destroyed by the same power outage that killed the electricity at the community store, where Englischers are stranded with dead cell phones and cars that wont start. Moses offers a sobering theory, but no one can know...
3) Inescapable
Author
Series
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
After receiving threatening letters from a stalker, Lizzie is forced to return to her childhood Mennonite home and reconsiders her initial judgments of her community and faith only to discover that the danger she ran from is closer than ever.
Author
Series
Inn at Eagle Hill volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Bethany Schrock's love life has derailed, her faith hangs by a thread, and she is spending hot summer days wading through a lifetime of accumulation at the home of five elderly Amish sisters. She's not sure what she wants out of life, but she knows that she's not finding it in Stoney Ridge. Then a new guest at the Inn at Eagle Hill ropes her into volunteering in a community project for down-and-outers. Reluctant at first, Bethany starts to feel a...
Author
Publisher
Waterbrook Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
As Alexa Zimmerman tries to win over the members of her Kanasas Old Order Mennonite community, a Chicago reporter with unknown motivation becomes a long-term guest at her bed and breakfast and a cousin arrives with a secret related to Alexa's own.
7) The midwife
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Language
English
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Description
Old Order Mennonite head midwife Rhoda Mummau embraces the secrets that remaining in Hopen Haus lets her keep, but with revolutionary medicine waiting on the outside, Rhoda's choices are getting far more difficult. Meanwhile, a graduate student who once gave her baby up for adoption seeks shelter at Hopen Haus when, while carrying another baby as a surrogate, the girl flees the parents who just decided to terminate the pregnancy.
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Series
Language
English
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"When widow Rose Schrock turns her Amish farmhouse into a bed and breakfast, she expects there might be problems. The reaction of her cantankerous mother-in-law for one. Disapproval from the church for another. But what she doesn't expect is that the guests at the Inn at Eagle Hill will spill their problems into her life and into her heart. She also never expects the kind of help and support she gets from Galen King, the quiet and rugged horse trainer...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
After his graduation from college, Thomas Ollenburger is filled with big dreams and many questions. What will he do for a career? Should he marry? Where will he call home? Torn between his Mennonite roots on the Kansas prairie and his love for the big city of Boston, as well as his affection for a girl in each location, Thomas is unsure of his place in the world. He has always sought God's leading in his decision-making, but now it seems as if God...
11) The patient one
Author
Series
Walnut Creek volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"Marie Hartman never thought she'd move back to Walnut Creek but, still reeling from a friend's heartbreaking passing, she's desperate for the comforts of home. And she's determined to surround herself with people who care more about her heart than her striking looks. Vowing to reconnect with her childhood best friends and find a larger meaning in life, she's also decided it's finally time to summon the courage to see if there's something more between...
Author
Series
Amish memories volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Mennonite Brenna Zimmerman's life grows complicated by her feelings for a Ukrainian soldier and her friendship with an Afghanistan War vet. But she's inspired by the story of her Amish great-great aunt's experience during World War II. How will Brenna find the courage to give up the comforts she craves for the life she truly wants?"--
13) Unbreakable
Author
Series
Road to Kingdom volume 2
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
"As her Mennonite town is shaken by strange incidents and outright attacks on its residents, Hope Kaufmann is forced to question all she knows and believes"--Provided by publisher.
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Series
Walnut Creek volume 3
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Shelley Shepard Gray weaves a moving and unforgettable exploration of love and friendship. The tragic and untimely death of an old friend has made Elizabeth Anne rethink not only her priorities but her courtship with David, her longtime neighbor and suitor. Though he's Mennonite like herself and has her parents' approval, she feels that a spark is missing. Desperate for a change, she breaks things off -- wondering if, perhaps, she's the one who's...
Author
Series
Inn at Eagle Hill volume 3
Language
English
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Description
Naomi King--soft spoken, loyal, and easily overlooked--has a gift. She sees what others can't see. Intuition, she calls it. Others in Stoney Ridge don't know what to make of it and dismiss her hunches and inklings altogether. When a young woman arrives at the Inn at Eagle Hill with a shocking secret about Tobe Schrock, Naomi fears the worst. She can't ignore the feeling that something sinister's at work--something more than a threat to the tenuous...
16) The farm stand
Author
Series
An amish marketplace volume 2
Publisher
Zondervan
Language
English
Description
"Experience some sweet, garden-fresh romance in the next installment of Amy Clipston's Amish Marketplace series. Salina Petersheim runs her own booth at the Amish market, where she's known for having the freshest and most delicious produce in the area. Her father is the bishop of her church district, and her brother is a deacon. They are a very close family, yet sometimes she tires of being compared to her older brother, Neil, who is married and has...
17) Rising darkness
Author
Series
Finding Sanctuary volume 3
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Description
"Years after leaving her Mennonite background, Sophie's newspaper job gives her access to information she can't ignore, and when she travels to Sanctuary, Missouri, for answers and recognizes a man she used to love, her own past gets tangled in the dangerous investigation"--
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"An engrossing novel about marriage and motherhood, loss and moving on. When Ruth Neufeld's husband and father-in-law are killed working for a relief organization overseas, she travels to Wisconsin with her young daughters and mother-in-law Mabel to bury her husband. She hopes the Mennonite community will be a quiet place to grieve and piece together next steps. Ruth and her family are welcomed by Elam, her husband's cousin, who invites them to stay...
19) Fields of grace
Author
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
With their eldest son about to be drafted into military service, Reinhardt and Lillian Vogt decide to immigrate to America with their three sons and Reinhardt's adopted brother. After tragedy strikes during the voyage, their hopeful dreams turn to dust. Can they maintain the faith of their fathers in a new land?
20) Just plain Sadie
Author
Series
Publisher
Zebra Books
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Description
Everyone in Wells Landing has long expected Sadie Kauffman and Chris Flaud to marry-despite Sadie's telling them differently. While she loves Chris, it is more as a friend than a husband. Yet attwenty-two, the plainest girl in her group, Sadie is also the only one who is still single. Perhaps it's time to be practical and marry Chris-though he still has not asked. But when Sadie meets a kind, handsome Mennonite, it seems her prayers have been answered......