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By Linda Byler. 2017
Hannah and her family still struggle with the events of The Homestead (DB 88593), but they are settling into life…
in North Dakota when tragedy strikes. As other Amish families decide to return to Lancaster, Hannah and her family face the same decision, even as she is being courted. 2017By Linda Byler. 2018
Hannah and her husband Jerry remained in North Dakota when the rest of her family returned to Pennsylvania. However, when…
their ranch is decimated by locusts, Hannah relents and they follow. But tragedy strikes once again, leaving Hannah reeling and questioning her faith. 2018By Linda Byler. 2015
Collection of three novels following the travails of Sarah Beiler as an arsonist terrorizes her small Amish community. In Fire…
in the Night, her parents' barn is burned down and she becomes entranced with flirtatious Matthew Stoltzfus. Also includes Davey's Daughter and The Witnesses. Some violence. 2015By David Dollenmayer, Martin Walser. 2019
1823. Seventy-three-year-old Goethe meets nineteen-year-old Ulrike von Levetzow. They form a connection that has Goethe infatuated with the young woman.…
When another man courts her, he falls apart. Translated from the original 2017 German edition. 2019By Linda Byler. 2017
Teenaged Hannah resents her parents when they leave Lancaster County after losing the farm during the Depression. Settling in North…
Dakota, the family struggles without the support of the Amish community. Hannah seeks help from ranch hand Clay Jenkins and wrestles with her feelings for him. 2017By Laura Ingalls Wilder, William Anderson. 2016
A collection of the letters of the American author, illuminating her thoughts, travels, philosophies, writing career, and relationships. Gathered from…
museums, archives, and personal collections, these letters span over sixty years of Wilder's life and shed light on her daily life. 2016By Mhairi McFarlane. 2014
Ten years after they last spoke, Rachel runs into her former best friend, Ben, once again. She has recently broken…
up with her fiancé, but notices that Ben is married. However, the more time they spend together, the more they realize the flame between them has not died. Strong language. 2012By Marta Perry. 2014
Reeling from the death of her mother, Susanna Bitler is discouraged to learn that her business partner plans to quit…
their gift shop. But when Lydia Beachy and Chloe Wentworth reveal themselves as her long-lost sisters, Susanna grapples with the knowledge that her life was a lie. 2014By Marta Perry. 2012
Thirty-year-old Amish beekeeper Naomi Esch has spent fifteen years raising her siblings, but now that her father is remarrying, she…
must move out. Naomi stays with her brother while watching widower Nathan King's children. After rumors spread, Nathan proposes marriage--but Naomi wants to marry for love. 2012By Jane Feather. 2012
England, 1763. Viscount Bradley requires all of his nephews to marry a fallen woman in order to inherit his wealth.…
Peregrine, the last nephew to wed, meets librarian Alexandra, falls in love, and learns her secrets. Sequel to A Wedding Wager (DB 73701). Explicit descriptions of sex. 2012By Jane Feather. 2011
London, 1762. While trying to fulfill his wealthy uncle's decree--that he must marry a fallen woman if he wants to…
gain his inheritance--Sebastian Sullivan discovers that the woman who broke his heart is back in town and working in an illegal gaming house. Some explicit descriptions of sex. 2011By Jane Feather. 2010
London, 1761. Viscount Bradley's will decrees that to inherit his fortune, his three nephews must marry fallen women. When the…
eldest, Jasper Sullivan, the earl of Blackwater, collides into Clarissa, he decides she will be the ideal "wife"--and Clarissa agrees to the charade. Explicit descriptions of sex. 2010By Esmeralda Santiago, Nina Torres-Vidal. 2007
Puerto Rican-born Santiago continues the memoir begun in Cuando Era Puertorriqueña (DB 40892). Recounts rebelling against her controlling mother and…
running off with Ulvi Dogan, a domineering Turkish filmmaker seventeen years her senior, then freeing herself from Dogan's possessiveness and later graduating from Harvard. Translated from English. Spanish language. 2004By Mary Pope Osborne, Natalie Pope Boyce, Michaël Welply. 2009
More than fifty Bible stories from the Old and New Testaments. Includes the tales of Adam and Eve, Noah and…
the ark, Rebekah at the well, Moses and the burning bush, and the life of Jesus. For grades 3-6. 2009By Etan Boritzer, Robbie Marantz. 1996
The second book in the series on character education and social values by Etan Boritzer. Explains love as an "inside…
rainbow feeling" experienced by all the different people "held together by love" in the same world. For grades 3-6By Hannah Hurnard. 1983
By J. Stephen Freeman, Stephen Freeman. 2011
In this book, popular blogger and podcaster Fr. Stephen Freeman of the Orthodox Church in America makes a compelling case…
for becoming aware of God's living and active presence in every moment of our lives. He advocates learning to practice Christian faith in a "one-story universe" that will make possible a living, intimate relationship with GodBy Paul L Gaus, P. L. Gaus. 1999
Amish bishop Eli Miller breaks the traditional isolation of his people to ask Professor Michael Brandon, who is not Amish,…
to find his grandson, Jeremiah, who has disappeared with his father, Jonah, although Brandon is not to notify the police or use force to recover the boy, but then Jonah is found murdered along the roadsideBy Robin Lee Hatcher, Robin Hatcher. 2009
Who says a woman can't do a man's job? Put up or shut up! Complaining about Bethlehem Springs' dissolute mayoral…
candidate, Gwen Arlington is challenged to take on the role herself. For seven years, she's carved out an independent life in the bustling mountain town of Bethlehem Springs, Idaho teaching piano and writing for the local newspaper. But now she's a single woman running for mayor--and in 1915 this decision is bound to stir up troubleBy James S. Bell, James Scott Bell. 2009
When newly religious Arty Towne and his wife Liz discover a body and a cache of diamonds while hiking, Liz…
steals the loot and kills Arty. Suspecting foul play, Arty's sister Roxanne enlists the help of born-again ex-con Daniel "Mac" MacDonald to uncover the truth. Some violence. 2009