To make matters more complicated, Dat has recently remarried, less than a year after her mother died. It's the summer of 1951, and Maggie Esh is in need of some hope. And while her stepmother is kind, Rachel is much younger than Mamm, and she simply doesn't understand Maggie or her illness the way Mamm did.
When tent revival meetings come to the area, Maggie is curious, and the words of the Mennonite preacher challenge her to reconsider what she knows about faith.
Road Home
Is she willing to open her heart to new possibilities? How will they manage without her to care for them--especially six-year-old Chris? And will her new beau, continue to court her despite the many miles between them?Yet even as Lena Rose holds on to hope for a reunion with those she loves most, Hans Bontrager, she discovers that Lancaster holds charms of its own.
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Tinderbox
Against her better judgment, Sylvia opens the cherished heirloom, not realizing that what she is about to discover will splinter apart her happy life. The long-kept secret alters everything for the close-knit family, jeopardizing Earnest and Rhoda's relationship, as well as threatening Sylvia's recent engagement to the preacher's grandson.
To her amazement, the respected convert to the Old Order reacts as if he has something to hide. Burdened by the weight of his deception, Earnest Miller decides he must reveal the details about his past to his beloved wife, Rhoda. Can the millers find a way forward through the turmoil to a place of forgiveness and acceptance?
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The Proving
Now an englisher, mandy is shocked: her twin sister should have been the obvious choice! What's more, the inheritance comes with a catch: The farmhouse inn will only truly be hers if she is able to successfully run it for twelve consecutive months. Mandy accepts the challenge even though it means returning to Gordonville and the painful memories she left behind at eighteen.
And an englisher guest with a difficult past of her own just complicates matters. Can mandy fulfill the terms of her inheritance? Or will this year in Amish country prove a dreadful mistake? Rubbing shoulders with her married twin sister reopens wounds that Mandy isn't ready to forgive.
The Wish
When gloria unexpectedly contacts leona after a silence of several years, Leona makes up her mind to persuade her friend to return to Lancaster County and the Amish ways. A compelling story of friendship from the top author in Amish FictionLeona Speicher got the "sister" she'd always dreamed of the day Gloria Gingerich and her family moved to Lancaster County Amish farmland.
The arkansas newcomers seem to be everything a devout Plain family should be, and Leona can't help comparing Gloria's engaging young parents to her own. Leona's cousin shows a romantic interest in gloria around the same time as Gloria's older brother expresses his fondness for Leona--it seems likely the two young women will marry into each other's families, remaining close friends for life.
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The Ebb Tide
A heartwarming tale of courage and love from amish fiction's #1 authorwhen a well-to-do family asks Sallie Riehl to be their daughter's nanny for the summer at their Cape May, New Jersey, vacation home, she jumps at the chance to broaden her horizons beyond the Lancaster County Amish community where she grew up.
Though she loves nannying, Sallie has free time on the weekends to enjoy the shore. It is there that she meets kevin kreider, a marine biology student who talks freely about all he's learning and asks about her interests, unlike most of the guys she grew up with. Has she been too hasty with her promises, or will Sallie only find what her heart is longing for back home in Paradise Township?
Then again, Kevin is Mennonite, not Amish. Just as concerning, is sallie's realization that her time in Cape May is increasing her desire to see the world, however, challenging her plans for the future.
The Timepiece
Can god make something good come out of the mistakes of the past? Or does Adeline's arrival mark one too many surprises for the Millers and their Amish community? And with sylvia and her mother still struggling to come to terms with that news, this is a challenging time to welcome an Englisher--especially this Englisher--into their midst.
Despite the millers' unexpected hospitality, Adeline is well aware that she's treading on Sylvia's turf, and she feels guilty about doing so when Sylvia is grappling with issues of her own. Not only is sylvia trying to rebuild her trust in her father, but she's uncertain what to make of her once-promising engagement to Titus Kauffman, who hasn't pursued her since she confronted him.
It isn't that adeline means to be a threat, but her very existence is a reminder of the painful secret that has so recently upended the Miller household.
The Photograph
. With the passing of their widowed mother, Eva's older brother Menno plans to move his growing family into the Eden Valley farmhouse where they all grew up, leaving little room for his three single sisters. And when jed stutzman, shows up in lancaster with a photo of a Plain young woman, a young Amish buggy maker from Ohio, Eva's world begins to tilt.
Surely, menno reasons, at least one of them will marry this coming wedding season. Eva does hope to marry, but she isn't sure she wants to give up her sweet shop for the life of a farmer's wife, and she has no other prospects.
The Hope Jar The Prayer Jars
Brunstetter. 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.
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Atonement
The young englisher's interest in living off the grid is fueled further when he meets Christian Flaud, Lucy's father. Now twenty-five and solidly past the age of Amish courtship, Lucy has given up any hope of marriage, instead focusing her efforts on volunteering in both the Plain and fancy communities of Lancaster County.
Dale appreciates the self-sufficient ways of the Old Order Amish, and Christian invites him to learn more about them by staying at the family farm. As christian and dale grow closer, developing a father-son rapport, Lucy begins to question what Dale's being there might mean for her. A must-have novel from the #1 name in amish fictionThe mistakes of the past haunt Lucy Flaud, who years ago stopped attending the activities for courting-age young people in her hometown of Bird-in-Hand.
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The Love Letters
. Yet marlena determines to do her best and stay focused on her future, even as those hopes become drastically altered. Bethany House Publishers. Fortunately, it would just be until Luella returned home from the hospital and was stronger. No more than a couple weeks, surely. Marlena wenger's life takes an unexpected turn on the day she learns she must care for her estranged sister's baby.
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