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Author
Series
The Dakota volume 3
Publisher
Good Books
Language
English
Description
When a plague of grasshoppers destroys their homestead in North Dakota, Hannah and her husband return to Pennsylvania, but tragedy strikes, leaving Hannah a widow struggling to understand who she is and where she belongs.
Author
Publisher
Good Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
187 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Simon can't stop thinking about the pretty Amish teacher at the local one-room school. But he's ignored the sparks between them because he's so shy. So Simon's little brother Isaac takes matters into his own hands!"--Jkt. flap.
Author
Publisher
Good Books
Pub. Date
c2020
Physical Desc
283 p.
Language
English
Description
When Emma leaves the security of her Amish community for a job in North Carolina, she finds herself navigating choices, circumstances, and a relationship that she never could have imagined. Follow as she struggles to reconcile her faith and her complicated feelings in this romance by bestselling Amish writer Linda Byler.
Emma had had plenty of offers for marriage. Several young men had noticed her smooth auburn hair, her quick intellect. But at twenty-six...
Author
Series
The Dakota volume 2
Publisher
Good Books
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hannah, a feisty young Amish woman, lives on her family's farm in North Dakota. After moving halfway across the country and struggling to land on their feet, Hannah's family is finally feeling settled. The cattle business is doing well, and other Amish families have moved into the area. Feeling betrayed by Clay Jenkins and unimpressed with her own father, Hannah is hesitant to trust the men around her. Jerry Riehl, intrigued by her intelligence and...
Author
Series
The long road home volume 3
Publisher
Good Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"As May settles into family life, she has so much to be grateful for. Yes, there are plenty of challenges as she continues to heal from the demons of her past, but her loving husband and sweet children are the greatest earthly gift she could ask for. And having Oba in their home is almost more precious than she could have imagined ... at least, if it weren't for his ongoing anger and hardness of heart. May's children are steadily growing older, and...
Author
Series
Hester's hunt for home volume 3
Publisher
Good Books
Pub. Date
c2016
Physical Desc
388 p.
Language
English
Description
Hester, the startlingly beautiful Native American who was rescued as an infant by an Amish couple, now lives in downtown Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She shares a house with Bappie King, another Amish woman, living their independent lives in the fast-growing mid-18th-century city. Bappie runs a highly successful stand at the downtown farmers market; Hester is Bappie's assistant when she isn't out in the city nursing desperately sick children and their...
Author
Series
Hester's hunt for home volume 2
Publisher
Good Books
Pub. Date
c2016
Physical Desc
356 p.
Language
English
Description
Born a Native American, but brought up Amish, Hester Zug, at age 20, flees her Amish home. Her father's too-tender care of her has made her stepmother wildly jealous, and so Hester sets off, knowing only that she can't stay. Hester's natural instincts for navigating the forests in colonial Pennsylvania along with the book of medicines and remedies given to her by an aged Native American woman allow her to survive until she gets sick from drinking...
Author
Series
Hester's hunt for home volume Book 1
Publisher
Good Books
Pub. Date
c2015
Physical Desc
329 p.
Language
English
Description
The setting is the beginning of an Amish settlement in colonial America in the forests of eastern Pennsylvania. There, a young Amish couple, Hans and Kate Zug, are in their ninth year of marriage, still waiting to have a child. Then, one April morning, Kate finds a Native infant, wrapped in deerskin and placed next to the spring where she went to fill her water bucket.
Kate and Hans cherish Hester, despite the pointed question of Hans's mother-"What...
Author
Series
Publisher
Good Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
290 pages. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
At the end of Banished, Clinton has died and May is left to fend for herself in a city where she knows almost no one and has no way of earning a living. Not knowing where Oba had wound up and realizing she can't return to her uncle's home after all he'd put her through, she decides to journey to the Amish community where she spent her first years, before her parents' died. Perhaps the relatives who once turned her away had had a change of heart and...
Author
Publisher
Good Books
Pub. Date
c2019
Physical Desc
333 p.
Language
English
Description
How long will Edna have to wait for the love of her life?
For years, Edna Miller has found herself drawn to Emery Hoschtettler with an attraction she can explain no better than she can put a stop to it. Other suitors come and go, but none make her feel the way she feels around Emery-that incredible floating feeling, as if she was walking on air, mixed with a painful desperation to be ever nearer to him. Despite the fact that Emery seldom seems to...
11) The witnesses
Author
Series
Publisher
Good Books
Language
English
Description
"The Witnesses is the third novel in Amish novelist, Linda Byler's current series, "Lancaster Burning." Byler takes readers inside the home of the leader of the local Amish community, Davey Beiler, who finds himself at the center of mounting fear and controversy. Fires have destroyed two more nearby Amish barns, and many of the farmers are ready to ask for police protection, an unheard of action. Beiler counsels against this, but then his beloved...