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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
Publisher
Good Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
186 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Elsie wants a horse of her own, but there is no way her poor family can afford it, she begins helping out at a boy named Elam's father's horse farm and develops complicated feelings for the handsome young man.
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
Lancaster burning volume 3
Publisher
Good Books
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Who is responsible for setting the barn fires that continue to keep the Amish of eastern Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, on edge? Who is responsible for seeing that they are stopped?
In this third and final novel in the Lancaster Burning series, author Linda Byler takes us inside the home of Davey Beiler, the leader of this Amish district. He clearly feels the heat in more ways than one. Some of the younger members of his church are ready to testify...
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...