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1) The thorn
Author
Series
Rose trilogy (Beverly Lewis) volume 1
Description
Rose's older sister, Hen, knows more than she should about falling for the wrong man. Unable to abandon her Amish ways, Hen is soon separated from her very modern husband. Mattie, their young daughter, must visit her father regularly, but Hen demands she wear Amish attire--and speak Pennsylvania Dutch, despite her husband's wishes. Will Hen be able to reestablish her place among the People she abandoned? And will she be able to convince Rose to steer...
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Iris Cooper has been singing ever since she can remember, hitting the high notes like no one else. When she is twelve, her father convinces the owner of a bar in Lake City, Texas, to let her perform, and she stuns the audience. In the ensuing years, never staying anywhere for long, father and daughter move from one dusty town to the next, her passion for music growing every time she takes the mike in another roadhouse. But it is not an easy life for...
3) The judgment
Author
Series
Rose trilogy (Beverly Lewis) volume 2
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
328 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
Rose Kauffman is engaged to Silas Good, a well-liked Amish fellow, so why does she still pine for Nick Franco, the former foster son of the bishop? Especially now that Nick has left the Amish community under a cloud of suspicion after the death of the bishop's biological son. Meanwhile, Rose's older sister, Hen, has returned to live at her parents' farm with her young daughter. Hen and her modern husband, Brandon, are separated by mutual agreement,...
4) The mercy
Author
Series
Rose trilogy (Beverly Lewis) volume 3
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
306 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
Rose Kauffman pines for prodigal Nick Franco, the Bishop's foster son who left the Amish under a cloud of suspicion after his foster brother's death. His rebellion led to the "silencing" of their beloved Bishop. But is Nick really the rebel he appears to be? Rose's lingering feelings for her wayward friend refuse to fade, but she is frustrated that Nick won't return and make things right with the People. Nick avowed his love for Rose -- but will he...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
345 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"Marlena Wenger, a young aunt from the Beachy Amish caring for her infant niece, finds comfort and hope from an Old Order Amish mother and her family who extend friendship to a homeless man, whose few possessions include a collection of love letters"--
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 19
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
301 p.
Description
After a woman is killed in an arson-homicide, Jessica Nelson, an intern-reporter at the local paper, is assigned to cover the story. When Jessica disappears, China Bayles is determined to find her, before she becomes a headline herself.
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Description
The year is 2008 and Samantha Kofer's career at a huge Wall Street law firm is on the fast track -- until the recession hits and she gets downsized, furloughed, escorted out of the building. Samantha, though, is one of the "lucky" associates. She's offered an opportunity to work at a legal aid clinic for one year without pay, after which there would be a slim chance that she'd get her old job back. In a matter of days Samantha moves from Manhattan...
8) Nightshade
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 16
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
viii, 289 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
China's herb shop and catering business may be thriving, but she's still reeling from her father's death, and not even remotely interested in her half-brother Miles's investigation into that event. China's husband, on the other hand, has no such qualms. And when fate forces her to get involved as well, China realizes it's time to bring the past to light-or else it will haunt her the rest of her life. But China and McQuaid discover that Miles may have...
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Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
217 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
Deciding that the PennDutch Inn needs to go more upmarket, Magdalena Yoder is delighted to welcome the Earl and Countess Grimsley-Snodgrass and their family as honored guests, looking forward to the challenge of introducing English nobility to traditional American culture. But, as Magdalena is about to find out, the Grimsley-Snodgrasses are by no means the easiest of guests, and at the same time she has to contend with the discovery of a mummified...
10) Run, Rose, run
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From America's most beloved superstar and its greatest storyteller--a thriller about a young singer-songwriter on the rise and on the run, and determined to do whatever it takes to survive. Every song tells a story. She's a star on the rise, singing about the hard life behind her. She's also on the run. Find a future, lose a past. Nashville is where she's come to claim her destiny. It's also where the darkness she's fled might find her. And destroy...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
vi, 216 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
"Although the culinary fare at Magdalena Yoder's new restaurant, Asian Sensations - a unique combination of Asian and Amish cuisine - is not to everyone's taste, the good citizens of Hernia are unanimously agreed that the desserts concocted by the restaurant chef, Barbara Hostetler, are to die for. Not literally however. When a guest at the PennDutch Inn drops dead shortly after consuming a slice of Barbara's delicious Blitz torte, Magdalena finds...
14) Come a tide
Author
Pub. Date
c1990
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Description
A girl provides a lighthearted account of the spring floods at her rural home.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume Prequel
Pub. Date
2012
Description
In the year before they become the orphans known as the Boxcar children, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden live with their parents at Fair Meadow Farm, where, although times are hard, they take in a family who has been stranded in their car during a blizzard.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
184 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Description
Starting off as a young, single woman with a desk job and a city apartment, Woginrich set out to build a more self-sufficient lifestyle by learning homesteading skills. This is the story of her joyful, dramatic, and sometimes sorrowful journey toward self-reliance.
17) Dark harvest
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Series
Maplecreek Amish trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
547 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
Widower Luke Brand is a leader in the peaceful Amish community of Maplecreek, Ohio. But now his people are under attack - and the main target appears to be the children. Policewoman Kat Lindley is running from the big-city job that nearly got her killed, and memories of the abused boy she failed to save. Now she agrees to undertake a dangerous masquerade within the Amish community, desperate to help Luke save Maplecreek's children.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
381 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
Description
Head to the bicentennial barbecue in Hernia, Pennsylvania. There's great outdoor cooking, a tractor pull, a greased pig chase, and this year's highlight, the unearthing of the centennial time capsule, rumored to contain the key to a fortune. But when onlookers gather, they find the capsule missing and Magdalena Yoder's guest Buzzy Porter dead.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
122 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Description
Based on her popular commencement speech at the University of Tennessee and drawing on her own life experiences, the country superstar explores the four great hopes she urges everyone to embrace--dream more, learn more, care more, and be more.
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