Rebecca Gallagher
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
It's 1971 in Connecticut, and sixteen-year-old Sharon's parents think that, because she's a girl, she should become a clerical office worker after high school and live at home until she marries and has a family. But Sharon wants to join the hippies and be part of the changing society, so she leaves home and heads to California.
Upon arriving in California, Sharon is thrown into an adult world for which she is unprepared, and she embarks on a precarious...
Language
English
Formats
Description
"3 Short Stories of Love in a Unique Amish Community. In an area of Pennsylvania called The Big Valley, a uniquely blended Amish community thrives in which 3 distinct groups of Amish identify themselves by the colors of their buggy's top--white, black, or yellow. Join New York Times Bestselling Author Wanda E. Brunstetter, her daughter-in-law, and granddaughter in experiencing the stories of three young women who search for faith and love within...
Author
Series
Amish greenhouse mystery volume 1
Amish greenhouse mystery volume 01
Amish Greenhouse Mystery volume Vol 1
Amish greenhouse mystery volume 01
Amish Greenhouse Mystery volume Vol 1
Language
English
Description
"When Vernon King, his son, and son-in-law are involved in a terrible accident, three women are left to cope with their deaths, as they become the sole providers of the family they have left. The women's only income must come from the family greenhouse, but someone seems to be trying to force them out of business. Amy King has just lost her father and brother, and her mother needs her to help run the family's greenhouse. It doesn't seem fair to ask...
Author
Series
Amish greenhouse mystery volume 2
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sylvia has been nearly paralyzed with grief and anxiety since the tragic death of her husband, father, and brother in a traffic accident. She tries to help in the family's greenhouse while caring for her two children, but she prefers not to have to deal with customers. Her mother's own grief causes her to hover over her children and grandchildren. As a diversion, Sylvia takes up birdwatching, and meets an Amish man who teaches her about local birds....
Author
Series
Amish greenhouse mystery volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
For the past two years Belinda King, along with her two grown daughters and teenage son, has been struggling to keep the family greenhouse running. Despite disconcerting events that have threatened to put them out of business, they have survived two growing seasons. And now Belinda can focus on the two suitors vying for her attention. Herschel Fisher, a new acquaintance, makes her feel relaxed, and Monroe Esh, an admirer from her past, reminds her...
Author
Series
Creektown discoveries volume vol 1
Creektown discoveries volume 1
Thorndike Press large print Christian fiction
Creektown discoveries volume 1
Thorndike Press large print Christian fiction
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to Walnut Creek, Ohio, where Orley and Lois Troyer own an antique store they call "Memory Keepers." Though knowledgeable in antiques and their repair, their real talent is in mentoring folks who are hurting and don't even know it. Enter Jeff, a restaurateur, and Rhonda, a hotel manager, who recently moved to Amish country for the slow pace, but the change of scenery puts even more stress on their already strained marriage. Will an antique...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Mallory's search for happiness leads her to a faraway place. There she finds heartache, betrayal and danger. Can the only man she's ever loved rescue her before it's too late? Mallory Hammond is determined not to let her boyfriend, parents, or anyone else get in the way of her goal to save a life. She had that chance when she was a teenager, and the opportunity slipped away, leaving a void she's desperate to fill. Then a new friend she met online...
8) The hope jar
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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. Once homeless and hopeless, Michelle has come to love her new Amish friends and even considers the idea of romance among them....
9) The blessing
Author
Series
Amish cooking class volume 2
Publisher
Shiloh Run Press, an imprint of Barbour Publishing, Inc
Language
English
Description
"Return to the Troyer farm where Heidi welcomes six new cooking class students who experience the healing hand of God. Despite stressful changes occurring in their lives, Lyle and Heidi once again open their Ohio home up to those seeking to learn about Amish cooking. This time a teenager helping her divorced dad cook for the family, a caterer needing new recipes, a food critic, a hunter looking to impress his buddies, a wife given the class as an...
10) The seekers
Author
Series
Amish cooking class volume 1
Publisher
Shiloh Run Press, an imprint of Barbour Publishing, Inc
Language
English
Description
"Married for eight years with no children to help fill her days, Heidi Troyer cooks up the idea of teaching classes in the art of Amish cuisine in her Holmes County, Ohio, home. But it is a recipe for drama when five very different men and women answer the advertisement. Charlene Higgins is engaged, but to the despair of her fiance's family, she can't cook. Kendra Perkins, a teen estranged from her family, is facing an unwanted pregnancy alone. Loretta...
11) Letters of trust
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Friendship Letters Series -- Doretta Schwartz has always enjoyed writing letters and feels her letters can be a bit of a ministry to her friends. In this series, exchanging letters that contain open and honest feeling and struggles helps Doretta and two of her best friends through the darkest challenges of their lives. A Simple Letter Carries Inspiration for Healing Life is good on their Pennsylvania Amish farm for newlyweds Vic and Eleanor Lapp--until...
Author
Series
Daughters of Amana volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House
Language
English
Description
Although she's always longed to see the outside world, Johanna Ilg believes her future is rooted in the Amana community inhabited by devout Christians. But when she learns a troubling secret, the world she thought she knew is shattered and she is forced to make difficult choices about a new life and the man she left behind. Berta Schumacher has lived a privileged life in Chicago, and when her parents decide they want a simpler life in Amana, Iowa,...
Author
Publisher
Shiloh Run Press, an imprint of Barbour Publishing, Inc
Language
English
Description
Thanks to an inheritance from an aunt, Sadie Kuhns is creating a unique quilt by blending a traditional Amish pattern with a Hawaiian pattern as a tribute to her time spent in the islands, and she is working on a self-published book. But her sisters complain she is ignoring family responsibilities. Her boyfriend Wyman Kauffman is considering breaking up with her because she's too focused on promoting her book than preparing for their marriage. Will...
Author
Series
Virtues and vices of the old West volume 2
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1866 Montana Territory, homeless and bereft Rachel Matthews turns to the life of a dance hall girl in the hopes of buying her family ranch back, until cattle baron John McIntyre gives her a hand as a favor to her brother.
Author
Series
Virtues and vices of the old West volume 3
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Widow Grace Bidwell cares for her elderly father while trying to maintain her late husband's farm, until she hires Robert Frasier to help and is drawn toward him and his three pitiful children.
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
335 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Carrington Brouwer begins working at a carousel factory, but the men at the factory are not happy that a woman has been given the desirable job of painting the elaborately carved horses, and when mishaps occur, accusations swirl.
Author
Series
Creektown discoveries volume vol 2
Creektown discoveries volume 2
Thorndike Press large print Christian fiction
Creektown discoveries volume 2
Thorndike Press large print Christian fiction
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Welcome to Sugarcreek, Ohio, where the Amish schoolteacher has a determined admirer. Tragically losing her parents as a child, Lisa Miller has grown up being afraid of loving and losing. She dedicates herself to teaching at an Amish schoolhouse and helping the grandparents who raised her, all the while avoiding the advances of newcomer Paul Herchberger. Paul enjoys antiques and meets Orley Troyer while looking for unique old milk bottles at yard...
18) Gone to ground
Author
Publisher
B & H Pub. Group
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
330 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious series of killings occurs in the charming Southern town of Amaryllis, Mississippi, three women, independently of each other, feel sure the murderer is someone close to them--but each suspects a different man.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sara Murray had never met her mother's parents and was surprised to learn after her death that they were Amish living in Pennsylvania. When she is finally able to make the trip to meet them, she is shocked to learn someone else has been living with them and pretending to be Sara. Sara can't understand how quickly her grandparents are willing to forgive the imposter. Secrets and deceit seem to follow Sara, and she is so tired of it. Though soon she...
20) The celebration
Author
Series
Amish cooking class volume 3
Physical Desc
316 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lyle and Heidi Troyer have taken in a brother and sister, who were orphaned when their parents were killed in a car accident. Hoping to help the children adapt and make friends, Heidi decides to hold a series of cooking classes for kids. But kids are always accompanied by an adultand that is where the trouble arises. Miranda Cooper is living the life of a single mom to her two kids while separated from her husband, but Trent is trying to worm his...