Gray, Shelley Shepard
Summary: "Aaron Coblentz has a secret: he's been studying to take the GED to get promoted at work. But he can't let his Amish family know, not when his older brother already left the faith just a year after getting baptized, practically crippling the family. When Aaron asks bookmobile librarian Sarah Anne Miller for some additional study guides, she does one better. She arranges for Kayla Kaufman to be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRACameron, Barbara
Summary: Summer Carson has lived near the Amish community in Paradise, Pennsylvania, all her life. Now she's following in her father's footsteps and earning her degree in agricultural science so she can continue his work helping local farmers. In her job at the county extension office, Summer moves between the Englisch and the Amish worlds. While she sometimes finds herself speaking--and even...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gilead Publishing 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Clipston, Amy
Summary: Priscilla Allgyer left the community to escape the expectations of Amish life. Forced to return with her six-year-old son she is welcomed by her mother, but her father is cold and strict. He allows Priscilla to stay with them provided she dresses plainly, confesses her sins, and agrees to marry within the community. When Priscilla catches the eye of Mark Riehl, a farmer with a playboy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION CLIFisher, Suzanne Woods
Summary: Back and broke in Stoney Ridge, Jimmy Fisher has coasted through life on good looks and charm, but his smile has no effect on Sylvie Schrock King of Rising Star Farm. She's offered him a job because she's desperate for help on the farm, and because Jimmy understands horses like no one else. Jimmy is the son of Sylvie's neighbor Edith, who holds a serious grudge against Sylvie. While Jimmy's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FISGray, Shelley Shepard
Summary: "A wallflower in her Amish community, Mary Margaret hopes a trip will offer her a chance to come out of her shell. When a chance meeting brings new friends and a gentle young man into her life, she imagines a whole new life in Florida. But will it all disappear once vacation ends?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRAClipston, Amy
Summary: Christiana Kurtz loves to bake, but when her bake stand becomes too busy, her mother encourages her to move her business to the local market. Her new bake shop becomes so inundated with customers that the line blocks the leather and woodcraft shop next door, which is run by Jeffrey Stoltzfus. When Jeffrey complains that her stand is driving away business due to the lines, she complains to him...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLIWiseman, Beth
Summary: Lydia can't believe she is Mrs. Samuel Bontrager, or that she has a six month old daughter at the age of 16. As baby Mattie grows fussy by the day, Lydia wonders how she will survive a lifetime of marriage to a man she doesn't love, at least not in the way she wants. Samuel knows that he and Lydia did the right thing by marrying when Lydia became pregnant. He has even grown to love Lydia,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction WisLillard, Amy
Summary: Everyone in town knows that Sarah Yoder is enamored with Jonah Miller, even though he's been with his girlfriend, Lorie, for years. But all that changes when Lorie runs off with another man. Inconsolable, his faith in love shattered, Jonah resists everyone's attempts to ease his pain until the unexpected happens. Sarah is not the woman he years for, yet he asks for her hand in marriage, if only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2017
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Summary: Lydia and Samuel Bontrager weren't planning to get married, and they certainly weren't prepared when Lydia became pregnant at only seventeen. But they did the right thing, according to the Ordnung and their forceful parents, and wed shortly after finding out Lydia was with child. Now, they are raising their six-month-old daughter, Mattie, and living as husband and wife. Resentful at being...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WISClipston, Amy
Summary: "Salina Petersheim runs her own produce booth at the Amish market and has been dating Josiah for almost a year now. Her religious parents approve of community member, Josiah, but to Salina, he feels more like a friend than a boyfriend. Then Will Zimmerman, a Mennonite chef who runs a local restaurant comes along. He wants Salina to supply the produce for his restaurant, and as they forge a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CLIGray, Shelley Shepard
Summary: Back in Walnut Creek, Kendra Troyer has a life she never could have imagined: her own design shop, a pretty little house, and a tight-knit group of friends. After she settles down, though, unexpected visitors come knocking and dark memories begin to resurface. Complicating things even further is the ever-present Nate Miller, who owns the hardware store two doors down and whose very presence...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: "Sisters Esther and Lizzie have a new employee, Rose Petersheim, to help them tend to The Peony Inn. But their old matchmaking ways have stayed the same. The sisters focus their efforts on the lovely twenty-five-year-old Rose. Though Rose is witty and outspoken, her nervous chattering makes her the best match for someone calm and good at listening. Someone like Benjamin--the handsome handyman...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WISFlower, Amanda
Summary: "Between minding a pair of rambunctious goats, meetings with her quilting circle, and matchmaking, Millie Fisher has plenty to keep her busy through her golden years. But the witty widow always makes time to solve the odd murder . . . Some Amish men don't know what's good for them. That's what Millie Fisher told herself when young Ben Baughman set his heart on marrying Tess Lieb. With Tess's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Flower 2022Sawyer, Kim Vogel
Summary: "Growing up in the foster care system, Jase Edgar always dreamed of one day starting his own family. But his fiancée's untimely death shattered his plans. Moving to Kansas and serving as a youth minister should be a fresh start, but he can't seem to set aside his doubts about God's goodness long enough to embrace his new life. Newly-appointed church custodian, Lori Fowler is battling her own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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Summary: Naomi Byler cooks meals for the guests at The Peony Inn, where Amish sisters and owners of the inn Esther and Lizzie love her like a granddaughter. She's as happy there as a young woman can be, considering that her fiancé, Thomas, has left her to court someone else. She knows she'll get over the love of her life in due time, but she assumes marriage will never be a part of her future. Amos...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me". (Psalm 31:3) The scripture embroidered on the back of a beloved quilt brings hope to three generations of Pennsylvania Amish women at Christmastime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shiloh Run Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Brunstetter 2017Gray, Shelley Shepard
Summary: Just as Grace King starts to miss the bustle of her large Amish family, she runs into a familiar face--John Michael Miller, who'd broken her sister's heart five years earlier. The infatuation John Michael once saw in Grace's eyes too is long gone, though his complicated attraction to her remains. When suspicious fires are set in their community, Grace dismisses his warnings, but all he wants...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Inspire, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRALillard, Amy
Summary: United by faith, and bonded by their quilting circle, the Amish women of Wells Landing, Oklahoma are there for one another through all life's joys and challenges. Youngest quilter Clara Rose Yutzy is planning her wedding to her longtime beau--which is why she resolutely ignores newly warm feelings for her best friend, Obidiah. But Obie is certain God intends them to be together. With the Lord's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Fisher, Suzanne Woods
Summary: New to Stoney Ridge, schoolteacher Mollie has come to town for a fresh start. When Luke Schrock, new to his role as deacon, asks the church to take in foster girls from a group home, she's the first to raise her hand. The power of love, she believes, can pick up the dropped stitches in a child's heart and knit them back together. The 11-year-old twins she takes in bring her sleepless nights and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FISGray, Shelley Shepard
Summary: "Shelley Shepard Gray weaves a moving and unforgettable exploration of love and friendship. The tragic and untimely death of an old friend has made Elizabeth Anne rethink not only her priorities but her courtship with David, her longtime neighbor and suitor. Though he's Mennonite like herself and has her parents' approval, she feels that a spark is missing. Desperate for a change, she breaks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRABrunstetter, Wanda E.
Summary: The Byler family is on a hunt for the father's will while relations continue to deteriorate among the siblings and between Joel and his fiancee. Joel is desperate for closure to his father's estate, but how far is he willing to go in order to restore the chaotic turn his life had taken? Will his quest ignore the needs of those closest to him?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shiloh Run Press, an imprint of Barbour Publishing, Inc. 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction BruByler, Linda
Summary: Hannah has put everything into building up her family's homestead in North Dakota. Despite the Great Depression, unpredictable weather, and unforgiving landscape, she and her new husband Jerry stay on even after their Amish friends and family move back east. When a plague of grasshoppers destroys every last morsel of vegetation after yet another drought, Hannah and Jerry return to the fertile...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Good Books 2018