Summary: When the foster parents they've cautiously grown to love discover they're expecting, orphaned Roy and Jemima Fisher, ages six and seven, are secretly devastated by the certainty they'll be given up. With Christmas around the corner, their only wish is for new foster parents as nice as Mr. and Mrs. Kurtz. Meanwhile, the Kurtzes have wishes of their own-and with faith, they all may be gifted with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC GRAFuller, Kathleen
Summary: "Margaret Yoder can't seem to catch a break. Even though she's dedicated to her Amish faith, her wild Rumspringa won't stay in the past, and her mother keeps pressuring her to get married. To placate her mother and get away from former "friends," she decides to return to Birch Creek to visit family - and pretend to find a husband. Like Margaret, Owen Bontrager isn't looking for a spouse,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC FULSimpson, Susan Lantz
Summary: "In Southern Maryland's Amish country, Phoebe Miller dreams of alpacas, not courtship. When her baby sister goes missing, she promises Gott she will abandon her dreams and marry Micah as expected. Ben Miller dreams of a life with Phoebe--beginning with their own alpaca farm. But first he'll have to convince her to make a new promise"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Simpson 2018Wiseman, 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 WisBrunstetter, Wanda E.
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BRUGray, Shelley Shepard
Summary: "Buggies, Trains, and Automobiles by Shelley Shepard Gray: Called home by family, John Miller and Ellie Coblentz are each looking for a way north from Pinecraft, Florida. With few options, they decide sharing the burden of travel must be the Lord's plan for them. But can this bumpy, bad-weather journey home help them find their way into each other's hearts, too? Star of Wonder by Charlotte...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC GRALillard, 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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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LILLong, Kelly
Summary: "Joseph King admits homeless waitress Priscilla Allen and her four-year-old daughter into his home, but wonders what will happen as their lives begin to intertwine"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LONGray, Shelley Shepard
Summary: "Levi Kinsinger returns to Charm, Ohio, and finds a sense of purpose in life for the first time since his father's death when he agrees to help a young widowed neighbor. Friendship builds to attraction, but Julia is keeping something from Levi. She is really an unwed mother pretending to be a widow"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRAFisher, Suzanne Woods
Summary: "On a hot day in 1737 in Rotterdam, Anna Konig reluctantly sets foot on a merchant ship that will carry her and her fellow Amish believers across the Atlantic to start a new life. As the only one in her community who can speak English, she feels compelled to go. But Anna is determined to complete this journey and return home. Ship's carpenter Bairn resents the somber people who fill the lower...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2015
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Summary: "Addie Holmes is Apple Creek's resident wallflower. She is kind and giving and has a lot to be grateful for. But she is full of self-doubt because her parents did not want her and gave her to her grandmother to raise. Now her life seems to be just hard work and loneliness. Wary of romance, Addie assumes no man will look beyond her glasses and her tendency to talk to her rescue donkey, Snickers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRAWiseman, Beth
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 2022Lewis, Beverly
Summary: "Susie Mast's Old Order life has been shaped more by tragedy than her own choices. But when she decides to accept another's invitation and stop waiting on her childhood friend, she soon realizes her mistake. Will family secrets and missed opportunities dim Susie's hopes for the future? Or is what seems like the end only the beginning?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Lewis 2021Sawyer, 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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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SAWLillard, 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.Brunstetter, Wanda E.
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BRUGray, Shelley Shepard
Summary: "A young Amish woman, yearning for freedom, crosses paths with a handsome Mennonite celebrity in a deeply moving tale of friendship and self-discovery"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRASimpson, Susan Lantz
Summary: "Autumn brings the marriage season to Southern Maryland's Amish country. Melinda Stauffer is convinced her Crohn's disease makes her unfit to be any man's wife. An aggressive big city doctor and an Amish furniture maker hope to change her mind"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018