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 GRASummary: 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 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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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 FULGray, 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 GRABrunstetter, 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: Barbour Publishing Inc 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRUGray, Shelley Shepard
Summary: "Rebecca Kinsinger wants nothing more than to be a teacher. But when she's given the opportunity she's been waiting for at Charm Amish School, she's dismayed to discover that teaching is hard work--work she's afraid she's not very good at. That is, until Lilly Yoder joins the class. A thirteen-year old who's just lost her parents, Lilly is in need of someone like Rebecca. For the first time...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Inspire, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRASimpson, 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 GRALauer, Rosalind.
Summary: Confined to a wheelchair, James Lapp's unwilling to saddle Rachel King with his troubles, but a runaway Englisher girl unites them in a common goal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAULewis, Beverly
Summary: "Anna is eager to begin a new chapter in her life as a Lancaster County tour guide in the picturesque area where her Plain grandmother once stayed. Anna wishes she could talk with her grandmother about those long-ago days, but the elderly woman suffers from Alzheimer's, and beyond a vague hint about an old stone wall, much about that time is a mystery. Thankfully, Martin Nolt, a handsome...
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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 LEWMiller, Serena
Summary: Upon moving to a farm in rural Ohio to distance herself from memories of war, former military nurse Grace Connor meets the conservative Levi Troyer, who struggles with reconciling his feelings for outsider Grace with his Amish faith.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Howard Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILWiseman, Beth
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: "In the third installment of Amy Clipston's beloved Amish Legacy series, Korey Bontrager and Savannah Zook pretend to date, only to find themselves unexpectedly falling in love. Korey, the middle Bontrager brother, has been spending time with cousins in Ohio and hasn't been home in a year. When he does return, it's clear the distance he feels from his family spans more than time and space. ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2023
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Summary: "Years ago, a picnic basket brought two hearts together. For Rachel and Mike, history may be about to repeat itself. Rachel Fisher is devastated when the young man she's loved for years leaves her to date her best friend. Her heart is broken, and she has all but given up on love. Rachel is determined to keep her mind off the pain, and she starts teaching at an Amish school for children with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION CLIClipston, Amy.
Summary: After losing her beloved fiancé, Veronica Fisher takes solace in opening a bake stand to sell creations made from her mother's recipe, and soon, a regular visitor to her stand begins to gladden her heart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION CLIFisher, 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 GRAGray, 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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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRAGray, Shelley Shepard
Summary: "A young Amish woman, yearning for freedom, crosses paths with a handsome Mennonite celebrity in a ... tale of friendship and self-discovery"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Inspire, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRALewis, Beverly
Summary: "An Amishwoman who has given up hope of marriage seeks to redeem the guilt from her past by volunteering her time in Lancaster County, and a young Englisher interested in the self-sufficiency of the Amish seeks mentorship from her father"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION LEWGray, Shelley Shepard
Summary: "A solitary sort, forty-two-year-old Atle Petersheim spends his time hard at work in his wood shop. But as the days get long, he realizes just how lonely he's become. When his longtime crush, Sadie Mast, a widow and mother of three, asks him to help her build a room in their barn for her son Cale, Atle can't say no. Eager to pursue Sadie at last, he turns to bookmobile librarian Sarah Anne...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2021