Summary: Each of the four novellas from these veterans of Amish fiction is set in an Amish community at autumn harvest time. Wiseman's entry features a young mother with two small children who hides a secret to protect her dead husband's good name. In Clipston's story, a witness to an accident is forbidden by her family to come forward with the truth. An introvert finds her shyness nearly unbearable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC AMISummary: "Naomi's Gift by Amy Clipston -- Naomi has started to think that she isn't meant to find love, but she might receive more than she ever hoped for this Christmas. Twenty-four-year-old Naomi King, who has been burned twice by love, has all but given up on marriage and children. As Christmas approaches--a time of family, faith, and hope for many others--Naomi is more certain than ever her life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2015
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC AMISummary: Gathering four stories from four bestselling author friends, Invitation is the first collection in the ongoing Harbingers series. In "The Call" by Bill Myers, four strangers are drawn together to help a student at the mysterious Institute for Advanced Psychic Studies. His gifts are supposedly being honed to assist world leaders . . . but there are some very disturbing strings attached. Frank...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC INVSummary: At the heart of winter's darkness is the joyous glow of the Christmas season. In this love-filled holiday collection, warm yourself with the peaceful light of Plain gifts. SNOW SHINE ON ICE MOUNTAIN Kelly Long When staid Naomi Gish's mischievous father hires strapping Gray Fisher at their candle shop for the season, she's positive the old man has an ulterior motive. She doesn't need help but as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AMISummary: A reunion in Pincecraft: When sisters Sharon and Sherilyn Kramer attend a wedding in Shipshewana, one of them returns with a new penpal while the other returns to her job at the bakery. After sending weekly letters back and forth, Sherry and Graham Holland arrange a reunion in Pinecraft. Upon Graham's arrival, however, he realizes he's been writing to the wrong sister. He decides to use the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AMIHatcher, Robin Lee.
Contents: The hair ribbons / Deborah Bedford -- Heart rings / Robin Lee Hatcher -- The yellow sock / Angela Elwell Hunt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Multnomah Publishers 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HATKaron, Jan
Summary: A retired Episcopal rector accepts an interim post on an island off North Carolina. The novel describes the way he and his wife minister to the needs of the parishioners and their low-key social life. By the author of Out to Canaan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1999
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KARCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KARSummary: "This cheerful and heartwarming Amish novella collection captures the heart of the Christmas season with a trio of heartfelt stories from bestselling authors Leslie Gould, Jan Drexler, and Kate Lloyd. All three tales feature a unique Amish recipe perfect for the Christmas table." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOUSummary: "The Christmas not-wish (Shelley Shepard Gray)..."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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRASnelling, Lauraine.
Contents: Dakota dawn -- Dakota dream -- Dakota dusk -- Dakota destiny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barbour Pub. 1996
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SNESummary: The Next Wave of Stories in the Harbingers Series Arrives Cycle 2 of the Harbingers series continues the story of four gifted strangers brought together to fight a growing darkness. In Bill Myers's "The Revealing," the team finds themselves in Rome trying to retrieve the mystical spear Hitler once owned--the very spear that pierced Christ's side. This task will take them from hidden chambers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASSCopeland, Lori.
Summary: Seven years ago, seamstress Vonnie Taylor's husband of twenty-four hours, Adam Baldwin, had their marriage annulled. Now she faces the ultimate indignity: sewing the wedding dress for his new intended! Vonnie hasn't gotten over the handsome Texas rancher, though she'd tried to put him out of her mind after a family feud had doomed their love. Now, as past secrets are uncovered and danger...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Steeple Hill Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COPKingsbury, Karen.
Contents: Where yesterday lives -- When joy came to stay -- On every side.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Multnomah Publishers 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Explore English gardens, London ballrooms, and Scottish castles as nine brides-to-be experience all the legendary drama and epic romance that British literature is known for. Each of the nine short stories will sweep you away to a different era of time spanning over 500 years of history in the British Isles. Penned by an exclusive selection of Christian fiction authors including Kelly Eileen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barbour Publishing, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRILaHaye, Tim F.
Summary: In 1916, a Scottish photographer living in Boston falls in love with the woman of his dreams, but their newfound love is threatened when he is forced to fight in the Great War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LAHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAHContents: Introduction / Eugene H. Peterson -- Advent / Alice Slaikeu Lawhead -- Christmas / Eugene H. Peterson -- St. Stephen, first martyr / Harold Fickett -- Holy Innocents / William Griffin -- Solemnity of Mary / Emilie Griffin -- Epiphany / Luci Shaw -- Shrove Tuesday / Emilie Griffin -- Ash Wednesday / Robert Siegel -- Annunciation / Walter Wangerin, Jr. -- Lent / John Leax -- Passion Sunday /...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 STOSummary: Every family heirloom is a symbol of meaning and tradition. This collection of four stories feature Amish couples whose life are changed by objects that focus them on what is truly important in life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 0000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC AMISummary: Bundles of blessing: Kristina Byler is lost in grief after the death of her husband and finds purpose in being a midwife. When her ex-boyfriend moves back to the community they both have issues to face before moving on.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2021