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Series
Ollenberger volume 1
Language
English
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In order to be near the graves of her family, widow Summer Steadman seeks employment as a teacher to the young son of widower Peter Ollenburger in a small Mennonite community.
Author
Series
Zimmerman restoration trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When Suzanne returns to the Old Order Mennonite community from which she was sent away as a pregnant teenager, she rebuilds relationships with family and the father of her biological daughter, while her adopted daughter seeks out her own birth parents.
Author
Language
English
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With their eldest son nearly to the age when he will be drafted into military service, Reinhardt and Lillian Vogt decide to emigrate to America with their three sons and Reinhardt's adopted brother, Eli. But when tragedy strikes during the voyage, Lillian and Eli are forced into an agreement neither desires. Determined to fulfill his obligation to Reinhardt, Eli plans to see Lillian and her sons safely settled on their Kansas homestead, and he's equally...
Author
Series
Walnut Creek volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The tragic and untimely death of her old friend has made Elizabeth rethink not only her priorities but her relationship with David, the man her parents have been encouraging her to see. Desperate for a change, she breaks things off with David in an effort to just focus on herself for a while. But when her family becomes upset with her decision, Elizabeth turns to her friends for support. One of her most supporting friends is Will, who has long secretly...
7) The alliance
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When Leora Ebersole sees the small plane crash in her Old Order Mennonite community, she has no idea it's a foreshadowing of things to come. Soon after the young pilot, Moses Hughes, regains consciousness, they realize his instruments were destroyed by the same power outage that killed the electricity at the community store, where Englischers are stranded with dead cell phones and cars that won't start. Moses offers a sobering theory, but no one can...
8) The outcast
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Raised in an Old Order Mennonite community, Rachel Stoltzfus is a strong-willed single woman, content living apart from mainstream society until whispers stir the moment her belly swells with new life. Refusing to repent and name the partner in her sin, Rachel feels the wrath of the religious sect as she is shunned by those she loves most. She is eventually coerced into leaving by her brother-in-law, the bishop. But secrets run deep in this cloistered...
Author
Series
Women of the West volume 1
Language
English
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Description
She feels God nudging her toward ministry, but what options are there for a young single woman? Emily Evans has a hard time getting herself to class on time, much less figuring out God's will for her life. Then, to her surprise, she feels that God is calling her into fulltime Christian service. She expects the Lord will also provide her with a companion to share her life and ministry, but Emily does not want to marry any of the available young men....
Author
Series
Emma Raber's daughter volume 2
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Katie Raber's journey of discovery continues after her mamm's marriage to Jesse Mast. Jesse's oldest daughter, Mabel, refuses to accept Katie, creating conflict at home. When a secret donor pays for an opportunity for Katie to travel with her Mennonite friends to Europe to explore the roots of the faith, she can't believe how much she is being blessed. But will she make sense of her world when it all comes crashing down in the aftermath of the worst...
11) When grace sings
Author
Series
Zimmerman restoration trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Description
As Alexa Zimmerman tries to win over the members of her Kanasas Old Order Mennonite community, a Chicago reporter with unknown motivation becomes a long-term guest at her bed and breakfast and a cousin arrives with a secret related to Alexa's own.
Author
Language
English
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Description
When Ruth Neufeld's husband and father-in-law are killed working for a relief organization overseas, she travels to Wisconsin with her young daughters and mother-in-law Mabel to bury her husband. She hopes the Mennonite community will be a quiet place to grieve and piece together next steps. Ruth and her family are welcomed by Elam, her husband's cousin, who invites them to stay at his cranberry farm through the harvest. Sifting through fields of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Barbour Fiction
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Love Comes Home to Simplistic Roots: Three contemporary women seek a home and acceptance among a Kansas Mennonite community. Bygones: Marie Koeppler returns to the town of her childhood, but can she really go back to the faith of her youth and find love and acceptance among the Old Order Mennonites after rejecting God? Beginnings: Beth Quinn seeks a place to belong. After learning her mother was raised Mennonite, Beth has accepted the Christian faith,...
14) The revealing
Author
Series
Inn at Eagle Hill volume 3
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Naomi King--soft spoken, loyal, and easily overlooked--has a gift. She sees what others can't see. Intuition, she calls it. Others in Stoney Ridge don't know what to make of it and dismiss her hunches and inklings altogether. When a young woman arrives at the Inn at Eagle Hill with a shocking secret about Tobe Schrock, Naomi fears the worst. She can't ignore the feeling that something sinister's at work--something more than a threat to the tenuous...
15) Inescapable
Author
Series
Road to Kingdom volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lizzie Engel is used to running away. At eighteen, she left her Mennonite hometown, her family and her faith with plans never to return. Five years later, Lizzie finds she'll have to run again. False accusations at her job, a stalker, and a string of anonymous threatening letters have left her with no other options. This time, however, her escape is back to Kingdom, her hometown. There, with the support of old friend Noah Housler, Lizzie hides out...
16) Rising darkness
Author
Series
Finding sanctuary volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Years after leaving her Mennonite background, Sophie's newspaper job gives her access to information she can't ignore, and when she travels to Sanctuary, Missouri, for answers and recognizes a man she used to love, her own past gets tangled in the dangerous investigation. --
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Amy Knackstedt moves with her children to Weaverly, Kansas, to escape the speculation surrounding her husband's untimely death. But her neighbor, Tim Roper, is not pleased to have a Mennonite family living next to his apple orchard.
19) The letters
Author
Series
Inn at Eagle Hill volume 1
Language
English
Description
When widow Rose Schrock turns her Amish farmhouse into a bed and breakfast, she expects there might be problems. The reaction of her cantankerous mother-in-law for one. Disapproval from the church for another. But what she doesn't expect is that the guests at the Inn at Eagle Hill will spill their problems into her life and into her heart. She also never expects the kind of help and support she gets from Galen King, the quiet and rugged horse trainer...
20) The calling
Author
Series
Inn at Eagle Hill volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
Struggling with her faith during a summer shared with five older Amish sisters, Bethany volunteers at a local soup kitchen while railing at the handsome but annoying Jimmy before uncovering a heartbreaking secret.
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