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In this final installment of Amy Clipston's Amish Legacy series, Jayden, the youngest Bontrager son, finds love and friendship in an unexpected place.
Kira has no interest in dating and putting down roots in Pennsylvania-that is, until she finds a kindred spirit in Jayden Bontrager.
Kira Detweiler doesn't plan to be in Lancaster County for long. She's left her family in Indiana to help her aunt after the birth of her fourth boppli. Or at least...
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Plenty of young men had noticed Emma's smooth auburn hair and her quick intellect, but at twenty-six years of age, she was still single, much to the bewilderment of her Amish community. "She's just too picky," they said, and she supposed they were right. Most did not know that she had been in love once, and had wound up brokenhearted. When she becomes a nanny for an English (non-Amish) family along the coast of North Carolina, her world opens up in...
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"Martha Miller dreams of starting her own chocolate business. Her rumspringa is the perfect opportunity to make this dream come true. If all goes well, she might not even go back to Amish life. Yet she can't help missing Moses Hostetler. The handsome Amish farmer is the last single Hostetler brother--the other two are married to Martha's elder sisters. When her new life takes a dangerous turn, Moses is the only one Martha can turn to for help. Will...
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Edna Miller had found herself drawn to Emery Hoschtettler with an attraction she can explain no better than she can put a stop to it. Emery seldom seemed to pay her much attention, but Edna decided it would be unfair to marry anyone else when her heart longs only for him. By twenty-nine, just as she's reconsidering her choice, Emery asks her out. But not she feels Emery is hiding something. Or is Edna simply unable to accept true love after so many...
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A heartwarming Christmas romance set during the Great Depression
It's 1931 and times are tough for the Miller family who are raising eight children in the midst of the Great Depression. When Eli Miller passes away unexpectedly, Emmy has no idea how she'll make ends meet. The Amish community rallies around her and the children, as is their custom, but as days turn into weeks and then into months, Emmy's friends and neighbors return to their own routines...
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"Widower Jakob Fisher isn't interested in remarrying, even to pretty Abigail Miller. But thanks to his dad's meddling, Abby is sitting in his Colorado farmhouse, expecting to be wed. While Jakob can't offer marriage, he can give Abby a job caring for his young children. But when he starts to fall for her, could Abby make Jakob's family happy and whole once again?"--Amazon.com.
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"Born a Native American, but brought up Amish, Hester Zug, at age 20, flees her Amish home. Her father's too-tender care of her has made her stepmother wildly jealous, and so Hester sets off, knowing only that she can't stay. Hester's natural instincts for navigating the forests in colonial Pennsylvania along with the book of medicines and remedies given to her by an aged Native American woman allow her to survive until she gets sick from drinking...
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Seven Amish sisters story volume 3
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When widowed schoolteacher Tobit Lapp is injured, he reluctantly agrees he needs Cora Koffman’s help. Cora’s still upset Tobit got the job at the Amish schoolhouse, but she agrees to teach his class till he’s able. As they work together on lessons, a surprising friendship blossoms between them, but Tobit’s heart is torn. He’s falling for Cora—yet his secret could ruin everything…
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The Amish, one of America's most intriguingly private, unique, and often misunderstood religious communities, have survived for three hundred years! How has that happened?
While much has been written on the Amish, little has been revealed about their history. This book brings together in one volume a thorough history of the Amish people. From their beginnings in Europe through their settlement in North America, the Amish have struggled to maintain...
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Hester's hunt for home volume 3
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Hester, the Native American who was rescued as an infant by an Amish couple, now lives in downtown Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She shares a house with Bappie King, another Amish woman, living their independent lives in the fast-growing mid-18th-century city. Bappie runs a highly successful stand at the downtown farmers market; Hester is Bappie's assistant when she isn't out in the city nursing desperately sick children and their impoverished parents...
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"John is the youngest of seven boys and is constantly overshadowed by his big brothers who seem to all be stronger, smarter, and better looking than he is. As a teenager, he knows he's overweight and is sure he'll never be popular like his brothers are. But those struggles are nothing compared to the battle he is about to fight. After weeks of feeling exhausted, depressed, and achy, he has no idea what's wrong with him and begins to wonder if he'll...
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Mary Stoltzfus is thirty years old, splashed with freckles, and unmarried. In her Amish world, that qualifies her to be called an old maid. She is living her quiet schoolteacher life in the Lancaster County Amish community when she gets a surprising invitation in the mail one day. Would she come to Montana to teach? Of course not, she decides, fully at home in eastern Pennsylvania, where she can go out to eat in dozens of restaurants, do her laundry...
14) Amish Heritage
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In "Amish Heritage," Miriam and Levi's love is put to the test as they navigate the clashes between tradition and progress in their community. Miriam, a gifted Braucherei healer and midwife, finds herself under constant scrutiny from those who question her unconventional practices. Levi, proud of his wife's talents, grapples with the attention it brings and seeks solace in his beloved horses.However, the peaceful community is plagued by a series of...
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The second book in the New Directions series following Weaving of Life, this Amish romance will keep you guessing until the end!
Susan Lapp is back in Lancaster and ready to begin a serious relationship with Levi Yoder. After all the ups and downs of her time out west, it's good to be back in the familiar routines of church, family, and working at the market and housecleaning. Nothing stays simple for long, though, and Susan finds herself trying...
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David Stolzfus and Anna Fisher have been best friends as long as they can remember. Sure, it was a bit unusual in the Amish community for a boy and a girl to be so close, but nobody questions it with David and Anna-it has just always been that way. They live on neighboring farms in Lancaster County, they walk to school together (with all their siblings) every day, and when David learns to drive a pony, Anna is the first one to ride with him. Their...
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"The setting is the beginning of an Amish settlement in colonial America in the forests of eastern Pennsylvania. There, a young Amish couple, Hans and Kate Zug, are in their ninth year of marriage, still waiting to have a child. Then, one April morning, Kate finds a Native infant, wrapped in deerskin and placed next to the spring where she went to fill her water bucket. Kate and Hans cherish Hester, despite the pointed question of Hans's mother--'What...
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Becky Esh has lots of spunk. Never mind that she's Amish, she regularly confronts authority figures. Her beautiful singing touches those who hear her so deeply that even men cry. In Becky Meets Her Match, Linda Byler crafts an unforgettable character who is quick-witted, good-humored, and thrives on independence–but inwardly struggles with her own self-consciousness. Overweight at sixteen, Becky is frustrated by her inability to lose weight and...
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There's horse trouble in Montana again in this second installment in Amish author, Linda Byler's, series, "Sadie's Montana." Someone is shooting horses and Sadie is determined to find out who it is. That is until she begins to suspect that Mark, her boyfriend, may be involved. Will Sadie discover the truth? Will it be too hard to bear?
There's horse trouble in Montana again. Only this time, horses aren't being stolen, they're being shot. Snipers...
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Simon can't stop thinking about the pretty Amish teacher at the local one-room school. But he's ignored the sparks between them because he's so shy. So Simon's little brother, Isaac, takes matters into his own hands. He's determined to give his brother the best Christmas present ever–a date with his favorite teacher.
Amish novelist Byler brings her tender humor and skillful observation of family relationships to this holiday story. "I love Isaac's...
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