Fay Risner
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Fay Risner in Book two of her Nurse Hal Amish series links the modern world to the timeless Amish way of life when Nurse Hallie Lindstrom falls in love with Amish widower John Lapp. This is a fascinating look at two differing cultures set in an intricate and richly detailed tapestry of a traditional Amish setting in southern Iowa. The Amish simple way of life based on faith, convictions and honesty is entwined in this love story between an English...
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Join the fun! You're invited to the wedding of John Lapp and Nurse Hal. Family and friends gathered to cook, clean and plan. Men put a tent up in the yard for guests. So put on your bonnet or felt hat, hitch up the buggy and take a ride by scenic pastures and rolling hills to Wickenburg, Iowa. Take a seat on a bench next to Hal's parents. They will be glad to explain the ceremony to you because they came armed with facts from Aunt Tootie's book on...
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Police Detective Renee Brown is keeping Wedgewood, Minnesota safe. This time the problems are happening on Marceil Pestkey's block. Detective Brown dreads those calls. Marceil Pestkey thinks she can get partial treatment, since she's Renee's mother's best friend. Ordinarily, the calls coming in to the dispatcher at night would be, handled by the night duty officer. Not when Marceil Pestkey is, making the call. She asks for Detective Brown. The drunk...
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Moser Mansion in Locked Rock, Iowa became a spooky place right after the annual Halloween party. Libby Hook sees ghosts wandering around with her in the middle of the night. She unsettles everyone with her screams that are loud enough to wake the dead. Gracie Evans blames the hauntings on a southern contractor that is trying to buy the mansion so he can turn it into a hotel. The residents would have to find new homes if that happens. Seems the only...
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Fay Risner emmène le lecteur dans un voyage émotionnel dans un appel d'offres, histoire originale définie dans les collines du sud de l'Iowa.
Une histoire qui fait chaud au coeur, romantique et mystérieux.
Accueil Santé infirmière Hal Lindstrom est attribué Amish veuf John Lapp.
Elle lui propose de rester avec ses enfants pendant qu'il est à l'hpital.
Quinze ans Emma prend soin du ménage.
Ses deux frères plus jeunes manipulent l'exploitation...
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1895 was the year life as a grownup began for Lilly Baker Elliot when she took notice of Tom Elliot, a handsome bachelor farmer. He began to spend time in her parents general store, not knowing what he wanted to buy. It became very clear to Lilly that he just wanted to spend time with her. Lilly was a bright fifteen year old, and Tom was twenty three. For Lilly's mother, Bernice, this was a match she had been working toward for years by showering...
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When Leona Krebsbach found out just before Thanksgiving that she didn't have long to live, she took charge like she always did. She bought a small spiral notepad and title it Christmas Bucket List. On each page of that notepad, Leona listed something that she needed to get done, while she still had time. Details like her funeral headed the list. She didn't want to leave anything for her daughters to have to worry about after she was gone.
She kept...
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Nurse Hal invites her parents to visit the Lapp farm near Wickenburg, Iowa to get acquainted with their two little granddaughters. She is in total turmoil when she hears she's going to get more company than she bargained for. Jim and Nora Lindstrom are bringing Nora's sister, Tootie, with them. Nurse Hal is sure her family is going to be shunned, when scatterbrained Aunt Tootie does or says the wrong thing around their Amish friends. With all the...
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Katrina Sibowski has inherited a gift from her grandmother she doesn't want or understand. Gift is what her grandmother, Libby Sibowski, calls the women in the Sibowski family's ability to have second sight. This revelation catches Katrina by complete surprise. Her mother, Vencil, is uneasy around her mother-in-law because of her powers. She knew there was a fifty-fifty chance Katrina might inherit second sight, but she didn't warn her daughter. Katrina's...
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Fall was normally a routine season in Amish Country with harvest taking up much of the Plain farmers time. They put in long hours of hard work, shucking corn and making the last crop of hay. But one fall near Wickenburg, Iowa wasn't normal at all. When Jacob Stolfus's barn burnt down, he saw a rider on horseback leave his cornfield. After Sheriff Dawson investigated, he said the fire was arson. The news spread through the Amish Community, leaving...
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Home Health Nurse Hal Lindstrom is assigned Amish widower John Lapp. She offers to stay with his children while he is in the hospital. Fifteen year old Emma takes care of the household. Her two younger brothers are handling the dairy operation. Hal soon realizes that Emma is suffering from depression. Noah is withdrawn, and Daniel is so troubled he sleepwalks outside, looking for his dead mother. Drawn to this needy family, Hal discovers they have...
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Elizabeth Winston grew up not caring about Christmas. This Christmas is going to be much worse than the holidays she and her brother, Scott, spent with her divorced parents. Her former boyfriend, Steven Mitchell, showed up to pester her about renewing their relationship now that his marriage has ended. Elizabeth always looks forward to sharing Christmas with her brother, Scott, but he says he has a business trip during Christmas. His present for her...
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Fay Risner has brought Stringbean Hooper to life again with the second story in the Stringbean Hooper series.
Looking forward to a journey across country to San Jose, California, Stringbean Hooper and his wife, Theo, have no idea just how much trouble they can get into. Theo considers this trip their honeymoon and a chance to be at her brother, Brock's wedding. Stringbean has been in one place too long and is eager to see country he hasn't seen before.
Stringbean...
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Wedgewood, Minnesota Police Detective Renee Brown has a murder case to solve with the help of rookie police officer Jeff Briceson. When Alice Hutson dies in her country home, Renee and Briceson take over the investigation to help the county sheriff department. At first glance since Alice Hutson is in bed with her pistol in her hand, an educated guess by Briceson was suicide. Alice's son, Bill Hutson, is adamant that his mother would never kill herself....
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Detective Renee Brown gets caught in the middle
between the Police department and her friend,
Marlene Powers, during her husband's murder
investigation. Officer Briceson and Chief Tollerton
are leaning toward the murder victim's blonde wife
as the murderer. Renee doesn't feel the same way
since Marlene Powers is her friend. Besides, Jason
Powers was such a disagreeable man that the line
of people who disliked him is long. All Renee has
to...
16) One Big Bat
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Join Wedgewood, Minnesota's Police Detective Renee Brown in book two of her series as she moves in with her sister, Diane, for what will become the longest two weeks of her life. Not one of them could imagined, what was wrong in Diane and Paul Logan's house when they heard strange noises in the attic that kept waking them up in the night. It was just plain weird when food and orange juice disappeared.
Several suggestions were made. One neighbor said...
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Fay Risner has written a western mystery with colorful characters that will keep you wanting more. This is the first book in her series of Stringbean Hooper Westerns. Sheriff Stringbean Hooper's job description of his job is relaxing with his feet on his desk while he watches Sully Town, Montana from his office window. That all changes when the town doctor's wife disappears. Hooper finds himself in the middle of a family feud with his boss cattle...
18) Joyful Wisdom
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Hallie Lapp's parents, Jim and Nora Lindstrom, decide to uproot themselves from northern Iowa after they retire. They move to southern Iowa to live near their daughter and her Amish family. Aunt Tootie comes along and move into the grandfather house on the property. While the Lindstroms adjust to living in an Amish community, they get news that Nora and Tootie's nephew and his wife have been, killed in a car crash. Surviving them is a fourteen-year-old...
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Anna Winters buys the cottage of her dreams. The yard is full of blooming roses which lends color and fragrance to the place. When her elderly mother, Joyce Winters's dementia worsens, Anna takes her in. From the start, Joyce says the house has bad vibes and doesn't like living there. When she finds a china teapot covered with roses at the back of her closet, she is adamant a woman named Emily wants the teapot placed on the fireplace mantle. One night...
20) Jacob's Spirit
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Ellen Carter has been hearing banging noise around the barn for months. Her husband, Jack, insists it must be a loose board blowing in the wind, but he hasn't found the board yet to nail down. One evening, he joked that it might be a ghost doing some carpentry in the barn. That suggestion is enough to make Ellen apprehensive when she has to check the sheep at night during lambing time. She knows that Jack is teasing her, but in the middle of one May...