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Dakota (Linda Byler) volume 1
Publisher
Good Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
349 pages ; 22 cm.
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Fifteen-year-old Hannah and her family move from Lancaster, Pennsylvania to North Dakota, where they face harsh realities far from any Amish communities, and force her to work on a ranch where she meets a charismatic English boy.
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Dakota (Linda Byler) volume 3
Publisher
Good Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 22 cm.
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Hannah has put everything into building up her family's homestead in North Dakota. Despite the Great Depression, unpredictable weather, and unforgiving landscape, she and her new husband Jerry stay on even after their Amish friends and family move back east. When a plague of grasshoppers destroys every last morsel of vegetation after yet another drought, Hannah and Jerry return to the fertile soil of Pennsylvania, where life will be safe and predictable....
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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...
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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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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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Lizzie searches for love volume 3
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A romance novel based on true experiences from an Amish writer!
Everything has led up to this moment in Lizzie Glick's life. All of her curiosity, concern, and dreams have pointed to this time when she must make some very big decisions. Will she join the church? Will she continue teaching? Will she marry Stephen? Questions and indecision as well as answers and certainty enter Lizzie's life in Big Decisions, the third and final novel in this series...
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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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One moment, Ben Miller was high up in the rafters at his neighbor's barn raising. The next, his foot slipped and he plunged to his death, leaving behind a young wife and six children-the youngest born four months after his death. Ruth Miller is not alone. Her Amish neighbors help her to make the difficult transition from wife to widow.
But while the community has been generous, raising six growing children, each grieving their father's death, is overwhelming....
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Lizzie searches for love volume 2
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New love and even more questions enter Lizzie Glick's life in When Strawberries Bloom, the second novel in this series written by an Amish writer and based on true life experiences. Lizzie's dream of teaching school has finally come true. She loves the brand-new school building, the sound of the children singing, and the independence she has in the classroom. Even the occasionally unruly boys can't ruin the excitement she feels each morning when she...
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Chronicles of St. Mary's volume 3
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How long will Edna have to wait for the love of her life?
For years, Edna Miller has found herself drawn to Emery Hoschtettler with an attraction she can explain no better than she can put a stop to it. Other suitors come and go, but none make her feel the way she feels around Emery-that incredible floating feeling, as if she was walking on air, mixed with a painful desperation to be ever nearer to him. Despite the fact that Emery seldom seems to...
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Bestselling Amish novelist Linda Byler reveals her new Christmas legacy novel featuring Lizzie from Lizzie Searches for Love, the trilogy that launched Byler's writing career.
Lizzie is grown now and happily married with a large family of her own. Life is good in their big gray house with the sweeping views of the Blue Mountains. There is much to be thankful for amidst the ups and downs of raising six children, including a warm home, a faithful...
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A heartwarming tale of longing and hope in Lancaster by bestselling author Linda Byler
Elsie is desperate for a horse of her own, but her family barely has enough money to get by as it is-she knows they can't afford to buy a horse, never mind pay for the grain and hay to keep it fed through the winter. With her father injured, it's up to Elsie to help earn money for the family-while going to school and helping Mam with the other kids. So she buries...
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One Christmas morning, while young Amish twins Henry and Harvey are sledding, they find a big black dog wandering in a field. They adopt the Newfoundland and name him Lucky, and he soon becomes their best friend and playmate. When tragedy strikes and Harvey drowns in a spring creek, Henry's only source of comfort is his furry companion. To make matters worse, the Depression is especially hard on Henry's parents who have more children than they can...
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