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1) Plain truth
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
The discovery of a dead infant in an Amish barn shakes Lancaster County to its core. But the police investigation leads to a more shocking disclosure: Circumstantial evidence suggests that eighteen-year-old Kate Fisher, an unmarried Amish woman believed to be the newborn's mother, took the child's life. When Ellie Hathaway, a disillusioned big-city attorney, comes to Paradise, Pennsylvania, to defend Katie, two cultures collide - and for the first...
2) The fiddler
Author
Series
Home to Hickory Hollow volume 1
Language
English
Description
"A wrong turn in a rainstorm leads Englisher Amelia Devries to Michael Hostetler, and the young Amishman's charming Old Order community of Hickory Hollow. Despite their very different backgrounds, Amelia and Michael both feel hemmed in by the expectations of others and struggle with how to find room for their own hopes. And what first seems to be a chance encounter might just change their lives forever"--P. [4] of cover.
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Series
Brides of Webster County volume 4
Language
English
Description
Allison Troyer is of marriageable age and needs to learn how to manage an Amish household. Can a girl who feels as faceless, purposeless, and neglected as her tattered Amish doll, find her way among strangers? James Esh likes what he sees when Allison Troyer walks into the barn. Will anything keep this brash young Amish man from stealing her affections? Aaron Zook has vowed never to lose his heart to another. Yet when James makes advances on Allison,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Sent from Michigan to Pennsylvania following the tragic death of her Amish parents, Lena Rose Schwartz grieves her loss and the separation from her nine siblings. Besides the fact that Lena has never been so far from home, she hasn't met the family she will now be living with. But worse than that is having to live apart from her close-knit brothers and sisters. How will they manage without her to care for them-- especially six-year-old Chris? And...
Author
Series
Kauffman Amish bakery volume 4
Publisher
Zondervan
Language
English
Description
In A Life of Joy, the fourth installment in the series, eighteen-year-old Lindsay Bedford has reached a crossroads. Should she stay in the small Amish community she's known and loved for four years or return to the English life in her hometown in Virginia where her older sister is a college student? An extended visit to Virginia might just tip the scales as Lindsay reconnects with friends, joins a new church, works on her GED, and is pressured by...
Author
Series
Kate Burkholder thrillers volume 3
Language
English
Description
When the Slabaugh family is found dead in their barn, it appears to be a gruesome accident: methane gas asphyxiation caused by a poorly ventilated cesspit. But it's soon revealed to be murder, possibly tied to a series of vicious hate crimes against the Amish. Alongside state agent John Tomasetti, Kate Burkholder searches for the link between the crimes - and uncovers a dark secret beneath the placid surface of this idyllic Amish community.
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Series
Kauffman Amish bakery volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Miriam Lapp, who left the Amish community in Pennsylvania three years ago, is heart-broken when her sister calls to say that her mother has dies suddenly. Traveling home, she is forced to face the heartache from her past, including the rift with her family and her broken engagement with Timothy Kauffman. The wounds are reopened when her father disowns her and she finds the out that Timothy has proposed to his new girlfriend. Miriam returns to Indiana...
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Series
Sisters of Holmes County volume 1
Language
English
Description
Grace is the oldest sister in the Hostettler family. Having put her rumschpringe (running around years) behind her, she has returned to Holmes County, joined the Amish church, and begun a new life. For the past four years, everything has been going fairly well, until the day she sees an English man who knows enough of her past to jeopardize her future. Will Gary Walker's passion for Grace destroy more than one life? Amish man Cleon Schrock is planning...
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Series
Kauffman Amish bakery volume 5
Publisher
Zondervan
Language
English
Description
In the fifth and final novel of the Kauffman Amish Bakery Series, three young women are about to change their lives. Lizzie Anne and Samuel have decided to get married, and Lindsay is about to be baptized in the Amish faith and is courting Matthew. While Katie Kauffman is happy for her friends who seem to have settled their futures, she is also finding herself something of a fifth wheel. When Lindsay's sister Jessica returns to Bird-in-Hand, she finds...
10) Fall from pride
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Series
Home Valley Amish trilogy volume 1
Language
English
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Description
When an arsonist sets fire to their barns one by one, destroying her beautiful murals, Sarah Kauffman must help outsider and arson investigator Nate MacKenzie process the crime scenes while adhering to Amish ways in a community riddled by fear.
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Series
Ohio Amish mysteries volume 5
Language
English
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Description
Book 5 of the Amish-Country MysteriesThree young friends disappear while traveling on their Amish rite of passage, Rumschpringe, or wild days. In a race against the clock, the sheriff must find a murderer and break a ruthless drug ring operating within the heart of Ohio's Amish Country.
12) Sworn to silence
Author
Series
Kate Burkholder thrillers volume 1
Language
English
Description
Kate Burkholder, a former Amish resident of Painters Mill, is returning as police chief sixteen years after a series of brutal murders took place there, but when a new victim is found under her watch, she struggles with a secret that could hurt both her and her family.
Author
Series
Ohio Amish mysteries volume 7
Language
English
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Description
After Curtis Burkholder kills Glenn Spiegle over a woman and two more murders are discovered in their Amish community, Sheriff Robertson and Professor Mike Branden go to Florida to learn the truth about Glenn Spiegle and his motive for converting to the Amish faith.
Author
Series
Ohio Amish mysteries volume 6
Language
English
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Description
When an Amish man seeks help from Professor Michael Branden about the bizarre death of his brother, the apparent suicide of a woman on campus deepens the mystery as he searches for the connection between the two people.
15) Rebecca's return
Author
Series
Adams County trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
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Description
Rebecca Keim returns to Wheat Ridge full of resolve to make her relationship with John Miller work. But in her absence, John has become suspicious. Does she still love someone else?
16) Lydia's charm
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Language
English
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Description
Suddenly a widow, Lydia King moves with her son to Charm, Ohio, to be close to her mother and help with her grandfather. Then gifts begin appearing on her porch from a mysterious source. Menno Troyer, a local store owner, is also recently widowed and needs a mother for his four boys. Levi Stutzman is dedicated to caring for his handicapped family. Will the anonymous gifts bring Lydia hope for a new life? And will the gift giver be there when tragedy...
17) A sister's hope
Author
Series
Sisters of Holmes County volume 3
Language
English
Description
Martha, the youngest of the Hostettler sisters, tries to prove that the young man she loves is innocent of a series of attacks on the local Amish.
Author
Series
Daughters of Lancaster County volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her father's tragic accident, Leona's faith wavers. When outlander Jimmy Scott is hired to paint an Amish schoolhouse, Jimmy and Leona find themselves irresistibly drawn to each other. Can anything good come from the love between an Amish woman and an English man? What secrets will be revealed and what miracles await God's people in Lancaster County?
19) Pray for silence
Author
Series
Kate Burkholder thrillers volume 2
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The New York Times bestselling author of Sworn to Silence delivers an electrifying thriller—Chief of Police Kate Burkholder must confront a dark evil to solve the mysterious murders of an entire Amish family
In the quiet town of Painters Mill, an Amish family of seven has been found brutally murdered on their farm. Chief of Police Kate Burkholder and her small force have few clues, no motive, and no suspect. Formerly Amish
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Series
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
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Description
Ruth Zook returns home to Holmes County, Ohio, carrying a heavy suitcase and a heavier heart. Coerced into becoming a drug mule, Ruth retaliates by destroying her illicit burden and pays for it with her life. When Fannie Helmuth confesses that she was similarly coerced, Sheriff Bruce Robertson realizes that the drug dealers' operation reaches all the way to Florida's Pinecraft Amish community. He immediately moves the investigation South, where more...
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