Stina Nielsen
Author
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"When Sylvia Miller finds an old tinderbox of her father's, her curiosity is piqued. Shocked by the secrets it holds, Sylvia confronts her father. The truth about the tinderbox will forever change not only her own life, but also that of her family and her Amish community"-- Provided by publisher.
The day before her parents' twentieth wedding anniversary Sylvia Miller stumbles across the key to the old brass tinderbox her father, Earnest, keeps in...
Author
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Adeline Pelham drives up in a sleek, red sports car to an Amish farm and upends the family inside, claiming to be a long lost daughter from another mother.
Sylvia Miller's Old Order family is upended with the arrival of Adeline Pelham. It isn't that Adeline means to be a threat, but her very existence is a reminder of a painful secret. As Sylvia and her mother struggle to come to terms with the news, it is a challenging time to welcome an Englisher--...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Trygve Knutson is devoted to his family and his community. With his construction job, he's helping to build a future for the North Dakota town of Blessing. Yet he sometimes dreams of other horizons -- especially since meeting Miriam Hastings. Miriam is in Blessing for practical training to become an accredited nurse in Chicago. But her growing attachment to Trygve soon has her questioning a future she always considered set in stone.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"A recent widow from Norway settles with her children in the early 1900s community of Blessing, North Dakota, where her growing friendships with two men in the community bring her to a challenging choice"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In the early 1900s, Miriam Hastings leaves Chicago after burying her mother and returns to Blessing, North Dakota, to carry on her nursing studies. Despite her continued resistance, Trygve Knutson continues his pursuit of her heart"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Song of Blessing volume 4
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Deborah MacCallister, head nurse at the Blessing hospital, has loved Toby Valders since her school days, but she's had enough of their on-again, off-again relationship. Toby truly cares for Deborah, but he's never felt like he could commit to marriage or a family. When Anton Genddarm, the new schoolteacher, comes to town, the young women of Blessing see a chance to force Toby's hand with a little strategic matchmaking. But real sparks fly between...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Marta's daughter, Hilde, is quarantined with tuberculosis, Marta moves in to care for her granddaughter, Carolyn. The two form a special bond, even as tensions arise between Marta and Hilde. When a family tragedy threatens Carolyn's newfound freedom as a college student in San Francisco, she disappears for two years, returning home later with a daughter of her own, determined to help heal the deep hurt that has plagued her family for years.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tyndale House
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Determined to find life on her own terms, Marta leaves Switzerland and lands in the central valley of California with her children and husband in tow, and years later, when Marta's oldest daughter, Hildie, gains her independence by becoming a nurse, marrying and beginning a family of her own, each woman is forced to confront her faulty but well-meaning desire to help her daughter find her God-given place in the world.
Author
Series
Amish of Summer Grove volume 3
Publisher
WaterBrook
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Finally back in the Old Order Amish world she loves, Will Ariana's new perspectives draw her family closer together-- or completely rip them apart? After months away in the Englisch world, Ariana Brenneman is overjoyed to be in the Old Order Amish home where she was raised. Yet her excitement is mixed with an unexpected apprehension as she reconciles all she's learned from her biological parents with the uncompromising teachings of her Plain community....
10) A patchwork past
Author
Series
Plain patterns volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When wild child Sophie Deiner--the daughter of an Amish bishop--is forced to return to Nappanee, Indiana, quilt-shop owner Jane Berger is one of only a few who welcome her back. It's the last place she wants to be, but Sophie's recent illness requires that she recover for a while. As Sophie heals, she befriends a group of migrant workers and is appalled to learn of the wretched living conditions they're forced to endure. Sophie begins advocating...
Author
Series
Plain patterns volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Dumped by her fiancé a week before the wedding, Savannah Mast flees California for her Amish grandmother's farm in Nappanee, Indiana. There she becomes entangled in the search for Miriam, a missing Amish girl. Savannah's childhood friend. Tommy Yoder, is implicated as a suspect, and his own cousin testifies against him. . Inspired by Jane Berger, the local historian and owner of a nearby quilt shop, Savannah helps in the search. Events cause her...
12) Courting Cate
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Although newcomer Pete Treger finds both sisters attractive, he is drawn to older sister Cate Miller's fiery demeanor, so the other bachelors in Paradise Township, Pennsylvania, convince Pete to court Cate so they can have a chance with her sister, Betsy.
13) The photograph
Author
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Eva Esch and her sisters are in a predicament. With the passing of their widowed mother, Eva's older brother Menno plans to move his growing family into the Eden Valley farmhouse where they all grew up, leaving little room for his three single sisters. Surely, Menno reasons, at least one of them will marry this coming wedding season. Eva does hope to marry, but she isn't sure she wants to give up her sweet shop for the life of a farmer's wife, and...
14) A simple singing
Author
Series
Sisters of Lancaster County volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
For years Marie Bachmann thought of herself as the "good" daughter. She was the most loving to their mother, the most dedicated to their Amish way of life. But when a Mennonite farmhand, Gordon Martin, shows interest in her she can't help but be flattered--until her mother sends her off to Florida. While there, Marie begins spending time with bad-boy Eli Jacob, the bishop's son from back home.When Gordon shows up in Florida to volunteer in a homeless...
15) The guardian
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
After schoolteacher Jodi Winfield finds a little girl on the side of the road, she delves into the isolated community of the Lancaster Old Order Amish to find answers.
16) Threads of hope
Author
Series
Plain patterns volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Tally Smucker's quiet world is shaken when her neighbor Danielle-who grew up Plain but joined the Army-returns in need of a friend. Inviting her to join her quilting circle, Tally and Danielle are both inspired by a story told of a WWI soldier. But when disaster hits Tally's family and Danielle's PTSD becomes unmanageable, can they find the hope they need?"-- Provided by publisher.
17) A heart for home
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Astrid Bjorklund is on the Red Bud Indian Reservation in South Dakota trying to stop a horrific epidemic. The elders are suspicious of her, but when some of their people begin to recover, they allow Astrid to continue caring for the sick. Upon returning to Blessing, she learns that the man she thought she loved cannot accept that God has called her to be a doctor. Heartbroken, Astrid fears she may have to give up her dream of marriage and family.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Astrid Bjorklund, studying medicine under Dr. Elizabeth, leaves the town of Blessing and her boyfriend Joshua Landsverk behind to train in Chicago, but when Joshua fails to write and she learns he has left town, she makes an impetuous decision she may later regret.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
When she is called home unexpectedly to help in a family medical emergency, physician Astrid Bjorklund learns of a deadly measles outbreak on the nearby Indian reservation. She immediately senses the Spirit tugging her to help the Indians and wonders if her "mission field" is not so far away as she had imagined. But if she follows God's call, will love pass her by?
Author
Series
Amish of Summer Grove volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press Large Print
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Family, community, faith, and love. These "quilt blocks" sewn together made Ariana's beautiful life. When they are pulled to pieces, will anything familiar remain? The Old Order Amish life Ariana Brenneman loved vanished virtually overnight with the discovery that she was switched at birth twenty years ago. Now she's immersed in the Englischer world, getting to know her mother, and under the authority of her biological father, an atheist intellectual...