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1) Inescapable
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
After receiving threatening letters from a stalker, Lizzie is forced to return to her childhood Mennonite home and reconsiders her initial judgments of her community and faith only to discover that the danger she ran from is closer than ever.
2) Gilead
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. Ames is the son of an Iowa preacher and the grandson of a minister who, as a young man in Maine, saw a vision of Christ bound in chains and came west to Kansas to fight for abolition: He "preached men into the Civil War," then, at age fifty, became a chaplain in the Union Army, losing his right eye in battle. Reverend...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
When Emma Switzer's Amish family is robbed of all their possessions on a trip to visit relatives, leaving them destitute and stranded on the Kansas prairie, Luke Carson--a trail boss heading up his first cattle drive--is not Emma's first choice as an answer to her prayers.
4) Unbreakable
Author
Series
Road to Kingdom volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
"As her Mennonite town is shaken by strange incidents and outright attacks on its residents, Hope Kaufmann is forced to question all she knows and believes"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper and Brothers
Pub. Date
1953.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A family travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home on the prairie, where they build a house, meet neighboring Indians, build a well, and fight a prairie fire.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Looking for a fresh start, advice columnist Sissy Yoder heads to small-town Yoder, Kansas, to help in her aunt's café. But when a milkman is murdered, the newcomer becomes the prime suspect . . . After Sissy's rodeo cowboy boyfriend turns out to be more of a rodeo clown, she packs a bag; picks up her Yorkshire terrier Duke; and leaves Tulsa, Oklahoma, bound for her parents' former hometown. There are still plenty of Yoders in Yoder, Kansas, including...
Author
Publisher
WaterBrook
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"With classes paused for the planting season, Alexandertol's schoolteacher Augusta Dyck is glad for some meaningful work to occupy her time. She even knows exactly who their town's benevolence society should help first: quiet, reserved widower Konrad Rempel and his young twin sons. Though Konrad may be struggling, he doesn't want anyone telling him what his sons need. Or what he needs. But God, indeed, knows best. Will the competing agendas of Alexandertol's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
After losing her husband and children to typhoid, Summer Steadman seeks employment in the small Mennonite community of Gaeddert, Kansas, to be near the graves of her family, but when widower Peter Ollenberger's son begins looking at Summer as more than a teacher, Peter must decide whether to marry Summer to give his son a new mother or to marry only for love
Author
Publisher
WaterBrook
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Having grown apart after learning that they cannot have children, Anthony and Marty Hirschler decide to move away from their Old Order Mennonite community to work for Brooke Spalding to convert an old ghost town into a resort community.
Anthony and Marty Hirschler are part of an Old Order Mennonite community in Pine Hill, Indiana. They have grown apart since a doctor confirmed they would never have children. Marty's childhood friend, Brooke Spalding,...
10) Pay dirt
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
While visiting Angela, one her prot�eg�ees in Kansas, V.I. Warshawski, when Angela's roommate goes missing and V.I. finds her near death in a drug house, is pitched headlong into the country's opioid crisis and a local land-use battle with roots going back to the Civil War.
11) Unforeseeable
Author
Series
Road to Kingdom volume 3
Publisher
BETHANY HOUSE, A division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"When Kingdom falls prey to a serial killer, Callie needs to uncover the truth before she becomes the next victim"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Reading level: RL 2.4 ; Ages: 6-9
When Jack and Annie travel back to the Kansas prairie in search of "something to learn," they gain an understanding of how hard life was for pioneers and they experience the terror of a tornado
13) Meant to be
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The award-winning author of "A Knight in Shining Armor" presents a historical family saga chronicling the lives and loves of three generations of women in a small Kansas community.
"It's 1972 and times are changing. In the small farming community of Mason, Kansas. Vera and Kelly Exton are known for their ambitions. Vera is an activist who wants to join her boyfriend in the Peace Corps. But she is doing her duty caring for her widowed mother and younger...
14) Katy's decision
Author
Series
Katy Lambright volume 4
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Instead of the relaxing summer she expected, Katy and her "worldly" friend Shelby wind up helping at Aunt Rebecca's store while she undergoes treatment for cancer, and Katy's personal life is complicated by a boy who comes to visit.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1885 in Kansas, seventeen-year-old Tom, the son of a poor farmer, is hired as a cowboy on a cattle ranch and faces the challenges of both herding work and a forbidden romance with sixteen-year-old Evie, the ranch owner's independently-minded daughter.
17) Katy's new world
Author
Series
Katy Lambright volume 1
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Katy Lambright gets permission to attend a public high school outside of her Mennonite community, but her relationships with her family and lifelong friends become strained as she struggles to find a balance between two very different worlds.
Author
Series
Katy Lambright volume 3
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
When high school sophomore Katy Lambright is invited to the Homecoming Dance, she must find a way to reconcile her desire to be popular with her mennonites beliefs.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Police detective Dave Robicheaux faces off with the most diabolical villain he has ever faced in the twentieth installment of the Dave Robicheaux series. Sadistic serial killer Asa Surette avoids the death penalty for murders he committed while capital punishment was banned. But when Robicheaux's daughter Alafair writes a series of articles implicating Surrette in other murders which could get him death, he decides to escape prison and make her pay....
Author
Publisher
WaterBrook
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A lost ring brings together two wounded souls--a youth minister haunted by the past and a spunky church custodian--in this heartwarming romance from the bestselling author of The Librarian of Boone's Hollow"-- Provided by publisher.
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