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Series
Zimmerman restoration trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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When Suzanne returns to the Old Order Mennonite community from which she was sent away as a pregnant teenager, she rebuilds relationships with family and the father of her biological daughter, while her adopted daughter seeks out her own birth parents.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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1930's Kansas. Neva Shilling's husband travels to neighboring communities and sells items from his wagon. In his absence she runs the Shilling Mercantile, working to keep their business strong as the Depression takes its toll, and caring for their twins. Then a deputy delivers three young children-- Warren and his wife have died, and their last request that the three children go live with "Aunt Neva." Neva's heart is shattered; she wants nothing more...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Newlyweds and cold case detectives Sean and Meghan Eagle have been given the task of investigating the twenty-years-past disappearance of a husband and father, Anson Menke. A judge ruled that the missing man chose to leave the country and abandon his family, but his wife wouldn't concede that he left his family nor declare him dead. Their mother now gone, his children want answers"--Provided by publisher.
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"Ten-year-old Hazel takes her three-year-old sister to pick berries in a blackberry thicket in 1943, and only one of them comes home again. Young Hazel's world crumbles, the weight of the guilt from that colors every relationship in her life for the next seventy years. But now Hazel's granddaughter Meghan is a cold case agent and has an opportunity to investigate this very personal family mystery. What she uncovers could provide healing for three...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"Readers rabid for the sweet historical romances of Tracie Peterson and Tamara Alexander will flock to best-selling author Kim Vogel Sawyer's prairie-set heartwarmer of high society cast-off and the western town that welcomes her. Abigail Brantley grew up in affluence and knows exactly how to behave in high society. But when she is cast from the social registers due to her father's illegal dealings, she finds herself forced into a role she never imagined:...
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English
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"A famous riverboat singer poses as a slave owner in order to lead runaway slaves to freedom and save her own life in this powerful novel from the bestselling author of The Librarian of Boone's Hollow"--
On the Mississippi River, indentured servant Fanny Beck has been forced to sing for riverboat passengers since she was a girl. As her contract comes to an end, she discovers that the captain has no intention of releasing her. An impulse leads Fanny...
Author
Series
Zimmerman restoration trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"Suzanne Zimmerman was only seventeen and pregnant when her shamed mother quietly sent her away from their Old Order Mennonite community in Kansas. With her old home, family, and first love firmly behind her, Suzanne moved to Indiana, became a nurse, and raised a daughter, Alexa, on her own. Now, nearly twenty years later, an unexpected letter arrives from Kansas. Her brother asks her to bring her nursing abilities home and care for their ailing mother....
11) When Grace sings
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
As Alexa Zimmerman tries to win over the members of her Kanasas Old Order Mennonite community, a Chicago reporter with unknown motivation becomes a long-term guest at her bed and breakfast and a cousin arrives with a secret related to Alexa's own.
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English
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"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...
13) From this moment
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English
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"Growing up in the foster care system, Jase Edgar always dreamed of one day starting his own family. But his fiancee's untimely death shattered his plans. Moving to Kansas and serving as a youth minister should be a fresh start, but he can't seem to set aside his doubts about God's goodness long enough to embrace his new life. Newly-appointed church custodian, Lori Fowler is battling her own challenges. Her strained relationship with her father and...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Addie Cowherd dreamt of being a novelist and offering readers the escape that books gave her during her tragic childhood. But it's the Great Depression, and when her adoptive father loses his job, Addie is forced to leave college and take the only employment she can find: delivering books on horseback to poor coal mining families in the hills of Kentucky. The community of Boone's Hollow is suspicious of outsiders and steeped in superstitions that...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Eighteen-year-old Laurel Millard, youngest of seven children, is expected to stay home and "take care of Mama" by her older siblings, but Laurel has dreams of starting her own family. Operating a silk loom at the Atlanta Exposition will give her the chance to capture the heart of a man wealthy enough to take care of Laurel and any children she might bear, as well as her mother. Langdon Rochester's parents have given him an ultimatum: settle down with...
18) Katy's new world
Author
Series
Katy Lambright series volume 1
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
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.
20) Katy's debate
Author
Series
Katy Lambright series volume 2
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Katy, a Mennonite teenager attending secular high school, joins the debate team, and tries to keep her father from remarrying so that she does not have to adjust to having a stepmother.
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