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2) The outcast
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Language
English
Description
"Rachel Stoltzfus is a strong-willed single woman, content in her Old Order Mennonite community until whispers stir the moment her belly swells with new life. Refusing to repent and name the partner in her sin, Rachel is shunned by those she loves most and is eventually coerced into leaving by her brother-in-law, the bishop. Secrets run deep in this cloistered community, but when the life of Rachel's baby is at stake, choices must be made that will...
5) The calling
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Language
English
Description
Twenty-year-old Bethany Schrock is restless. Her love life has derailed, her faith hangs by a thread, and she's spending the hot summer days wading through a lifetime's accumulation of junk at the home of five ancient Amish sisters. About the only distraction is the dangerously handsome -- and irritating -- Jimmy Fisher. Getting involved at the local soup kitchen and starting a community garden helps, but a childhood mystery continues to plague Bethany....
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Language
English
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Description
With their eldest son about to be drafted into military service, Reinhardt and Lillian Vogt decide to immigrate to America with their three sons and Reinhardt's adopted brother. After tragedy strikes during the voyage, their hopeful dreams turn to dust. Can they maintain the faith of their fathers in a new land?
10) Eve's striptease
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Series
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
As its title proclaims, Eve's Striptease delivers a female voice that seeks to "find out for (her) self / all the desires a body can hold." Through artful acts of revelation and concealment, these poems test experience against the notions of love and loss that tradition and religion have taught us. These narrative and lyric poems celebrate desire, marriage, and domestic life; they visit sexual terror and consider sickness and death. Construing all...
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Series
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
After his graduation from college, Thomas Ollenburger is filled with big dreams and many questions. What will he do for a career? Should he marry? Where will he call home? Torn between his Mennonite roots on the Kansas prairie and his love for the big city of Boston, as well as his affection for a girl in each location, Thomas is unsure of his place in the world. He has always sought God's leading in his decision-making, but now it seems as if God...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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She feels God nudging her toward ministry, but what options are there for a young single woman? Emily Evans has a hard time getting herself to class on time, much less figuring out God's will for her life. Then, to her surprise, she feels that God is calling her into full-time Christian service. She expects the Lord will also provide her with a companion to share her life and ministry, but Emily does not want to marry any of the available young men....
16) The stone wall
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Language
English
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Description
"Anna is eager to begin a new chapter in her life as a Lancaster County tour guide in the picturesque area where her Plain grandmother once stayed. Anna wishes she could talk with her grandmother about those long-ago days, but the elderly woman suffers from Alzheimer's, and beyond a vague hint about an old stone wall, much about that time is a mystery. Thankfully, Martin Nolt, a handsome Mennonite, takes the young Beachy Amish woman under his wing...
17) Silent light
Publisher
Palisades Tartan
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Low German
Description
In a Mennonite community in Mexico, a man betrays his family by having an affair with another woman, which changes the course of events with both his wife and his mistress.
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Series
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"When Leora Ebersole sees the small plane crash in her Old Order Mennonite community, she has no idea its a foreshadowing of things to come. When the young pilot, Moses Hughes, regains consciousness, they realize his instruments were destroyed by the same power outage that killed the electricity at the community store, where Englischers are stranded with dead cell phones and cars that wont start. Moses offers a sobering theory, but no one can know...
20) Amishland
Author
Publisher
Hastings House
Pub. Date
[1954]
Language
English
Description
Father and son, descendants of an old Swiss Mennonite family with roots in Pennsylvania for over 200 years, present aspects of life in the Amish country in text and drawings.