The Lopsided Christmas Cake by Wanda E. and Jean Brunstetter is centered on Amish girls Elma and Thelma, twin sisters, who have just inherited their grandparents' home and country store. The girls leave behind their mother and father’s home and learn to live on their...

The Gift by Wanda Brunstetter took me on an amazing journey to Amish country, introducing me to characters that became friends as I read their stories. At twenty-five, Leah Mast is content to practice her gift of reflexology in her community to help others, but...

Tyler Anderson was a military kid and when his mother passed away his 6-year-old life changed forever. With his dad’s assignments, he couldn’t take care of a kid so he asked his in-laws, who happen to be Amish, to take care of the boy until...

The Road Home is another in the Amish series by Patrick Craig. In this book, Jenny Springer is a young adult and intensely serious about trying to find her roots. She was adopted by an Amish couple after having been found in a snowstorm. Although...

The Amish Seamstress, Book Four in The Women of Lancaster County series, written by Mindy Starns Clark and Leslie Gould, is a well-written stand-alone novel. However the rest of the series is great as well. Izzy does not really fit in anywhere, not with her...

"The Winnowing Season", book 2 in the 'Amish Vines and Orchards trilogy', continues the story of the King family and Rhoda Byler as they move and start their new Amish community in Maine. Samuel King and Rhoda seemed to always be butting heads, but was...

What a beautiful story of soul-searchng love and commitment! In Cincy Woodsmall's latest story "The Scent of Cherry Blossoms", Annie Martin, an Old Order Mennonite woman, and Aden Zook, an Old Order Amish man, reunite when Annie is sent to live with her grandfather in...

"The Amish Nanny" by Mindy Clark and Leslie Gould is a beautiful story about love, commitment and the true meaning of family. Not being an Amish believer is in no way a deterrent to reading this delightful book. Ada Rupp is a woman who searches...

Treasuring Emma gets off to a brisk start as main character Emma is confronted with her mother's death from cancer. Emma and her grandmother's farm, in the heart of Amish country, is cared for by neighbor Norman Ott, but it needs care and repair that...

In The Christmas Singing, author Cindy Woodsmall places an Amish woman named Mattie in Ohio. Three years prior to the setting of the book, Mattie and her childhood sweetheart, Gideon, broke off their long-term relationship. Mattie was convinced that Gideon preferred the fancy English women...