New beginnings are often hard to predict, but after the death of her parents in a house fire, change is all that twenty-year-old Rachel King can think about. It's hard to leave her younger sister Beth and grandparents behind in PA, but she decides to...

With Love Still Stands, seven Amish families from Bliss Creek, Kansas decide to leave their home and start a new community in New Hope, Missouri. Several people in New Hope aren't so open to outsiders and don't want the Amish to settle there. One of...

A Wedding for Julia by Vannetta Chapman is the third book in her Pebble Creek Amish series and you will be completely engrossed in the story and want to read from start to finish in one sitting! Julia has had changes in her life and...

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...

For Every Season is the third book of the Vines and Orchards series by Cindy Woodsmall. For those unfamiliar with the series, there is a synopsis to aid in the understanding of the current book. Rhoda Byler has been forced to leave her Pennsylvania orchards...

A Vow for Always, book six in Wanda E. Brunstetter’s The Discovery – A Lancaster County Saga, is the highly anticipated conclusion to this fast-moving and engaging series. Meredith and Luke are main characters that can easily be empathized with as they struggle with things...

"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...

It is November of 1950 in Apple Creek, Ohio, and Amish-born Jerusha Springer has finished a perfect Rose of Sharon quilt to take to the Dalton Fair. Jerusha plans on selling the quilt and using the sale money to run away from her Amish religion...

"Katie Opens Her Heart" by Jerry S. Eicher chronicles the life of a young Amish girl as she steps tentatively over the threshold from adolescence into adulthood. Katie is changing: her co-workers see it while her mother fears it. Katie's mother, Emma, a widow for...

There is something innately satisfying about bringing order from chaos and that is what Vannetta Chapman has done in her lovely book "A Home for Lydia." The story opens with huge obstacles confronting the heroine, Lydia. As the eldest child and primary bread-winner for her...