Wanda E. Brunstetter
1) The journey
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Titus Fisher, an Amish carpenter, journeys into a Kentucky Amish community where he seeks a new beginning and meets the beautiful and unique Suzanne Yoder. She can't cook but can do woodworking, and she painfully resembles Phoebe, Titus's ex-girlfriend.
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"Welcome to Walnut Creek, Ohio, where Orley and Lois Troyer own an antique store they call "Memory Keepers." Though knowledgeable in antiques and their repair, their real talent is in mentoring folks who are hurting and don't even know it. Enter Jeff, a restaurateur, and Rhonda, a hotel manager, who recently moved to Amish country for the slow pace, but the change of scenery puts even more stress on their already strained marriage. Will an antique...
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Stitch by stitch, six unlikely lives are transformed with a little help from an Amish widow's quilting classes. . .and the healing hand of God. Annotation: Stitch by stitch, six unlikely lives are transformed with a little help from an Amish widow's quilting classes. . .and the healing hand of God.
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Brides of Lehigh Canal volume 2
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Relive the glory of a Pennsylvania canal town through the eyes of those who ministered to the needs of the workers. Betsy Nelson reluctantly returns to her childhood home to care for her failing father, a faithful minister who served the town for years. William Covington, a confirmed bachelor, comes to town to become the new pastor and set aside the luxuries of his birth for service to God. Can Betsy and William find common ground on which to work...
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Sisters of Holmes County volume 2
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In this enthralling sequel to A Sister's Secret by New York Times best-selling author Wanda E. Brunstetter, Ruth struggles to see beyond a crushing tragedy. Married to a kind, hardworking man, Ruth longs to fill their Amish home with children. But after a speeding truck sends their buggy over an embankment, Ruth awakens to learn her husband is dead-and she's forever barren.
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Indiana cousins volume 3
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Jolene Yoder returns to Indiana to teach lip reading and sign language to the newly deaf Amish man Lonnie Hershberger. As she begins falling for Lonnie, Jolene wonders if she'll ever see "signs" of his love for her. Lovelorn Lonnie is fighting his attraction to Jolene, especially since she seems smitten by Jake Beechy. And Ella Miller is worried the roving Jake will end up breaking her cousin Jolene's heart, never realizing that Jake has really set...
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Friendship letters volume 1
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Where is hope when Eleanor Lapp's life starts to fall apart as extreme grief drives her husband to drink to numb his pain?
Life is good on the Pennsylvania Amish farm of newlyweds Vic and Eleanor Lapp-- until a tragic event occurs. Vic turns to alcohol to numb the pain; he loses his job, and his marriage is falling apart. Eleanor writes to her friend, Doretta, in Indiana, asking for advice. Their exchange of letters helps both women through the challenges...
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Friendship letters volume 2
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Doretta Schwartz used to be so happy and passed her positive attitude along to friends in several letters she wrote each month. But that all changed the day she learned of her fiancé's death and a heavy weight of depression fell upon her. Feeling empty, she puts away her letter writing and won't even respond to calls from friends. William's twin brother, Warren, is also grieving his loss, while at the same time, trying to be supportive to his parents...
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After her mom's untimely death, 20-year-old Naomi toils at the family's general store while caring for seven younger siblings-including her newborn brother Zach. And when the unthinkable happens to baby Zach, she wonders how God can possibly bring good out of such tragedy.
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"Twin sisters Elma and Thelma Hochstetler have done everything together for their thirty-two years of life--including remaining unmarried. They inherited their grandparents' house and general store, which will support them well. Now they will take on baking a cake for Shipshewana charity event together. They are decent cooks, but they didn't anticipate having to demonstrate the baking process on stage before their cake will be auctioned off. They...
11) The struggle
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Welcome back to Kentucky, where a Lancaster County Amish couple seeks a new future in the land of tomorrow. When Timothy Fisher decides to move his wife, Hannah, and their daughter to Christian County where two of his brothers reside, Hannah is reluctant to go. Then a tragic accident occurs, and Timothy and Hannah are inconsolable. Is an abrupt separation the beginning of the end of their marriage, or will they rally to seize a God-given second chance?...
12) A sister's hope
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Sisters of Holmes County volume 3
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Martha, the youngest of the three Hostettler sisters, is concerned about the continuous attacks being made on her Amish family. When the suspected culprit turns out to be Luke Friesen-the man she loves-Martha decides to play detective. What will the search for truth cost her? Luke Friesen seems to have taken the wrong path in life and now hangs out with rowdy English. With a definite motive and a myriad of methods, Luke looks guilty as sin. Will one...
14) Sarah's choice
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Brides of Lehigh Canal volume 3
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Sarah Turner tends the lock on the Lehigh Canal in Walnutport, Pennsylvania. Shed like nothing better than to get away from the canal, having enough of it as a child when she led the mules that pulled her fathers boat. But being a widow with three small children, she seems to have no other option. Sarah isnt looking for love again, but should she ever find it, she knows it could never be with a canal man. Elias Brooks has left his newspaper job in...
15) The healing
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Amish widower Samuel Fisher journeys from Lancaster County to Bluegrass Country seeking a balm for his grief after his wife's death. Esther Beiler, who helps watch his children there develops a crush on Samuel and a true affection for his kids. Can she win his heart, or has he already lost it to an English woman? How will God untangle these star-crossed lovers when jealousies and misconceptions threaten to tear them apart?
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"In Strasburg, Pennsylvania, grief has paralyzed Sylvia, a young widowed mother, and mysterious events threaten to force the family-run greenhouse to close."--
Sylvia has been nearly paralyzed with grief and anxiety since the tragic death of her husband, father, and brother in a traffic accident. She tries to help in the family's greenhouse while caring for her two children, but she prefers not to have to deal with customers. Her mother's own grief...
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Creektown discoveries volume 2
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"Tragically losing her parents as a child, Lisa Miller has grown up being afraid of loving and losing. She dedicates herself to teaching at an Amish schoolhouse and helping the grandparents who raised her, all the while avoiding the advances of newcomer Paul Herchberger. Paul enjoys antiques and meets Orley Troyer while looking for unique old milk bottles at yard sales. Orley and his wife offer prayers and advice as Paul tries to reach Lisa's closed...
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Instead of experiencing newlywed bliss, Meredith and Luke Stoltzfus are faced with the greatest challenge of their young lives. When Luke Stoltzfus loses his job at a furniture store in Lancaster Country, Pennsylvania, he is given an opportunity to learn.
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Daughters of Lancaster County volume 2
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Abby Miller leaves her successful quilt shop and patient fiance in Ohio to help her newly remarried and now pregnant mother in Lancaster County. While she's away, Abby's world is shattered in one fell swoop. How can God make anything good come out of this tragedy? With shaken faith, Abby is forced to look for answers away from friends and family. Will she find them in the ashes of the past, in her love of quilting, or in the heart of an overlooked...
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Friendship letters volume 3
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When she becomes physically and emotionally abusive to her own children, Irma Miller, struggling with her own childhood trauma, reaches out to her friend Doretta for prayer and wisdom, learning that to save her family, she must admit she needs professional help.