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The Amish Back Roads to Heaven: The Story of Pennsylvania's Amish CommunitesView
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by Burton Buller, narrator
  dvd, $22.95
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Lancaster County, Pennsylvania hosts the oldest Amish community in North America. When most people think of the Amish, it is the Lancaster County settlement with their grey buggies that comes to mind.

But in other Pennsylvania Amish settlements buggies can be black, white or even yellow. The religious paths these Amish communities travel can be strikingly diverse. What emerges is a mosaic of Amish life and practice quite different from the common Amish stereotype.

Finacial pressures have forced the majority of the Amish to forsake farming for more lucrative business enterprises. Business owners tend to adopt technology more rapidly than farmers, leading to a mini- industrial revolution. Amish-style Buggies, once built of wood, now are often built of fiberglass. With more adults working in industries, family dynamics are beginning to change.

Buller's camera captures the changes sweeping across the Amish landscape. His interviews with authors/professors/researches Donald B Kraybill and Steven M Nolt provide uncommon insight into the Amish mindset.

Experience Amish farm life, family life, business enterprises, childhood, school, worship, horse cultures, business practices, barn raising, rumspringa (running around), Florida vacations, women's roles and more. Includes Amish response to Nickel Mines tragedy.

Copyright 2007 Buller Films LLC.

 
Brides of Lancaster CountyView
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by Wanda E. Brunstetter
  A Merry Heart
paperback, 288 pages, $12.95
Book one. Miriam Stoltzfus was once filled with wonderful dreams for a future with the man she'd loved since childhood-until he moved away and married someone else, leaving her heart a bitter shell. Now Miriam is known in her community as the "old maid" schoolteacher with a "heart of stone."

Amos Hilty wants to court Miriam, but she's certain that he only wants a mother for his daughter and a wife for convenience. Her heart warms to a more interesting friendship in the form of Nick McCormick, a newspaper reporter outside her Amish faith, who is easy to talk to-and, incredibly, makes her smile again. Will Miriam ever let go of her bitter spirit and surrender her will to God? Or will she leave the Amish faith and find what she longs for in the outside world?

Copyright 2006 Wanda E. Brunstetter

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  Looking for a Miracle
paperback, 288 pages, $12.95
Book two. As a child, Rebekah suffered a freak accident that left her legs paralyzed. Now confined to a wheelchair most of the time, she feels that she will never measure up to the expectations of her Pennsylvania Amish community that a woman marry and raise a family. She longs to be loved for who she is, but she has come to believe that marriage is not for her and that she will always be a burden to her family.

When Daniel Beachy-who has long seemed smitten by Rebekah's cousin-begins to spend time with Rebekah, she believes it is only because he feels sorry for her and is interested in obtaining her new business. After all, what man would choose a woman with a handicap such as hers for a wife? Will Rebekah ever find the miracle she is looking for?

Copyright 2006 Wanda E Brunstetter

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  Plain and Fancy
paperback, $12.95
Book 3. Laura Meade grew up with all the modern conveniences and frills that her fancy English world could offer. While studying interior design at a school in Lancaster Pennsylvania, she becomes fascinated with the Amish who live in the area and she seeks to learn more about their culture. When Laura meets Eli Yoder, one of the Plain People, she falls hopelessly in love.

Never much of a churchgoer, Laura has no real concept of God's love or the need to attend church. Eli, a baptized member of the Amish church, is enamored with Laura, as well. However, the rules of his church forbid him to marry outside the faith, and he knows that should he decide to leave, he will face a shunning. Is it good for two people-one plain, and the other fancy-to fall in love? Will Laura and Eli find a way to be together?

Copyright 2006 Wanda E Brunstetter

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  The Hope Chest
paperback, $12.95
Book 4. Rachel Beachy desires and hopes for something she can't have-her sister Anna's boyfriend. Silas Swartley has been in love with the spirited Anna since they were children, and Rachel, the tomboy, has loved Silas for nearly as long. Like Job from the Bible, Rachel feels that her swiftly moving days are spent without hope-hope of ever making Silas take notice of her.

But when Anna unexpectedly leaves the Amish faith, Rachel's hope is rekindled. She initiates a campaign to win Silas's heart and beings to fill her hope chest when she discovers how much she and Silas have in common.

Can Silas set the pain of Anna's rejection aside and see Rachel as anything ore than a tomboy who is little more than a child? Will Rachel be disappointed in Silas and in God, or will she learn the true meaning of hope?

Copyright 2006 Wanda E. Brunstetter

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The Brides of Lancaster County series has been expanded from it's earlier editions. They contain new story scenes never published. 
Daughters of Lancaster CountyView
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by Wanda E. Brunstetter
  The Storekeeper's Daughter
paperback, 318 pages, $12.95
Book one. Time appears to stand still in Naomi Fisher's Pennsylvania Amish community...But she's running out of time to correct a terrible mistake. When Naomi turns her back on one basic duty, the unthinkable happens-and now she feels unworthy to accomplish anything set before her. How can she escape the weight on her spirit that paralyzes her emotions? Is there any redemption for such a failure?

Copyright 2005 Wanda E. Brunstetter

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  The Quilter's Daughter
paperback, 284 pages, $12.95
Book two. Abby runs a successful quilt shop and is engaged to a wonderful Amish man. But then duty calls. When she leaves her beloved shop and patient fiancé to attend to her mother in need, a double tragedy strikes, shattering Abby's world in one fell swoop.

Once Abby wipes away the tears and ashes, she is forced to look for answers outside her Amish community. Can God make anything good come out of her heartache?

Copyright 2005 Wanda E. Brunstetter

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  The Bishop's Daughter
paperback, 287 pages, $12.95
Book three. Jimmy Scott's typical American upbringing isn't as far removed from the Amish as it may appear. After his mother dies from cancer, Jimmy learns he was not his parents' biological child. What his father reveals about Jimmy's first year of life is shocking.

When he meets Leona Weaver, dedicated bishop's daughter and one- room schoolhouse teacher, he is just in time to witness another senseless tragedy-hardly the moment to mention the issue of his search. So Jimmy jumps in to help her family in anyway he can.

But Jimmy never expected his search for his heritage to lead to a forbidden romance with Leona. When her faith as already been shaken by heartbreak, can he ask her to see him as more than just an outsider? The final book in the Daughters of Lancaster County series.

Copyright 2006 Wanda E Brunstetter.

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Follow the story of Naomi and her family through the years. 
Amish Houses and BarnsView
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by Stephen Scott
  paperback, 158 pages, $7.95
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A study of three Amish homesteads: one in Lancaster County, PA, one in Holmes County, OH, and one in LaGrange County, IN. Scott examines the history and cultural development of a typical Amish house and barn; one in each of the three largest Amish communities in North America. Contains a number of black and white photos.

Copyright 1992.

 
Annie's Day of LightView
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by Romaine Stauffer
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Annie was born into a Mennonite home in Indiana. In 1892, when she was eight years old, she moved east with her family as her parents returned to their native Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The rapidly changing world was shaped by two World Wars, a Great Depression, two divisions in her Mennonite church, and a multitude of scientific discoveries and inventions which revolutionized the everyday lives of ordinary people.

The days of Annie's personal life were colored by sorrow and joy, poverty prosperity, sickness and health, disappointment and triumph. How did she manage to change with the times without changing? Where did she find the strength to continue when her personal world caved in and collapsed?

Copyright 2003

 
Pennsylvania Dutch Covered Bridges 2008 CalendarView
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A delightful 2008 calendar to hang on your wall featuring covered bridges as well as verses to go with them. Bridges include: Rose Hill; Kauffman Distillery; Landis Mill; Sheeder/Hall; Mercer Mill; Kutz Mill; Gibson, Weaver Mill; Pool forge, Speakman #1; Dreibelbis Station; Leaman Place; and Neff Mill. Also includes directions to each bridge. Black and white photos only.

Copyright 2007 Masthof Press

 
A Bit of Heaven on the ConestogaView
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by Lois Martin Zook
  paperback, 162 pages, $9.95
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This story of the early settlers' life between 1720 and 1740 in the Weaverland and Groffdale and Ephrata areas of Lancaster County, Pa., focuses on the families of Hans Ulrich Huber/Hoover and Hans Graf/Groff, but also includes the Eberlys, Sauers and Wengers. Then there are well-known figures such as Alexander Mack, Hans Rudolph Nagele, and Conrad Beissel, as well as fictitious Indian and black families. Sketches of tools and household furnishings as well as maps of the time period illustrate the book. Photos show artifacts used by the early settlers and preserved at the Muddy Creek Farm Library 
The HerrsView
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by Mabel Burkholder
  paperback, 174 pages, $9.00
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What was life like when Mennonites first arrived in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania? This story begins with the true story of the persecuted Swiss Anabaptist Herr family who left Germany in 1710. After the dangerous ocean voyage, they settled in Chester County, PA obtaining a warrant for 10,000 acres of land near the Indians. 
Lancaster County CookbookView
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by Louise Stoltzfus and Jan Mast
  paper, 251 pages, $15.95
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Cooks from every corner of Lancaster County and the various sections of Lancaster City submitted their favorite family recipes to be included in this timeless collection. A wonderful treasure for people everywhere. 
Forgiveness: A Legacy of the West Nickel Mines Amish SchoolView
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by John Ruth
  paperback, 152 pages, $10.95
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John L Ruth's sensitive and thoughtful meditation on the horrific events of October 2, 2006, reflects on the response of the Amish community of Nickel Mines, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where a gunman killed himself, five school children, and wounded five others. The tragic crime evoked expressions of shock and sympathy worldwide. But even many Christians were stunned when the Amish community, in the midst of its grieving, offered words of forgiveness toward the dead killer and his family.

Copyright 2007 Herald Press

 
A Granny Hanny Amish Country Mystery SeriesView
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by Barbara Workinger
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In Dutch Again
paperback, 164 pages, $11.50
When Hannah finds her friend, antiques dealer Annette Adams, murdered, Hannah views it as more than coincidence. Annette's husband has recently disappeared.

Hannah and Caroline investigate Annette's death; the list of suspects grows. Annette's sister, a television commentator is a prime suspect, but she was hundreds of miles away. Annette's husband, embittered by a custody battle, and Annette's estranged daughter, give each other alibis. The neighbors disliked Annette, but did any want her dead? When Hannah discovers another body, the inept police assume a prowler is responsible. "Murder does not piece together that neatly." Hanna tells Caroline.

Like blocks in a quilt, Hannah and Caroline painstakingly stitch information together to find the killer's identity. Unlike quilt making, murder investigation takes them deep into danger, deceit and death, far away from the safety and tranquility of the Amish. They soon find only their own intelligence and perceptiveness can save them from a killer determined they will be the next to die.

Copyright 2002.

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Shoofly Pie to Die
paperback, 313 pages, $19.95
After deciding she is through with the unsavory business of investigating and murder, circumstances pull Hannah away from quilt- making into another brutal crime. She is an unwilling spectator at a killing. Detested antique dealer, Denny Brody, is found dead, stuffed into a pickle barrel, on a dilapidated covered bridge, and the only witness is Hannah. When the means of Denny's demise appears to be a poisoned shoofly pie made by Hannah, she and her formerly Amish granddaughter, Lancaster attorney, Caroline, are drawn deep into the investigation. As Hannah and Caroline struggle to clear Hannah before Caroline's upcoming wedding, the list of suspects grows. As they begin to close in, the killer strikes again, and it becomes clear to the murderer that Hannah must be his next target. Hannah's only weapons are courage and resourcefulness. Will they be enough to save herself and her family from the Killer?

Book 2. Copyright 2005.

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Mystery reading and quilt making may seem like disparate interests, but irrepressible Amish grandmother, Hannah Miller, moves between them with enthusiasm. With her formerly Amish granddaughter, Caroline, now an attorney, Hannah adds a third one: solving murders. Join Granny Hanny as she drawn into murder and mystery. 
Amish Enterprise: From Plows to ProfitsView
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by Donald B. Kraybill & Steven M. Nolt
  paperback, 304 pages, $19.95
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Amish culture has been rooted in the soil since its beginnings in 1693. But what happens when members of America's oldest Amish community enter non-farm work in one generation? How will hundreds of cottage industries and micro-enterprises reshape the heart of Amish life? Will traditional eighth grade education still prove adequate? What about gender roles, child-rearing practices, leisure activities, and growing ties with outsiders? Amish Enterprise was the first book to discuss these dramatic changes that are transforming Amish communities across North America. Based on interviews with more than 150 Amish entrepreneurs, the authors trace the rise and impact of businesses in Lancaster's Amish settlement in recent decades. In this new edition, the authors update demographic and technological changes, and also describe Amish enterprises outside of Pennsylvania in a new chapter.

Center Books in Anabaptist Studies series

Copyright 2004 John Hopkins University

 
Annie's PeopleView
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by Beverly Lewis
  Annie's People Set
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Save 10%! The set includes both The Preacher's Daughter and The Englisher.
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The Preacher's Daughter
paperback, 352 pages, $13.95
Book 1. Paradise, Pennsylvania, is likened to a little slice of heaven on earth...but for Annie Zook-The preacher's eldest daughter-it seems like a dead-end street. She is expected to join the Amish church, but at 20 she is "still deciding." Because of the strict rules that guide the Plain community, she must continually squelch her artistic passion, although it has become her solace.

Copyright 2005 Bethany House.

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The Englisher
paperback, $13.95
Book 2. Annie Zook, the preacher's daughter, struggles to keep her promise to her father-to abandon her art for a full six months. Will she succeed, only to succumb to another "forbidden" desire? And what would her father do if he discovered her friendship with a handsome Englisher?

Ben Martin has recently moved to Pennsylvania from Kentucky on a secret search of his own. He is mysteriously drawn to Paradise and expecially to the covered bridge depicted in Annie's painting, a folded copy of which he carries in his pocket...along with a smooth peach stone.

Will Ben's keen interest in Annie derail her intention to join the Amish church come autumn?

Copyright 2006 Bethany House.

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  The Brethren
paperback, 349 pages, $13.95
Book 3. Annie Zook, the Amish preacher's daughter, is caught between two worlds. Living with shunned friend Esther, Annie longs to return to the idyllic days spent with Englisher Ben Martin, before her father ordered her never to see him again.

Stunned when family secrets come to light, Ben determines to solve the mystery of his past. Will his future include Annie-or will the Brethren always stand between them?

The final book in the Annie's People Series Copyright 2006 Bethany House.

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This new series by Beverly Lewis begins a remarkable journey of heartache and homespun delight. 
Dr Frau: A Woman Doctor Among the AmishView
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by Grace H. Kaiser
  hardcover, 186 pages, $14.95
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Grace Kaiser spent 28 years as a family doctor among the "plain people" of Lancaster County, PA. These are her reflections on a side of life few people have seen. Includes delivering babies on farms and in snowstorms. 
Gideon's PeopleView
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by Carolyn Meyer
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When twelve-year-old Isaac Litvak wakes up after the accident, he is in a strange house full of foreign-speaking people. A kind Amish family has taken him in, but their customs are so different from his own family's Orthodox Jewish ways that Isaac feels out of place. Something else bothers Isaac. There is trouble in this family.

Sixteen-year-old Gideon is secretly planning to run away. Gideon's sister Annie begs Isaac to help her prevent him from leaving. If he leaves, she explains, the family will have to shun him and Annie's heart will break. But as Isaac and Annie both learn, sometimes people have to be given the freedom to pursue their dreams-no matter what the risks.

For ages 10 and up. Copyright 1996

 
Real PeopleView
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by A. Martha Denlinger
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A. Martha Denlinger explains the beliefs and practices of both the Amish and Mennonites in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. She answers many of the questions that visitors to Amish country often ask. Revised 1993. 
The Earth is the Lord's: A Narrative History of the Lancaster Mennonite ConferenceView
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by John Ruth
  hardcover with paper jacket, 1,300 pages, $69.95
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Until now, the lush fields of the largest Mennonite community outside Europe have not been matched by a richness of recorded memory. An earlier general history of Lancaster Conference (1931) made little attempt to explain the community's ancestry. In The Earth is the Lord's, however, a story-laden past unfolds dramatically.

Starting with the 1614 execution of Hans Landis in Zurich, the narrative explores troubles in Bern and follows Anabaptists to Alsace and the Palatinate, and on to America, as the future Lancaster County's first Mennonists arrive in Philadelphia in 1710. The story reaches to 1977, when Lancaster Mennonite Conference adopted a new constitution.

The fruit of much patient work by family historians and computer-aided genealogists finds its way into this story. John Ruth adds folk memory to extensive documentation and careful explanation of key beliefs and practices, painting a picture of unprecedented detail, enriched by photos (240), maps (23), illustrations, index, extensive bibliography and notes.

This book is an indispensable source on its subject, with lists of early immigrants, congregations, ordinations, and conference officers up to 1977, and a general chronology.

Copyright 2001.

 
Writing the Amish: The Worlds of John A. HostetlerView
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by David L. Weaver-Zercher
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From the early 1960s to the late 1980s John A Hostetler was the world's premier scholar of Amish life. Hailed by his peers for his illuminating and sensitive portrayals of this oft-misunderstood religious sect, Hostetler successfully spanned the divide between popular and academic culture, thereby shaping perceptions of the Amish throughout American society. He was also outspoken in his views of the modern world and of the Amish world—views that continue to stir debate today.

Writing the Amishboth recounts and assesses Hostetler's Amish related work. The first half of the book consists of four reflective essays—By Donald Kraybill, Simon Bronner, David Weaver- Zercher, and Hostetler himself—in which Hostetler is the primary subject. The second half reprints in Chronological order fourteen key writings by Hostetler with commentaries and annotations by Weaver- Zercher.

Copyright 2005 Pennsylvania German Society

 

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