| Forgiveness: A Legacy of the West Nickel Mines Amish School | View shopping basket |
| by John Ruth |
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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 | |
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| Sammy and Brian Mysteries | View shopping basket |
| by Ken Munro |
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| A mystery series involving 2 teen sleuths from Bird-in-Hand,
Pennsylvania. Reading level, ages 9-13. Interest level, ages 9-
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| Annie's People | View shopping basket |
| by Beverly Lewis |
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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, $7.00
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. | |
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| Real People | View shopping basket |
| 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. | |
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| The Amish Back Roads to Heaven: The Story of Pennsylvania's Amish Communites | View shopping basket |
| by Burton Buller, narrator |
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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
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| Brides of Lancaster County | View shopping basket |
| by 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. | |
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| Daughters of Lancaster County | View shopping basket |
| by Wanda E. Brunstetter |
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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. | |
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| Annie's Day of Light | View shopping basket |
| by Romaine Stauffer |
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paperback, 633 pages, $12.95
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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 | |
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| Amish Houses and Barns | View shopping basket |
| by Stephen Scott |
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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. | |
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| Pennsylvania Dutch Covered Bridges 2008 Calendar | View shopping basket |
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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 | |
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| A Bit of Heaven on the Conestoga | View shopping basket |
| by Lois Martin Zook |
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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 | |
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| Amish Enterprise: From Plows to Profits | View shopping basket |
| by Donald B. Kraybill & Steven M. Nolt |
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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 | |
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| Dr Frau: A Woman Doctor Among the Amish | View shopping basket |
| by Grace H. Kaiser |
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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. | |
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| Gideon's People | View shopping basket |
| by Carolyn Meyer |
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paperback, 297 pages, $6.00
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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 | |
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| Lancaster County Cookbook | View shopping basket |
| by Louise Stoltzfus and Jan Mast |
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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. | |
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| The Herrs | View shopping basket |
| by Mabel Burkholder |
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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. | |
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| Writing the Amish: The Worlds of John A. Hostetler | View shopping basket |
| by David L. Weaver-Zercher |
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hardcover, 351 pages, $34.95
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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 | |