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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.

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

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

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

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

Copyright 2005 Wanda E. Brunstetter

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

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.

Copyright 1992.

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

Copyright 2007 Masthof Press

Copyright 2007 Herald Press

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.

Book 2. Copyright 2005.

Center Books in Anabaptist Studies series

Copyright 2004 John Hopkins University

Copyright 2005 Bethany House.

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.

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.

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

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 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