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After tragedy strikes the family of young Naomi Miller, her friend Rebecca Bachman does all she can to help. But things get complicated when Rebecca's brother, Micah, returns from a combat tour in Afghanistan. For one thing, he chose to serve in the military even though he served as a medic and never picked up a gun. For another, he is under the Meidung-the shunning- because of that and none of the Amish are permitted to speak to him or eat with him....
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Snapshots in history (Murray Pura) volume 1
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Young Amish air pilot Jude must decide whether to enlist in the army during World War I, which may save his entire community from persecution, but may also cause him to be shunned by those he loves, including his beloved Lyyndaya.
4) Ride the Sky
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David Lapp had been courting Tabitha Reimer for over a year before he finally decided to take her out to a special place and ask her to be his wife. That Saturday had started out in a special way - Tabitha had dreamed once again of vast open ranges bordering impossibly tall mountains topped with snow. She had never seen a mountain, which made this vividly real dream even more perplexing. That afternoon, David came by, and the two traveled in his buggy...
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She wanted to be Amish more than anything else.
Kirsten found herself in a unique position. She stood on the precipice of another world. She watched that world of peace and simplicity from the edge of her hectic life.
Kirsten worked at Zook's Amish Diner in the day and she helped the Schrock family with their wheelchair-bound son Malachi each evening. In her mind, she was Amish.
The Bishop did not agree and he questioned her intentions, as...
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Rose Lantz is overjoyed with her life. Her Amish family has a lovely farm in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, she has a good friend in Lydia Beiler who loves to quit with her, her faith in God is strong and her Amish community warm and supportive, and she is engaged to be married to a handsome young man. But she came to the American Colonies when she was 10 and can still remember the persecution the Amish people fled in Germany. So when Lydia is...
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Abigail and her Grandfather have always enjoyed a special relationship. Especially at Christmas time on their farm in Ohio.Until this year.This year, something is wrong with Abigail's beloved Grandpa. He will not eat, he will not drink, he will not rise from his bed. He only wants to die. Abigail and her family and the doctors are unable to do anything to bring him around.It will take a miracle. A miracle Abigail sees no signs of happening no matter...
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Snapshots in history (Murray Pura) volume 2
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Following on the heels of The Wings of Morning, the first book in Murray Pura's Snapshots in History series, comes this compelling saga of the Civil War.
In April 1861, Lyndel Keim discovers two runaway slaves in her family's barn. When the men are captured and returned to their plantation, Lyndel and her young Amish beau, Nathaniel King, find themselves at odds with their pacifist Amish colony.
Nathaniel enlists in what will become the famous Iron...
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