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"Susie Mast's Old Order life has been shaped more by tragedy than her own choices. But when she decides to accept another's invitation and stop waiting on her childhood friend, she soon realizes her mistake. Will family secrets and missed opportunities dim Susie's hopes for the future? Or is what seems like the end only the beginning?"--
3) The wish
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Leona Speicher got the "sister" she'd always dreamed of the day Gloria Gingerich and her family moved to Lancaster County Amish farmland. The Arkansas newcomers seem to be everything a devout Plain family should be, and Leona can't help comparing Gloria's's engaging young parents to her own. Leona's cousin shows a romantic interest in Gloria around the same time as Gloria's older brother expresses his fondness for Leona--it seems likely the two young...
4) The proving
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Having left the Amish life for the English world, Amanda Dienner is shocked when she learns that her mother has passed and left her Lancaster County's most popular Amish bed-and-breakfast. The catch is she has to run it herself for one year, acting as hostess. Amanda accepts the terms, but coming home to people she left behind won't be easy.
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Home to Hickory Hollow volume 5
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English
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Come home to Hickory Hollow, Pennsylvania, the setting of this Amish novel. Of her Old Order Parents' five daughters, Tessie Miller is the last to marry. She has her heart set on Amishman Marcus King, but Tessie's father opposes the match. When the unthinkable happens, Tessie faces the almost-certain censure of the People. Will she find a reason for hope in spite of her desperate plight?
7) The Fiddler
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Home to Hickory Hollow volume 1
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Bethany House
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English
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"A wrong turn in a rainstorm leads Englisher Amelia Devries to Michael Hostetler, and the young Amishman's charming Old Order community of Hickory Hollow. Despite their very different backgrounds, Amelia and Michael both feel hemmed in by the expectations of others and struggle with how to find room for their own hopes. And what first seems to be a chance encounter might just change their lives forever"--P. [4] of cover.
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Lucy Flaud, a young Amish woman, has given up hope of marriage because of mistakes from her past. She seeks to redeem the guilt she feels by volunteering her time in Lancaster County. When Dale Wyeth, a young Englisher interested in the self-sufficiency of the Amish, seeks mentorship from her father, Lucy forms a connection of her own with him. Is it too late to embrace redemption--and the power of love?
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Annie's people volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
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"Annie Zook--the preacher's eldest daughter--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"--Provided by publisher.
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Annie's people volume 3
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Annie Zook, the Amish preacher's daughter, is caught between two world. LIving with shunned friend Esther, Annie longs to return to her forbidden art and the idyllic days spent with Englisher Ben Martin, before her father ordered her never to see him again.
11) The guardian
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Home to Hickory Hollow volume 3
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Bethany House
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When Jodi Winfield comes to Lancaster to house-sit, the last thing she expects to find is a dsheveled little girl alone on the side of the road. The young teacher is mystified when she learns there have been no reports of a missing child and the girl herself is no help, since she can't speak English. It's as if the child appeared out of nowhere. Jodi, then turns her attention to Hickory Hollow--and the cloistered world of the Old Order Amish--in...