Nineteen-year-old Will McGruder leaves his Amish community and pregnant girlfriend behind in 1943, setting the stage for decades of estrangement from his family which has a negative effect on his own life, as well as the lives of his wife and children.
In book two of the Abram's daughters series, Abram Ebersol and wife, Ida, are raising their daughters on a firm foundation of Plain traditions, and they expect the girls to carry on that heritage in their cloistered Lancaster County community. But the oldest daughter has found little appeal in her Amish life compared to the lure of the "English" world.
Professor Michael Branden of Holmes County, Ohio, suspects foul play in a fatal vehicular "accident, " leading him to search for connections between a real estate scam, the disappearance of an Amish man's estate trustee and a bank official, and a rash of robberies by Amish teenagers.
Centennial edition of the true story of Rosanna McGonegal, an Irish orphan who was raised by Elizabeth Yoder, an unmarried Amish woman in central Pennsylvania in the 1800s, providing information on the religious, social, and economic traditions of the Amish people.
Sarah Kauffman, having seen the barns on which she painted murals of old-fashioned quilt squares burn down one by one, serves as a guide to arson investigator Nate MacKenzie and wonders if the destruction has been caused by her pridefulness, and, as Nate searches for clues, the people of Home Valley are forced to question their beliefs and join together to protect their future.
Takes the reader inside Amish culture and explains their religious beliefs and ceremonies, community and family life, separatism, mutual aid practices, temptations, tensions with worldly values, and interactions with outsiders.
Answers questions about the Amish and their way of life, including such things as the differences between the Amish and Mennonites, why they dress the way they do, what some of their customs are, and what holds them together.
