Beth Wiseman
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"Naomi Byler cooks meals for the guests at The Peony Inn, where Amish sisters and owners of the inn Esther and Lizzie love her like a granddaughter. She's as happy there as a young woman can be, considering that her fiancé, Thomas, has left her to court someone else. She knows she'll get over the love of her life in due time, but she assumes marriage will never be a part of her future. Amos Lantz and his mother are guests at the inn, visiting town...
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"Sisters Esther and Lizzie have a new employee, Rose Petersheim, to help them tend to The Peony Inn. But their old matchmaking ways have stayed the same. The sisters focus their efforts on the lovely twenty-five-year-old Rose. Though Rose is witty and outspoken, her nervous chattering makes her the best match for someone calm and good at listening. Someone like Benjamin--the handsome handyman who recently moved to town. But when Esther receives an...
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Rooted in love (previously published in An Amish garden): Rosemary Lantz is doing her best to run her family's household. She excels at all her tasks except one: gardening. Saul Petersheim has pursued Rosemary for years, but Rosemary keeps turning him down. What Saul doesn't know is that she has good reason--something no one can know--especially not him.
A love for Irma Rose: The year is 1957, and young Irma Rose has a choice to make. Date the man...
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"Cookies and Cheer by Amy Clipston As Christmas draws near, Alyssa Byler dreams of a window display for the bakery where she works. When she decides to design and build a sugar cookie nativity scene, all she needs is the right cookie cutters--and handsome blacksmith Kyle Smoker is the one she asks for help. Using Kyle's handmade cutters, Alyssa creates a striking display that brings more tourists to the bakery than she can handle. And when shoppers...
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Fall in Paradise, Pennsylvania, ushers in unexpected visitors, new love, and renewed hope for three women. Fern has a green thumb for growing healing herbs, but waits for love to bloom in her life. Nearby, Hannah runs her parents' bed and breakfast, and longs to meet a man of integrity. And when a tree blows onto Eve's farmhouse, her family must move in with Eve's parents. Cooking together, will she and her mother find a recipe to heal old wounds?...
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Winter Kisses, by Beth Wiseman. Three generations of Stoltzfus women are all living under the same roof. At twenty-five, Naomi has never been married, and both her mother, Barbara, and her grandmother, Ruth, have recently been widowed. Each nursing broken or lonely hearts, they also each have potential suitors. When a storm on Christmas Eve forces the three couples to take shelter in the basement of the Stotlzfus homestead, secrets are revealed, hearts...
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Four brand new Amish stories of coming home. No Place Like Home by Amy Clipston Estranged daughter Eva Dienner has been staying with her in-laws since her husband was killed in a fire, but now she wants her son to meet his maternal grandparents. Upon her return, Eva finds that the man her parents always intended for her is living in their daadihaus and running the dairy farm for them for free, despite her suspicions of him taking advantage of her...
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Each of the four novellas from these veterans of Amish fiction is set in an Amish community at autumn harvest time. Wiseman's entry features a young mother with two small children who hides a secret to protect her dead husband's good name. In Clipston's story, a witness to an accident is forbidden by her family to come forward with the truth. An introvert finds her shyness nearly unbearable after developing a stutter in Fuller's tale. And in Chapman's...
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"In Beth Wiseman's A Choice to Forgive, Daniel had disappeared one long-ago Christmas Eve, and Lydia built a life with his brother. Now she's a widow, and Daniel is back. In A Miracle for Miriam by Kathleen Fuller, Seth had once broken "plain" Miriam's heart. Can he now convince her that she is truly beautiful to him? And in Barbara Cameron's One Child, on a snowy winter night in Lancaster County, a child changes the world for two very different couples....
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In His Father's Arms finds a couple struggling to understand God's plan when their baby is born with Down syndrome. Carolyn and Joshua anticipate the arrival of their first child together in A Son for Always, yet Carolyn is concerned for the son she had as a teenager. In A Heart Full of Love, a mother's meddling becomes unbearable when her sightless daughter has twins. And after giving birth at 43, Etta worries about her estranged grown son in An...
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June bride Wynne Hardy never thought she'd get engaged on a reality TV show. They're all set to wed on live TV when the man who broke her heart years ago walks back into her life. July bride Alyssa Pennington walked down the aisle to be united with the man of her dreams only to find she'd been left at the altar. Filled with regret, Brendan plans to win her back. August bride Kelsey Wilcox traded her boots for flip-flops after a cowboy broke her heart....
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Always in My Heart by Mary Ellis: Hope Bowman believes God is punishing her for giving up her firstborn son when she was a teenager. She's hidden this secret from her husband, who is thankful for their daughters but longs for a son. Hope prays desperately, but the son God sends her isn't a new baby but the fifteen-year-old boy she gave up years ago.
Always His Providence by Ruth Reid: Widow Rosa Hostetler has one month to pay her delinquent taxes...
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In "When Christmas Comes Again," the first Christmas without Elias is hard for Katherine and her children, until a mysterious Englischer appears with photographs of her late husband. "Her Christmas Pen Pal" brings us Joy, whose heartbroken letter to a cousin finds its way to a young cabinetmaker, with unexpected results. In "A Gift for Anne Marie," just as the relationship of two best friends enters a new chapter, it seems doomed to end. And in "The...