Títulos em Amish e Menonita

Hannah would spend hours in prayer but often became a little disheartened when her prayers were not answered. She didn’t say anything to others in case they told the elders, but she often dreamt and prayed that Gott would show himself to her…but it never happened. Her husband David encouraged her to talk to Gott believing that she had a special gift to help others, but Hannah just thought her words of wisdom for others came from merely “common sense” and experience.

Lenore Lapp is an Amish schoolteacher in her late 20s still living at home with her parents and grandparents. She thought love had passed her by until she meets Jesse Smucker, a widower with a baby daughter. She quickly falls in love with them both and accepts Jesse’s proposal of marriage, but Jesse breaks off their engagement when he realizes he can’t marry only for convenience. Resigned to living single, Lenore throws herself into caring for her elders. While working in her grandmother’s garden, she digs up an old jar.

Everyone in Hollybrook agrees Uriah Umble is bad news - except Beulah Yoder. Uriah certainly isn’t bad news for her. She loves him and will do anything for him - including sneak out of the house repeatedly to be with him. After months of this, she finally gets caught and the anvil falls. She is forbidden to ever see Uriah Umble again. Join Beulah as she struggles through unbearable circumstances. Feel her confusion and rejection and rejoice with her as she learns the true meaning of faith, forgiveness, and love.

Like most Amish young women, Phoebe Yoder has dreams - but not of a courtship - at least not yet. She dreams of caring for the tender-hearted alpacas at her Englischer neighbor’s farm and learning the business herself. But that longing falls away the moment her baby sister goes missing. In that horrifying instant, desperate for her sister’s safe return, she whispers a promise to Gott: She will give up her dreams and marry Micah Graber, a man she doesn’t love, but who is determined to make her his wife.

Mary Troya was a motherly sort who sadly could not bear children of her own. Within her community both she and her husband, Eli, were of some standing and reputation for helping others with their problems. An Amish man, Joseph Augsburger , who had left the community a few years back to teach in the local town's high school had visited the community to visit his family and former friends. Mary bumped into him, and they talked of his work teaching, which Mary believed to be a noble, God-serving vocation.

Malinda is worried that no man would ever want to marry her because of her health issues, but Timothy is determined to ensure that she understands the true meaning of love.

The forest on the edge of the community was not often entered into by the community folk due to children telling stories of things going on that were not normal or safe. Over years these stories had become village folklore and even some of the adults had started to believe in them. Miriam had long held desires over a young man in the village called Aaron who lived by himself after the recent passing of both parents. Miriam was trying to care for her elderly mother as well as make knitted goods to sell in the town for income. She was struggling to hold things together.

Rachel has a secret she keeps to herself: the deep loss from her past. Now in a new town, she hopes to move on and just live her life. Angry at God, she rarely prays and lives only to get by. Until one day she meets Spike, a little dog that takes a liking to her. But it's the dog's owner that catches her eye, and she can't decide if that's good or not. Abe takes a liking to Rachel but has reservations of his own. Yet God seems determined to connect the two, if only they can get out of their own way and put aside preconceptions.

All Rebecca wanted was to be happy, and she was for a while. She had married the love of her life, Jacob, but when they discovered they couldn’t have Kinner of their own, things started to fall apart. Becoming more withdrawn from her Mann, she couldn’t help but blame Gott for their predicament. Why did Gott take away such a blessing from them? Jacob wanted his Fraa back. He too wanted Kinner, but who was he to question Gott? Jacob knew that if he could only convince Rebecca, they could be happy regardless, but the more time passed, the more distant between them they grew.

Abraham Schuster only wants one thing for Christmas: to fall in love. Unfortunately, he's just gone through an awful breakup and is still trying to pick up the pieces of his life. Is he willing to put himself out there again? Will he be able to find a woman in time to have a merry Christmas?

In the depths of winter, Hortense, a midwife, disappears after attending a birth in the woodlands. During the search, Will Rees finds her struggling through the snow and woods without shoes or a coat. After two young men begin stalking the community in search of her - including targeting Rees’ own family - she is questioned further and claims she was kidnapped...but Rees and his wife Lydia are suspicious.

Gracie Glick is known for being the helpful one, always available for a relative in need. But now that she’s longing for a home and family of her own, it’s time to help herself. With few eligible men in Pontotoc, Gracie’s choices, and her time, are limited. So she takes a bold leap of faith: She proposes to Matthew Byler, a handsome, recently widowed, father of five. It’s not until after they’re married that Gracie learns Matthew doesn’t want more children.

Adam had left her for dead under the covered bridge; thinking back, she might have been better off if she hadn't begged for her life. The bishop is hiding a horrible secret that could expose his sins if he defends his son's sinful acts. For Eva, getting shunned for their sins could be the answer to her prayers. Lily can't forget what she saw; the community thinks she's making things up. When she suffers a breakdown after witnessing her mother's death from what is being called a freak accident, the bishop says he has no choice but to shun her and her father.

After her fiancé, Daniel Beachy, died in a buggy accident, schoolteacher Ruth Yoder decided to move out of her parents’ home and into the house he’d built for their married life together. Ruth has lived alone for the past 11 years. When David Hershberger, a widower, starts spending time with her, Ruth is surprised. David’s children are amazed, too, that their father is interested in their longtime neighbor. Ruth hopes that she and David will become more than friends.

Fourth book in the well received Amish romance series of short stories by Abigail Augsburger. Dawn Zook has a complicated life for an Amish woman whose life is supposed to be so simple. She becomes more desperate for some peace and happiness in her life but with many twists and turns along the way she doubts if she will ever be truly happy.... Will Dawn find happiness?

Dawn's traumatic past had calmed somewhat over recent years and her life was a good one. She had tried to organize a community Christmas event to bring the whole village together but at every turn gets pushed back. One night yet another disaster strikes, and Dawn is once again left devastated. The village seems to be ignoring her, and she begins once again to doubt herself. In one of her lowest and darkest days, will God and the community rally round, or is this the end of all hope for Dawn?

Samuel Abraham was a young man who had been put upon by his family to help some Amish friends from another community on the other side of the local Town. The daughter (Mary Whittmer) was a little younger than Samuel and was not well, needing treatment in the town at the hospital every other day. Samuel had been asked to travel to the other community and take Mary to her appointments in the family buggy. After initial dislike of each other, they came to have lengthy conversations about life and faith, and their affection for each other grew daily.

Emma used to watch Isaac working in the field outside the school and dream about what it would be like to get to know him better as he seemed a very kind person. Isaac used to watch Emma in the schoolhouse and wonder what she was like.... Were the rumors true about her? Isaac decided one day to see if he could get to know Emma better and decided to ask whether he could walk her home. What flourished from that first walk together not only changed their lives but could have a huge impact on the whole province.

Lydia still can’t believe that she is Mrs. Samuel Bontrager. Or that she is 17 with a six-month-old daughter. As Baby Mattie grows fussier by the day, Lydia wonders how she will survive a lifetime of marriage to a man she doesn’t love - at least not in the way she wants. Samuel knows that he and Lydia did the right thing by marrying when Lydia became pregnant. He has even grown to love Lydia, though he never seems able to say the words out loud. What if she doesn’t love him back? After all, she pushes him away whenever he tries to draw closer.

When Beverly Overholt’s beloved Orange Blossom Inn is broken into, she’s devastated. The inn has been her whole life since arriving in the quaint Amish vacation town of Pinecraft, Florida. Hoping to repair what’s been lost, Beverly calls Eric Wagler, the inn’s handsome owner. Ever since her fiancé jilted her, Beverly’s been closed off to love. However, with Eric, things feel different. She’s hopeful that their work relationship will turn into something more, even if they’re from different worlds.