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From Dawn to Dusk: Memoirs of an Amish/Mennonite Farm Boy by Will Troyer
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The Amish Love Seat
Hannah Schrock - 2019
Rachel Miller is only twenty years old, but in her familye she’s already considered an old maid. What they don’t understand is that Rachel isn’t ready to get married; as a carer for the ill and the old, Rachel has her hands full enough without a husband and a demanding familye. Anna Zook, the town matchmaker, whom Rachel cares for, matches Rachel with Noah Beiler. Noah might be wealthy and attractive, but he isn’t what Rachel had in mind for her happily ever after. But Anna is keeping a dark secret of her own, and when it is discovered, it makes Rachel rethink her choices. Will the revelation result in Rachel accepting Anna’s match or will another opportunity present itself? Will the love seat’s magic fail or does it have its own secrets from the past?
Amish Days: The Forbidden Baby: A Hollybrook Amish Romance (Annie's Story Book 1)
Brenda Maxfield - 2016
But lurking within, she harbors deep sorrow. Wondering if things will ever change, she fights against feelings of anger toward God. As an Amish woman of faith, she must trust God for His timing and His will regarding her family, but it’s getting harder and harder to do. When her sister dives off the deep end during rumspringa and ends up in serious trouble, Annie wonders whether this might be God’s answer. Annie’s parents think so. But how can her sister’s mistake become Annie’s blessing? And will Annie’s husband go along with her father’s daring plan? This is a sweet, clean, inspirational Amish Romance—part of the much loved Hollybrook Amish Romance series.
The Forbidden Baby
is a touching Christian Romance Story of mistakes, trust, and redemption. Enjoy this heartwarming tale! Grab your copy today!
Digger: A Memoir
Barbara McCollough - 2019
Digger is an astonishing story, beautifully written, full of suspense, and threaded with the insight and wisdom of the author who has devoted her life to finding the truth of a family secret – whether or not she had a twin. Thrilling, inspiring, and deeply poignant, this is also a story about the search for wholeness, that longing of the heart which is universal. Words cannot convey the power of this memoir – its dramatic momentum, mystical threads, and profound understanding of human nature and familial relationships. Digger is a landmark book, a remarkable achievement which deserves the highest possible recommendation. OLIVIA AMES HOBLITZELLE Author of Ten Thousand Joys & Ten Thousand Sorrows: a Couple’s Journey Through Alzheimer’s and Aging with Wisdom: Reflections, Stories & Teachings. In Digger, Barbara McCollough brings clarity and immediacy to a very complex, layered story. A gifted observer of people in relationships; she knows what they show and what they hide; she knows what they know but refuse to acknowledge. In Digger we see how people give themselves away, but of course, what we really see is McCollough giving us these people giving themselves away — through gestures, dialogue, silences — in other words, through ART. Brava! RICHARD HOFFMAN Author of Half the House and Love & Fury. With as much rich compassion as compelling investigation, Barbara McCollough has given us a gorgeously wrought memoir that you won’t want to put down, one that you’ll never forget. RACHAEL HERRON Internationally Bestselling Author of Splinters of Light, A Life in Stitches, and Pack Up the Moon.
Echoes of a Distant Past: Screaming Eagles: A Vietnam War Memoir
Eraldo Lucero - 2012
Fought over a fierce five months, the battle began in March and lasted into September. During this time, author Eraldo Lucero was serving in the 101st Airborne. This is his story. Lucero’s story of the courageous men who fought is a microcosm that sheds light on the reality of war. Bracingly honest, Lucero accurately depicts the horrors of war and its psychological effects long after the battles are over, revealing the unseen wounds of the soldiers who risked their lives to win a war most Americans tried to forget. Thirty-five years after the war’s end, the author reconnects with fellow Vietnam veterans and in a sobering commentary on the effects of war, illustrates its lingering presence in the combat veteran’s daily life. Inspired by his own battles with post-traumatic stress disorder and the fact that the battle of Hills 714 and 882 during Operation Texas Star has never been fully covered, Lucero leads us into the hell of the jungles of Vietnam and the infamous A Shau Valley. The A Shau Valley and its environs are as much a character as the men themselves, an unrelenting quagmire of violence and death that forever changed any man involved in its brutality. Echoes of a Distant Past: Screaming Eagles—A Vietnam War Memoir gives readers a firsthand look at the Vietnam War as only the combat infantrymen experienced it.
I Can See Angels
Jacky Newcomb - 2010
Read about: the grandma who attended her granddaughter’s wedding …even after she’d ‘passed away’! the angel who saved three people from drowning …before mysteriously disappearing the teenager who was dramatically rescued from a soon-to-be demolished building and the mysterious ‘angel on a plane'.
The Forbidden (Forbidden Amish Love Book 2)
Tattie Maggard - 2017
Could one impulsive moment cost Emily the only man she’s ever loved? A continuation of the Forbidden Amish Love series.Series Order:The BrokenThe ForbiddenThe Secret
BOOTS: An Unvarnished Memoir of Vietnam
Stephen L. Park - 2012
In January, 1967, at the age of twenty, I left my home in Tennessee, and was on my way to Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, Georgia. I knew I was destined to join the party in Vietnam. I had been married for five days before I jumped on the bus and became US government property. I was about to embark on a walking tour through the jungles and muck of southern Asia. This book is about those jungles, that muck and the realities of what had been pitched as a brave and glamorous life of a soldier in combat. There is nothing glamorous in humping the brush, a backpack containing your whole life on your back, an M-16 to keep you warm at night. Red ants, trip wires, flooded rice paddies, leeches and being soaked for a year in either sweat or monsoons aren’t what they show on the movies, and the John Waynes were to be avoided; those guys were part of the ten-percent factor. Among the casualties of war are the truth and common sense. A glamorous life? No, not at all. It was a grunt's life... and this grunt had only one goal in mind – to do his tour and get home to his bride. There were times where it seemed even that was an unachievable goal.This is the story of November Platoon, Delta Company, 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry, 1st Division – The Big Red One – in Vietnam. This is my story… completely unvarnished.
A Call from the Other Side: The life story of Psychic Medium Sue Nicholson
Sue Murray - 2013
She was always different and others sensed this. Her accurate insight into those around her left her friendless. As she matured, she learnt to hide her special connection to the Spirit world and endeavoured to lead a normal life as best she could. Later, spurred on by Spirit and turbulent experiences, she began to use her talents to help those around her. Eventually her abilities attracted wider acclaim while re-examining unsolved murder cases in the highly successful television series, Sensing Murder.Sue Nicholson continues to help create a communication link between those who have passed over to the Spirit world and the living. Through this interaction Sue is able to help others reach a sense of peace and understanding of why they are here.This book is a biography of Sue Nicholson's life, as told to and written by Sue Murray.
Afraid to Tell
Heidi Harding - 2017
After years of fear and isolation, Heidi knew she had to go to the police. For a long time, Chloe resented Heidi for forcing her to disclose what had happened when she wasn’t ready, while their brother, Tom, couldn’t understand how he had so misjudged his father, and at first he didn’t believe their tale. The truth threatened to destroy them all. This is the very honest story of three siblings, and how a man they trusted threatened to tear their family apart.
