"Married for eight years with no children to help fill her days, Heidi Troyer cooks up the idea of teaching classes in the art of Amish cuisine in her Holmes County, Ohio, home. But it is a recipe for drama when five very different men and women answer the advertisement. Charlene Higgins is engaged, but to the despair of her fiancae's family, she can't cook. Kendra Perkins, a teen estranged from her family, is facing an unwanted pregnancy alone. Loretta...

Mary Ellis follows her captivating Widow's Hope with a new story from the heart of Holmes County, Ohio. In Never Far From Home, fifteen-year-old Emma Miller finishes school, starts her own wool business, and is longing for someone to court. When the object of her affection is a handsome English sheep farmer, with a fast truck and modern methods, her deacon father, Simon, knows he has more than the farm alliance to worry about. Emma isn't the only...

This book concludes the bestselling Miller Family series with another engaging story set in Holmes County, Ohio. Leah Miller is living her dream come true as she invests in a newly restored diner that caters to locals rather than tourists. Can Jonah Byler convince this shy, quiet young woman that she should leave her adoring fans and cook only for him? Leah's sister, Emma, is trying to adapt to married life as New Order Amish along with her husband,...

When Joel Byler turned eighteen he left his Amish roots, but living the good life out in the world required money, and he finds himself going back home to ask his wealthy and eccentric father for a cash loan--again. How many times can Joel expect to be welcomed back before his father's patience with him wears thin?"

Ruth finds her dream to marry Martin Gingerich and raise a family about to be realized when her life is shattered and her faith is put to the test.

A bright new voice shares a tender love story set in the rolling green fields of Ohio Amish country. After the death of her husband, Hannah Brown is determined to make a new life with her sister's family. But when she sells her farm in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and moves with her sheep to Ohio, the wool unexpectedly starts to fly. Her deacon brother—in—law finds just about everything about Hannah vexing. When his widower brother shows interest...

"Twins Mattie and Mark Miller get a case of Green Fever in their Holmes County, Ohio, community--where they're experiencing jealousy over new shoes, prize fish, ice cream cones, best friends, and new bicycles. It seems these energetic nine-year-olds can't seem to shake their feelings of envy. Will Mattie and Mark learn the value of contentment before it's too late?"--Back cover.

Richard Grant and his girlfriend were living in a shoebox apartment in New York City when they decided on a whim to buy an old plantation house in the Mississippi Delta. Dispatches from Pluto—winner of the Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize—is their journey of discovery into this strange and wonderful American place. Imagine A Year In Provence with alligators and assassins, or Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil with hunting scenes and swamp-to-table...

Amish bishop Small Henry Rupp has the burden on his heart that the people of his congregation in Holmes County, Ohio, have become too complacent with English attitudes and culture, and he is especially worried about the corrosive impact that tourism and commerce are having on the religious separatism that his congregation is supposed to maintain. His desire is to eradicate all modern influences in the lives of his people, and the solution that he...