Download or read book Rebecca s Amish Heart Restored written by Tracy Fredrychowski and published by Tracer Group, LLC. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anger and bitterness surround a young Amish woman Rebecca Byler to a point she alienates herself from everyone she holds dear. A deep secret edges its way to the surface when Rebecca's twin sister Anna works to get to the bottom of her resentment. Will a past mistake continue to haunt Rebecca, or will she look for the truth in Jesus to see her through? Eli Bricker, the only one to see through Rebecca's pain, is determined to prove that her past doesn't define her. When Eli's grandmother, Mary, takes Rebecca under her wing, will the young woman find fault in the ailing woman, or will Mary's grace be enough to change Rebecca's heart? Shame etches a hole in a young woman's heart in this second book of The Amish Women of Lawrence County Series.Read Rebecca's Amish Heart Restored and learn how Rebecca Byler finds strength through the friendship of an old woman to forgive herself and live the life God intended for her.
Download or read book Rebecca s Amish Heart Restored Large Print written by Tracy Fredrychowski and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lies and secrets surround a young woman's heart. Can this shame-filled believer salvage her life and find true happiness?Rebecca Byler is struggling with the truth. While this young Amish woman is determined to push everyone away, Eli Bricker is set on discovering the pain that holds her captive. When Rebecca finds little reassurance from her Old Order's strict ways, she's drawn to Eli's ailing grandmother, Mary, and a letter from her deceased mother. Still blaming herself for a series of tragedies, Rebecca plans to leave Willow Springs in hopes of saving Eli from God's wrath. But Mary sets a plan in motion to share the love of Jesus with Rebecca and force her hand in marriage to keep both Eli and her from giving up on love.Can this sharp tongued woman find the courage to face her past and seek forgiveness from the Almighty?Rebecca's Amish Heart Restored is the inspirational second book in The Amish Women of Lawrence County series of women's fiction novels. If you like spiritual explorations, real-life challenges of emotional bravery, and basking in God's light, then you'll adore Tracy Fredrychowski's exploration of hope.
Download or read book Beyond the Brokenness written by Rebecca S Troyer and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-26 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebecca was born and raised Amish on a farm in Michigan, alongside her 7 siblings. She knew at a young age she did not want to spend her life in the Amish culture. When she was 17, she made her escape with only the clothes on her back and a few dollars in her pocket. Rebecca moved hundreds of miles away from everything that was familiar. She had no idea how to survive outside the Amish. With God by her side she knew it would all work out. With a determined heart, Rebecca overcame many obstacles without the support of her family. You too can overcome anything you set your heart to. It all starts with a decision to choose something better, something more and something outside the norm.
Download or read book My Stone of Hope written by Jean-Robert Cadet and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2011-10-15 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cadet tells the story of his youth as a restavek, a practice of using children as unpaid and uneducated domestic workers often subjected to physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. He is an advocate for these children and argues that the practice has created damaged adults incapable of participating in a productive economy--From P. [4] of cover.
Download or read book Amish Women of Lawrence County Trilogy Books 1 3 written by Fredrychowski and published by . This book was released on 2024-07-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amish Women of Lawrence County Trilogy Books 1-3: Amish Romance Series - Three Novels in One Volume Discover the heartfelt journey of three faith-filled women as they navigate the simplicities of faith, love, and redemption in the Amish Women of Lawrence County Trilogy. Book 1 - Emma's Amish Faith Tested Emma Yoder's world shatters when she loses her unborn child, and the comfort she seeks from her Old Order Amish community falls short. As she wrestles with grief and whispers of hidden truths, Emma embarks on a transformative journey. Her newfound passion for Jesus's teachings conflicts with her community's traditions. Will Emma find the strength to embrace divine grace and reclaim her faith? Book 2 - Rebecca's Amish Heart Restored Rebecca Byler's life is entangled in lies and secrets, driving her to isolate herself from those she loves. Eli Bricker's determination to uncover the pain behind her guarded heart brings them closer, but Rebecca's guilt and self-blame push her toward leaving Willow Springs. With the help of Eli's grandmother and an emotional letter from her deceased mother, Rebecca confronts her past. Can she embrace forgiveness and open her heart to love once more? Book 3 - Anna's Amish Fears Revealed Anna Byler is consumed by fear and anxiety after Simon Kauffman's sudden departure from their Amish community. Despite her newfound relationship with Jesus, she struggles to fill the void left by Simon. Her quest to understand Simon's disappearance and unexpected return leads her to question his motives and God's promises. Will Anna find the courage to trust the Lord and achieve peace in her life? The Amish Women of Lawrence County Trilogy offers a look into the lives of three resilient women set against the backdrop of the Amish community. Experience the richness of tradition, the intensity of personal struggles, and the beauty of unwavering faith in this compelling series by Tracy Fredrychowski.
Download or read book My Stubborn Heart written by Becky Wade and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kate Donovan meets the handsome Matt Jarreau when she accompanies her grandmother to Redbud, Pennsylvania, to help her restore the family home and Kate sets her heart on the young man and his wounded heart.
Download or read book Rebecca written by Mary Christner Borntrager and published by MennoMedia, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebecca Eash is just as spirited as her mother Ellie, who readers grew to love in Book 1 of Ellie’s People: An Amish Family Saga. Becky works for another Amish family and spends time with her Mennonite friend, Susan Miller. Her gentle days in the 1950s are filled with laundry and canning, barn-raisings, a taffy pull, and quilting bees. But as Susan’s brother, James, shows an interest in Becky and their relationship deepens, she becomes embroiled in conflict with her parents, Ellie and David, and the deacon, who don’t want to her to marry a Mennonite boy. When James joins the Amish church and they begin planning for their future, everything appears to be working out after all. But then James has a dream from God that he can’t ignore, and Becky is faced with the most difficult decision of her life. Book 2 of the Ellie’s People: An Amish Family Saga series. Ages 10 and up. Read the Amish novels that Amish people themselves read. Long before Beverly Lewis wrote The Shunningthe Ellie’s People series was beloved by young and old readers in Amish and Mennonite communities. Fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie series will love learning to know the spunky heroines and old-fashioned communities of the Ellie’s People series.
Download or read book Roads of the Heart written by Christopher Tilghman and published by Random House. This book was released on 2004-07-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the deep emotion and insight of “a true storyteller” (Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times), Christopher Tilghman, the author of the acclaimed Mason’s Retreat and In a Father’s Place, has written a powerful new novel of men and women, fathers and families. Eric Alwin has gone to visit his elderly father, a once commanding and charismatic Maryland senator who has seen his public service soured–and his family broken–by a sex scandal. Realizing that his own unfaithfulness, his disaffection with his career and marriage, seem to be a continuation of a family pattern, Eric is astonished to find his father proposing a bold expedition. The ensuing trip through the Deep South and the American heartland becomes both a journey into the emotional truth of the Alwin family and a breakthrough into a new kind of resilience and understanding, and love. Along the way, Eric will know anew not only his mother, Audrey, but his sisters, Alice and Poppy, and his own wife and son. As he discovers the surprising secret behind the scandal that defined his father’s fate, he will also realize what he must do to shape a more authentic and coherent life for himself. Christopher Tilghman’s Roads of the Heart is a brilliant achievement by an author who, grappling with the strains and discords of contemporary American culture, achieves a special understanding of how family members love and lose and find one another every day.
Download or read book A Plain Simple Christmas written by Amy Clipston and published by HarperCollins Christian Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "A Plain and Simple Christmas," shunned Anna Mae doesn't receive the welcome she expects when she pays a visit for Christmas. Her world begins to fall apart, leaving her to question her place in her family and her faith in God.
Download or read book Josiah for President written by Martha Bolton and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When former Congressman Mark Stedman throws in the towel on his presidential campaign, his only choice is to return to his home state and decide how to spend the rest of his life ... until he meets Josiah Stoltzfus, an Amish farmer from Pennsylvania. Stedman learns more from Josiah in a few hours than in his many years in office. He comes to the conclusion that someone like Josiah should be running the country. Not a career politician, but someone with a little old-fashioned common sense, someone who’s not afraid of rolling up his sleeves and getting his hands dirty. Someone like Josiah Stoltzfus. Using his old campaign headquarters for a base, Mark Stedman determines to introduce a new candidate to America. He pledges to do everything in his power to make sure Josiah gets elected. But can a plain man of faith turn the tide of politics and become the leader of America, and what will he have to risk to do it?
Download or read book Into the Free written by Julie Cantrell and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saturated in Southern ambiance and written in the vein of other literary bestsellers like Kathryn Stockett’s The Help and Tom Franklin’s Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, Julie Cantrell’s New York Times bestselling Into the Free that will sweep you away long after the novel ends. In Depression-era Mississippi, Millie Reynolds longs to escape the madness that marks her world. With an abusive father and a “nothing mama,” she struggles to find a place where she really belongs. For answers, Millie turns to the Gypsies who caravan through town each spring. The travelers lead Millie to a key that unlocks generations of shocking family secrets. When tragedy strikes, the mysterious contents of the box give Millie the tools she needs to break her family’s longstanding cycle of madness and abuse. Through it all, Millie experiences the thrill of first love while fighting to trust the God she believes has abandoned her. With the power of forgiveness, can she finally make her way into the free? Millie is just a girl. But she’s the only one strong enough to break the family cycle. “Gritty, compelling, and beautifully told, Into the Free will take you into a coming-of-age story filled with heartrending hardship and luminous hope. Julie Cantrell is a writer to watch!” —Lisa Wingate, New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours “Readers will fall in love with Millie Reynolds, girl with one eye on the heavens and the other on the savages that occupy our world . . . a searing tale of heartache, faith, forgiveness, and doubt set amid gypsies, angels, addicts, asylums, roughnecks, and rodeo hands.” —Neil White, author of In the Sanctuary of Outcasts “A lyrical, moving, haunting, wise, brutal, warmhearted, and ultimately freeing and inspiring coming-of-age tale told with poetic honesty. . . . Into the Free swept me up and swept me along.” —Jennifer Niven, bestselling author of The Ice Master New York Times bestseller Can be read as a stand-alone novel, although the story continues in When Mountains Move Book length: approximately 90,000 words Includes a reader’s guide, author interview, and discussion questions for book clubs
Download or read book The Grim Reader written by Kate Carlisle and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Francisco book-restoration expert Brooklyn Wainwright was hoping for a fun, relaxing weekend at a local book fair, but a murderer made other plans in the latest in this New York Times bestselling series. Brooklyn and her new hunky husband, Derek, are excited to be guests at Dharma’s first annual Book Festival. The entire town is involved and Brooklyn’s mom Rebecca is taking charge. In addition to all of her other event related duties, she’s got Brooklyn doing rare book appraisals and is also staging Little Women, the musical to delight the festival goers. If that wasn’t enough, she and Meg—Derek’s mom—will have a booth where they read palms and tarot cards. Brooklyn couldn’t be prouder of her mom’s do-it-all attitude so when a greedy local businessman who seems intent on destroying Dharma starts harassing Rebecca, Brooklyn is ready to take him down. Rebecca is able to hold her own with the nasty jerk until one of her fellow festival committee members is brutally murdered and the money for the festival seems to have vanished into thin air. Things get even more personal when one of Brooklyn’s nearest and dearest is nearly run down in cold blood. Brooklyn and Derek go into attack mode and the pressure is on to catch a spineless killer before they find themselves skipping the festival for a funeral.
Download or read book A Plain and Simple Heart written by Lori Copeland and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Plain and Simple Heart, an exciting new Amish-meets-Wild West adventure from bestselling authors Lori Copeland and Virginia Smith, weaves an entertaining and romantic tale for devoted fans and new readers. 1884—Several years earlier, young Rebecca Switzer lost her heart to Jesse Montgomery, a rugged but dissolute cowboy on a dusty cattle trail near the Amish settlement of Apple Grove. Now she is grown up, and when she hears one day that he has been spotted nearby, her desire is plain and simple: She must see him. Sheriff Colin Maddox is counting the days until he can leave law enforcement and follow his dream of starting a church. When a lovely woman, new to town and looking travel weary and a bit lost, gets caught up in the middle of a temperance riot, she is arrested along with the leaders. He can hardly believe she is what she claims—a Plain and simple woman. Nor can he believe how quickly he loses his heart to her. Can Colin convince her to forget Jesse and give him a chance?
Download or read book Sophonisba Breckinridge written by Anya Jabour and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sophonisba Breckinridge's remarkable career stretched from the Civil War to the Cold War. She took part in virtually every reform campaign of the Progressive and New Deal eras and became a nationally and internationally renowned figure. Her work informed women’s activism for decades and continues to shape progressive politics today. Anya Jabour's biography rediscovers this groundbreaking American figure. After earning advanced degrees in politics, economics, and law, Breckinridge established the University of Chicago's School of Social Service Administration, which became a feminist think tank that promoted public welfare policy and propelled women into leadership positions. In 1935, Breckinridge’s unremitting efforts to provide government aid to the dispossessed culminated in her appointment as an advisor on programs for the new Social Security Act. A longtime activist in international movements for peace and justice, Breckinridge also influenced the formation of the United Nations and advanced the idea that "women’s rights are human rights." Her lifelong commitment to social justice created a lasting legacy for generations of progressive activists.
Download or read book Beyond the Brokenness written by Rebekah Hope and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-11-24 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebekah Hope was born and raised by her Amish parents on a farm in Michigan. When she was 17 years old she ran away, leaving behind everything and everyone she had ever known and move 100's of miles away with only a few dollars in her pocket and the clothes on her back with no guarantee of survival. Depression, addiction and battles with suicide had unknowingly been ruling her life since she was 8 years old. At 19 years old Rebekah found herself in a place of mere destruction and brokenness that nearly took her life. Having no place else left to turn she finally chose to turned to the only one that hadn't left her from the beginning, Jesus Christ. Recognizing that the only reason she is still alive today is because of God, Rebekah made a commitment to God that she would let Him lead her to the destiny he has waiting for her. Today Rebekah is an advocate for helping people find the only True and lasting Joy and Freedom she has found in Christ Jesus. Having once been the person that was hopeless & desperate, Rebekah's mission is to be a Voice of Hope to those that are where she once was. With guidance and direction from the Holy Spirit Rebekah wrote a book called "Beyond the Brokenness: The Adventurous Heart of an Amish Girl" to help people better understand that no matter where you are, what you've done or what's been done to you in life, there is Hope. There is Hope for all!
Download or read book A Daughter s Dream written by Shelley Shepard Gray and published by Avon Inspire. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Shelley Shepard Gray’s second book in her Charmed Amish Life series, a young teacher and farmer discover they have much in common, especially when it comes to healing old wounds from the past…and finding love in one another. Rebecca Kinsinger has always dreamed of being a teacher. But when she’s given the opportunity she’s been waiting for at Charm Amish School, she’s dismayed to discover that teaching is hard work—work she’s afraid she’s not very good at. That is, until Lilly Yoder joins the class. A thirteen-year old who’s just lost her parents, Lilly is in need of someone like Rebecca. For the first time since starting her new job, Rebecca feels a sense of purpose. But when she meets Lilly’s uncle, Jacob, his good looks and sweet, easy-going temperament are hard to ignore. How can she even entertain romantic thoughts of Jacob when his niece is her student? Suddenly becoming Lily’s sole caregiver, Jacob Yoder never thought he’d be a single parent—or a farmer. Having been living in Florida as a carpenter, Jacob feels more at home wielding a hammer than a backhoe. The only bright spot in his life is Rebecca Kinsinger. As Lily and Rebecca develop a bond, Jacob’s fondness for the pretty teacher grows, too. But when a fateful accident brings them together, Rebecca and Jacob must choose between duty and desire. Will they follow the path before them? Or set out to find true happiness…and true love?
Download or read book A Secret Amish Love written by Rebecca Kertz and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Forbidden Romance Nell Stoltzfus has always valued her independence—but with her father insisting she marry, she's feeling the pressure to figure out her future. A decision that is further complicated when she falls for English veterinarian James Pierce. Nell knows her romantic feelings for James are forbidden in her Amish community. Yet the connection they share only seems to grow deeper when she starts working at his clinic. As Nell's father urges her to choose an Amish husband, she finds herself torn between devotion to her family and her heart's only wish. Can Nell turn her secret love for James into a happy ending?
