The Matchmaker is a story about a headstrong girl, Emma Weaver, thinking her way is right, and having to learn that life doesn’t always follow what you want…whether it’s matchmaking or anything else in life. What seemed impetuous in her attitude about life was a learning experience for her. And a growing experience. Emma did […]
As I began reading this book, I found myself transported into the world of a college professor, Jude Lyons, and his new Amish bride, Mary King. This story kept me spellbound the whole time. The beginning of the story…. Jude left all the modern amenities of his life in metro Atlanta for a three month […]
Whenever I have the opportunity to read one of Shelley Shepard Gray’s novels, I know I’m in for a good story. So when The Promise of Palm Grove (Book One in her Amish Brides of Pinecraft series) arrived at my doorstep, I couldn’t wait to get started. I knew I was in for a treat […]
I had a jewel sitting on my bookshelf for quite some time. I had great intentions of reading Amish Faith, but somehow other books, other priorities – life – just won out in the end. So here I was, on a non-descript day, in search of what to read next, when I came across Sarah […]
Jennifer Beckstrand and the Helmuths of Huckleberry Hill are at it again! Grandparents Felty, and particular Anna, just can’t seem to leave things well enough alone. And so begins another installment in Beckstrand’s The Matchmaker’s of Huckleberry Hill series, Huckleberry Spring. Huckleberry Spring tells the story of accident-prone Emma, an award-winning gardener, whose heart has […]
An interview with NLB Horton, Author of The Brothers’ Keepers It could be argued there is no stronger instinct on earth than that of a mother to protect her family. The lengths she will go to do so are explored in The Brothers’ Keepers (RidgeRoute Press/November 17, 2014/ISBN: 9780991401734/ $14.99), written by award-winning journalist and […]
I was originally drawn to Where Treetops Glisten (a collection of three Christmas novellas) because Tricia Goyer is one of the authors. Normally, I stick to reading and reviewing mostly books in the Amish genre, but I do love stories set during Word War Two. To have Goyer as one of the authors was a […]
It is no secret that I am a fan of Leslie Gould’s work. She captivated me with her collaboration with Mindy Starns Clark in The Women of Lancaster County series. When Gould branched out and started her series The Courtships of Lancaster County, I was hooked from Book One (Courting Cate.) Taking a cue from […]
I am a newbie when it comes to the writings of Marta Perry. So when I received a copy of her latest release, The Forgiven (first in her newest series Keepers of the Promise), I went in with eyes wide open. The Forgiven is certainly different than most of the other novels I have read […]
When you get a novel with the front cover showing an Amish woman in the foreground and dry, desolate land as far as the horizon in the background, your mind starts wandering to what it is all about. Then you couple that with the title, Wonderful Lonesome, and think: This is not your typical Amish […]