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Join the fun. You are invited to the wedding of John Lapp and Nurse Hal. Family and friends have gathered to cook, clean and plan. Men have put up a tent for the guests, so put on your bonnet or felt hat, hitch up your buggy and take a ride by scenic pastures and rolling hills to Wickenburg, Iowa. Take a seat on a bench next to Hal's folks. They will be glad to explain the ceremony, because they came armed with Aunt Tootie's book on Amish customs. You will find a few surprises when little ...

From the start of his journey from Bloomfield, Eli worried about what his homecoming was going to be like. He wouldn't have bothered to come back to the Amish community he ran away from if he hadn't found out his mother was dying. She sent word by one of his sisters that Mamm wanted to see him. Eli did miss his siblings and felt like most of them would welcome him home. What lay ahead of him after his mother died was what worried him. His cold-hearted father considered everything around hi...

If spring is a season of rebirth and love, Hallie Lapp's farm, at first glance, seems to be the place to be. What she didn't see coming after the birth of her daughter, Redbird, was an abandoned baby dropped off in her buggy as part of the Safe Haven law. She couldn't imagine a runaway girl, Annie Hosteller, showing up on her doorstep, either. Once Nurse Hal is forced to meet the scary men from the Hosteller compound life isn't the same for the Amish community for months to come. In the mi...

Sheriff Stringbean Hooper's job description for sheriff is relaxing while he watches the town out his office window. He leans back in his chair with his feet on his desk and takes it easy. All that changes when the town doctor, Doc Strummer, reports his wife has disappeared. Hooper finds himself in the middle of a crime and a family feud between cattle baron, Mac Sullivan, and the cattle baron's son-in-law, Dr. Strummer. Hooper's only backups are a nervous pig farmer that works as his part...

Emma Lapp is marrying Adam Keim. Excitement prevails as Emma and her step-mother, Hallie, discuss details for the wedding. Soon Emma's excitement turns to dread. Nothing is going right. She planned on the former teacher to substitute teach for a month. She didn't plan on Ellen Miller being eight months pregnant with twins. Who else could Emma trust to teach her students? The Weber sisters are in a family upheaval over their cooking and garden methods. She wants them to bake her wedding cak...

Nurse Hal invites her parents to visit the Lapp farm near Wickenburg, Iowa to get acquainted with their two little granddaughters. She is in total turmoil when she hears she's going to get more company than she bargained for. Jim and Nora Lindstrom are bringing Nora's sister, Tootie, with them. Nurse Hal is sure her family is going to be shunned when scatterbrained Aunt Tootie does or says the wrong thing around their Amish friends. With all the scenarios that Hal imagined, she didn't come...

Home Health Nurse Hal Lindstrom is assigned Amish widower John Lapp. She offers to stay with his childdren while he's in the hospital. Fifteen year old Emma takes care of the household. Her two younger brothers are handling the dairy operation. Hal soon realizes Emma suffers from depression. Noah is withdrawn, and Daniel is so troubled he sleepwalks outside, looking for his dead mother. Drawn to this needy family, Hal discovers they have a secret swept under their proverbial Amish rag rug....

Eli Yutzy and Joy Petermeyer want to get married. They didn't realize how much work they had ahead of them. Uncle Jim's hundred-year-old barn needs to be cleaned and painted. Joy has to sew her wedding dress, but she can't sew. She is supposed to cook Eli a meal, but she can't cook. Eli asks his father to come to the wedding and he refuses. If Enos Yutzy won't come then Eli's two brothers and their families won't come. Eli is worried when Daniel Lapp comes home, Joy and he might rekindle t...

This book gives you two stories in one. First, a stranger has been seen driving around the Amish Community. He sits so far back on the seat no one has been able to get a good look at him. Everyone is on edge. The stranger seems to be looking for someone, but who?While women worked in the kitchen after the church service, they discussed the stranger. The women decided it would be a good idea to take their children to school so the children wouldn't be out on the country roads alone w...

An Iowa version of Miss Marple set in 1903 in Locked Rock, Iowa. Gracie Evans, a retired farmer, rents her farm out and moves into a retirement home. Gracie and Melinda Applegate spend their days rocking on the front porch. Boredom sets in. Gracie tears peek holes in the vines attached to the porch so they can snoop on the neighbors. Seemed like a harmless diversion until they see the killer of a woman across the street. Afraid to tell what they saw to the law, the women fear for their liv...

Join the fun. You are invited to the wedding of Amish farmer John Lapp and Nurse Hallie Lindstrom. Family and friends have gathered to cook, clean and plan. Men pitched the tent for the guests. So put on your bonnet or felt hat, hitch up your buggy and ride by scenic pastures and rolling hlls to Wickenburg, Iowa. Take a seat on a bench next to Hal's folks. They will be glad to explain the ceremony because they came armed with Aunt Tootie's book on Amish customs. You will find a few surpris...

Gracie Evans, resident of Moser Mansion, and Locked Rock, Iowa native, has become a women's activist. The newspaper is full of stories about how women in the east are burning their corsets to draw attention to the fact they want the right to vote. Gracie talks the women's bible group into joining Carry A. Nation's fight for prohibition. The women organize a Temperance march with Ida Frank as the leader. They march to Main Street with hatchets, planning to bust up the saloon. Sheriff Earl B...