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From the bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You, the intertwined stories of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the mother and daughter who upend their lives. In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned - from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose...
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Ruth Byler has never failed at anything in her life, but Zach Ephraim is going to test the limits of her heart. Zach doesn't have much use for learning, and now he has little use for Ruth. There's more to Zach's story and when Ruth finds out the truth to why he hated school, the consequences leave them seeing each other in a different light.
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Kate Burkholder, offered the job of chief of police in Painters Mill, Ohio, the Amish community where she grew up, believes she has securely put her past behind her, but the discovery of a body in a snowy field makes her realize she has to confront what happened to her as a child and expose a dark secret that could destroy her and those she loves.
7) The Seekers
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Will Heidi's cooking lessons turn into life lessons for five unlikely students? Heidi Troyer cooks up the idea of teaching classes in the art of Amish cuisine in her Holmes County, Ohio, home. But is it a recipe for drama when five very different men and women answer the advertisement? Join a class of unlikely Ohioans who take cooking lessons at Lyle and Heidi Troyer's Amish farm. A woman engaged to marry, an expectant mother estranged from her family,...
8) The Blessing
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Return to the Troyer farm where Heidi welcomes six new cooking class students who experience the healing hand of God. Despite stressful changes occurring in their lives, Lyle and Heidi once again open their Ohio home up to those seeking to learn about Amish cooking. This time a teenager helping her divorced dad cook for the family, a caterer needing new recipes, a food critic, a hunter looking to impress his buddies, a wife given the class as an unwanted...
9) Beloved
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Set after the American Civil War (1861-1865), the novel is inspired by the story of an African American slave, Margaret Garner, who escaped slavery in Kentucky late January 1856 by fleeing to Ohio, a free state. In the novel, the protagonist Sethe is also a slave who escapes slavery, running to Cincinnati, Ohio. After twenty-eight days of freedom, a posse arrives to retrieve her and her children under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which gave slave...
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New York Times Best Selling author Wanda E. Brunstetter pens a compelling new 6-part serial novel along with her daughter-in-law, Jean. In Part 2, The Stubborn Father, widower Eustace Byler stands out in his Amish community for his eccentricity and his wealth and mourns for his worldly son as if he were already dead.
12) Ohio
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Describes the geography, plants, animals, history, economy, language, religions, culture, sports, art, and people of the state of Ohio.
13) Pray for silence
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Kate Burkholder, the new chief of police in the small community of Painters Mill, Ohio, investigates the brutal murder of an Amish family of seven. When she discovers a diary, she realizes a haunting personal connection to the case and swears she will track down the killer and bring him to justice, even if it means risking her life.
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"When widowed Millie Fisher moves back to her childhood home of Harvest, Ohio, she notices one thing right away-the young Amish are bungling their courtships and marrying the wrong people! A quiltmaker by trade, Millie has nevertheless stitched together a few lives in her time, with truly romantic results. Her first mission? Her own niece, widowed gardener Edith Hochstetler, recently engaged to rude, greedy Zeke Miller. Anyone can see he's not right...
16) Breaking silence
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Police Chief Kate Burkholder is drawn by her Amish upbringing to investigate three deaths in an Amish family--the parents and uncle of the four Slabaugh children--and teams up with Agent John Tomasettito determine whether their deaths are linked to a recent string of hate crimes against Amish communities and whether something more sinister could be hiding within the seemingly idyllic community.
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"Addie Byler may be Apple Creek's resident wallflower, but she knows she has a lot to offer--and much to be grateful for. Raised by her loving grandmother, she lives a life filled with good friends and hard work. Wary of romance, Addie assumes no man will look beyond her glasses and her tendency to talk to her rescue donkey, Snickers--until the day she finds a note from a secret admirer. A prank, most likely. But then, a second note arrives. It's...
19) Watercress
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Embarrassed about gathering watercress from a roadside ditch, a girl learns to appreciate her Chinese heritage after learning why the plant is so important to her parents.
20) The celebration
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Return to Holmes County, Ohio, for Amish style cooking class. Lyle and Heidi Troyer have taken in a brother and sister, who were orphaned when their parents were killed in a car accident. Hoping to help the children adapt and make friends, Heidi decides to hold a series of cooking classes for kids. But kids are always accompanied by an adult-and that is where the trouble arises. Miranda Cooper is living the life of a single mom to her two kids while...
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