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The Amish Wanderer Book Tour & Giveaway About the Book:   The Amish Wanderer by Laura V. Hilton Desperate for a Ticket Out Bethany Weiss is ready to leave town. Tongues haven't stopped clacking in Jamesport, MO, since her daed, the bishop, was admitted to a mental hospital after hurting their small Amish community. But her sharpest wounds Bethany hides from prying eyes, quietly biding her time until she can take a chance at a new life away from Jamesport and away from God. Searching for a Home Silas Beiler was kicked out of his own family's home. Dogged by a rough childhood and a family who blames him for each new disaster, he begins hitchhiking across the country, sleeping in barns where he can, working for food when possible; headed for Pennsylvania, in the hope of some stability.  A Memory of Lemonade When Bethany spies a man asleep in the hayloft, she first fears the return of an unwelcome suitor. But when it is Silas who turns and speaks, the memor...

Review of  The Newcomer  Amish Begginings, Book #2  by Suzanne Woods Fisher   In 1737, Anna Konig and her fellow church members stagger off a small wooden ship after ten weeks at sea, eager to start a new life in the vibrant but raw Pennsylvania frontier. On the docks of Port Philadelphia waits bishop Jacob Bauer, founder of the settlement and father to ship carpenter Bairn. It's a time of new beginnings for the reunited Bauer family, and for Anna and Bairn's shipboard romance to blossom.   But this perfect moment cannot last. As Bairn grasps the reality of what it means to be Amish in the New World--isolated, rigid with expectations, under the thumb of his domineering father--his enthusiasm evaporates. When a sea captain offers the chance to cross the ocean one more time, Bairn grabs it. Just one more crossing, he promises Anna. But will she wait for him?  When Henrik Newman joins the church just as it makes its way to the frontier, Anna is t...

Review of His Amish Teacher Series:  The Amish Bachelors #3 by Patricia Davids The Teacher's Choice  For Lillian Keim, instructing children in her one-room schoolhouse is as close to being a mother as she'll ever get. Lillian has a calling to be a teacher, and she won't give it up to marry. But her plans--and her heart--are at risk when she begins to feel more than friendship for lifelong pal Timothy Bowman. When Tim rescues Lillian and her class from a fire, the volunteer firefighter suddenly sees what he's been blind to all his life: he wants his friend as his wife. But something beyond her professional goals is holding Lillian back. He's got to unlock her secret before he loses his friend--and his forever love. MY REVIEW:  This lovely, sweet novel covers so many issues, such as being barren, romantic relationships beginning as lifelong friends, and the Amish rule of teachers being unmarried.  Lillian teaches and doesn't ever want to give up what...

The Seekers  Review The Amish Cooking Class Book #1 by Wanda Brunstetter 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, a widowed mom seeking to simplify, a Vietnam vet who camps on the Troyer’s farm, and an Amish widower make up the mismatched lot of students. But Heidi’s cooking lessons soon turn to life lessons as they each share the challenges they are facing. Is this what God had in mind when Heidi got the idea for cooking classes? MY REVIEW:  Can't cook? Looking for friends?  Just want to have some fun?  Bored?  Hungry?  Heidi Troyer is ready and willing to take a risk and teach some Amish meals and share a few scripture verses along the way.  Come join, she invites and several do just that.          This book was very fun to read and emotional as well.  I think readers wi...

THE GARDEN by Kari Jobe GIVEAWAY:  TO ENTER, leave comment here on blog or on facebook or instagram (Rhonda Nash Hall)  To Buy cd, click here GIVEAWAY:  to enter, leave comment here with email to contact winner,  or comment on facebook or on instagram: rhondanashhall (follow for extra entry) The Garden....a blessing indeed MY REVIEW OF "THE GARDEN": What a blessing indeed!  I already am a fan of Kari Jobe so I was so excited to get this cd through a gift.   I was anxious to put it into my cd player to listen.   I cried tears of joy as I heard the words.  I especially related to these words  Love is lifting me from sorrow Catching every tear Dispelling every lie and torment Crushing all my fears I am currently experiencing a family crisis and shedding many tears, so it means so much to mean to know that he is catching every tear that I and my family members shed.  This is Biblical, taken straight...

Click  here  to purchase your copy. About the Book Book:  Summer on Sunset Ridge, Freedom Series Book 1 Author:  Sharlene MacLaren Genre:  Historical Christian Romance Brought up on a Quaker farm near Philadelphia at the brink of the Civil War, plainspoken Rebecca Albright is charitable, peace-loving, submissive—and a feisty abolitionist. Determined to aid the Underground Railroad no matter what the cost, her path collides with that of formidable slave-catcher Clay Dalton. When Rebecca is assigned to nurse Clay back to health following a near-fatal gunshot wound, her uneasiness around him and the questions surrounding his mysterious past complicate their strained but developing relationship. RSherriff Clay Dalton is grimly fighting several battles of his own as he stays on at the Albright farm to work off his debt to the family that has saved his life and taken him in. He is torn between his past commitments in the South and his unlikely pr...