Search Results: Returned 7 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 7
-
-
c2007., Adults, Barbour Pub. Call No: FIC SAW Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Sommerfeld trilogy Volume: #2Summary Note: "Beth Quinn left the city to live among the Old Order Mennonites in the small town of Sommerfeld, Kansas, but she doesn't fit in. her mother has embraced the old life and reconciled with her family, but these people are strangers to Beth and her business focus doesn't fit their ideal for women. With two men now vying for her attention, Beth is torn between a desire for independence and a longing to have someone on whom to depend. New in her Christian faith, will Beth be able to reconcile her old life with the new?" --from back cover.
-
-
c2008., Adults, Barbour Pub. Call No: FIC SAW Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Sommerfeld trilogy Volume: #3Summary Note: Trina Muller is passionate about helping animals, but when she makes plans to attend college and earn a degree in veterinary medicine, her parents and prospective husband express their disapproval about her intentions.
-
-
c2007., Adults, Barbour Pub. Call No: FIC SAW Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Sommerfeld trilogy Volume: #1Summary Note: "Twenty-three years ago, Marie Koeppler left her Old Order Mennonite family and faith to begin an exciting new life with Jep Quinn. But her husband's early death cut her dreams short. Widowed and alone, Marie makes just enough to survive and raise her daughter, Beth, in the outside world. Ensnared by life's rhythms, Marie has but a faint memory of her former life in Sommerfled, Kansas. That is, until ex-beau Henry Braun suddenly shows up, bearing news: An elderly aunt has died, leaving Beth a house and small cafe back home. But there's a hitch. To claim the inheritance, Beth must temporarily reside in Sommerfeld. Reluctantly, Marie and Beth return to the Mennonite community Marie had once abandoned. But soon after their arrival, a chain of mysterious thefts raises the community's suspicions against the "outsiders." Can Marie prove their innocence, or will she be forced to flee once more? Henry Braun thought he'd gotten his love for Marie out of his system but soon begins to wonder if she's stolen more than his heart. When it's all said and done, can Henry and Marie let bygones be bygones, or has their love been doomed from the start?" --from back cover.
-
-
2010., Adults, Bethany House Call No: FIC SAW Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: As three friends who grew up in the same orphanage head off to college together, they each harbor a cherished dream. Libby wishes to become a famous journalist, Pete plans to study to become a minister, and Bennett wants to join a fraternity and have as much fun as possible. But as tensions rise around the world on the brink of World War I, the friends' differing aspirations and opinions begin to divide them, as well. And when Libby makes a shocking discovery about Pete's family, will it drive a final wedge between the friends or bond them in ways they never anticipated?
-
-
-
c2008., Adult, Bethany House Call No: FIC SAW Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Three Irish immigrant children, orphaned in a tenement fire, are sent on the orphan train to Missouri where they are adopted by different families, and although Maelle had vowed to one day reunite with her younger brother and sister, seventeen years later she is about to give up hope.
-
-
-
c2006., Adult, Bethany House Call No: FIC SAW Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: After the deaths of her husband and children to illness, Summer Steadman has no desire to continue on to where she and her husband had planned to settle, so she takes a job in a small Mennonite community in order to be close to the graves of her family.
-
-
-
c2011., Adult, Bethany House Call No: FIC SAW Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Lizzie Dawson, ostracized from her Native community, lives alone in the mountains of Alaska and continues to practice the traditions of her people with the hope that she will one day be reunited with her grandparents; meanwhile, Clay Selby arrives hoping to continue his father's missionary work, but his plans to bond with the Native Americans is jeopardized after he encounters and becomes captivated by Lizzie.