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Pub. Date
1996
Description
All the fundamental themes of the world's major religions--from Amish to Zen--are presented in this thorough, yet accessible study of religious tradition. Here are detailed narrative histories of the six great religious traditions of East and West--Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam--along with information about related traditions, including Sikhism, Confucianism, Gnosticism, Zoroastrianism, and the various elements that compose...
1402) How people live
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
Describes different parts of the world and how people live in each, from the Eskimos and Inuit of the Arctic to the Amish and Maya of North America and the Asante and Zulu of Africa.
1403) Friends to the end
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
When Andy’s baby sister Trish gets stranded at the family cabin during a massive blizzard, he calls upon his best friends—the Magnificent Eight—to go to his sister’s rescue. Andy knows that several members of the Eight will drop everything to help, and they’re the perfect solution because the Amish aren’t hindered by stalled cars—they can travel just fine in their buggies. But when Logan, Trish’s secret crush, is the first to volunteer...
Author
Series
Lancaster County weddings volume 3
Pub. Date
2016
Description
1) Jacob Lapp has loved Annie Zook since childhood. But she's never seen him that way. Annie is intent on marrying someone older, more established-someone the opposite of Jacob. Can he ever break down the walls she's forged around her fragile heart and prove to her that he's the perfect man for her?
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Cartographer John Graf, shunned by his Amish community for pursuing higher education, becomes embroiled in a mystery when the remains of 17th-century mapmaker Cellarius, the subject of centuries-old conjecture, emerge from a German bog. The discovery of his corpse and a ruby clutched in his death grip gives credence to the existence of the fabled Tavernier Stones, a cache of the world's most prized missing jewels. Graf joins forces with a gemologist-turned-grifter...
1406) Brothers path
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Description
The world-shattering tumult of the Protestant Reformation enters the Schneebeli household when Rudolf Schneebeli is born two months early and dies a few minutes later without being baptized. Named for the well trodden track linking the Schneebeli farmhouse to the old Lunkhofen castle, The Brothers Path is set in a Swiss village near Zürich, between 1524 and 1531. It chronicles the lives of the six Schneebeli brothers, Heinrich, Hannes, Peter, Conrad,...
1407) In plain sight
Author
Series
Mysteries of Lancaster County volume 23
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
After the sad loss of the Classen sisters’ dear friend, Bertha Shetler, Mary finds herself drawn to comfort Katura Stolfuz, a shy young woman who had been taken in by Bertha for the past few months. Mary knows the pain of losing a mother, and she hopes she can comfort Katura during this difficult time. But when Dan Bontrager suddenly returns to Bird-in-Hand after turning his back on the Amish life years before, Mary finds it strange that he seems...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
When a bestselling novelist falls face-down dead into Magdalena Yoder's prize-winning apple pie during the village of Hernia's 110th Annual Festival of Pies, there is no shortage of suspects in the subsequent murder investigation. A former guest at Magdalena's PennDutch Inn, the author had made many enemies on publication of her subsequent tell-all book, exposing the faults and foibles of members of the local Amish/Mennonite community, and mocking...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015].
Description
"Anabaptist Christians have been around for almost 500 years. But what does Anabaptism look like when not clothed in Mennonite or Amish traditions? Writing from Great Britain, Stuart Murray peels back the layers to reveal the core components of Anabaptism and what they mean for faith in his context and ours. It's a way of following Jesus that challenges, disturbs, and inspires us, summoning us to wholehearted discipleship and worship. Read this book,...
1410) Handcrafted secrets
Author
Series
Mysteries of Lancaster County volume 22
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"After a near accident on icy roads in Lancaster County, Elizabeth Classen watches as a furniture truck slides through a slippery intersection and crashes! As the driver is rushed to the hospital, the police open the truck to check the damage and soon discover that the compartments of a desk inside have opened, revealing a secret stash of drugs. Could the Amish furniture store be a front for drug smuggling? Or was someone else using the store for...
1411) Dairy disaster
Author
Series
Mysteries of Lancaster County volume 19
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Elizabeth Classen has always loved the close-knit community of Bird-in-Hand, especially because, in times of trouble, neighbors come together to care for one another or lend a helping hand. So when Moses Troyer, an Amish dairy farmer, is injured in a buggy accident and is left unable to work, Elizabeth and her sisters, Martha and Mary, help out by purchasing milk from his daughter. However, things take a sour turn when the Classen sisters start getting...
1412) Arson, plain and simple
Author
Series
Mysteries of Lancaster County volume 17
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Mary's childhood friend Jake Miller has returned to Bird-in-Hand to visit his brother Caleb and meet Caleb's new wife, Anna.Caleb is elated to see Jake after so many years, but Anna is not so welcoming. When Caleb's workshop is set on fire with Caleb inside, Jake's suspicions fall on his brother's unhappy bride--especially when other Amish businesses in the area have been set ablaze, and Anna seems to have motive for each. Jake recruits Mary and...
1413) The hunting dark
Author
Series
Enlightenment Project volume 2
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"In the Amish countryside of Kentucky, there is a house. Everyone knows about it. They whisper about the things that happen there. Creepy things. Terrible things. It would be better if they shouted: Run. Six weeks ago, fragile mother of two Pammie LaRue moved in with her beloved partner Conor. They ignored the knocks on the walls. Whispering voices. Water pooling, with no obvious leak. Eight days ago, Conor went missing, without a trace. Unless you...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"The things we do every day to keep ourselves clean can have surprising and unintended effects, as this entertaining introduction to the new science of skin microbes and probiotics reveals Keeping skin healthy is a booming industry, and yet it seems like almost no one agrees on what actually works. What one person says is vital another says is toxic. We have not cured acne or eczema, allergies keep getting worse, and autoimmune conditions are becoming...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"Inspiring and empowering, this journey behind the scenes of humanity's greatest creations reveals the surprising way we make something new. What do Thomas Jefferson's ice cream recipe, Coca Cola, and Chanel No. 5 have in common? They all depended on a nineteenth-century African boy who, with a single pinch, solved one of nature's great riddles and gave birth to the multimillion-dollar vanilla industry. Kevin Ashton opens his book with the fascinating...
Author
Series
Mehl Nancy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"Nestled among Pennsylvania's rolling hills is Bird-in-Hand, a tiny village where Amish, Mennonites, and Englishers live side by side. It's here where the close-knit Classen sisters reunite after inheriting their family home-a beautiful Victorian farmhouse-with hopes of reopening their grandmother's incredibly popular gift and thrift store, Secondhand Blessings, housed in the centuries-old barn next to the house. Soon life in this quiet community...
1417) We all bleed blue
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"Follow the police career of the Author, who spent a career working within the black inner-city ghetto's of Richmond, California not unlike Ferguson, Missouri and Baltimore, Maryland. Find out what it's really like to work in such environments. A place that became one of the most crime ridden cities within the United States following the end of WWII. Left with a black and white populace who had come by the tens of thousands to work in the Kaiser Richmond...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Minimalism is the art of knowing how much is just enough. Digital minimalism applies this idea to our personal technology. It's the key to living a focused life in an increasingly noisy world. In this timely and enlightening book, the bestselling author of Deep Work introduces a philosophy for technology use that has already improved countless lives. Digital minimalists are all around us. They're the calm, happy people who can hold long conversations...