Wreath of Snow

 

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I always love to read one of Liz Curtis Higgs' stories.  She was on a TV program I saw doing a rap invention of hers it was so funny, back to the book at hand.

I always love a Christmas story no matter the time of year but this one was released in the fall season and ready for Christmas.
Meg Campbell is a school teacher in Edinburgh and had come home for Christmas but the trip was for nothing because she was not staying.  She and her brother Alan could not get alone because he was so jealous and selfess.  She had left home to take care of an aging aunt so when her aunt passed away the house was left to Meg.  That is where she now lives and teaches, but her brother thinks the house should have been left to their father so he could get his share.

As she trugs to the train station it was very cold with snow on the ground, she was not sure if the train was running but there it was, so she had to hurry.
As she leaves her home town and is on the train headed back to her home in the city, a detour caused some delay and she meets a young handsome newspaper man Gordon Shaw and as they begin to talk they find out that their lives are so much alike.

Will they become friends or will their pass catch up with both of them and cause hardship?

Thanks so much to Blogging for Books for this beautiful hardback book, and I choose to review it.

 I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review."

 

Threads of Faith

 

Andrea Boesjaar, Author

Realms, Publisher

Paperback, 294 pages

 

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Threads of Faith, Fabric of Time Series #2



 Overview

Can Julianna and Daniel start a new life in a new country?

Julianna Wayland is running for her life! She hides in a crate on London’s dock, only to be loaded onto a ship bound for America. During the voyage she meets Captain Daniel Sundberg, and by the time they reach New York’s harbor, she is certain she’s in love with him. The only problem is, Daniel has plans for himself—plans that don’t include her.

As Julianna struggles to find her way in a new world, will trouble from her past derail the life she is looking for?

My Thoughts:

 

I did not read the first book in this series so I just had to imagine how this series started.  This book starts with Julianna Wayland running for her life, so she hides inside a crate on a London dock and was loaded onto a ship that was headed for America.  She did not plan for this to happen but she was going to America whether she wanted to or not.  She was stowaway and soon was found but she did not know it until two days later when she came too in the present of a doctor in the sick bay. She was hurt much worse that the captain though when he found her.  The doctor assured her that she had not been  treated unlady like but that he had to undress her so that he could check her over. 

Who had done this to Julianna in London and what was she running from?  How deep was her injures and how long will it take her to heal?

 

After she felt better and was able to get up and around on the ship she begin to fall for Captain Daniel Sundberg and  hard.   What will happed to her when she reached America and where will she go and what will she do for a living.

 

Thanks so much to Charisma Media for this book and I was not required to do a possible review.  I give this book 4 stars.

 

 

 

Christmas at Holly Hill

 

ISBN: 978-1-61638-837-9

 Paperback, 293 pages

Reams Publisher

I always like to read anything Martha Rogers writes and I love Christmas stories anytime of year so this is the perfect book for me.
As I start the story Clay Barlow had just gotten out of prison and returned home to Prairie Grove Kansas in the year 1898. He had served his time for bank robbery and did not know what he was going to do with his life now and what type of job would he be able to get.

His own Dad had turned him in about the bank robbery and was surprised that both his parents had forgiven him for this deed. They both opened their arms wide to him as in the Bible story of the prodigy son. But a lot of people in the town were not happy at all to see him come home. But he finds himself back with Merry Warner and all feeling for her was returning. Can the town forgive him or will they always hold this mistake against him?

But when the gang he had been a member of shows back up in town will he rejoin them or will he find this would get him into trouble again. Should he risk his life to help rescue a young girl they were holding captive and was being mistreated, would he find himself back in prison or worst dead.

This is a good Christmas read and you will find the story will keep you turning page after page.

Thanks so much to Charisma House for sending me this book for my review.

The Amish Family Cookbook

 

 

                                                                           

ISBN: 978-0-7369-4377-2

Authors: Jerry and Tina Eicher

Harvest House, Publisher

 



Product Description

You're invited to eat, laugh, and pray as you serve up delicious Amish dishes from some of Eicher's most beloved characters. Offering a warm, welcoming peek into the kitchens of the Plain People, Eicher and his wife, Tina, share Amish proverbs, humorous stories, and dozens of scrumptious recipes---including Hannah Byler's luscious pecan pie. 272 pages, spiral bound softcover from Harvest.

Tina Eicher

Tina Eicher was born and married in the Amish faith, surrounded by a mother and sisters who were great Amish cooks. At fellowship meals and family gatherings, Tina’s dishes receive high praise and usually return empty.    She and her husband, Jerry Eicher, author of several bestselling Amish fiction titles, are the parents of four children and live in Virginia.              

 

My Thoughts:

I loved this cookbook as it has recipes in it that I (A gal from South Carolina) grew up with and I am not Amish.  It is just that a lot of them are simple and filling foods. As I read through the book, I am amazed at all the recipes the authors came up with.  The book is divided into the type of food you are looking for and also has some sayings that came from the Amish. 

This is spiral bound book so that it will stay open at the page you are using.  One of the recipes is for "Laura's Rice Custard" page 100 of the book.  I am going to cheat a little and give this one to you as it is the same one I grew up with and made for my family except I never used raisins.  Here goes( "4 cups milk,  2 cups cooked rice, 1/2 cup raisins, 3 eggs, 1 cup sugar, 1/2 tsp. salt, 1 tsp. vanilla, a dash of cinnamon and nutmeg" ) now how simple is that? 

As Christmas is coming up this would make a great gift for all the ones on your list that love to cook.  There are also recipes in the book that I have only read about in the Amish fiction books that I love so much.  Very nice book and I want to thank the authors Jerry and Tina Eicher and to Harvest House for sending me this book in exchance for my review. 

Twice The Bride

 

WaterBrook Press Publisher

ISBN: 978-0-307-73032-9

Paperback, 296 pages

As a young widow Willow Peterson moves to Cripple Creek to join her sisters, she is wanting to pursue her dreams to be an artist.  She gets a job as a portrait painter with a young photographer Trenton Van Der Veer she begins to like the little town after all.

When some unexpected visitors arrives in town, they may just start some trouble times for the sisters.  As Mona Hodgson writes about the sisters one by one as they join each other in this small western town.  Will their dreams come true?  Or can they be in for a lot of heart ache.

I want to thank Blogging for Books for sending me this book in order for my review.

Accidentally Amish

 

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ISBN: 978-1-61626-712-4

Babour Publishing

366 pages

 

 

 

About the Book: Escape the helter-skelter of the modern culture and join software creator Annie Friesen, hiding at the home of an Amishman. With her high-tech career in jeopardy, Annie runs from fast-paced Colorado Springs—and straight into the hospitality of San Luis Valley’s Amish community. There she meets cabinetmaker Rufus Beiler, and the more time she spends with him, the more attracted she becomes. When Annie finds she shares a common ancestor with Rufus, she feels both cultures colliding within her. But is her love for Rufus strong enough for her to give up the only life she’s ever known?

 

 

 

My Thoughts: I have never read anything from this author but the story line was alright as far as Amish books go.  There seems to be coming out of the wood works with new authors writing about the Amish. 
This one was a little different as a non Amish young woman Annie Friesen worked at creating software for computers and she moves in with an Amish family to get away from her scheming partner, but in this family she started to fall for one of the men Rufus Beiler but he has problems of his own with his work after a competitor accused him of something wrong.

Annie begins to meddle into the Amish affairs that she has no business doing and was about to get thrown out of her home with the Amish.  She has no idea what she will do if she has to go back to her high tech job. She is torn between two worlds which will she choose?
 

This story is a little confusing to me as I am a senior and my mind kinda wanders sometime.  But it is an ok read and I want to thank Barbour Publishing for sending it to me to read and to review.

Bumpy Ride Ahead

ISBN: 978-1-61626-790-2

Juvenile Fiction

Barbour Publishing

 

 Publisher's Description

Welcome to Holmes County, Ohio, where twins Mattie and Mark Miller are in for quite a bumpy ride. When their selfishness begins to cause big trouble at every turn, will these energetic nine-year-olds learn the value of sharing before it’s too late? You’ll fall in love with the second release in the Double Trouble series from bestselling author, Wanda E. Brunstetter

With these two Amish twins, you can never tell what they will be into next and Wanda E. Brunstetter is just the author to please old and young alike with her books.  Nine year old twins Mattie and Mark Miller are really in for a bumpy ride with the way they get into things, they are twins but are nothing alike but that don't stop them from their trouble making.  In this story they are into the pickles arguing about those and when they are not arguing they are running around the house breaking things.

Since they both can drive the buggy they even get into trouble for giving ride buggy rides which is very dangerous.  When will these two learn to share and to behave themselves.  These two are nothing alike since one is a boy and the other a girl, they have nothing in common except getting into trouble and that is why they are called Double Trouble in these books.

I want to thank the author and Barbour publishing for seinding me this book, I always enjoy these children and the thing they get into.  Makes me think back on my childhood and also my children's.  Always something. 

Tangled Ashes

 

 ISBN: 978-1-4143-6840-5

Paperback, 369 pages

Tyndale Publishers

About the book:  When Marshall Becker arrives in Lamorlaye, France, to begin the massive renovation of a Renaissance-era castle, he unearths a dark World War II history few in the village remember.  The project that was meant to provide an escape for Becker instead becomes a gripping glimpse into the human drama that unfolded during the Nazi occupation and seems to live on in midnight disturbances and acts of vandalism.

Populated with a cast of complex characters, “Tangled Ashes” follows Becker’s exploration of the castle’s shadowy past as he seeks to cope with an unbearable present.  From the virtually mute recluse who lives in the gatehouse to the feisty and enigmatic nanny of the owner’s children, every one of the château’s inhabitants seems to have something to hide and something to survive—but none more so than Becker himself.

My Thoughts:  

I love to read anything about castles, never saw one in real life but they just intrigue me.  Michele Phoenix is a new author to me and I really enjoyed her story about Meunier manor in Lamorlaye France.  This is the place where the Nazi officials decided they would use as their headquarters in WW2, they hired two young Frenchwomen to do all their work as cooking, cleaning, washing and so on for them.  Marie and Elise took this job to help with income of their parents but when a medical unit arrived followed with a truck load of pregnant women, they became very suspicious about what was going on in that beautiful manor. 

Years later architect Marshall Becker arrived in Lamorlaye, France to help restore a castle that lay in disaray.
The more he was in there working the more he learned about what had gone on when the Nazis lived there.  He hired a young woman to care for his two children and he begin to see things that had happened in the castle.  No one would talk about what went on there but finally things begin to come together for him.  He learned of the terrible things that went on there and this made him know that this home was worth fighting for and wanted more and more to bring it back to its original form.

Thanks so much to Handlebar Media for sending me this book in exchange for my review.

The Fourth Fisherman

 

 Joe Kissack, Author

Hardback, 210 pages

 First of all this is a beautiful hard cover book But I didn't find the story that great. We had all heard this story on the news over and over, but Joe Kissack tells it in his way. As the Mexican men had been out in the open sea in a small boat for so long, it a miracle in itself and God had to be with them all the way for them to survive.

Meanwhile the RICH man from Hollywood, Ca was living the good life, but as we all know riches does not get us anywhere after this life is over on earth. Joe Kissack was this man and he took the story of the men that was lost at sea and wove them together and came to know that even his rich life with everything he owned was not a satisifing thing.

God can take all of use no matter, race, religion, rich or poor and make us RICH with His everlasting love. We are all the same in God's eyes.

This book is an ok read but not my favorite by a long shot.

Thanks to Waterbrook Press (Blogging for Books) for sending me this book for my review.

the shortest way home

 

Juliette Fay's first novel, SHELTER ME, was a 2009 Massachusetts Book Award "Book of the Year." Her second novel, DEEP DOWN TRUE, was short-listed for the Women's Fiction award by the American Library Association. Her third, THE SHORTEST WAY HOME, is due out October 30th. Juliette received a bachelor's degree from Boston College and a master's degree from Harvard University. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and four children.

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A NOVEL FULL OF HUMOR AND HOPE FOR FINDING YOURSELF WHERE YOU LEAST EXPECTED

Sean has spent twenty years in Third World war zones and natural disaster areas, fully embracing what he’d always felt was his life’s mission. But when burnout sets in, Sean is reluctantly drawn home to Belham, Massachusetts, the setting of Fay’s much-loved Shelter Me. There, he discovers that his steely aunt, overly dramatic sister, and quirky nephew are having a little natural disaster of their own. When he reconnects with a woman from his past, Sean has to wonder if the bonds of love and loyalty might just rewrite his destiny. Completely relatable, The Shortest Way Home is another perfect serving of a slice of life from the irresistible Fay.

 

I received this book through the request of Leyane Jerejian of FSBAssociates to read and review this pre-released book written by Juliette Fay.  Thanks so much.

As I begin to read I was not sure if it would be a book I would enjoy as I have never read any of Juliette's books. 

This is a very interesting book as Sean Doran's mother had died when he was young with Huntington disease and he didn't know if it had been handed down to him or not, so he decided to become a nurse and went to the third world countries to help there.  He was in his forties and something happened at home with his aunt that had been diagnosed with dementia. He head home to help her as she is the care taker of his nephew as his sister just does not help out.  He becomes involved in taking care of his aunt and nephew.

Sean want to go back to where he was working but meets up with an old high school sweetheart and wondered where things will go here.

This is a very good book and I would just hate knowing that I might have some disease and not know it, that to me would be like sitting on a bomb not knowing when it was going off.  A very interesting book and I hope you will go now and pre-order here or here if not make a note to be sure to pick up a copy Oct. 30, 2012 when it is released. 

The Great Cat Caper

Written by Lauraine Snelling and Damp Wright

This book is for car lovers, old as well as young. As Vee Nguyen met one of the Community Center dumpster's cat, it was so afraid of her, the kitten didn't like her at first but she had to do this project to be able to get back into the club. She had been kicked out of the S.A.V.E. club at school and she wanted to get back in.
She begin to like the cat but someone at the center wanted it also.
The club begin to take care of the cats in earnest as the TV show (Everything Animal) was coming to town and the club did not have the cats ready.
As Vee begin to love the kitten, she hopes she will be able to keep it and to also get back into the club.

This book was sent to me by Barbour Publishers in order for me to review.

The Trouble with Cowboys

ISBN: 978-1-59554-803-0

Paperback, 295 pages

 

Thomas Nelson Publisher

 

Annie Wilkerson lives in Moose Creek Montana and trains horses and she also writes fo Motana Living.  She has her younger sister and her nephew to support and writes for Montana Living Magazine. When the magazine cancels her column and is starting to write a love column they offer the job to Annie. She really needed the money the column would bring in, BUT, she has never been in love, so she will just have to wing it.  Her neighbor Dylan Taylor need help with his horse and she sees him as a flirt. She asked him that if she helps him with his horse will he help her to understand what it would be like to be in love. 

 

 

She finds out that she had misjudged Dylan as she was around him more, but she still don't feel as though she can trust a cowboy.  She knew that her dad has walked out on her mom and he was a cowboy, so she just thought all of them were the same.

 



 

She has a lot of trouble with her sister Sierra as she want listen to anyhting she tells her, but Annie soon finds out that she is not the one that should be telling her grown sister what to do.  When she finds out that she must trust God to be in charge things begin too turn around.

I received this book free from Thomas Nelson Publishing (BookSneeze) in exchange for an honest review. 

A Hobbit Devotional

 

ISBN: 978-1-61626-743-8

Paperback, 319 pages

 

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The books is about The Hobbit, but is used in such a way that it refers to the Bible and states scripture alone the way. You can use it as a fun way to get your children to sit and listen as you read and do so each day. This will get them interested into what the Bible says and one of their favorite books relates to it. Even all of adults that always loved to read "The Hobbit" books will find this one interested.

A new movie is coming out about "The Hobbit" and this book came out just in time for you to read it and then when you see the movie you and your children will be able to relate the sceanes back to the Bible.

A great book and I want to thank the author and Barbour Publishing for sending me this printed book in order for me to do this review. Go out now and buy a copy or order one online from one of the great books stores.

 

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When Navy SEAL Adam Brown woke up on March 17, 2010, he didn’t know he would die that night in the Hindu Kush Mountains of Afghanistan—but he was ready. Adam knew his job might demand his life, but Adam also knew that his life was already bought with a price when he turned it over to his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Adam lived a sacrificial life. But even Adam may not have foreseen the various ways his story would end up impacting so many around him. His life's account, as documented in the book Fearless by Eric Blehm, has become a New York Times bestseller and challenged hundreds of thousands of readers.

Chris and Eric will be discussing their memories and recollections from 9/11 and talking about their books. Most importantly, Eric will be talking with Chris about the life of Adam Brown. Eric will recall how Adam reached the top level of the U.S. Navy SEALs in spite of injuries many would consider career-enders, including losing sight in one of his eyes and a Humvee crash that nearly severed the fingers on his dominant hand. Through struggles with addiction and physical challenges, Adam became a hero to his family and a hero to those he served and to his country. Adam achieved all this, not through some rare internal drive...but through his faith in Christ.

The 13: Fall

 

Isbn: 978-1-61626-769-8

Barbour Publishers

Paperback. 313 pages

 



 

Product Description

Former Black Ops specialist-turned-CIA-operative Jonathan Keene joins a battle against an enemy nobody saw coming---yet waits on America's doorstep. Teaming with FBI agent Megan Taylor, he fights against illegal immigration, even as our nation's borders are pushed back to the original 13 colonies. Can he stem the tide---and face demons from his past?

 

My Thoughts:

I feel that the  authors are talking about a Prophet that they think is a terrorist and the Bible does talk about a anti-Christ that will walk the earth and this could be happening today. As the former CIA Johathan Keene is called to the White House he had no idea why. Also FBI agent Megan Taylor was called to the meeting. They were asked to track down who ever this is that the goverment is afraid is another terrorist about to strike at America. These two would be working alone with chaplain Boz Hamilton as he had the Bible knowledge that they could use.  As they worked and the US was pushed toward a situation that it has never seen, will it force them to trust in God in a way they have never before.  Johnthan Keene felt that he was being forced to find a faith that he wanted to stay buried.  But God is working on him and something always happens when God intervens.

This book was a hard read as it carried me back to way before I was born when this great country of ours was struggling with immigration from all countries including illegal trade of humans.  I feel that God made all of us and one color person is no better than the other and we sure was not formed from God's image to be bought and sold.  Even in the old testement of the Bible they were. 

As America today seems to be at the doorsteps of something bad happening to this country as we have fallen so far away from God.  The authors are talking about a Prophet that they think is a terrorist and the Bible does talk about a anti-Christ that will walk the earth and this could be happening today.  As the former CIA Johathan Keene is called to the White House he had no idea why.  Also FBI agent Megan Taylor was called to the meeting.  They were asked to track down who ever this is that the goverment is afraid is another terrorist about to strike at America.

Thanks to the authors and to the publisher for sending me this book for my review.

 

 



White Christmas Pie

 

Wanda E. Brunstetter

 

ISBN: 978-1616268664

Paperback: 304 pages

Babour Publisher

 

 

 Will Henderson was left by his father with an Amish couple when he was young after the lost of his mother.  He has grown up as an Amish and does not know any other way of life.  He and Karen Yoder are engaged to be married and planning a December wedding. But Will is having second thoughts, can he be a good husband and father or will he turn out to be like his father and leave his family and never come back.

Karen Yoder is a really sweet youg lady and adores Will, but when she went to one of her former boyfriends to ask some advice Will becomes very jealous. Karen will have to make him understand that there is nothing between she and her former beau. 

 

When Will's father decides to come back into Will's life at such a moment that he is planning his wedding, how is Will going to take this.  Will it make him doubt his own self that much more on what type of husband he will make.  Will's 'adoptive' parents, Mark and Regina, try to help him out as much as they can. Will has always loved  Regina's white Christmas pie. Could it be that the recipe to the beloved pie could answer a lot of unanswered questions?

Wanda Brunstetter has done it again! I own all of Wanda's books and this is the second edition of this book, and I own a signed copy of the first edition.  Love all her work and a great Christmas book is a great read anytime of the year.  Thanks to the author and the publisher for sending me this edition to read again and review.  Love it""

Be Still My Soul

 

ISBN: 9781601424211

Paperback, Multnomah Books

Author: Joanne Bischof

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releases Oct. 2, 2012

 

 

About the Book:

 



Night’s chill tickled her skin. Lonnie pressed her hands together and glanced up. He was even more handsome up close. Having grown up the shy, awkward daughter of Joel Sawyer, she’d hardly spoken to any boy, let alone the one who had mothers whispering warnings in their daughter’s ears and fathers loading shotguns.

Pretty Lonnie Sawyer is shy and innocent, used to fading into the background within her family, and among the creeks and hollows of the Appalachian hills. Though her family is poor and her father abusive, she clings to a quiet faith. But when handsome ladies’ man and bluegrass musician Gideon O’Riley steals a kiss, that one action seals her fate.

Her father forces her into a hasty marriage with Gideon—a man she barely knows and does not love. Equally frustrated and confused by his new responsibilities, Gideon yearns for a fresh start, forcing Lonnie on an arduous journey away from her home in Rocky Knob.

Her distant groom can’t seem to surrender his rage at the injustice of the forced matrimony or give Lonnie any claim in his life. What will it take for Gideon to give up his past, embrace Lonnie’s God, and discover a hope that can heal their two fractured hearts?

Gideon only ever cared about himself. Now that Lonnie is his wife, will he ever be worthy of her heart?

 

My Thought:

 

I want to thank blogging for books for sending me this advanced reader's copy and I would like to post a review for it.

 

In the Appalachaine hills the Sawyer family lived, very poor and the father was abusive, Lonnie always help onto her faith in God and knew one day she would be able to get out of this situation.

 

She was very unhappy when she was forced into a marriage by her father when a man stole a kiss form her.  She then moved away with another man that though  a woman was just for his use and had no feelings of her own.  Lonnie still help onto to God and hoped that someday her husband Gideon would also.

 

This is the first book I have read that was written by Joanne Bischof but I really enjoyed it and will be looking for more of her books.

 

 

 

 

Over The Edge

Isbn: 9780764209130

Paperback, 332 pages

Bethany House Publishers

 

This is the third book in the series "The Kincaid Brides" and anything that Mary Connealy writes is always a great read alone with some laughts. I want to thank The auther and Bethany House Publishers for sending me this book free for me to review.

When Callie though at Seth had died she tried to go on with her life, she had a little boy and wanted him to be able to get what belonged to him from his father. When she got to the ranch she was determined to claim it for her little boy. She had a hard time getting there with a baby to care for alone the way.

When she found her run a-way husband she was ready to shoot him, but knew she could not do that, so she tried everything she could to get even. But you know God does not like for us to get even, we are supposed to forgive and forget which is so hard to do. Will Callie forgive and go alone with her life at the ranch or will she just pick up and leave?

You will find this book funny, a little mystery and a whole lot of love to go alone with it.
I have read the first two books and I loved this one.

 

A PLAIN & SIMPLE HEART

by

Lori Copeland and Virginia Smith

 

ISBN: 9780736947558

Paperback, 296 pages

Harvest House Publishers

 

 



This is the second book in this series "The Amish of Apple Grove" and I did not read the first one, but this one alone is great.  Two great Christian fiction authors got together and I want to thank Lori Copeland and Virginia Smith for their combined stories.  Both are great author on their own.

This story is about Rebecca Switzer who is a seventeen Amish girl, but she thinks she is in love with a cowboy that she had met once.  She stands around and day dreams and forgets what she is doing.  None of the Amish boys that she knows just does not fit the bill to become her beau.

Her sister had married outside the Amish faith so she didn't see why she couldn't also.  Her mother is dead and her grandmother had raised them and she was very strict.

This book will get you hooked within the first chapter and you will not want to put it down.  It is a fun read just to see what Rebecca will come up with next.

I want to thank Harvest house and the two authors for sending me this book in order for me to review.

 

Where Love Grows

by

Jerry S. Eicher

This is another one of Jerry S. Eicher's great works. I have read most everything he has written and he does know how to tell a story, especially about the Amish.

The other two books in this series are: Missing Your Smile, Following Your Heart" so this is the third one and it is such a great ending as Susan had left the AMish for the "Englisha" world, she finished her high school training and even got her driving license.

As she returned home with her friend Teresa, she begin to wonder if she should just stay and not go back out into the world. Teresa was beginning to like the Amish way of life also. She is beginning to wonder if she should give her old boy friend another chance or "what about the hew hand her dad had hired.

You will love the way the story unfolds and the way it ends, thank you Jerry and Harvest House Publishers for sending me book so that I could read and review it.

Susanna's Christmas Wish

by

Jerry S. Eicher

When Matthew left the Amish and went out into the English world to live, he left Susanna with a broken heart, but she had to go on, so when Herman Wagler asked to take her home from a singing, she went and they continued to see each other.  Then they decided to wed, even though she though her heart still belonged to Matthew.

After they had been married three weeks, Matthew showed up at his brother's home and Susanna saw him, then she told him she was married.  That was hard for him to believe. 

Susanna's family celebrated Christmas but Herman's family didn't and there was a disagreement amoung the newely wed on this.  But as his wift Susanna went alone with Herman.  Will this put a wedge in their marraige?  What about the return of her first love Matthew?

As always Jerry S Eicher writes a great book on the Amish as he grew up that way himself.  Thanks so much to Jerry and Harvest House Publishing for sending me this free book in order for me to review.

 

Paper flowers I made this morning, and the links to find how you can make your own.  I didn't have some of the items that was called for but I came up with something that looks just as good, I think.

ENJOY

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Two new idems I made this week.

Thanks to http://www.etsy.com/blog/en/2009/how-tuesday-elegant-parchment-flowers-with-jeffrey-rudell/

for these beautiful and easy to make little flowers.

Also this blank card and matching envelope.  I got the direction for the flower here  http://akeptlife.blogspot.com/2012/04/folded-flower-tutorial.html