Product Description: Two heartwarming Christmas stories about finding love in Amish country Rebecca's Christmas Gift by Emma Miller During the Christmas season, Rebecca Yoder agrees to help new preacher Caleb Wittner with his mischievous daughter. As they spend time together, Rebecca's sweet manner has the widower smiling and laughing with his little girl—and with the pretty housekeeper...read more

Product Description: Experience love and healing in these two Amish tales A Wife for Jacob by Rebecca Kertz 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...read more

Product Description: In Laurel Ridge, Pennsylvania, a community once united must suspect one of their own.Amish quilter Sarah Bitler's dreams no longer feature a husband and family. Instead, she searches for success in the quilt shop within Blackburn House, a place once tarnished with deadly secrets...read more

Product Description: Now in one low-priced volume, the first three novels in the acclaimed series set in the Amish community of Pleasant Valley...   Settle in to the quiet corner of Pennsylvania known as Pleasant Valley in these three novels of love, family, and the Amish community...read more

Product Description: In modern day central Pennsylvania, Judith Wegler tries to heal the growing rift between her husband, Isaac, and his teenage brother Joseph — whom Judith and Isaac have raised as their own ever since both brothers lost their parents and siblings in a horrific fire...read more

Product Description: Facing the past can be deadly . . .

Product Description: When three women, all cousins, are given the task of sorting through the treasures of several generations of their Amish family, they each discover a story from the past that provides insights and inspiration for their own lives. Central Pennsylvania, current day...read more

Product Description: Danger lurks during the holidays in these two suspenseful tales from bestselling author Marta Perry SEASON OF SECRETS Years ago, Dinah Westlake witnessed the murder of her cousin, but lost all memories of that night. Now, her cousin's husband, Marc Devlin, is back in town for a true Southern Christmas...read more

Product Description: As young girls, three Amish sisters were separated and told nothing about each other.  When the long-held secret of their parentage came to light many years later, two of the grown women reconnected.  Now they reach out to the third…Susanna Bitler’s life is in complete turmoil...read more

Product Description: Three Amish sisters who were separated at a young age are at last reunited in the second Lost Sisters of Pleasant Valley novel. Susanna Bitler’s life is in complete turmoil. Still reeling from the death of her mother, she is further disheartened when her business partner hints that she is going to quit the gift shop they run together in a town near Pleasant Valley...read more

Product Description: LOVE AND DANGER COLLIDE IN THREE NEW AMISH NOVELLAS  Fall from Grace by Marta Perry When one of her students witnesses a crime, Sara Esch gets too close to the truth, and widower Caleb King must risk it all for the woman who's taught him to love again...read more

Product Description: Three Amish sisters, separated when very young, know nothing about one another—until a long-held secret is revealed. With no memory of her birth parents, or the tragic accident that took their lives, Lydia Beachy has always been grateful for the aunt and uncle who took her in and raised her as their own...read more

Product Description: Two complete novels in the beloved The Three Sisters Inn series by Marta Perry  HIDE IN PLAIN SIGHT Called home to the Amish countryside, city gal Andrea Hampton can't let go of her bitter memories. But she'll have to in order to help turn her grandmother's house into a bed-and-breakfast...read more

Rachel Weaver Mason is finally going home to Deer Run, the Amish community she left behind so many years ago. Recently widowed, she wants desperately to create a haven for herself and her young daughter.But the community, including Rachel's family, is anything but welcom ing. The only person happy to see her is her teenage brother, Benjamin, and he's protecting a dark secret that endangers them all.Determined to keep Benjamin safe from a suspected killer, Rachel has no choice but to turn to the one man she wanted to get as far away from as possible. Colin McDonald was her late husband's friend, and the man who came between them. He's never forgotten her and would do anything to keep her and her family safe.Rachel doesn't know if she can trust Colin, or her growing feelings for him. But as they hunt for the killer, the tension between them builds and soon both their lives, and their hearts, are on the line.

This important study in ethnomusicology is an attempt by the author -- a musician who has become a social anthropologist -- to compare his experiences of music-making in different cultures. He is here presenting new information resulting from his research into African music, especially among the Venda. Venda music, he discovered is in its way no less complex in structure than European music. Literacy and the invention of nation may generate extended musical structures, but they express differences of degree, and not the difference in kind that is implied by the distinction between 'art' and 'folk' music. Many, if not all, of music's essential processes may be found in the constitution of the human body and in patterns of interaction of human bodies in society. Thus all music is structurally, as well as functionally, 'folk' music in the sense that music cannot be transmitted of have meaning without associations between people.If John Blacking's guess about the biological and social origins of music is correct, or even only partly correct, it would generate new ideas about the nature of musicality, the role of music in education and its general role in societies which (like the Venda in the context of their traditional economy) will have more leisure time as automation increases.