Product Description: In a modern world where technology is taking over our lives, could we lead an essential, simple life without electricity? How can we get by without computers, power tools, phones, or even basics such as electric lights and appliances? The answers lie in Amish communities and other Old Order groups in the United States, Canada, and Mexico that have been living lives off the grid while still affording to be self-sufficient for countless years...read more

Product Description: A sensitive and realistic look at the spiritual life and practices of the Amish. This second book by the authors of the award-winning Amish Grace sheds further light on the Amish, this time on their faith, spirituality, and spiritual practices...read more

Product Description: Approximately 2,500 Anabaptists were martyred in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Europe. Their surviving brethren compiled stories of those who suffered and died for the faith into martyr books. The most historically and culturally significant of these, The Bloody Theater―more commonly known as Martyrs Mirror―was assembled by the Dutch Mennonite minister Thieleman van Braght and published in 1660...read more

Product Description: While most world languages spoken by minority populations are in serious danger of becoming extinct, Pennsylvania Dutch is thriving. In fact, the number of Pennsylvania Dutch speakers is growing exponentially, although it is spoken by less than one-tenth of one percent of the United States population and has remained for the most part an oral vernacular without official recognition or support...read more

Product Description: Grace Ripley and her Amish friends face many life challenges as they share the love of Jesus Christ among the Amish community. They are threatened by a deadly biker gang, for witnessing to their whiskey supplier. As he turns his life over to Jesus, he burns his homemade whiskey still and walks away from his past...read more

Product Description: "Lebanon" Levi Stoltzfus, star of the hit Discovery Channel reality show Amish Mafia, delivers a sizzling tell-all about Amish life today. From the forbidden joyrides to the senseless shunnings to the colorful family feuds, he shares his frank insider's view of this fascinating and secretive society...read more

Product Description: In McKenzie’s Unharnessed Love, the sequel to McKenzie’s Jericho Tony’s long lost daughter, Ruthie, returned to confront her father. Tony’s world and that of a staunch Amish family gets turned upside down in the process. More tragedy and new characters add spice to the McKenzie Farm/Park residences...read more

Product Description: After a son does the unthinkable, how can a mother go on?On October 2, 2006, a gunman entered an Amish one-room schoolhouse, shooting ten girls, killing five, then finally taking his own life. This is his mother’s story. Not only did she lose her precious son through suicide, but she also lost her understanding of him as an honorable man...read more

Product Description: Amanda Beiler could never have imagined the course her life would take when she happened to meet Alejandro Diaz. After catching the eye of the Cuban superstar, she hesitantly decides to leave her small Amish community in order to save it from the relentless attention of the paparazzi...read more

Raised in a broken family and emotionally overlooked, Sherry Gore grew up without a solid foundation, a prisoner of her own poor choices, and at times without hope. A series of terrible mistakes left her feeling wrecked and alone and a sudden tragedy threw Sherry into an emotional tailspin too powerful to escape.Sherry hangs by a thread, unable to see how she can go on living, until it happens: on a morning of no particular significance, she walks into a church and BAM the truth of Jesus’ forgiving love shatters her world and cleaves her life in two: She goes to bed stunned; she wakes up a Christian.Unwilling to return to the darkness of her former life, Sherry attacks her faith head on. Soon the life Sherry Gore remakes for herself and her children as she seeks to follow the teachings of the Bible features head coverings, simple dress, and a focus on Jesus Christ. Only then does she realize, in a fit of excitement, that there are others like her. They are called Amish and Mennonite, and she realizes she has found her people.The plain choice that Sherry makes is not easy—and life still brings unexpected pain and heartache—but it changes everything for her, as she becomes one of the few people on earth to have successfully joined the Amish from the outside.She has found her place. And her story proves that one can return from the darkest depths to the purest light with the power of God.

Product Description: Raised in a broken family and emotionally overlooked, Sherry Gore grew up without a solid foundation, a prisoner of her own poor choices, and at times without hope. A series of terrible mistakes left her feeling wrecked and alone and a sudden tragedy threw Sherry into an emotional tailspin too powerful to escape...read more

Product Description: Amanda Beiler is a young Amish woman traveling back to Pennsylvania from a visit in Ohio. Alejandro Diaz is a famous Cuban singer living the life in the limelight of international media. Their worlds collide on the streets of Manhattan, an accident that brings them together and, despite their efforts, will not let them be apart...read more

Product Description: Follow Sally's story of love and loss. . . Story 1: Amish Days: The DecisionLiving with her Amish relatives, Sally feels the pull of God and considers joining the church. But after visiting her runaway brother, she realizes the futility of the idea...read more

Product Description: This journey through Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, captures a glimpse of Amish Country through 240 color photographs of unique signs in their natural settings. The signs and graphics of official markers, one-room schoolhouses, roadside stands, cottage industries, local trades, and many more tell the story of this special place...read more

Product Description: U.S. Marshal, Kate Briggs, is still posing as an Amish woman. When the cousin of one of the Amish Knitting Circle ladies is accused of murder, Kate once again throws herself into the investigation. However, the criminal looking for her has finally tracked her down to the small Amish community in which she is hiding...read more