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A Wells Landing Christmas by Amy Lillard

December 24, 2018 by Christina

Fiction – print. Zebra, 2018. 352 pgs. Library copy. Years after he joined the Amish church yet traveled from Oklahoma to Florida, Zeb Brenneman has returned to the Amish community of Wells Landing to meet his twin brother’s new baby and spend Christmas with family. His joy over the season is dampened by the rumors he hears about the woman he once loved, Ivy Weaver. Ivy has largely retreated from her insular community, and she has done little to rebuke […]

Categories: 2018 Reads, Amish, Fiction, North America, United States • Tags: Amy Lillard

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A Love for Leah by Amy Lillard

December 16, 2018 by Christina

Fiction – print. Zebra, 2018. 352 pgs. Library copy. Having returned to her hometown in Mississippi, Leah Gingerich has started a secondhand store in the community and agreed to raise her twin sister’s teenage son while Hannah works towards joining the Amish church. What Leah won’t do, though, is consider becoming Amish again. She and Hannah left nearly twenty years ago, and Leah has found her religious community among the more liberal Mennonite church. When Jamie Stoltzfus moves to the […]

Categories: 2018 Reads, Amish, Fiction, North America, United States • Tags: Amy Lillard

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Amy Lillard’s Wells Landing Series

May 23, 2018 by Christina

For the last four weeks, I practically devoured the six novels that comprise Amy Lillard’s Wells Landing series. The fictional Wells Landing, Oklahoma is home to a Beachy Amish community — Beachy because they utilize tractors due to the rocky soil of Oklahoma — and each of Lillard’s novels focus on a young member of the community. The first three novels focus on three close-knit friends — Emily, Caroline, and Lorie — while the next three focus on secondary characters from the […]

Categories: 2018 Reads, Amish, Audiobook, Fiction, North America, United States • Tags: Amy Lillard, Rebecca Mitchell

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