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(0)Elizabeth Byler Younts
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"It's 1943, and Miriam Coblentz and Henry Mast are nearing their wedding day when the unthinkable happens--Henry is drafted. However, since he is a part of the pacifist Amish tradition, Henry is sent to a conscientious objector Civilian Public Service camp. When he leaves for the work camp, his gaping absence turns Miriam's life upside down. Little does she know it's only the beginning... When Henry returns home, he brings news that shakes Miriam...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In The Solace of Water, Elizabeth Byler Younts tells the story of two women, one white and one black, in racially charged 1956, who fight personal battles of freedom and form a friendship that neither expected. After the loss of her young son, Carver, an African-American preacher's wife named Delilah Evans moves with her family from Montgomery, Alabama, to Sinking Creek, Pennsylvania, for a fresh start. The last thing she could have imagined was...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
519 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
World War II Marine Joe Garrison returns home from war longing to be a father to his deaf daughter, Daisy, only to find that she is attached to Esther Detweiler, the Amish woman who has raised her since his wife's death. Orphaned as a child, Esther Detweiler is used to caring for herself and her ailing grandmother. They made the best out of a hard life and poverty without asking for help. They even take in her shunned cousin's deaf daughter, Daisy,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Large print ; Unabridged edition.
Physical Desc
525 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's 1945, and nurse Christine Freeman works at Hudson River State Hospital. Her friend Eli, a conscientious objector, is doing his best to become a man of character instead of the immature heartbreaker he was back in his Amish community. Then Christine's old acquaintance, Jack, returns from the war and turns her world violently upside down. Eli offers an escape within his community, where she is fully embraced. But when the abusive Jack discovers...