True Confections


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The first book in this USA Today Bestselling series. When her husband of thirty years runs off with a college student named Cherri, Jane Delight returns to Pennsylvania to work in her Amish sister's cupcake store. Having lost everything in the divorce, Jane now finds herself sharing an apartment with two feisty octogenarians and their quirky cat. Mr. Crumbles. But there is no time to despair. A man is murdered in the cupcake store, and now Jane is the prime suspect. Enter brooding detective Damon McCloud, a Scot with a tragic past and a desire for justice. Can Jane solve the murder, wrangle her new roommates, and stop herself from falling for the detective? Or will she never get her new life on track? Book 1 in a delightful cozy mystery series from USA Today Bestselling author, Ruth Hartzler.




The Way Home


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From USA Today Bestselling author Ruth Hartzler comes this free heartwarming Amish Romance of love and forgiveness. When Noah Hostetler while on rumspringa loses control of a borrowed car on an icy road and drives into a buggy, the Miller sisters are hurt. Injured and with unforgivingness in her heart, Hannah Miller vows she will never again feel for Noah what she once did... a deep and loyal love. Both Hannah and Noah believe that with God’s grace anything is possible, but healing from a painful past is no easy task. Can Hannah rediscover what once she felt for Noah before his terrible mistake, or will her heart remain closed to him forever? This freebie Amish Romance is Book 1 in the Amish Millers Get Married series.




True Confections


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Take chocolate candy, add a family business at war with itself, and stir with an outsider’s perspective. This is the recipe for True Confections, the irresistible new novel by Katharine Weber, a writer whose work has won accolades from Iris Murdoch, Madeleine L’Engle, Wally Lamb, and Kate Atkinson, to name a few. Alice Tatnall Ziplinsky’s marriage into the Ziplinsky family has not been unanimously celebrated. Her greatest ambition is to belong, to feel truly entitled to the heritage she has tried so hard to earn. Which is why Zip’s Candies is much more to her than just a candy factory, where she has worked for most of her life. In True Confections, Alice has her reasons for telling the multigenerational saga of the family-owned-and-operated candy company, now in crisis. Nobody is more devoted than Alice to delving into the truth of Zip’s history, starting with the rags-to-riches story of how Hungarian immigrant Eli Czaplinsky developed his famous candy lines, and how each of his candies, from Little Sammies to Mumbo Jumbos, was inspired by an element in a stolen library copy of Little Black Sambo, from which he taught himself English. Within Alice’s vivid and persuasive account (is her unreliability a tactic or a condition?) are the stories of a runaway slave from the cacao plantations of Côte d’Ivoire and the Third Reich’s failed plan to establish a colony on Madagascar for European Jews. Richly informed, deeply moving, and spiked with Weber’s trademark wit, True Confections is, at its heart, a timeless and universal story of love, betrayal, and chocolate.




Faith


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In this free Amish Romance 30,000 word novella, an Amish buggy horse by the name of "Blessing" is passed from one person to another, changing their lives in the process. For years, Nettie looked after her aged mother Elma, a demanding woman who did not want any involvement with the community. Now that her mother has died, Nettie is alone. She is regarded with suspicion by the local townspeople, and has had no visitors from her community for some years. Nettie's buggy horse has gone lame and has had to be retired, but Nettie cannot afford a new horse. Just as Nettie is despairing about not having any means of transport, a lost horse appears in her driveway, bringing with him far-reaching consequences. Daniel Glick is drawn to the lonely figure of Nettie, but Nettie wants to be left alone. However, when Jebediah Sprinkler tries to force Nettie to hand over her house, Daniel springs to the rescue. As Nettie's struggles mount, she has to decide whether to take the law into her own hands. And what will Daniel do when he discovers the secret Nettie is hiding from him? Faith is Book 1 in this Amish romance series of happy, feel-good novellas by USA Today Bestselling author, Ruth Hartzler. Get your free Amish Romance now.




Kindness


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Lydia is thirty years old, past the usual Amish age for marrying. She is convinced that no man will want her as she is overweight. In her attempts to remain invisible, Lydia’s only outing is the church meeting every other week. What happens when the handsome Eli Schrock arrives in her community and makes an instant impression on all the girls of marriageable age? Lydia is also drawn to Eli Schrock, despite thinking that a man would never find her suitable. Tongues in the community start to wag when Eli Schrock goes out of his way to spend time with Lydia. Will Lydia lower her barriers in time to allow Eli to see the true woman that she is, or will Eli’s attention be drawn away to the more outgoing, confident girls in the community? Kindness is Book 5 in this happy, feel-good Amish Romance series by USA Today Bestselling author, Ruth Hartzler.




Charity


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Isabel, while working at the Old Candle Store, is the witness to a crime. The handsome detective heading the case left the Amish years ago due to the community’s forgiving attitude to a serious crime committed on his brother. Despite the sparks that fly between them, can the two ever be together, when they have opposing views on forgiveness, violence, and punishment? Charity is Book 3 in this happy, feel-goo Amish Romance series by USA Today Bestselling author, Ruth Hartzler.




Healing Hearts


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Healing Hearts is Book 1 in the Amish Second Chance Romance series from US Today Bestselling Author, Ruth Hartzler. Diana Hunt has been an advertising executive in New York for the past fifteen years, avoiding her family and her old home in Lancaster as much as she can. A phone call changes everything. When Diana returns home, she finds herself the close neighbor of Amish man, Jethro Wittmer, whose heart she broke fifteen years earlier. Is Jethro betrothed? And why does Diana care? Can God work a miracle and heal these broken hearts? Read your free Amish Romance today.




The Only Way (Amish Romance)


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Rebecca is determined not to be the fourth Miller girl to marry the fourth Hostetler brother, so why is she so upset when Sarah Beachy spends all her free time with Elijah Hostetler? Rebecca Miller has started work at the B&B which has opened next door to the Millers. It's bad enough that the owners' son is decidedly non-Amish and somewhat unpleasant, but why is Sarah Beachy, an Amish girl from another community, now staying with the Miller family? Sarah appears to hold secrets close to her heart, but is one of them that she is dating Elijah? And will the arrival of the mysterious Amish man, Benjamin Shelter, change their lives in any way? Book 4 in this uplifting Amish Romance series from USA Today Bestselling author, Ruth Hartzler.




Paris Cafe: The Slect Crowd (Large Print 16pt)


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This first book about the famous Select Cafe in Paris' richly illustrated with the faces of its patrons' gives a unique glimpse into the daily rhythm and social and intellectual life of a literary cafe. Here is an intimate view - - in word and image - - of its waiters and artist patrons' enabling one to understand the importance of cafe life - - that third great place of every Parisian or would - be Parisian. See here the famous Montparnasse cafe that has been so vital to Paris life for nearly nine decades; from Hemingway' Beauvoir' Picasso' James Baldwin' and George Plimpton to the writers and artists who continue to work quietly here in the back room and meet their friends late in the day for drinks. The artists have their work on the walls' the novelists include the cafe setting in their fiction. The quiet and drama of the Select world illustrates the centrality of cafes - - particularly this one - - to Parisian social' cultural' and intellectual life. The book gives narrative introductions and witty drawings of cafe clientele and staff and is organized through a history of the Select cafe' its daily and seasonal rhythms' particular colorful clientele' and a few of its typical cafe/brasserie food (including a few recipes).




The Narrow Way (Amish Romance)


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Will Martha choose an exciting new life as an Englischer if it means losing her best friend, the handsome Moses Hostetler? The Millers' third daughter, Martha, went on her rumspringa, determined to sample the ways of the non-Amish and to start a chocolate making business. Martha has left the Amish well behind her, and is dating the handsome and successful Gary Wright. When she is arrested for something she didn't do, she calls on the only person she can trust to keep her secret, the Amish man Moses, who has loved her for years. Book 3 in this heartwarming Amish Romance series from USA Today Bestselling author, Ruth Hartzler.