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Hannah's choice / Jan Drexler.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Drexler, Jan. Journey to Pleasant Prairie ; bk. 1.Publisher: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: Large print editionDescription: 509 pages (large print) ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781410487742
  • 1410487741
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: Hannah Yoder loves her quiet life on the banks of the Conestoga Creek. In 1842, this corner of Lancaster County is settled and peaceful -- yet problems lurk beneath the placid façade. Hannah's father worries about the spread of liberal ideas from their Mennonite and Brethren neighbors. And Hannah blames herself for a tragedy that struck their home nine years ago. She strives to be the one person who can bind the threads of her family together in spite of her mother's ongoing depression and her sister's rejection of their family. But her world is threatening to unravel. When two young men seek her hand in marriage -- one offering the home she craves and the other promising the adventure of following God's call west -- Hannah must make a choice. Faithfully perform her duties to her family? Or defy her father and abandon her community?
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Vol info Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Large Print Book Large Print Book Main Library Large Print Fiction Drexler, Jan JP 1 Available 33111009559945
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Journey to Pleasant Prairie (Book 1)Lancaster County, 1842. Hannah Yoder loves her life on the banks of Conestoga Creek -- yet problems lurk beneath. Jan Drexler bases her stories on the experiences of her ancestors, among the first Amish, Mennonite, and Brethren immigrants to Pennsylvania in the 1700s.

Hannah Yoder loves her quiet life on the banks of the Conestoga Creek. In 1842, this corner of Lancaster County is settled and peaceful -- yet problems lurk beneath the placid façade. Hannah's father worries about the spread of liberal ideas from their Mennonite and Brethren neighbors. And Hannah blames herself for a tragedy that struck their home nine years ago. She strives to be the one person who can bind the threads of her family together in spite of her mother's ongoing depression and her sister's rejection of their family. But her world is threatening to unravel. When two young men seek her hand in marriage -- one offering the home she craves and the other promising the adventure of following God's call west -- Hannah must make a choice. Faithfully perform her duties to her family? Or defy her father and abandon her community?

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