TY  - BOOK
AU  - Newport,Olivia
TI  - Hope in the land
T2  - Amish turns of time
SN  - 9781410488947
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Waterville, Maine
PB  - Thorndike Press
KW  - Amish
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Neighbors
KW  - British Americans
KW  - Depressions
KW  - 1929
KW  - Lancaster County (Pa.)
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Large type books
KW  - Religious fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Romance fiction
KW  - Christian fiction
KW  - gsafd
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 561-563)
N2  - When Henry Edison turns up in Lancaster County to survey farm women about their domestic contributions during the 1930s, the last thing Amish housewife Gloria Grabill has time for is the government agent’s unending questions. Gloria’s hands are already full with a farm to run alongside her husband, a houseful of children, and an English neighbor, Minerva Swain, who has been trying Gloria’s patience for forty years. Gloria’s oldest daughter, Polly, wants nothing more than the traditional path of an Amish farmer’s wife, but everything she does seems to push Thomas Coblentz further away. While the Great Depression shadows the country in gloom, can Amish and English neighbors in Lancaster County grasp the goodness that will sustain hope?
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