TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gould,Leslie
TI  - A brighter dawn
T2  - Amish Memories
SN  - 9781638087205
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Thorndike, Maine
PB  - Center Point Large Print
KW  - Mennonite women
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Parents
KW  - Death
KW  - Life change events
KW  - Grandparents
KW  - Spiritual retreats
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Germany
KW  - Large type books
KW  - Pennsylvania
KW  - Oregon
KW  - History
KW  - 1933-1945
KW  - Christian fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Large print books
N1  - Regular print version previously published by Bethany House; Includes author's note with background information; Includes bibliographic references (page 509)
N2  - "Ivy Zimmerman is successfully navigating her life as a young Mennonite woman, one generation removed from her parents' Old Order Amish upbringing. But when her parents are killed in a tragic accident, Ivy's way of life is upended. As she deals with her grief, her younger sisters needs, her relationship with her boyfriend, and her Dawdi and Mammi's strict rules, Ivy finds solace in both an upcoming trip to Germany for an international Mennonite youth gathering and in her great-great-aunt's story about Clare Simons, another young woman who visited Germany in the late 1930s. As Ivy grows suspicious that her parents' deaths weren't, in fact, an accident, she gains courage from what she learns of Clare's time in pre World War II Germany. With the encouragement and inspiration of the women who have gone before her, Ivy seeks justice for her parents, her sisters, and herself."--
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