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Hope in the land / Olivia Newport.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Newport, Olivia. Amish turns of time ; bk. 4. | Thorndike Press large print Christian romance seriesPublisher: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: Large print editionDescription: 567 pages (large print) ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781410488947
  • 1410488942
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: 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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Large Print Book Large Print Book Main Library Large Print Fiction Newport, Olivia AT 4 Available 33111008431328
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Amish Turns of Time (Book 4)While the Great Depression shadows the country in gloom, Henry Edison turns up in Lancaster County to survey farm women about their domestic contributions. But the last thing Amish housewife Gloria Grabill has time for is the government agent's unending questions.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 561-563).

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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