About the book:
All she wanted was a simple Amish life . . . But now
Marianna Sommer finds herself depending on Englisch neighbors. Although proud
of living apart from the world, she and her newly relocated Amish family have
discovered that life in the remote mountains of Montana requires working together.
As Marianna begins helping those different from
herself—and receiving their help—her heart contemplates two
directions. She’s torn between the Amish man from Indiana whom she has
long planned on marrying and the friendly Englischer who models a closer walk
with God than she’s ever seen before.
Who should have young Marianna’s heart? What is God
asking her to sacrifice? Her traditions? Her community? The answer is found
along the wooded paths.(Click here to read an excerpt)
Find out about book 1, Beside
Still Waters, here: http://www.triciagoyer.com/ contemporaryfiction.html# BesideStillWaters
Scraps of Life Book Club review: I'm a huge fan of author Tricia Goyer and her Big Sky Series. I like her writing style and the genres which she writes. It seems that there is a huge trend for fiction books portraying the Amish and Tricia takes on this subject to produce a beautifully written story between Marianna, the Amish and the Englisch. Even though this is book 2 in the series it stands alone and you can read the books out of order.
This story is about family, love, prejudice and God. I loved how the story led me to see that sometimes we close our mind off to the outside world if it is different from the world in which we have created within our family and community. I loved that as well as the main character, Marianna needing to change and grow, so did her family and others around her. As always I love reading about the Amish, their simple life and how they work together as a community.
I love reading Christian Fiction / Christian Romance because I know that the books are morally clean. I know these type of books are ok to read in public and that my teens could pick up the book and read and that I wouldn't be embarrassed as to what they might come across in the story.
How about you?
This story is about family, love, prejudice and God. I loved how the story led me to see that sometimes we close our mind off to the outside world if it is different from the world in which we have created within our family and community. I loved that as well as the main character, Marianna needing to change and grow, so did her family and others around her. As always I love reading about the Amish, their simple life and how they work together as a community.
I love reading Christian Fiction / Christian Romance because I know that the books are morally clean. I know these type of books are ok to read in public and that my teens could pick up the book and read and that I wouldn't be embarrassed as to what they might come across in the story.
How about you?
About Tricia:
Tricia Goyer is the author of thirty books including Songbird Under a German Moon, The Swiss Courier,
and the mommy memoir, Blue Like Play
Dough. She won Historical Novel of the Year in 2005 and 2006 from
ACFW, and was honored with the Writer of the Year award from Mt. Hermon
Writer's Conference in 2003. Tricia's book Life Interrupted was a finalist for
the Gold Medallion in 2005. In addition to her novels, Tricia writes
non-fiction books and magazine articles for publications like MomSense and Thriving Family. Tricia is a regular
speaker at conventions and conferences, and has been a workshop presenter at
the MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) International Conventions. She and her
family make their home in Little Rock,
Arkansas where they are part of
the ministry of FamilyLife.
For more about Tricia
and her other books visit www.triciagoyer.com
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