A Promise for Miriam

A Promise for Miriam
Author: Vannetta Chapman
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2012-07-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0736946136

A Promise for Miriam, the first book in a brand-new romantic series from popular author Vannetta Chapman, introduces the Amish community of Pebble Creek and some of the kind, caring people there. As they face challenges to their community from the English world, they come together to reach out to their non-Amish neighbors while still preserving their cherished Plain ways. Amish schoolteacher Miriam King loves her students. At 26, most women her age are married with children of their own, but she hasn’t yet met anyone who can convince her to give up the Plain school that sits along the banks of Pebble Creek. Then newcomer Gabriel Miller steps into her life, bringing his daughter, an air of mystery, and challenges Miriam has never faced before. Will Gabe be able to let go of the past that haunts him? He thinks he just wants to be left alone, but the loving and warm community he and his daughter have moved to has other plans for him. After a near tragedy is averted, he hesitantly returns offers of help and friendship, and he discovers he can make a difference to the people of Pebble Creek—and maybe find love again.

Home to Pebble Creek (Free Short Story)

Home to Pebble Creek (Free Short Story)
Author: Vannetta Chapman
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
Total Pages: 22
Release: 2013-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0736959157

This free short story e-romance is a prequel to The Pebble Creek Amish Series by Vannetta Chapman. Fans of the series will enjoy this chance to briefly revisit Pebble Creek, and new readers will be introduced to an Amish community that is more deeply explored in the three full novels, A Promise for Miriam, A Home for Lydia, and A Wedding for Julia. When Joseph Bontrager left Pebble Creek, all of Esther Schrock's dreams and hopes for the future went with him. Bravely picking up the pieces of her broken heart, she resumed her life teaching at the schoolhouse with Miriam King. Now, nineteen months later, Joseph has returned. Despite her initial excitement, Esther feels anger rise up instead of love. Will she be able to forgive him for leaving? Forgive him for more than a year and a half of silence without a single letter? With Miriam's encouraging words, and despite ominous clouds on the horizon, will Esther be able to replace the bitterness in her heart with affection for Joseph once more?

LSAT Logical Reasoning

LSAT Logical Reasoning
Author: Manhattan Prep
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 577
Release: 2016-08-02
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 1506209734

Offering a new take on the LSAT logical reasoning section, Manhattan Prep’s LSAT Logical Reasoning is a must-have resource for any student preparing to take the exam. Using Manhattan Prep’s expert strategies, this book will teach you how to untangle the web of LSAT logical reasoning questions confidently and efficiently. LSAT Logical Reasoning encourages a streamlined method to engage and improve your natural critical thinking skills. Beginning with an effective approach to reading arguments and identifying answers, LSAT Logical Reasoning trains you to see through the clutter and recognize the core of an argument. It also arms you with the tools to pick apart the answer choices, offering in-depth explanations for every answer—both correct and incorrect—leading to a complex understanding of this subtle section. Each chapter in LSAT Logical Reasoning uses real LSAT questions in drills and practice sets, with explanations that take you inside the mind of an LSAT expert as they work through the problem. Additional practice and resources are available online through the Manhattan Prep website. Used by itself or with other Manhattan Prep materials, LSAT Logical Reasoning will push you to your top score.

A Blessing for Miriam

A Blessing for Miriam
Author: Jerry S. Eicher
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2015-06-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0736958827

In the second book of bestselling author Jerry S. Eicher's new Land of Promise series, Miriam Yoder is looking forward to her wedding day with Wayne Yutzy. But when beautiful Esther Swartz arrives to care for her ailing grandmother, Miriam is wary of Wayne's past relationship with her. When storms rip through the small Amish community in Oklahoma, Miriam's daett arrives to help in the rebuilding efforts. Under pressure from Miriam's daett the relationship with Wayne is upended, leaving Miriam to wonder if she must now build her new life as a single Amish woman. Book two in the Land of Promise series

A Promise for Tomorrow (Ribbons of Steel Book #3)

A Promise for Tomorrow (Ribbons of Steel Book #3)
Author: Judith Pella
Publisher: Bethany House
Total Pages: 447
Release: 2010-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1441207627

When James Baldwin takes a new position with the B&O Railroad, he and Carolina decide to move their growing family from Baltimore to a small rural town in the Allegheny Mountains. Carolina's stepdaughter, Victoria, becomes enthralled with handsome Kiernan, an Irish railroad worker. But will the upper-class Baldwins even consider him as a suitor for their daughter? And when tensions rise among the workers, can James stop a destructive plan before it's too late?

A Blessing for Miriam

A Blessing for Miriam
Author: Jerry S. Eicher
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2015
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0736958819

As Miriam Yoder prepares for her wedding to Wayne Yutzy, beautiful Esther Swartz arrives in town, leaving Miriam trying not to let Esther's previous relationship with Wayne cloud her view of Wayne's devotion.

Miriam's Secret

Miriam's Secret
Author: Debby Waldman
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2017-10-17
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1459814274

In 1930 nine-year-old Miriam travels by train from Brooklyn to her grandparents' farm in upstate New York. Her grandparents are kind, generous people, but they aren't exactly ideal playmates for a lonely girl. When Miriam is not doing homework in the kitchen with Bubby or helping prepare meals for the migrant workers that Zayde hires to help out on the farm, she plays with the barn kittens born just before she arrived. Those kittens are her only friends, until the day Miriam discovers a young girl hiding in the barn. Cissy and her brother, Joe, who's one of Zayde's farm hands, are on the run from an abusive uncle back in Mississippi. Miriam and Cissy hit it off immediately. But their friendship is tested when Miriam is forced to choose between keeping a promise and doing the right thing.

Parallel Tracks

Parallel Tracks
Author: Lynne Kirby
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 358
Release: 1997
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780822318392

In wide-ranging and provocative analyses of dozens of silent films - icons of film history like The General and The Great Train Robbery as well as many that are rarely discussed - Kirby examines how trains and rail travel embodied concepts of spectatorship and mobility grounded in imperialism and the social, sexual, and racial divisions of modern Western culture.