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Promise to Return

Elizabeth Byler Younts · Thorndike Press; Lrg edition
Format: Hardcover

It?s 1943. Miriam Coblentz and Henry Mast are nearing their wedding day when the unthinkable happens ? Henry is drafted. Since he?s a part of the pacifist Amish tradition, Henry is sent to a Civilian Public Service camp. His absence turns Miriam?s life upside down. And when Henry returns,...
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Green-Eyed Lady

Chuck Greaves · Thorndike Press; Lrg edition

Three weeks before Election Day, U.S. Senate candidate Warren Burkett comes to the aid of a beautiful green-eyed lady, only to find himself alone and naked in a stranger's home from which a priceless painting is missing. The painting turns up in a most unexpected place — and so does...
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Return to Paradise

Barbara Cameron · Thorndike Press Large Print
Format: Large Print Hardcover

Twelve months ago, David Stoltzfus left the Amish community in Paradise, Pennsylvania - and encouraged his siblings to follow - after their father became overly stern and even abusive with them. Escaping to a new life in the Englisch world was the only way to keep one another safe. But it was not without...
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A Talent for Trouble

Jen Turano · Thorndike Press, 2014. Â2013
Pages: 493
Format: Large Print Hardcover

For years, Miss Felicia Murdock's every thought and action have been in pursuit of becoming a minister's wife. When the minister she'd set her sights on has other ideas, she decides something in her life needs to change--and soon--before she wastes any more time pretending to be someone...
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With This Ring: A Novella Collection of Proposals Gone Awry

Karen Witemeyer · Thorndike Press Large Print
Format: Large Print Hardcover

Humorous Historical Romance Novella Collection Offers Love and Laughs Four top historical romance novelists team up in this new collection to offer stories of love and romance with a twist of humor. In Karen Witemeyer's "The Husband Maneuver," Marietta Hawkins decides to grab...
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The Ship Of Brides

JoJo Moyes · Thorndike Press Large Print; Lrg edition
Format: Hardcover

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. From the New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You and One Plus One, in an earlier work available in the U.S. for the first time, a post-WWII story of the war brides who crossed the seas by the thousands to face their unknown futures. 1946....
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The Midwife

Jolina Petersheim · Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2014.
Pages: 448
Format: Large Print Hardcover

Since the day Rhoda Mummau was baptized into the Old Order Mennonite Church and became the head midwife of Hopen Haus, she's been torn between the needs of the unwed mothers under her care and her desire to conceal the secrets of her past. Contact with the outside world could provide...
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City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp

Ben Rawlence · Thorndike Press Large Print
Pages: 578

Situated hundreds of miles from any other settlement, deep within the inhospitable desert of northern Kenya, Dadaab is a city like no other. Its buildings are made from mud, sticks, or plastic, its entire economy is grey, and its citizens survive on rations and luck. Over the course of four...
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Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope, and Repair

Anne Lamott · Thorndike Press; Lrg edition

A New York Times Bestselling Author What do we do when life lurches out of balance? How can we reconnect to one other and to what's sustaining, when evil and catastrophe seem inescapable?These questions lie at the heart of Stitches, Lamott's profound follow-up to her New York Times?bestselling...
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Across the Cheyenne River

John D. Nesbitt · Thorndike Press; Lrg edition
Format: Hardcover

A Spur Award?winning Author Russell Archer dreams of having his own land. After a season of work on Lidge Mercer?s Wyoming ranch, he?s offered a junior partnership. But with Lidge?s past, is it partner or bodyguard? Meanwhile, Archer helps a young woman named Kate find her father, Jack...
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