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On the backroad to heaven

Old Order Hutterites, Mennonites, Amish, and Brethren
2001
Presents a study of four Old Order Anabaptist communities, including the Hutterites, Mennonites, Amish, and Brethren, comparing and contrasting their cultures, growth, and unique ways of life, and addressing the question of why these groups have not merely survived but flourised outside the mainstream of society.

Amish houses & barns

1992
Looks at various barns and dwellings throughout the Amish communities in the Midwest.

Yonie Wondernose

1944
A curious Amish boy who lives on the family farm in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, shares a wonderful secret with his father.

The reckoning

1998
Katherine Mayfield has inherited her birth mother's estate, but misses the simple life of the Amish. Meanwhile her childhood sweetheart, Daniel Fisher, is trying to locate her.

The confession

1997
Shunned by her Amish community, Katie Lapp, sets out to find her birth mother, and discovers a very different world in the Finger Lakes Region of New York.

Where time stands still

1987
Describes the day-to-day life of a typical Amish family living on a farm in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Plain girl

1983
Despite her father's objections, a young Amish girl secretly looks forward to attending public school where she makes a best friend and gains a new perspective on her family's way of life.

Sworn to silence

2010
Kate Burkholder, offered the job of chief of police in Painters Mill, Ohio, the Amish community where she grew up, believes she has securely put her past behind her, but the discovery of a body in a snowy field makes her realize she has to confront what happened to her as a child and expose a dark secret that could destroy her and those she loves.

Amish grace

how forgiveness transcended tragedy
2007
Tells the story of how the Amish community at Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, reacted to the October 2006 shooting of ten schoolgirls, and of their act of forgiveness to the shooter and their compassion to his family.

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