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For 30 years, author Karen Anna Vogel has lived near the Amish, considered a "Trusted English Friend". She passes on inspirational experiences about the Amish culture in her novels, but readers want more. So, in this 31 Day ‘challenge’ Karen shares all she’s gleaned so far. Book Table of Contents Day 1 Faith Day 2 Commitment Day 3 Community spirit Day 4 Simple Life Day 5 Deep character and enduring values Day 6 Serenity Prayer Day 7 Downsize Day 8 Organized Bliss Day 9 Read Amish Books Day 10 Daddy Time Day 11 Garden Day 12 Gelassenheit Day 13 Volunteer Day 14 Small Business Day 15 ...

Amish Knitting Circle is a serial novel. Episodes 1-8 comprise Granny's first knitting circle, when she invites 5 women who are heavy on her heart to knit for charity. Granny Weaver believes these women could be stronger if spun together. She invites five women, all with various issues such as infertility, poor body image and marital problems and haunting secrets. As they meet from October to April to knit shawls for charity, they begin to deal with problems, together, in community, the Amish way. Amish Knitting Circle: Complete Series includes: Beginnings ~ Granny Weaver starts the circle,...

Cassia Byler is a twenty-two year old Amish beauty that has the small town of Smicksburg, Pennsylvania baffled. She appears to be content not to court any man, only desiring to work alongside her dad in his herb shop. When pushed too hard to court Moses Weaver by the knitting circle she attends, Cassia reveals the truth; she’s been secretly engaged…to an Outsider. Not a baptized Amish member, she won’t be shunned, but when she sees her dear dad’s broken heart, will she break her engagement? Can she leave the Amish and the herb shop…and her dad?The Herbalist’s Daughter takes you ...

Karen Anna Vogel's 3 bestselling Christmas books all in one bundle, along with dozens of authentic Amish recipes baked or cooked in the stories. ***Love Came Down at Christmas: Ranked Amazon's #1 Christmas book 2014 Twelve year old Lexi Remington has a Christmas wish: to get out of foster care and be adopted. She gets it into her head that she can take the place of Matthew Yoder, her shunned Amish neighbor, and be part of the huge Yoder clan. A stray white dog, fixing a manger set with her foster dad, and a homeless man all show Lexi an important lesson about the love of God...which ...

Amish Knit & Crochet Circle: Smicksburg Tales 5, consist of 8 episodes along with 8 thrifty recipes that Granny shares with the new outreach at the Smicksburg Baptist Church. But this gives Granny time to get involved Amish women in need. The Punxsutawney Amish cell phone kerfuffle is in full swing. Clara and Jacob move down to Smicksburg, hoping their kin will follow a narrower path. Melvin wants a cell phone in his variety store sending Fannie into a tizzy. Would Melvin expect her to move to Punsxy? NEVER! A very homesick Ella visits from New York, a rift in her marriage and soul. Widow ...

As the autumn leaves whirl around Smicksburg, PA, so do two, or is it three romances. Widow Mad Maddie is outspoken and blunt. Who wouldn’t’ be after raising twenty kinner? But deep down, she’s as sweet as her pies. And lonely. So lonely she confides in her cow, Cupcake, who listens better than humans. Widow Miss Prim Rose is pretty, dainty and …and fragile. As fragile as one of her many teapots she collects, loving to bake teacakes and have tea parties. Problems with her natural family made her move from New York to live near her beloved Jane. (From the book, Plain Jane.) When the ...

Granny is back! But, she's not in Smicksburg, but visiting her kin in Holmes County, Ohio! Granny goes very reluctantly for a long visit to Ohio to visit her son. Six weeks! From Thanksgiving until Christmas! What will her knitting circle do without her? What will she do without them and their traditional Christmas party and cookie frolics? But, once in Ohio, she knows why Daniel asked them for such a long stay. Family secrets need to be ironed out and their twenty-year-old daughter, Rachel, is ready to jump the fence. Granny has dreaded a long stay in Holmes County since long lost family ...

Joanna Gore travels to Smicksburg, Pennsylvania under false pretenses. She has been corresponding with an Englisher for over a year. Are they marriage material? She definitely wants to leave the Amish, no doubt about it. The Amish of Smicksburg are more primitive than the Beachy Amish, so no worries about being sucked into their lifestyle. She’ll be the new teacher at the one-room schoolhouse and stay until Christmas, seeing snow for the first time. Joanna meets a host of characters, including Granny and Jeb Weaver, and her life twists and turns until she is dizzied enough to fall on her ...

The hope of spring! The hope of a new life! Lena Graber is a relieved widow, not grieved. When her marriage ends, she relishes the peace, except when her mother-in-law torments her with debt. Fearful of losing her farm, Lena reaches out to Jacob King, who plows up the fields and plants winter wheat. Come spring, it should bring in a good profit. Jacob King has loved Lena since he was old enough to like girls. At twenty-seven he’s given up looking for a woman like Lena. Now that Lena is free to remarry, she considers Jacob’s proposal. But she needs time away and lives with her aunt and ...

Joy Hershberger wants to live up to her name, but joy is something she needs to fight for. Her entire Old Order Amish family is leaving the People. Joy visits the Secret Garden B&B in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, finding rest and guidance from Naomi and Micah Yoder, along with the women in the spinning circle. When she meets Nathan Good, his character outshines her fiancé back home in Sugar Hollow, Ohio. Will time away from home give her perspective? Can she hold firm to her Old Order Amish ways, helping her dear family see that they're blaming the Amish for a beloved family members death? ...

Rachael Yoder has a secret sin, a sin only her twin knew and carried to her grave. At 20, she pushes Samuel Miller’s affections away, believing he deserves a better wife, although she loves him. When she finally confides in her pen pal, Rachael realizes she is forgiven and loved by God, but needs to confess her sin to the bishop, elders…and Samuel. Will she take her pen pal’s advice and confess? If so, will Samuel ever see her as the innocent childhood friend he grew up with and loved his whole life, or be outraged? Or does Samuel have secrets of his own? Dr. Maryann Roberts, a ...

Naomi Miller’s B&B is bustling, but her dear husband seems off kilter. Is she overreacting? Is turning 60 playing tricks on her mind? When Micah has a health scare, landing him in the hospital, she knows her intuition was right. Either Micah isn’t up for running a busy business, or the estrangement between his two nieces is causing him too much stress. But Micah has an angel looking after him…literally. Eight-year-old, Angel Coblenz, a guest at the B&B, bonds with Micah and asks if he and Aunt Naomi can adopt her. At their ages? Was it wise? This last book in the At Home in ...

Granny Weaver started a knitting circle believing women are stronger spun together, just like her wool. But she was young once with her own struggles. In 1963 Deborah Byler is twenty-one and has turned down seven marriage proposals from hopeful suitors in Millersburg, Ohio. At her parent's request, she goes to live with relatives in the new Amish settlement in Smicksburg, Pennsylvania, praying she'll find a match. Jeb Weaver lives in a strict Swartzentruber Amish settlement, and he can no longer abide under the rules of the Ordnung. His older brother left the family farm and settled in ...

Rebecca Mendenhall is counting the days to Christmas, when she'll wed Johnny Whittier in their Quaker Meeting House. But in September, a division is formed between Rebecca and Johnny. The Fugitive Slave Law is enacted, making it illegal to aid runaway slaves in Pennsylvania, punishable by heavy fines and prison sentences. Rebecca's parents are avid abolitionists and Johnny' father is not, believing Quakers must abide by the laws of the land. Division's among the Quakers on how to deal with this new law splits their Meeting House in two: Rebecca in one house and Johnny in another. Will ...

"Reading Amish Friends Knitting Circle is like attending a warm and loving family reunion, letting us catch up on the lives of the Amish people that we met and fell in love with in her Amish Knitting Circle series." Sarah Price ~ The Amish of Lancaster Series Following the tradition of Pickwick Papers (Charles Dickens) and Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery), Amish Friends Knitting Circle is a continuing story, broken down into 8 parts. If you liked the best-selling, Amish Knitting Circle, the prequel to this series, then join Granny Weaver as she invites her friends from the Smicksburg ...

Thousands of women worldwide are being helped by Granny Weaver and her knitting circle friends as they solve problems the Amish way. The prequels to this series are: Amish Knitting Circle: Smicksburg Tales 1 Amish Friends Knitting: Smicksburg Tales 2) If you haven't read them, you can still jump in and join the girls in this series: When readers told me their knitting circles were reading episodes of Amish Knitting Circle and then Amish Friends Knitting Circle and then making the dessert recipes included, an idea popped into my head. Granny loves Jane Austen, so why not have the women read ...

There are as many twists and turns in this novel as the roads in Smicksburg, PA! Gracie Hershberger's dear mom passed on to Glory, giving her time to court her beau, Silas Miller. However, her brother from Smicksburg needs her due to a family emergency. When Gracie meets Leander Yoder, she compares him to Silas a bit too much, and her beau doesn't measure up. Actually, Gracie’s never met an Amish man who she’d been taken with so quickly. Leander has a port wine stain birthmark on his face. Gracie's beauty astounds him, but he can hardly believe she'd consider him marriage material. Deep...

Jane Schmucker is on a quest for independence, having been raised with an iron fist and with little love by her relatives. When she reads the novel, Jane Eyre, it inspires her to leave Punxsutawney and head to Cherry Creek, New York for a job. Although 20, she's naive about the ways of the world and falls for the charms of a very attractive Amish man, Jonas Hershberger. Although arrogant and mysterious, can she change him like Jane Eyre's goodness changed Mr. Rochester? Or will Luke Miller, her childhood friend, prayers be heard? Bring Jane back to all who love her in Punxsutawney! Bring ...

Raven Meadows was raised on the Allegheny Indian Reservation in New York but placed in foster care after the death of her grandparents. Moving from one foster home to another, she’s had two constants in life: knitting and her ragdoll. Now at 24, she works as a social worker in a foster home for boys. To her surprise, Amish families from Cherry Creek, NY apply to be foster parents. She quickly bonds with one Amish woman, Susanna Yoder, a knitter waiting for a kidney transplant. Susanna shows Raven her prayer shawl, and seeing what comfort it brings, Raven eagerly knits prayer shawls and ...

Lena and Ruth are still at home in Punxsutawney, being next door neighbors. Lena is happily remarried, and as spring unfolds, what can steal their joy? Their neighbors with many dark secrets. Ruth believes the husband is slowly draining the life out of his wife and adult daughters. She tells the husband Christian character is above Amish manmade rules and calls him out as a hypocrite. Lena tones Ruth down and suggests they plant seeds of hope and love with appropriated doses of scripture to help the family. But Ruth was given a warning back home in New York for being too evangelical. She's ...