Alice Evans
1) Amish Deaf
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Rebecca is a single Amish woman turning thirty and she has all but given up hope of finding a husband. She works as a teacher in the outside world and has a boy in her class who is deaf. Trained in sign language, she bonds with the boy who seems to be in desperate need of a mother as his own had passed away years earlier. She eventually meets the boy's father and the attraction is immediate. But the father, like the son, is deaf in a figurative way...
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Lovina wants nothing more than to love and be loved. She thought she found "the one" in Luke but he left her during his Rumspringa for young Englisch woman. Burying herself in her work, she fears facing years of loneliness. Sensing that her mind isn't on the job, her employer sends her home early with the advice to take a few days off. On the way home, she meets Thomas, an Amish visiting from the neighboring community. A romance soon blooms but is...
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The diaries kept by Violet Carey during the occupation of Guernsey show precisely how the German invasion affected the lifestyle of an upper middle class woman. Whilst never indulging in self-pity, she captures the misery caused by imprisonment and the lethargy and depression that many, including herself, suffered, a feeling intensified by fear of the unknown and the sense of isolation from England and from relatives and the rest of the war. In her...
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Laura is an Amish young woman who has dreams beyond what both her family and community have prescribed for her. She wants to work outside the home but her husband quickly dismisses the idea without a debate. But Laura doesn't take no for an answer and seeks to prove her husband wrong. Will her resolve be enough to change his heart and preserve their love?