Levi Yoder permits Amish turned Englisher, Margaret Goodman, to visit his son, Luke, a week at Christmas each year. Stubborn, unbending Levi threatens to stop her visits if she gives Luke a journal on Christmas day. Levi doesn't want his son to know he told the boy lies that only Margaret and Levi's father, Jeremiah, knows. Fearing Margaret will reveal the truth and turn Luke against his father, Levi makes her visit miserable, hoping she will leave before Christmas. If that happens, Margaret realizes that her hope, that some day Levi will treat her like he did years ago when they were in...

This play is a tale of two sisters. After years of being in the middle of a family fued between their mother and aunt, Mary and Janet decide to visit Aunt Mabel in the nursing home. Mary wants to see how bad off Aunt Mabel's health is. Mary's knee deep in debt and thinks she will be in her aunt's will. Janet has been curious for years about what caused the rife between their mother and aunt. Before it's too late, she wants to see if Aunt Mable will tell them the family secret. Mary and Janet get the surprise of their life with this long over due visit. It turns out to be more of a revelation...

Moser Mansion has become spooky. Libby sees ghosts in the middle of the night roaming around the house with her. Gracie's sure the hauntings is a plot of a crooked contractor who wants to buy the mansion and turn it into a hotel. Seems the only one wo has the answers to what's going on is Moxie's pet, talking parrot Turkeyneck.

Tales about a woman's fight with wolves, an Indian attack, an Indian visitor that refuses to leave, homesteading woes and a tall tale.

Fay Risner has brought Stringbean Hooper to life again with the second story in the Stringbean Hooper series about his adventures in the West. Looking forward to a journey across country to San Jose, California, Stringbean and his wife, Theo, have no idea just how much trouble they can get into. Mishaps, upset Indians, a flood, a mad bear, and more happen to the Hoopers. Through it all, Stringbean meets the challenges with his usual sense of humor, but he notices as the journey drags out that Theo is getting crankier by the minute. He sure hopes she lightens up by the time they get to her...

Locked Rock, Iowa is lively again with Gracie Evans and her friends antics. Enjoy this story about Moser Mansion Rest Home residents attempt to make conditions better for women in 1905. What do you know Gracie Evans, Moser Mansion resident, has turned into a women's activist. Locked Rock's newspapter is full of news from back east. Suffragettes are burning their corsets to draw attention to the fact that they want the same right to vote as the men. Women are trying to bring on prohibition with the help of Carrie A. Nation, Temperance Movement leader, by smashing saloons with hatchets. Gracie...

Fay Risner, in Book Two of her Amish series, links the modern world to the timeless Amish way of life when Nurse Hallie Lindstrom falls in love with Amish widower John Lapp. This is a fascinating look at two differing cultures set in an intricate and richly detailed tapestry of a traditional Amish setting in Southern Iowa. The Amish simple way of life based on faith, convictions and honesty is entwined in this love story between an English woman and an Amish man. Hallie Lindstrom, Home Health Nurse, has copper-red hair, a fondness for jeans and owns a copper sedan which inhibits the Amish...

Early spring is once again turning the snow melted hills of southern Iowa into green, lush pastures filled with livestock and their capering newborns. Amish farmers are in the fields, tilling and planting corn. In the Amish community, usually it isn't mentioned outside of the family and close friends when new babies are expected. This particular spring all that changes in Nurse Hal's community. At least for the Lapp family. Hal's expecting a baby very soon and not feeling well with so much work to do for her family. That's why she's pleasantly surprised and grateful when she receives a letter...