Fall was normally a routine season in Amish Country with harvest taking up much of the Plain farmers time. They put in long hours of hard work, shucking corn and making the last crop of hay. But one fall near Wickenburg, Iowa wasn't normal at all. When Jacob Stolfus's barn burnt down, he saw a rider on horseback leave his cornfield. After Sheriff Dawson investigated, he said the fire was arson. The news spread through the Amish Community, leaving Plain people stunned and in fear. As quickly as they could, the Amish farmers organized a barn raising so life on the Stolfus Dairy farm could get...

Review for Open A Window This book shares what is possible if we allow a person with Alzheimer's to "be" who they are right now. Thank you for "opening" a window, Fay. Jolene Brackey Alzheimer's speaker and author of "Creating Moments Of Joy" This caregiver handbook is designed to help care for people with Alzheimer's disease or other dementia illnesses in the home, hospital, nursing home or home health settings. As a Certified Nurse Aide for fifteen years, I learned with my on the job training how to work with the residents at the nursing home. My ten years of experience helping my mother...

An American version of Miss Marple, Gracie Evans is homesick and tired of retirement. She's bored with living in the Moser Mansion Rest Home For Women in Locked Rock, Iowa. Spring brings back pleasant memories so she prays to God to give her a chance to go back to her farm for a little while. No one is more surprised than Gracie when her prayer comes true. The renter asks her to stay at her farm for a month while he goes on vacation. Soon she decides she should be more careful what she prays for. Her thrill at finding wild strawberries to pick dulls when she sees an Indian swimming naked in...

Sheriff Stringbean Hooper's job description for sheriff is relaxing while he watches the town out his office window. He leans back in his chair with his feet on his desk and takes it easy. All that changes when the town doctor, Doc Strummer, reports his wife has disappeared. Hooper finds himself in the middle of a crime and a family feud between cattle baron, Mac Sullivan, and the cattle baron's son-in-law, Dr. Strummer. Hooper's only backups are a nervous pig farmer that works as his part time deputy, and a gun toting woman rancher who has her sights set on marrying him. Having them for...

Fay Risner has brought Stringbean Hooper to life again with this 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 would get into. Mishaps like upset Indians, a flood, a mad bear, a crazy woman with prairie fever 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 Theo is getting crankier by the minute. He sure hopes she lightens...

When Leona Krebsbach found out just before Thanksgiving she didn't have long to live, she took charge of her life like she had always done since the doctor thought she might die in a month. She bought a small spiral notepad and titled it Christmas Bucket List. On each page of the notepad, Leona listed something she needed to get done while she still had time. Details like her funeral headed the list. She didn't want to leave anything for her daughters to have to worry about after she was gone. She kept her illness a secret until after Thanksgiving when she had all but one thing completed on...

Moser Mansion Rest Home For Women in Locked Rock, Iowa has become a spooky place. One of the residents, Libby Hook, sees ghosts in the middle of the night, roaming around the house with her. She has everyone living in the mansion awake and on edge with her screaming. Always practical, Gracie Evans is sure the hauntings is a plot of a crooked contractor who wants to buy the mansion and turn it into a hotel. He would like to see the residents move out so Miss Molly has a reason to sell the mansion and make all of them homeless. Seems the only one who really has the answers to what's going on is...

Fruher Fruhling dreht sich wieder einmal der Schnee geschmolzen Hugeln der sudlichen Iowa in der grunen, uppigen Weiden gefullt mit Vieh und ihre Herumtollen Neugeborenen. Amish Bauern auf den Feldern, Pflugen und das Einpflanzen Mais. In der Amish-Gemeinschaft, in der Regel ist es nicht ausserhalb der Familie und engen Freunden erwahnt, wenn neue Babys zu erwarten sind. Diese besondere Fruhjahr alle, die Krankenschwester Hal Gemeinschaft andert in. Zumindest fur die Familie Lapp. Hal ist ein Kind erwartet sehr bald und fuhlt sich nicht gut mit so viel Arbeit fur ihre Familie zu tun. Aus...

Elizabeth Winston grew up not caring about Christmas. This Christmas is going to be much worse than the holidays she and her brother, Scott, shared with her divorced parents. Her former boyfriend, Steven Mitchell, showed up to pester her about renewing their relationship now that his marriage has ended and Elizabeth vows that is not going to happen. Elizabeth always looks forward to sharing Christmas with her brother, Scott, but he says he won't be able to spend Christmas with her this year. He has a business trip. His present for her is an expensive and obnoxious robot house man by the name...

Fay Risner brings readers the story of an Amish man and a once Amish woman. Follow the twists and turns in their lives while they make each other miserable. At the same time they try to carry out their Christmas Traditions for, Levi's son, the little boy they both love. Levi Yoder threatens to make this Margaret's last visit. A visit which proves to be very different from all the others. A terrifying fire sets a girl's dress on fire during the Amish Christmas school program, and Margaret struggles to save a girl that falls into an icy creek only to find out she is Margaret's niece. If that...