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Author : Louis Bromfield
Release : 1996
Genre : Agriculture
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 062/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Return to Pleasant Valley by : Louis Bromfield
Download or read book Return to Pleasant Valley written by Louis Bromfield. This book was released on 1996. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marta Perry
Release : 2018-06-05
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 564/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Anna's Return by : Marta Perry
Download or read book Anna's Return written by Marta Perry. This book was released on 2018-06-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the third Pleasant Valley novel, the Amish community welcomes back one of their daughters, but she hasn’t returned alone... After spending three years in the English world, Anna Beiler has come back to Pleasant Valley with a baby girl, which will surely cause a stir since Anna is unmarried. She is also hiding secrets: the baby is not hers by birth, nor does she intend to stay. Rather, she desperately needs sanctuary from the child’s violent father... It surprises Anna how quickly her Amish habits return to her, and how satisfying it feels to reconnect with her friends and family. Even Anna’s childhood friend Samuel, whose slow, thoughtful manner used to frustrate her, becomes a fond and reassuring companion. But Anna hasn’t fully faced the consequences of her irresponsible youth, and now, her mere presence may endanger the family she holds dear. If she wants to stay, she must seek forgiveness from the community whose blessing she took for granted, and experience the true change of heart required to make a new beginning.
Author : Marta Perry
Release : 2015-10-06
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 983/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis At Home in Pleasant Valley by : Marta Perry
Download or read book At Home in Pleasant Valley written by Marta Perry. This book was released on 2015-10-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in one low-priced volume, the first three novels in the acclaimed series set in the Amish community of Pleasant Valley... Settle in to the quiet corner of Pennsylvania known as Pleasant Valley in these three novels of love, family, and the Amish community... Leah’s Choice All of Pleasant Valley seems to think the newcomer from Lancaster County is the perfect match for school teacher Leah Beiler. Daniel Glick is a widower with three children—but his past haunts him, and Leah has secrets of her own. Rachel’s Garden Rachel is struggling to raise her young children and run her farm after her husband's death. A new life and a new love may be on the horizon for her—but only if she can discover the courage to embrace them. Anna’s Return Anna has come back to Pleasant Valley with a baby girl...which will surely cause a stir, since she is unmarried. But this close-knit community doesn’t know the truth about what Anna has done, and what she is running from...
Author : Marta Perry
Release : 2019-02-05
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 602/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Hannah's Joy by : Marta Perry
Download or read book Hannah's Joy written by Marta Perry. This book was released on 2019-02-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Returning to Pleasant Valley gives a widow a much-needed chance at a new life. But now she must decide if she truly belongs in the Amish world... Unexpected tragedy has left Hannah without her soldier husband and a home for her baby son, Jamie. Seeking refuge, she comes to live with her aunt in Pleasant Valley, a place she hasn’t seen since childhood, when her parents left the Mennonite faith. Working in her aunt’s bakery is a way for Hannah to get back on her feet, but she isn’t sure if she can live by tradition—or if she and Jamie should stay for good. She finds an unexpected sympathetic listener in furniture maker William Brand. His stutter makes him feel like a permanent outsider in his Amish community, and he understands her loneliness. Hannah is irresistibly drawn to the shy, caring William, and her education in speech therapy makes it natural for her to want to help him speak more easily. But how can she encourage his attention when she might someday leave Pleasant Valley, and when her father-in-law, a military officer, is scheming to take Jamie away from her? As William seeks the courage to stand up for the woman who believes in him, Hannah must decide where her true home lies—in the free, ever-changing world she knows, or in the simpler, loving community she’s found...
Author : Clyde Griffen
Release : 1978
Genre : Business & Economics
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 257/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Natives and Newcomers by : Clyde Griffen
Download or read book Natives and Newcomers written by Clyde Griffen. This book was released on 1978. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important contribution to the literature on mobility in nineteenth-century America examines with a fine microscope the world of work in Poughkeepsie, New York. The careers of all workers in each occupation--the entire labor force in this city with an 1870 population of 20,000--are traced over three decades. The book clarifies for the first time in any mobility study the meaning of shifts in employment through detailed examination of individual occupations. It shows concretely how industrialization altered the structure of opportunity; it specifies how the change affected the occupational niches and paths of mobility found by Irish, German, and British newcomers compared to white and black natives. By reassessing the significance of achieving particular occupations such as clerking and craft proprietorships, the book poses important questions for historical interpretations of gross indices of mobility such as shift from blue-collar to white-collar status. The authors favor comparability in their general analysis of mobility from federal census rolls and city directories, but they refine it through a broad research base, including tax rolls, local newspapers, and voluntary association records. Their study is one of the first to make systematic use of the credit reports on every business in one city from the R. G. Dun & Co. manuscripts. It also provides the first full description of the employment of women, permitting comparison with the opportunities for men. Other distinctive aspects include treatment of the crucial dimension of wealth and income, close attention to shifts in occupations produced by transformations in technology, marketing, and finance, and some disentangling of the influence of religion and nationality upon achievement. The fine lens of this microscopic study has enabled Clyde Griffen and Sally Griffen to describe geographic, occupational, and property mobility in a small city with statistical precision, to illuminate the larger social processes which shaped that mobility, and, simultaneously, to vivify the working lives of anonymous American men and women.
