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Il Corteggiamento di Nellie Fisher Serie

Questa serie segue una giovane donna la cui vita è profondamente plasmata dalle tradizioni e dalla fede della sua comunità Amish. Quando un evento tragico e le voci che si diffondono sconvolgono il suo mondo, è costretta a confrontarsi con le contraddizioni tra vecchi costumi e nuove idee. Deve fare scelte difficili tra amore, famiglia e la ricerca della verità, anche se ciò significa rischiare l'esclusione dall'unica società che abbia mai conosciuto. Le storie esplorano la forza della fede, il sacrificio personale e le sfide del cambiamento all'interno di una comunità unita.

The Longing
The Forbidden
The Parting

Ordine di lettura consigliato

  1. The Parting

    • 352pagine
    • 13 ore di lettura

    The People themselves dare to challenge the Old Ways of their heritage. . .and each patriarch must choose a side. Nearly one hundred days have passed since the untimely death of Nellie Mae Fisher's beloved younger sister, Suzy, and Nellie dares again to dream of a future with handsome Caleb Yoder. But with rumors about Suzy still flying among the People, there are those who would keep the young courting couple apart. . .including Caleb's own father. Meanwhile, a growing number of Honeybrook's Amish farmers are demanding tractors and other forbidden modern conveniences. When a revival adds to the tensions, passions flare. With the Old Order community pushed to the breaking point, Nellie and Caleb find their families and themselves in the midst of what threatens to become an impossible divide.

    The Parting1

  2. The Forbidden

    • 352pagine
    • 13 ore di lettura

    New York Times bestselling author's continuing tale of a courting couple and the separation of families during an Amish split in Lancaster County.

    The Forbidden2
    4,2

  3. The Longing

    Although she still prays for Caleb, Nellie Mae Fisher has broken up with her beau. Now, her heart's greatest longing is for more knowledge of the Lord. Caleb yearns for freedom, as his plans to leave Honeybrook have been thwarted. He must stay on as caretaker for his father, who was crippled in a wintertime accident. He also longs for Nellie Mae, still hoping that she will return to the Old Order...and to him. Christian Yoder, a young Mennonite man, longs to get to know Nellie Mae better...and to share with her the secrets of her sister Suzy's final days. Rhoda, Nellie's older sister, longs for more of what the world has to offer--from fancy clothes, to her own car, to a new English boyfriend. Meanwhile, father Rueben Fisher longs for unity--among his family and all the brethren. Whose longing will be satisfied, and whose will not?

    The Longing3
    4,3