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With her uncle's health declining, Esther Yoder wants nothing more than to sell his mercantile store. But what she doesn't count on is Joseph Kemp being the prospective buyer. He's the reason Esther fled her Amish community, and Esther fears her shameful past could threaten the sale. Can they learn to forgive each other--or will old guilt stand in the way of their future?

The Borger family left Germany and settled in Lake County, Indiana. Some family members later emigrated to central Kansas.

"It's January 1985 -- the Hawkins crew have survived their battle with the mind flayer, but Will and Joyce are still reeling from the recent death of Bob Newby. After he and Mr. Clarke discover a mysterious map Bob left in a box of old nerdy memorabilia, Will rallies the crew to investigate -- but with a blizzard coming, they're afraid to follow. When Mike, Dustin, and Lucas learn that Will has taken off into the freezing wilds alone they rush to...

America has been at war since 2001, and a sizeable percentage of the soldiers deployed have been women. Soldier Girls follows the lives of three of them over twelve years, on their paths to the military, overseas to combat, back home, then overseas again for two of them. We watch as they become friends, interact, and separate. We see the effects on their lives and their families. Deeply reported and powerfully moving, their story is truly groundbreaking....

"The shocking true story of one of the twentieth century's most prolific female serial killers." -- book jacket. Belle Gunness engaged in wholesale slaughter, partly out of greed but mostly for the sheer joy of it. Between 1902 and 1908 she lured a succession of unsuspecting victims to her La Porte, Indiana 'murder farm.' Some were hired hands. Others were well-to-do bachelors. All of them vanished without a trace. When their bodies were dug up,...

The former Vice President looks at the challenges of balancing the demands of life while maintaining a deep commitment to family and faith and how gathering around the dinner table every evening can help keep these principles intact.