Books by Mary Ellis
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4.28 of 5 Votes: 5
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review 1: Phoebe loves to sketch. She loves to spend hours making pretty pictures and would rather do that then her other chores. She is also quite shy and does not go to many social gatherings. When her cousin Henry tells her about a rumschpringe trip to Niagara Falls she can’t wait to go...
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3.63 of 5 Votes: 4
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review 1: Emily and Alexander are about as opposite as two people can be, a Quaker abolitionist and a southern gentleman helping the confederacy. Despite having very different viewpoints on the Civil War, they must learn to live in the same household, as she is the governess for his nieces...
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4.24 of 5 Votes: 4
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review 1: I my honest opinion is this is a great love story an struggle between strong Amish and Baptist belief. Rachel King an Amish girl always wanted to work with horses. Rachel left Pennsylvania, Lancaster County, after her parents were kill in a fire. She went to live with her cousin ...
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4.34 of 5 Votes: 5
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review 1: Pretty good book.Three problems I found was, (1) Hannah was to cranky. She snapped at others for asking a mere question,and the questions were innocent ones. Like how are you today?(2) And the sheep were big part for the first half of the book, then they were an after thought.(3)...
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4.26 of 5 Votes: 4
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review 1: I very much enjoyed this book about an Amish lay midwife who is arrested following the death of a mother giving birth. The mother was not her client and had not sought prenatal care, and had bled significantly before Abby was called for assistance. While I do not share the faith...
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4.25 of 5 Votes: 1
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review 1: Though the storyline was pretty good I kept getting sidetracked by the inconsistencies with time and ages and personalities. One of the biggest personality changes from book one to book two was Seth. He and Simon seemed to switch stances between books on the corn issue. Simon was...
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4.43 of 5 Votes: 2
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review 1: Have you ever gotten yourself into a situation that seems to just 'run away' with you and you can't quite do anything to stop it? I feel like that's the kind of situation Leah gets into at the diner. She's not exactly sure what's going on, and it seems like things are always happ...
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4.23 of 5 Votes: 4
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review 1: Turns out this book is a Novella, not a full length book.A sweet story of a young woman who determines to find her long-lost brother and convince him to return home to the family. When she appears on his doorstep he is surprised but not convinced. She leaves to return home in tim...
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4.29 of 5 Votes: 1
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review 1: Never thought I could read this in one day! It's a full length novel. But the day turned out to be one where I had more reading time than usual. A gripping story of an Amish couple who, not yet married but promised to each other, made the decision to move from Pennsylvania to Mai...
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4.08 of 5 Votes: 4
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review 1: A Marriage for Meghan-book#2(series Wayne County) by Mary EllisI got this book from library and was happy to read about Meghan wanting to be a teacher so bad that she tells the boy she has known all her life and everyone expected her to marry to back off...yes she needed time to ...