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Product Identifiers
PublisherBethany House Publishers
ISBN-100764203401
ISBN-139780764203404
eBay Product ID (ePID)56897272
Product Key Features
Book TitlePostcard
Number of Pages318 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicAmish & Mennonite, Christian / Romance
Publication Year2007
FeaturesReprint
GenreFiction
AuthorBeverly Lewis
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight11.9 Oz
Item Length8.6 in
Item Width5.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal813/.54
Edition DescriptionReprint
SynopsisBestselling author Beverly Lewis's story of a weary big-city journalist and a New Order Amish woman whose lives come together over a mysterious postcard., In this tender novel and its sequel, two people from different worlds discover a long-kept secret--and forbidden love. Rachel Yoder has resigned herself to life as an Amish widow. Though painfully shy, she and her young daughter help her parents run a bed-and-breakfast in Lancaster County. Philip Bradley, a New York journalist on assignment, comes to stay at the Yoder's B&B. When he finds an old postcard written in Pennsylvania Dutch, he enlists Rachel's help in uncovering its mysteries. When Philip and Rachel are drawn to one another, her Amish community's rules seem destined to keep them apart., Presents the story of a weary big-city journalist and a New Order Amish woman whose lives come together over a mysterious postcard., A Long-Forgotten Message Threatens a Community United in Secrecy Rachel Yoder, a New Order Amish woman, lost her husband and son in a tragic accident two years ago. Now, returning to her aging parents with her young daughter, she has resigned herself to the life of a widow. With a subdued but cheerful heart she helps her family run a bed-and-breakfast in a quaint Lancaster county town.Philip Bradley, a world-weary journalist from New York City on assignment in Lancaster to write an article on the Amish community, is a lodger at the Yoder's B&B. A chance discovery by Philip of a postcard written in illegible Pennsylvania Dutch in the dresser of his room sets off a series of events that leads him into the heart of the Amish life and to the bedside of a mysterious woman known as "The Storyteller." With the postcard as a link to a haunted past, the woman gradually weaves a riveting tale as old as herself about a community shuttered in secrecy, shattered by betrayal.Fascinated by the story, Philip's and Rachel's lives become inevitably intertwined despite the attempts of the community to protect her from the outsider. Torn by devotion to the people she loves and the awakening feelings in her heart, Rachel searches her past to restore old wounds in order than new love might grow.