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The First Love by Beverly Lewis

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THE FIRST LOVE
By: Beverly Lewis

Bethany House
September 2018
On Sale: September 4, 2018
304 pages
ISBN: 0764219685
EAN: 9780764219689
Kindle: B07D6XT14M
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Inspirational Amish | Inspirational Historical

It's the summer of 1951, and Maggie Esh is in need of some hope. Sweet-spirited and uncommonly pretty despite struggling with chronic illness, she is used to being treated kindly by the young men of her Old Order Amish church district. Yet Maggie wishes she were more like other courting-age girls so she could live a normal, healthy life.

To make matters more complicated, Dat has recently remarried, less than a year after her mother died. And while her stepmother is kind, Rachel is much younger than Mamm, and she simply doesn't understand Maggie or her illness the way Mamm did.

When tent revival meetings come to the area, Maggie is curious, and the words of the Mennonite preacher challenge her to reconsider what she knows about faith. Can she learn to trust God even when hope seems a distant dream?

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