01726cam a2200301 4500 128870900 TxAuBib 20130222120000.0 120402s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2012013185 9780764210525 hbk. 0764210521 hbk. 9780764209789 pbk. 0764209787 pbk. (OCoLC)777653615 TxAuBib Lewis, Beverly, 1949- The bridesmaid / Beverly Lewis. Minneapolis, Minn : Bethany House, 2012. 316 p. ; 22 cm. Twenty-seven-year-old Joanna Kurtz has made several trips to the altar, but never as a bride. The single young Amish woman is a closet writer with a longing to be published something practically unheard of in her Lancaster County, Pennsylvania community. Yet Joanna's stories aren't her only secret. She also has a beau who is courting her from afar, unbeknownst even to her sister, Cora, who, though younger, seems to have suitors to spare. Eben Troyer is a responsible young Amish man who hopes to make Joanna Kurtz his bride, if he can ever leave his parents' farm in Shipshewana, Indiana. Yet with his only brother off in the English world, intent on a military career, Eben's hopes for building a life with his dear Joanna are dimming, and patience is wearing thin. Will Joanna ever be more than a bridesmaid? 20130222. Amish women Pennsylvania Lancaster County Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Women authors Fiction. Amish farmers Indiana Fiction. TXKEP