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A carregar... A Stranger's Gift (Women of Pinecraft) (edição 2011)por Anna Schmidt
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Review: A Stranger's Gift by Anna Schmidt 5 STARS It makes me want to go help more or at least get out and make a goal again to make at least 52 hats this year for those in need. I enjoyed reading this book to start the new year. John Steiner has spent the last two years since he moved to Florida fixing up the old house,orchards,gardens and packing warehouse. He wants to be alone and self sustaining on his land. He is Amish but left his church and state when they shunned him. Two different people came and told him he need to ride out the hurricane in a shelter. John refused he went to a shelter the last time and it was crowded and he didn't have to go. Hester Detweiler is in charge of one of the Mennonite charities that help in times of diaster. Because John's Aunt's is a Senator she was asked to go warn him. Hester resented having to go warn him and than he refused to go. She felt their were others who needed her help more. Margery Barker is a widow that lives and runs a fishing charters close to John and trying for the past two years to friend him. She was the first to try and get him into a shelter. Well the hurricane hit his place hard. The river was coming into his house fast as he was gathering stuff to take upstairs with him the roof and a wall crashed in on him. He was lucky to have survived holding onto a beam. all of his trees the old and the new ones destroyed. Could not get to town by road with all the trees down across his road. Chicken coop destroyed, damage to the warehouse. Broke his wrist and had to be airlifted out. He had to learn again that he had to accept help and give it. Forgive himself for his mother's death and realize that he can trust others again. It is a Christian story of helping others,relying on prayer and scriptures. That positive things can come out of our trials. I would read gladly more books from Anna. I was given this ebook to read in exchange of honest review from Netgalley. 11/01/2011 PUB Barbour Publishing, Inc. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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Hester Detlef, local Mennonite volunteer coordinator for disaster relief In Pincraft, Florida, defied the Old Order Mennonite tradition of limited education to get her college degree. Still single, Hester is well aware that her father has attempted to match her with Samuel Longbecker. but she has no feelings for the carpenter or for any other man. When a devastating hurricane roars across the barrier islands just off the Gulf coast of Florida, John Steiner is swept in Hester's path. Due to his stubbornness to evacuate his cluster of ramshackle buildingds at the onset of the hurricane, John is badly injured. And after being formerly shunned by his Amish community, he's now jobless, homeless, and faithless. As Hester offers a helping hand, will John have the patience to put up with the Mennonite do-gooder who seems determined to restore his faith, rebuild his property, and restore his heart? And will Hester find love amid the debris? Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Hester is trying her best to help her neighbors and friends prepare for a hurricane that's coming, but she really doesn't have the time or patience to deal with John Hafner, who is getting preferential treatment because his aunt is a Congresswoman. John is as stubborn as Hester, so the sparks fly right away between these two. In fact, their stubbornness is exactly why I had a bit of trouble getting into this story, but once I did, it was a quick read. I think I liked the side characters more, which is a good thing given that this is the first book in a trilogy. I just wanted to shake the crap out of both Hester and John because they got into their own way all the time, but you find yourself rooting for them by the end,
Recommended - 4/5 stars. ( )