Help for Hobbies of all Sorts by Rene' Hobbie

Monday, August 1, 2011

Recently, I was browsing the shelves of a Christian bookstore.  There were so many interesting new books that it was difficult to choose which one I wanted to read first.  The Amish Midwife jumped off the shelf at me because it held many good (gut!) elements that I find entertaining to read about...mystery, adoption, the Amish and Mennonite lifestyles, suspense, and romance.  I couldn't put the novel down.  It was anything but predictable and held many WOW elements right to the very end. 


A dusty carved box containing two locks of hair and a century-old letter regarding property in Switzerland, and a burning desire to learn about her biological family lead nurse-midwife Lexie Jaeger from her home in Oregon to the heart of Pennsylvania Amish country. There she meets Marta Bayer, a mysterious lay-midwife who desperately needs help after an Amish client and her baby die.
Lexie steps in to assume Marta's patient load even as she continues the search for her birth family, and from her patients she learns the true meaning of the Pennsylvania Dutch word demut, which means 'to let be' as she changes from a woman who wants to control everything to a woman who depends on God.

A compelling story about a search for identity and the ability to trust that God securely holds our whole life-past, present, and future.

I'll be starting its sequel soon! 



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