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  • Bibliography:
    89 Books (17 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1997
  • Latest Book:
    January 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Always Trouble Somewhere

1 - School's Out (Jul-2007)
2 - Back to School (Jul-2007)
3 - Out of Control (Jun-2008)
4 - New Beginnings (Jun-2008)
5 - A Happy Heart (Dec-2008)
6 - Just Plain Foolishness (Dec-2008)
7 - Jumping to Conclusions (Jun-2009)
8 - Growing Up (Jun-2009)

Amish Cooking Class

1 - The Seekers (Feb-2017)
2 - The Blessing (Aug-2017)
3 - The Celebration (Feb-2018)

An Amish Greenhouse Mystery

1 - The Crow's Call (Mar-2020)
2 - The Mockingbird's Song (Aug-2020)
3 - The Robin's Greeting (Mar-2021)

Brides of Webster County

1 - Going Home (Sep-2004)
2 - On Her Own (Jun-2005)
3 - Dear to Me (Aug-2005)
4 - Allison's Journey (Nov-2005)

Brides of Lancaster County

1 - A Merry Heart (1997)
2 - Looking For A Miracle (Mar-2001)
3 - Plain and Fancy (Apr-2002)
4 - The Hope Chest (Jun-2002)

Brides of Lehigh Canal

1 - Kelly's Chance (Dec-2003)
2 - Betsy's Return (Nov-2007)
3 - Sarah's Choice (Dec-2010)

Creekside Discoveries

1 - The Walnut Creek Wish (Aug-2021)
2 - Sugarcreek Surprise (Mar-2022)
3 - The Apple Creek Announcement (Aug-2022)

Daughters of Lancaster County

1 - The Storekeeper's Daughter (Mar-2005)
2 - The Quilter's Daughter (Mar-2006)
3 - The Bishop's Daughter (Jul-2006)

The Discovery

1 - A Goodbye to Yesterday (Feb-2013)
2 - The Silence of Winter (Mar-2013)
3 - The Hope of Spring (Apr-2013)
4 - The Pieces of Summer (May-2013)
5 - A Revelation in Autumn (Jun-2013)
6 - A Vow for Always (Jul-2013)

Double Trouble

1 - What a Pair! (Jun-2012)
2 - Bumpy Ride Ahead! (Oct-2012)
3 - Bubble Troubles (May-2013)
4 - Green Fever (Nov-2013)
5 - Humble Pie (Nov-2014)

The Friendship Letters

1 - Letters of Trust (Mar-2023)
2 - Letters of Comfort (Aug-2023)
3 - Letters of Wisdom (Mar-2024)

The Half-Stitched Amish Quilting Club

1 - The Half-Stitched Amish Quilting Club (Apr-2012)
2 - Tattered Quilt (Aug-2013)
3 - The Healing Quilt (Aug-2014)

Indiana Cousins

1 - A Cousin's Promise (Mar-2009)
2 - A Cousin's Prayer (Sep-2009)
3 - A Cousin's Challenge (Mar-2010)

Kentucky Brothers

1 - The Journey (Apr-2011)
2 - The Healing (Sep-2011)
3 - The Struggle (Apr-2012)

Prairie State Friends

1 - The Decision (Mar-2015)
2 - The Gift (Aug-2015)
3 - The Restoration (Feb-2016)

Prayer Jars

1 - The Hope Jar (Aug-2018)
2 - The Forgiving Jar (Feb-2019)
3 - The Healing Jar (Aug-2019)

Sisters of Holmes County

1 - A Sister's Secret (Nov-2006)
2 - A Sister's Test (Jan-2008)
3 - A Sister's Hope (Jul-2008)

Book List in Order: 89 titles



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    Miriam Stolzfus is a young Amish woman living in the rolling hills of modern day Pennsylvania. She was once filled with wonderful dreams for a future with a man she adored...a man who decided to marry someone else. Now, Miriam is known in her communi...



  • Four new novellas with characters in the rescue profession and characters who need rescueing of body and soul. From authors Lauralee Bliss, Wanda Brunstetter, Pamela Griffin, and Tamela Hancock Murray....



  • As a child, Rebekah Stoltzfus suffered a freak accident that left her legs paralyzed. Now, confined to a wheelchair, she feels she'll never measure up to the expectations of her Pennsylvania Amish community that a woman marry and raise a family. She ...



  • Train travel promises speed, convenience, and adventure for Americans of the nineteenth century. But four young women are carrying excess baggage on their journeys. Uprooted from secure homes and forced to reexamine their positions in life, can any o...



  • Her stuttering and lack of self-confidence have her locked in a trap she can't escape. She's faced these problems since childhood, when her pretty, outgoing sister was born. Wanting to serve the Lord--and show her family she can amount to somethin...



  • Laura Meade loves her fancy, modern life but she's also fascinated by the Amish in Lancaster Valley, where she's studying interior design. When Laura meets Eli Yoder, one of the plain people, she falls hopelessly in love. Never much of a churchgo...



  • Is it wrong to hope for the impossible? Rachel Beachy wants something she can't have - her sister's boyfriend. Silas Swartley has been in love with Anna since they were children, and Rachel has desired Silas nearly as long. Like Job from the ...



  • Sinda Shull has secrets from her past which are the reason she feels she can never marry. When Sinda moves next door to widower Glen Olsen and his daughter, Tara, she struggles to leave the past behind. Sinda's home business keeps her hands busy, but...



  • Joe Richey has spent most of his life clowning around. He's become the "good guy" who jokes about everything and laughs through life. Lois Johnson broke up with her rich boyfriend who wasn't a Christian. She's committed to serving the Lord through...






  • Kelly McGregor says she'll never marry. . .not after what she's seen her father do to her mother. She's determined to escape her father's overbearing ways and the drudgery of driving the mules that pull his boat along the canal. Kelly dreams of ownin...





  • FAITH STUTZMANE IS GOING HOME.... Faith ran away from her Amish home ten years ago and is now chasing an unusual dream - of being a comedian. Recently widowed, though, she wants to find a stable home for her six-year-old daughter so she can travel...



  • The perfect ingredients for tasty reading, these four stories follow the culinary adventures--and misadventures--of a cooking instructor and three of her students who want to stir up a little romance....



  • Time appears to stand still in Naomi Fisher's Pennsylvania Amish community .... But she's running out of time to correct a terrible mistake. Naomi was content with her life... ...until her mother died in an accident. ...until her somber father n...



  • Lydia Dunmore is preparing to move from her country house to a retirement home in the city and has invited her four granddaughters to choose something to keep from her attic of long-forgotten treasures. Sheila seeks a doll she played with as a child,...



  • When Barbara Zook's husband David is killed unexpectedly on their tenth wedding anniversary, she doesn't know how she will be able to go on. Not only has she lost the love of her life, but she is also pregnant with their fourth child. How can Barbara...



  • Melinda Andrews loves deeply. She often pours that love into caring for hurt animals and sketching the deer that live in the woods behind her farm. This regularly gets her into trouble with her "maam" and "daed," who feel she shirks her duties to "te...



  • One beautiful, hand-tied patchwork quilt is the common thread linking hearts and renewing lives in these two charming Christmas novellas. In the first story, the quilt is lovingly created by a dying woman. In the second story, the quilt is passed on ...



  • Complications abound as love is encountered by four young schoolmarms in bygone days. In Schoolhouse Brides, one-room schoolhouses by the Lehigh Canal, on the prairies of Minnesota, amid the Blue Ridge Mountains, and in frontier Idaho are the setting...






  • Growing up with her impatient, disinterested aunt and five older brothers, Allison Troyer is more comfortable playing ball than keeping house. Now, the nineteen-year-old tomboy must learn to run an Amish household. But a future of domestic bliss is h...



  • Abby Miller's life is picture perfect. Abby runs a successful quilt shop and is engaged to a wonderful Amish man. But then duty calls. When she leaves her beloved shop and patient fiancé to attend to her mother in need, a double tragedy strikes, ...



  • The Amish bishop's daughter is off limits to an outsider like Jimmy... Even though Jimmy Scott's typical American upbringing isn't as far removed from the Amish as it may appear. After his mother dies from cancer, Jimmy learns he was not his parents...



  • Bestselling author Wanda E. Brunstetter brings you a touching story of a single mother widowed after World War II. Bev Winters’s new job is an answer to prayer and just in time for Christmas -- until her boss’s kindness awakens an old longing. Wi...



  • One sister's secret brings danger and deception to an Ohio Amish community. Putting her rumschpringe (running-around years) behind her, Grace Hostettler returns to Holmes County, Ohio; joins the Amish church; and begins a new life with a new roman...



  • Rachel's back in school in Lancaster County! And that's where trouble finds her once again! Except this time, trouble is spelled O-R-L-I-E. That's the name of the new boy-the freckle-faced kid with a nasty cowlick-who has an ornery attitude when it c...



  • School's Out! And so is Rachel, with trouble following close on her barefooted heels! Nine-year-old Rachel Yoder is a delightfully high-spirited Amish girl who finds plenty of trouble amid the rolling hills of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. When she...



  • The Covington family's wealth and status in Buffalo hold no appeal for William. His greatest desire is to minister to others. He is delighted, then, when a church in Walnutport, Pennsylvania, call him to be their pastor. Can he ever fill the shoes of...



  • One woman's shattered dream... One man's second chance... And the faith that can heal broken hearts. Ruth is the second oldest sister in the Hostettler family, and she has one burning desire--to marry and fill her Amish household with children. ...



  • Spring has sprung! And ten-year-old Rachel Yoder is filled with the hope of good things to come. But then she learns that her best friend is moving away. What will she do without her? When a new girl named Audra shows up at the Amish schoolhouse, Rac...






  • Ten-year-old Rachel is driving her Amish friends and family "buggy" with her lack of patience. Her attempts to control every situation bring her trouble at every turn-from sledding into a creek to scorching a yummy shoo-fly pie, to flunking a test in...



  • Lose yourself in Holmes County, where romance, suspense, mystery, and faith-filled Amish ways rule the day! Martha Hostettler is concerned about the continuous attacks being made on her Amish family. With a definite motive and a myriad of methods, Lu...





  • Holiday Desserts Sweeten Bitter Hearts Will Henderson, abandoned by his father sixteen years ago and left in the care of an Amish couple, has joined the Amish church and is about to marry Karen Yoder. But as Will contemplates marriage and potentia...



  • Welcome back to Lancaster County, and join lovable and outrageously rambunctious eleven-year-old Rachel Yoder, as she learns an important lesson about happiness. New from bestselling author Wanda E. Brunstetter is another winner in the Rachel Yoder-A...



  • Welcome back to Lancaster County, and join lovable and outrageously rambunctious eleven-year-old Rachel Yoder, as she learns an important lesson about contentment. Rachel Yoder embarks on a topsy-turvy adventure, as she experiences feelings of jealou...



  • LOVE IS A PROMISE -- FOR BETTER OR WORSE When a group of eight cousins and friends leaves their Indiana Amish community for a weekend getaway, a horrific accident brings them home forever changed. Permanently disabled by the accident, Wayne Lambrig...



  • Your kids will love this delightfully written and beautifully illustrated storybook about a young Amish boy named Solomon Lapp and his sister Sara. Growing up amid the beautiful rolling hills of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, the children encounter ...



  • Join Rachel Yoder on a series of adventures with this story collection written by bestselling author of Amish fiction Wanda E. Brunstetter. Four stories under one cover will provide you with unlimited entertainment and laughs along the way as yo...



  • New from bestselling author Wanda E. Brunstetter is another winner in the Rachel Yoder - Always Trouble Somewhere series. Readers will join eleven-year-old Rachel on her next adventure, as she makes things go from bad to worse with her out-of-control...






  • LEARNING TO LIVE AND LOVE AGAIN A year after her boyfriend was killed, a traumatized Katie Miller returns to her Amish community in Indiana, struggling with depression and panic attacks. Will she ever find the courage to face her inner demons? Free...



  • Listening FOR THE VOICE OF LOVE After a serious van accident leaves Amish schoolteacher Jolene Yoder profoundly deaf, she leaves home to learn how to read lips and communicate with sign language. But two years later, a family with children who have ...



  • WHO IS LYDIA'S SECRET ADMIRER? LYDIA KING IS SUDDENLY A WIDOW and moves her son and herself to Charm, Ohio, to be close to her mother and help with her grandfather. But is her heart ready for romance when gifts begin appearing on her porch from a ...



  • Sarah Must Follow Her Heart Sarah Turner ten s the lock on the Lehigh Canal in Walnutport, Pennsylvania. She'd like nothing better than to get away from the canal, having enough of it as a child when she led the mules that pulled her father's boat. ...



  • Can a heart once torn by love's rejection find a new beginning? Titus Fisher has often made poor choices. When he lived in Pennsylvania he chose the wrong girl, who broke his heart. When he moves to Kentucky, he finally discovers that he possesses...



  • Join Rachel Yoder on a series of adventures with this story collection written by bestselling author of Amish fiction Wanda E. Brunstetter. Four stories under one cover will provide you with unlimited entertainment and laughs along the way as yo...



  • Can a man burdened by memories of yesterday find hope in the land of tomorrow? Samuel Fisher of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, now a single father of four, is in a state of shock following his wife's untimely death. When his brother, Titus, talks...



  • Experience Christmas through the eyes of adventuresome settlers who relied on log cabins built from trees on their own land to see them through the cruel forces of winter. Discover how rough-hewed shelters become a home in which faith, hope, and love...



  • Can a couple rent by grief find renewal? Timothy Fisher's decision to move his family from their home in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, isn't a happy one for his wife, Hannah. Everything she knows is in Lancaster County -- her mother -- her home ...



  • Join the club of unlikely quilters who show up for Amish widow Emma Yoder’s quilting classes. A troubled young woman, a struggling couple, a widower, a rough and tough biker, and a preacher’s wife make up the mismatched lot. But as their problems...






  • Enjoy the pleasure of owning the complete Sisters of Holmes County series all under one cover. Be able to follow the Hostettler family’s mysterious struggle against an unseen enemy from start to finish. Along the way, watch as love triumphs out of ...



  • Welcome to Holmes County, Ohio, where twins Mattie and Mark Miller can’t seem to agree on anything. When their disagreements start to cause big trouble in their Amish community, will these energetic nine-year-olds call a truce and acknowledge that ...



  • Welcome to Holmes County, Ohio, where twins Mattie and Mark Miller are in for quite a bumpy ride. When their selfishness begins to cause big trouble at every turn, will these energetic nine-year-olds learn the value of sharing before it’s too late?...



  • Join Meredith and Luke Stoltzfus, an Amish couple who are faced with the greatest challenge of their young lives. Financial struggles. Arguments. A confirmed pregnancy. A last-minute trip to South Bend, Indiana. A drug addict on the run. A deadly enc...



  • Join Meredith and Luke Stoltzfus, an Amish couple who are faced with the greatest challenge of their young lives. In The Silence of Winter, part two of The Discovery--A Lancaster County Saga, Meredith anxiously waits to hear that Luke has arrived saf...



  • Join Meredith and Luke Stoltzfus, an Amish couple who are faced with the greatest challenge of their young lives. The Hope of Spring is part three of Wanda E. Brunsetter s The Discovery--A Lancaster County Saga....



  • Welcome to Holmes County, Ohio, where twins Mattie and Mark Miller experience Bubble Troubles. When their out-of-control worries begin to cause big trouble at every turn, will these energetic nine-year-olds learn the value of giving their worries to ...



  • In The Pieces of Summer, part four of New York Times Bestselling author, Wanda E. Brunsetter’s The Discovery--A Lancaster County Saga, it’s only been a few months since Meredith Stoltzfus lost her husband, Luke, and deep down, she feels uncomfort...



  • Meredith needs a new beginning... Despite the disapproval of her late husband's parents, Meredith Stoltzfus has become closer to Jonah Miller. Meredith knows he can never replace her first love, but Jonah is head over heels for Meredith and cares dee...



  • Everything is about to change... After months of facing nothing but blank memories, "Eddie" remembers his name -- Luke -- and his past seems within his reach. But there are still many pieces left to place. Meanwhile, miles away in Lancaster County, e...



  • Join Emma Yoder Miller, the Amish widow-turned-newlywed, as she leads another quilting class with a new group of unlikely students, all with tattered pieces of their lives that need mending. Members of the patchwork group find friendship, faith, heal...



  • Welcome to Holmes County, Ohio, where twins Mattie and Mark Miller get a case of "Green Fever." When their out-of-control jealousy begins to cause big trouble at every turn, will these energetic nine-year-olds learn the value of contentment before it...



  • Take a three-thousand mile journey with Amanda Pearson as she leaves the disgrace of a broken engagement and enters the work of a Quaker mission in the western wilds. The trip is fraught with danger, and Amanda is near death before reaching her desti...



  • Join retired Amish newlyweds Emma and Lamar Miller in Florida for the winter as they lead another quilting class with a new group of unlikely students: Jennifer, a pregnant new mom; Mike, a charter boat owner; Erika, a wheelchair bound teen; Kim, a w...



  • Beloved, bestselling author of Amish fiction, Wanda E. Brunstetter takes readers on a journey in 1850 along the California Trail.   Only the brave -- or foolhardy -- would attempt a cross-country journey late in the season. Three wagons meet up ...



  • Welcome to Holmes County, Ohio, where twins Mattie and Mark Miller get a taste of Humble Pie. When their out-of-control boasting begins to stir up trouble at every turn, will these energetic almost ten-year-olds learn the value of humility before it...



  • Discover along with Jonah Miller how life can begin anew in the prairie state of Illinois. Moving from Pennsylvania, finding rewarding work, and leaving heartbreak behind is the best decision Jonah ever made. But is he ready to consider love again wh...



  • Not everyone thinks Leah has a gift Leah Mast and her family have always considered her to have a healing touch and a special gift for reflexology treating people s ailments by massaging certain places on their feet. But others scoff at the notion...



  • Priscilla Herschberger finds herself pursued by Elam, a childhood friend from her community, and David, an outsider raised in the modern world. Elam would do almost anything to convince Priscilla that David would never fit into the Amish way. Will fl...



  • Will Heidi's cooking lessons turn into life lessons for five unlikely students? Heidi Troyer cooks up the idea of teaching classes in the art of Amish cuisine in her Holmes County, Ohio, home. But is it a recipe for drama when five very different ...



  • Return to the Troyer farm where Heidi welcomes six new cooking class students who experience the healing hand of God. Despite stressful changes occurring in their lives, Lyle and Heidi once again open their Ohio home up to those seeking to learn a...



  • Return to Holmes County, Ohio, for Amish style cooking class. Lyle and Heidi Troyer have taken in a brother and sister, who were orphaned when their parents were killed in a car accident. Hoping to help the children adapt and make friends, Heidi d...



  • Step into Amish country for this bittersweet holiday romance. Here you'll meet Will Henderson, a young man tortured by his past, and Karen Yoder, a young woman looking for answers. Add a desperate father searching for his son, and you have all th...



  • What happens when making an elderly Amish couple very happy means going along with a lie that gets bigger by the day? Michelle Taylor is not who her new family in Lancaster County believes her to be. The Lapps were looking for their long-lost gran...



  • What would happen if you found out someone has been impersonating you? Sara Murray had never met her mother’s parents and was surprised to learn after her death that they were Amish living in Pennsylvania. When she is finally able to make the t...



  • What if you have waited to find love only to be rejected when it finally comes? Lenore Lapp is an Amish schoolteacher in her late twenties still living at home with her parents and grandparents. She thought love had passed her by until she meets ...



  • Come and sit awhile as you enjoy 18 fictional short stories of love, joy, and the peace found in Amish country. Amish Country is known for an atmosphere of peace and quiet, perfect for front-porch sitting with a good book. Join New York Times best...



  • Mysterious Events Plague a Greenhouse in Pennsylvania’s Amish Country When Vernon King, his son, and son-in-law are involved in a terrible accident, three women are left to cope with their deaths, as they become the sole providers of the family...



  • Where Is the Hope in Grief for a Young Amish Widow? Sylvia has been nearly paralyzed with grief and anxiety since the tragic death of her husband, father, and brother in a traffic accident. She tries to help in the family’s greenhouse while cari...



  • A Season of Hope Is Coming For the past two years Belinda King, along with her two grown daughters and teenage son, has been struggling to keep the family greenhouse running. Despite disconcerting events that have threatened to put them out of bu...



  • An Antique Store Becomes a Place of Healing for Broken Hearts Welcome to Walnut Creek, Ohio, where Orley and Lois Troyer own an antique store they call “Memory Keepers.” Though knowledgeable in antiques and their repair, their real talent is ...



  • Antique Store Owners Offer Romance Advice to a Smitten Carpenter Welcome to Sugarcreek, Ohio, where the Amish schoolteacher has a determined admirer. Tragically losing her parents as a child, Lisa Miller has grown up being afraid of loving and los...



  • An Artist Seeks Her Birth Mother Welcome to Apple Creek, Ohio, where a piano teacher has a fascination with painting the rural Amish landscapes around her home. Andrea Wagner has made it to her thirties feeling like she has had a charmed life...



  • An Amish Journey to Hope, Healing, and New Beginnings Join New York Times bestselling author Wanda E. Brunstetter in the complete Kentucky Brothers series as three brothers seek fresh starts in the land of tomorrow. . . .The Journey ​Until Titu...



  • Friendship Letters Series -- Doretta Schwartz has always enjoyed writing letters and feels her letters can be a bit of a ministry to her friends. In this series, exchanging letters that contain open and honest feeling and struggles helps Doret...



  • Friendship Letters Series -- Doretta Schwartz has always enjoyed writing letters and feels her letters can be a bit of a ministry to her friends. In this series, exchanging letters that contain open and honest feelings and struggles helps Dore...



  • Four Amish Sisters Develop New Beginnings in Sarasota, Florida   Journey with the bestselling Brunstetter authors to the unique tropical Amish community in Sarasota, Florida, along with four young sisters originally from Indiana.  The Seash...



  • Friendship Letters Series -- Doretta Schwartz has always enjoyed writing letters and feels her letters can be a bit of a ministry to her friends. In this series, exchanging letters that contain open and honest feelings and struggles helps Dore...



  • A Mysterious Disappearance Shakes an Amish Family’s Faith In book one of A Mifflin County Mystery series, Rosa Petersheim has disappeared from the Big Valley without a trace. Norman always considered himself his sister’s protector and can...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Wanda E. Brunstetter has published 89 books.

The next book by Wanda E. Brunstetter, The Rise and Fall of Miss Fannie's Biscuits, will be published in January 2025.

The first book by Wanda E. Brunstetter, A Merry Heart, was published in January 1997.

Yes. Wanda E. Brunstetter has 17 series.