Elizabeth Byler Younts

Promise of Sunrise

1 - Promise to Return (Oct-2013)
2 - Promise to Cherish (Oct-2014)
3 - Promise to Keep (Oct-2015)

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  Promise to Return
  

  • Oct-2013
  • / Historical
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  Promise of Sunrise - 1
  

  When World War II breaks out, Miriam Coblentz’s peaceful Amish world is turned upside down... It’s 1943, and Miriam Coblentz and Henry Mast are nearing their wed­ding day when the unthinkable happens -- Henry is drafted. However, since he is...

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  Promise to Cherish
  

  • Oct-2014
  • / Christian
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  Promise of Sunrise - 2
  

  As World War II draws to a close, nurse Christine falls in love with roguish Amish boy Eli and must choose between a new, uncertain life in the Amish faith or face the judgment of a conservative postwar American society for her past mistakes. Itâ€...

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  Promise to Keep
  

  • Oct-2015
  • / Historical
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  Promise of Sunrise - 3
  

  World War II Marine Joe Garrison returns home from war longing to be a father to his deaf daughter, Daisy, only to find that she is attached to Esther Detweiler, the Amish woman who has raised her since his wife’s death in this touching historical ...

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  The Solace of Water
  

  • Jun-2018
  • / Christian
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  Elizabeth Byler Younts tells the story of two women, one white and one black, in racially charged 1956, who fight personal battles of freedom and form a friendship that neither expected. After the loss of her young son, Carver, an African-American...

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  The Bright Unknown
  

  • Oct-2019
  • / Christian
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  A sparkling search for answers, family, and a place to call home.Pennsylvania, 1940s. The only life Brighton Friedrich has ever known is the one she has endured within the dreary walls of Riverside Home -- the rural asylum where she was born. A nurse...

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Award-Winning Books by Elizabeth Byler Younts

The Solace of Water
2019 Carol Award -- Historical