When the heart cries : a novel / Cindy Woodsmall.
When Hannah dares to love across the boundaries of tradition, will she lose everything? Despite being raised in a traditional Old Order Amish family, seventeen-year-old Hannah Lapp desires to break with custom, forgo baptism into the faith, and marry outside the cloistered community. She s been in love with Mennonite Paul Waddell for three years, and before returning to college for his senior year, Paul asks Hannah to be his wife. Hannah accepts, aware that her marriage will change her relationship with her family forever. On the evening of their engagement, tragedy strikes and in one unwelcome encounter, all that Hannah has known and believed is destroyed. As she finds herself entangled in questions that the Old Ways of her people cannot answer, Hannah faces the possibility of losing her place in her family, in her communityand in the heart of the man she loves.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781400072927
- ISBN: 1400072921
- ISBN: 9781601427113
- ISBN: 9780739475317
- Physical Description: viii, 328 pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: Colorado Springs, Colo. : WaterBrook Press, [2006]
- Copyright: ©2006
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| Subject: | Amish > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Marion Library | FIC WOO (Text) | 37810434780366 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Alexander Main Library | F Woodsmall (Text) | 34269001206813 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Alleghany Public Library | F WOODSMALL (Text) | 30664100173134 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Ashe County Public Library | F WOO (Text) | 50503011060961 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Bryan Memorial Library | F Woo (Text) | 810191000589513 | Adult Fiction Christian | Available | - |
| C.B. Hildebrand Public Library | F WOO (Text) | 33557003412558 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Charles H. Stone Memorial Library | F WOODSMALL (Text) | 30665100295439 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 05/07/2025 |
| Cleveland County Main Library | F WOODSMALL (Text) | 22281500047140 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Denton Public Library | F W (Text) | 25908005427278 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Dobson Community Library | F WOODSMALL (Text) | 30666100223140 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Summary:
When Hannah dares to love across the boundaries of tradition, will she lose everything? Despite being raised in a traditional Old Order Amish family, seventeen-year-old Hannah Lapp desires to break with custom, forgo baptism into the faith, and marry outside the cloistered community. She s been in love with Mennonite Paul Waddell for three years, and before returning to college for his senior year, Paul asks Hannah to be his wife. Hannah accepts, aware that her marriage will change her relationship with her family forever. On the evening of their engagement, tragedy strikes and in one unwelcome encounter, all that Hannah has known and believed is destroyed. As she finds herself entangled in questions that the Old Ways of her people cannot answer, Hannah faces the possibility of losing her place in her family, in her communityand in the heart of the man she loves.
