

What happens after that surprises them all, and the book leads the trio deep into mysterious questions about life and death, love and loss, and the impenetrable purposes of God. The Bookseller’s Promise (The Amish Bookstore Novels): Wiseman, Beth: 9780310365624: : Books Books Christian Books & Bibles Literature & Fiction Buy new: 20.46 List Price: 26.99 Details Save: 6. When Yvonne shows up and seems like she might turn Jake's eye, Eva suggests she and Jake should read the book together to find out what's so special about it.

But he can't say more than that, having never read it and not knowing why it was so dear to his grossdaadi.Įva Graber has loved Jake since he hired her to work in his bookstore years ago, but he doesn't seem to notice she's blossomed into a beautiful woman.

On the eve of his grandfather's death, Jake vowed never to sell the book, and he intends to keep that promise. Yvonne Wilson makes the trek from Texas to Indiana with just one goal in mind: to convince Amishman Jake Lantz to sell her client a rare book from his collection. The rest of his family was in Khartoum, including a sister with kidney problems. In the first novel of Beth Wiseman's Amish Bookstore series, a rare, old book may hold answers to a present-day romance. Hussein Ahmed, a Sudanese who worked on the boats that sailed on Lake Nasser, between southern Egypt and northern Sudan, explains that he was in the Sudanese town of Wadi Halfa, near the border, when the fighting broke out.
