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Along Wooded Paths
Tricia Goyer
(B&H Books)
ISBN: 978-1433668692
October, 2011/320 pages$14.99

All she wanted was a simple Amish life . . . But now Marianna Sommer finds herself depending on Englisch neighbors. Although proud of living apart from the world, she and her newly relocated Amish family have discovered that life in the remote mountains of Montana requires working together.

As Marianna begins helping those different from herself—and receiving their help—her heart contemplates two directions. She’s torn between the Amish man from Indiana whom she has long planned on marrying and the friendly Englischer who models a closer walk with God than she’s ever seen before.

Who should have young Marianna’s heart? What is God asking her to sacrifice? Her traditions? Her community? The answer is found along the wooded paths.

Read an excerpt.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Tricia Goyer is an acclaimed and prolific writer, publishing hundreds of articles in national magazines including Today’s Christian Woman and Focus on the Family while authoring more than twenty-five fiction and nonfiction books combined. Among those are 3:16 Teen Edition with Max Lucado and the American Christian Fiction Writers’ Book of the Year Award winners Night Song and Dawn of a Thousand Nights. She has also written books on marriage and parenting and contributed notes to the Women of Faith Study Bible. Tricia lives with her husband and four children in Arkansas. Learn more about Tricia and her other books at her website.

MY THOUGHTS:
I am thoroughly enjoying this series. If you are tempted to think, "Not another Amish book!", let me assure you, Tricia Goyer is one of the stand-out authors in this genre. I love how Marianna and her family, as well as their small Amish community in Montana, are stretched by the authentic Christianity lived out by the Englishchers in their midst. So many Amish books portray the Englischers as worldly and hostile to things of God, and the interactions between the two cultures are uneasy at best and, more often, distrustful and contentious. In this series, the Englisch are not only believers, they are co-workers, customers, neighbors and friends of the Amish. I particularly like how Marianna desires to did deeper into faith to find out the difference between Biblically-based beliefs and those traditions decreed by man. Toss in her heart's tug of war between her childhood sweetheart and the new friend who has opened her eyes to faith as she's never before experienced it, and I found myself glued to the pages of this completely mesmerizing yet thought-provoking novel. I highly recommend this book and this series. I eagerly await the next one!


You can read my review of book one in The Big Sky series, Beside Still Waters, here.



Come to a Facebook Party and Live Author Chat!

Tricia is celebrating the release of Along Wooded Paths with a Fabulous Facebook party on October 18th. She'll be giving away prizes and a sneak peak at the next book in the Big Sky series.

Then during the second half of the party she'll be hosting a LIVE AUTHOR CHAT on her website and announcing something BIG! CLICK the button (below) to RSVP for the party, then go here to sign up for the Live Author Chat.