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Customer Reviews for Revell Lancaster County Christmas, A - eBook
Revell Lancaster County Christmas, A - eBook
Jaime and C. J. Fitzpatrick began their married life as most couples do--in love and looking forward to a bright future together. But four years later they've drifted apart and are almost ready to call it quits.
Mattie Riehl was hoping to give her husband Sol the Christmas gift they have both longed for--news that a baby was on the way. But as usual, she is disappointed. The holidays bring an acute awareness to Mattie that her dream of a big family isn't likely to become a reality.
Then a winter storm raging outside blows the Fitzpatricks into the Riehl home--and into a much slower pace of life. Can these two couples from different worlds help each other understand the true meaning of love this Christmas?
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Customer Reviews for Lancaster County Christmas, A - eBook
Review 1 for Lancaster County Christmas, A - eBook
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This is a great book!!
Date:December 6, 2012
Carinhosa
Location:Peterborough, ON
Age:35-44
Gender:female
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This is a great book!! I would recommend this book to anybody who loves a great story. I don't want to give anything away from it, but I love how it shows the different aspects of relationships and how you may THINK you know something about someone and what you thought couldn't be further from the truth. Great book Suzanne!!
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Review 2 for Lancaster County Christmas, A - eBook
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Book purchased for Christmas gift
Date:January 7, 2013
Shirley M. Franklin
Location:St Petersburg, FL
Age:Over 65
Gender:female
Value:
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I got this book as a Christmas gift for my sister. We both love books about the Amish. She loved it.
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Review 3 for Lancaster County Christmas, A - eBook
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A Heart-tugging Story.
Date:December 22, 2012
Quality:
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Heartwarming and satisfying - this book will make you feel GOOD! It is not the typical Amish Fiction, but a very unusual tale of an encounter of an Amish family and an English couple. It is evident that God had His hand on these characters and the unexpected way their paths cross. Each of these ladies has a deep need, and gives much needed support and concern to the other. The men are embroiled in a life-threatening situation which bonds them for life. This is a wonderful story to read during the Christmas season, but would be just as good to read anytime at all.
You can't beat the price - so grab a copy for yourself and a friend - makes a great gift. When you close this book, you will be left with a warm and happy heart. It's a truly "feel good" story.
I recommend this book for adult readers.
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Review 4 for Lancaster County Christmas, A - eBook
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Excellent!!!
Date:December 23, 2011
CJS2011
Location:Royal Oak, MI
Age:45-54
Gender:female
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Purchased as a gift for my daughter. She told me she LOVED the book, in fact went home and read it from cover to cover!!! I am always happy with all that I purchase from CBD! That's why I keep coming back, and do all my Christmas and gift shopping here. :)
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Review 5 for Lancaster County Christmas, A - eBook
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A Perfect Christmas Read
Date:November 15, 2011
Quality:
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A stirring story that all takes place in just a few days' time but made an impact on both the characters and this reader. Expertly told from varying viewpoints, Fisher succeeded in drawing me in quickly and keeping a hold on my attention until the very last glorious page. There's a timeless quality to this tale -- filled with heartache and peppered with gentle humour. In fact, I was profoundly affected by Mattie's epiphany towards the end of the book. My 'aha' moment paralleled hers. I love it when a book speaks to me like that. It's a precious gift from author to reader.
Fisher has done an amazing job of conveying the spiritual magic that is Christmas. A definite must read.
"Book has been provided courtesy of Baker Publishing Group and Graf-Martin Communications, Inc. Available at your favourite bookseller from Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group".
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Review 6 for Lancaster County Christmas, A - eBook
Overall Rating:
A heartwarming read
Date:November 11, 2011
Quality:
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Have you ever seen the movie For Richer or Poorer with actors Tim Allen and Kirstie Alley? If so, you may be familiar with the initial premise of A Lancaster County Christmas, of a couple with a troubled marriage who end up in Amish country and are forever changed.
But this book is so much better, so much more satisfying than the movie.
Fisher has woven together a rich story, a story of new beginnings for characters Jaime, C.J., Sol, Mattie, Zach. As they all learn to look at the world through each others eyes, they also experience the touch of God through his promises, his faithfulness. The pacing is swift as the story is revealed layer upon layer, engaging the reader with subplots of marriage troubles, rebellious teens, cultural clashes, struggles to get pregnant. I found the book difficult to put down, and was not only entertained but found myself challenged in my own faith, especially in the character of Mattie and her tendency to worry and her journey towards peace, as worry is something I have struggled with myself in life. I was equally inspired by the simple life of the Amish with the security of family and community to surround them.
A Lancaster County Christmas is a beautiful story, written with great skill. Readers who enjoy Amish fiction will love this Christmas story, and will walk away feeling their time was well spent. I highly recommend this book and give it 5 out of 5 stars.
Book has been provided courtesy of Baker Publishing Group and Graf-Martin Communications, Inc. Available at your favourite bookseller from Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group.
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Review 7 for Lancaster County Christmas, A - eBook
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My kingdom for a ... Lab!
Date:November 10, 2011
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This one got read and finished in one evening, late night really. It moved and I had to go with it and know the outcome. I could have peeked but resisted the temptation and am glad I did. This is my first book by Ms. Fisher and I like it.
Those people came to live for me and the lab! Well, you need to read the story for yourself. Just don't start too late at night or at a time when you can't finish the book! (: )
One disappointment: On pg. 35 "heck". "What on earth...?" would have served the purpose much better. Why? The speaker is the one so far described as a Christian. That kind of language is inappropriate for the character, the scene, and actually for the book.
Little grammar oddities (like awhile vs. a while) I can live with. Cursing (No guts to use 'hell'?) or euphemistic cussing - NOT. Editor or author or both of you: Please, please, clean it up!
I am sorry, but the language cost you two stars.
Those people came to live for me and the lab! Well, you need to read the story for yourself. Just don't start too late at night or at a time when you can't finish the book! (: )
One disappointment: On pg. 35 "heck". "What on earth...?" would have served the purpose much better. Why? The speaker is the one so far described as a Christian. That kind of language is inappropriate for the character, the scene, and actually for the book.
Little grammar oddities (like awhile vs. a while) I can live with. Cursing (No guts to use 'hell'?) or euphemistic cussing - NOT. Editor or author or both of you: Please, please, clean it up!
I am sorry, but the language cost you two stars.
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Review 8 for Lancaster County Christmas, A - eBook
Overall Rating:
A Christmas to Remember
Date:October 4, 2011
Quality:
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Sol and Mattie Riehl are hoping to hear the good news of a new arrival to the family, while Jaime and C.J. Fitzpatrick were leaving town to meet her long-absent father for a Christmas cruise, and who had a surprise for Jaime.
Jaime and Mattie, with her precocious six-and-a-half-year-old son, Danny, became acquainted at the doctor’s office. As Jaime is leaving the doctor’s office, the doctor asks if she could return Danny’s whistle before Christmas. Before leaving to her father’s for a Christmas cruise, Jaime, C.J., and Tucker, their dog, make the trip out to the Amish farm.
Shortly after their arrival at the Amish farm, Suzanne Woods Fisher, in her book, A Lancaster County Christmas, takes us on a humorous, dangerous, life-changing, and heart-warming trip. Not one, but two back-to-back major winter blizzards hustle the Fitzpatricks into the Riehl’s home on Christmas eve for an unknown time frame. For those who haven’t lived through a blizzard, Suzanne is very accurate in her appraisal of the weather!
Suzanne, in her typical, heart-warming writing style, spins a story that will resonate in your own life, as each of the characters must come to terms with their own personal disappointments and failures that will change the lives of all involved at the Riehl’s home. The camaraderie between Danny and Jaime brings out a side of Jaime that even she didn’t know she had.
I truly enjoyed the story on many levels–the humorous, dangerous, life-changing, and heartwarming–which you will experience as you read the story. I do believe it’s a Christmas story that could change your life, also! Definitely a Divine encounter.
This book was provided by Amy Lathrop of Litfuse publicity Group in exchange for my review and presentation of the giveaway. No monetary compensation was exchanged.
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Review 9 for Lancaster County Christmas, A - eBook
Overall Rating:
Heartwarming Christmas Tale!
Date:October 1, 2011
Quality:
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From the pen of Suzanne Woods Fisher comes a heartwarming tale, destined to become a Yuletide classic, A Lancaster County Christmas! A "chance" meeting at the doctor's office forever changes the destiny of two very different families...one Amish, and the other English.
As the story opens, a heartbroken Mattie Riehl finds herself at the doctor's office following a miscarriage, accompanied by her only son, six year old Danny. She had hoped to give her husband, Sol, the perfect Christmas present...news that a baby was on the way, but as usual is disappointed. There she meets, Jaime Fitzpatrick, a wordly young woman who is disillusioned with her career, her life, and her marriage.
As Jaime and her husband, C.J., get ready to embark on a cruise with Jaime's father, who has never been there for her, they stop by the Riehl's farmhouse to drop off a whistle Danny left at the doctor's offfice. A "chance" snowstorm forces the families together, and all of their lives are forever changed. Mattie and Jaime soon realize they are not so different after all, for they both carry an empty vacuum inside that can't seem to be filled. As a near tragedy brings them all closer together, will these ladies from two different worlds help each other with their bitterness towards God, and find peace for their own troubled souls? Will C.J. and Jaime learn to value what's truly important in life, and find love with one another all over again...and more importantly give their lives over to God?
This was a very heartwarming, tear-jerker, guaranteed to keep the reader turning those pages for the outcome! I have read every one of Susanne's fiction books, and she certainly knows how to write a story containing realistic characters with human faults, an exciting storyline, and a very satisfying conclusion!
So grab the eggnog, a box of kleenex, and throw another log in the fireplace, and "Have Yourself A Merry Lancaster Christmas Now"...
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Review 10 for Lancaster County Christmas, A - eBook
Overall Rating:
Another heartwarming story by Suzanne Woods Fisher
Date:September 26, 2011
Quality:
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I love Suzanne Woods Fisher's books. Not only are they entertaining but they appeal to the heart and A Lancaster County Christmas is no different.
Two young couples providentially meet just before Christmas. Outwardly their lives are world apart, but inwardly they have more in common than they would care to admit. During a "chance" snowstorm, these two couples have the opportunity to learn from each other - abandonment, grief, anger, bitterness, lack of trust and unhappiness rage through some troubled souls deep in Lancaster County.
I loved how Suzanne revealed the perception (or misconception) between the Amish and English. I loved the tenderness between the couples as they sorted through their difficult circumstances. What I enjoyed most was the portrayal of God's love and adoption of us into His family in the relationship between Zach and the Riehls. What amazing love He has for us!
The anger Mattie and Jaime experienced in their relationship with God was something I could relate to as I, too, have faced difficult circumstances that made me blame God, rather than accepting them as a "gift" (or bump in the road of life). God's love for us is all encompassing though and He never leaves us through those situations which test our faith. The friendship that blossomed between these two very different women was very endearing.
Misunderstandings and lack of trust are often hard to work through and this book shows us how two couples do just that during one of the most festive seasons of the year.
As usual, I cried in this book too. It was another heart warming story from Suzanne Woods Fisher!
Please note: I did receive a free copy of this book in exchange for writing a review, but the thoughts and opinions expressed above are entirely my own.
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Review 11 for Lancaster County Christmas, A - eBook
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Date:September 25, 2011
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Oh, boy. Here’s another one that will have you reaching for the tissues to dry your eyes.
Surprise guests over Christmas weekend. And English at that.
Shared heartache and prayers. There’s a song about rescuing the perishing.
A story of six people - which ones are perishing and how will they be rescued?
This is a Christmas story unlike any you have read before. You will truly miss out if you do not read it.
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Review 12 for Lancaster County Christmas, A - eBook
Overall Rating:
A delightful Christmas visit to Amish country
Date:September 23, 2011
Quality:
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What could be more fun than a visit to Lancaster County in the snow? Since I probably won't get a chance to do that for real anytime soon, I'm so glad Suzanne Woods Fisher took me there in A Lancaster County Christmas.
If you've read Suzanne's other novels, you'll get the chance to revisit some friends, Sol and Mattie Riehl, who are living the Plain life with their son Danny and Mattie's cousin Zach. Mattie is losing hope in her life-long dream for a large family, and her fear is taking its toll on her and her family. Jaime and C. J. Fitzpatrick are drifting apart, as Jaime is enjoying her father's new-found interest in her life and she is worrying about her husband's relationship with a co-worker. When a snowstorm on the day before Christmas Eve brings the families together unexpectedly, the Amish family and English couple learn a lot about each other and each person discovers much about themselves.
A Lancaster County Christmas contains many of the elements of a typical Christmas story, where you expect to find personal and inter-personal conflict and where Christmas miracles occur. What makes this story so rich is how deeply Suzanne takes you into the characters' thoughts and feelings. As the characters, who live at such variying paces, each see themselves through the perspective of the others, I am reminded once again how different, and yet how very much alike we all are in our need for the peace of God that seems to show up so vividly during the season of miracles.
If you want to start your Christmas season off a little early and in a very enjoyable way, I would reommend you give A Lancaster County Christmas a try.
Available September 2011 at your favorite bookseller from Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group.
This book was provided free from the publisher for my honest review.
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Review 13 for Lancaster County Christmas, A - eBook
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A christmas gift of redemption and restoration
Date:September 20, 2011
In this touching tale of God's faithfulness and love two worlds are forever changed and lives are mended in unlikely ways.
Jaime Fiztpatrick doesn't realize that what she considers a chance meeting in a doctor's office is actually an action of God's mighty hand. Struggling with the loss of her mother and the insecurities of a father who left her as an infant Jaime is in constant search of who she is. She is now in a struggling marriage and is trying to involve her long absentee father into her life.
Mattie Reihl is overcome with grief. She feels the weight of being unable to have more children pulling her down. After her recent miscarriage she feels that there is no hope left and her life seems devoid of joy and peace. Struggling to maintain faith but also trying to control her life she feels her old self slipping further and further into a grey oblivion of desperate sadness.
Little did these women know that God intended for them to help each other find the answers to their deepest questions and longings and to rediscover His love for them.
When Jaime drives to the Reihl farm to return little Danny's whistle she finds herself trapped in a winter storm with her husband CJ.
When Jaime drives to the Reihl farm to return little Danny's whistle she finds herself trapped in a winter storm with her husband CJ.
There the two families are thrown into a weekend that will forever change them. This is a sweet and amazing book.
Thank you Revell for this review copy.
Available September 2011 at your favorite bookseller from Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
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Review 14 for Lancaster County Christmas, A - eBook
Overall Rating:
wonderful Christmas Story!
Date:September 19, 2011
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I was pleasantly surprised when I opened my package, inside was a beautiful hard cover book... A Lancaster County Christmas by Suzanne Woods Fisher. Written in the pages is a story about lost, love, and choices. Two families are brought together during a snow storm two days before Christmas.
Meet:
The Riehls-- Sol, Mattie, and son Danny (a spirited, adventurous little boy)
Jamie and C.J. with their fun loving dog named Tucker
Zach- cousin to Mattie
Now you mix all this characters (each with their own problems... ) and you get one great novel!
Meet:
The Riehls-- Sol, Mattie, and son Danny (a spirited, adventurous little boy)
Jamie and C.J. with their fun loving dog named Tucker
Zach- cousin to Mattie
Now you mix all this characters (each with their own problems... ) and you get one great novel!
Mattie Riehl was hoping to give her husband, Sol, the Christmas gift they have both longed for--news that a baby was on the way. But as usual, she is disappointed. The holidays bring an acute awareness to Mattie that her dream of a big Amish family isn't likely to become a reality. Will those empty chairs at the table ever be filled?
Then a winter storm raging outside blows an impatient young woman and her husband into the Riehl home on Christmas Eve--and into a much slower pace of life.
Both couples are about to find out if they can weather the storm--and if miracles still happen at Christmastime.
Then a winter storm raging outside blows an impatient young woman and her husband into the Riehl home on Christmas Eve--and into a much slower pace of life.
Both couples are about to find out if they can weather the storm--and if miracles still happen at Christmastime.
I found this book to be an easy read. Which can be easily finished in one afternoon.
Another Great Book by Susanne Woods Fisher!
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Review 15 for Lancaster County Christmas, A - eBook
Overall Rating:
Wonderful Amish Christmas Story
Date:September 19, 2011
Quality:
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This sweet story starts in a Doctors office with a chance meeting between an Amish family, Mattie, Sol, and Six year old Danny, and an Englisher Jamie Fitzpatrick. Little Danny begins conversing with Jamie while his Mom visits the Dr, she has recently suffered another miscarriage. Jamie is intrigued with Danny, he has shown her the Owl whistle that his Dad had carved for his birthday. After the Rheil's have left Jamie goes into the Dr's room in hopes of getting some more sleeping pills.
On her way out of the Office the Dr asks her to do them a, life changing, favor. Danny had left his whistle and they want her to drop it off. She takes it and goes to get her husband CJ and his service dog Tucker. They are on their way to her father's place and scheduled to leave on a cruise with him.
In the end they end up with a loving adventure at the Rheil's, where both the Amish and English learn to trust what God wants for their lives.
I really enjoyed this very quick read, and helps you remember to count your blessings!
On her way out of the Office the Dr asks her to do them a, life changing, favor. Danny had left his whistle and they want her to drop it off. She takes it and goes to get her husband CJ and his service dog Tucker. They are on their way to her father's place and scheduled to leave on a cruise with him.
In the end they end up with a loving adventure at the Rheil's, where both the Amish and English learn to trust what God wants for their lives.
I really enjoyed this very quick read, and helps you remember to count your blessings!
I was provided with a copy of this book by the Publisher Revell, and was not required to give a positive review.
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Review 16 for Lancaster County Christmas, A - eBook
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So many valuable lessons! LOVED it!
Date:September 6, 2011
Quality:
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What can I say. The cover of this book just warms my heart. It was a nice change reading about a lovely Christmas here in September. This is a story about finding your way, finding peace and seeing God's will for your life. The characters in this story are so relatable to our lives that you can find yourself lost in them. Which is exactly what makes, Suzanne Woods Fisher, a gifted writer.
When two families come together in God's perfect timing they find a warmth from a beacon light. Jamie and C.J are married, but they have lost their way. Something is missing. I love the character of Jamie. She assumes a lot and is trying to hard to be that perfect daughter to a father not willing to give his all. She is forever trying to be that good girl to please all.
We too have Zach. A character living with his aunt and uncle. He is lost and trying to find his way by leaving the past behind and moving into the future. It's hard to let go of the past when others seem to stay there pulling you back. Zach is that young man trying to find his way in the world while trying to grab on to peace. It's that flesh verses faith battle we all face daily.
Mattie and Solomon Riehl are lovely characters. Sol is so strong and faithful, leading is wife and family in faith. They want to fill their home with another child and in doing so, Mattie's heart is aching for that emptiness to be filled.
In God's perfect timing, He brings these characters together for a Christmas they will never forget. One that is filled with sharing and seeing for the first time. Faith, hope and love are alive in this story. Friendships are made and faith is blossomed, all from a chance meeting? No chance here, only time designed by God for His glory and honor.
I loved this book and all that the characters brought to the pages. This lovely story brings many values and shines a light on how God always places us just where we are suppose to be.
This book was a gift from Revell for it's review.
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