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01972aam a2200217 4500 001 B2FFC0B2FBB611EE91A57D0E3AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240416010052 008 231121s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 9798863887487 040 $d TxAuBib $d SILO 100 1 $a Wiseman, Beth. 245 13 $a An Amish Christmas Gift. 264 1 $a Monee, Illinois : $b Elizabeth Wiseman Mackey, $c 2023. 300 $a 124 Pages. 500 $a Hannah King and her two children, Mae and Lillian, are facing their first Christmas without their beloved husband and father, who passed only six months ago. Hannah is determined to display strength for her girls, stifling her emotions until she is alone at night crying herself to sleep. But as she tries to hide her grief, she is unaware that her children need her to be emotionally present. Mae is Hannah's oldest daughter. At eighteen, she is deeply in love with a young man in her Amish community. She is working through the grief she feels over the absence of her father, but something about her mother has changed, and the transformation has Mae fearful to make a commitment to John Byler. Her mother robotically goes through the motions of daily living, but she is a shell of the woman she used to be. Mae walks away from her relationship with John, knowing her mother's grief must be far worse than her own. She isn't going to let that happen to her. John Byler is in love with Mae, but his admission to her about his feelings causes her to stop seeing him without any explanation. He can only assume that she doesn't love him the way he loves her. Can Hannah see past her own grief and convince her daughter that it is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all? And is Mae willing to take a chance on love? 541 $d 20231121. 650 4 $a Christmas. 941 $a 1 952 $l SEPC074 $d 20240416010543.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B2FFC0B2FBB611EE91A57D0E3AECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search