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Elizabeth’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Elizabeth’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Elizabeth Byler Younts
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2014 Double RITA Finalist
Hi All!
My first shout-out here on GoodReads!
I'm excited to share that Promise to Return, my debut novel, is a finalist in 2 categories for a RITA Award!
Best First Book
Inspiration Romance
CONGRATS to the many other authors who are also finalists. It will be very exciting to learn more about the other authors and meet them in July in San Antonio when the winners are announced.
To say that I was nearl Read more of this blog post »
My first shout-out here on GoodReads!
I'm excited to share that Promise to Return, my debut novel, is a finalist in 2 categories for a RITA Award!
Best First Book
Inspiration Romance
CONGRATS to the many other authors who are also finalists. It will be very exciting to learn more about the other authors and meet them in July in San Antonio when the winners are announced.
To say that I was nearl Read more of this blog post »
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The Solace of Water
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2018
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The Bright Unknown
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Seasons: A Real Story of an Amish Girl
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2011
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Promise to Return (The Promise of Sunrise #1)
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2013
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Promise to Cherish (The Promise of Sunrise #2)
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2014
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Promise to Keep (The Promise of Sunrise #3)
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2015
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“As we moved I reminded myself of how God had taken care of us when I thought all was lost. Maybe this was like a bird’s life—moving from one tree to the next and always singing their song no matter where they were perched.”
― Seasons: A Real Story of an Amish Girl
― Seasons: A Real Story of an Amish Girl
“Whose boys are those with the holes in their pants?"
I cringed. How would my grandpa answer such an embarrassing question?
"Those are my daughter's children, my grandchildren," Grandpa spoke as if he'd just been asked who had won first place in a foot race or just been baptized into the church.
"Those pants are very well ironed," the stranger said.”
― Seasons: A Real Story of an Amish Girl
I cringed. How would my grandpa answer such an embarrassing question?
"Those are my daughter's children, my grandchildren," Grandpa spoke as if he'd just been asked who had won first place in a foot race or just been baptized into the church.
"Those pants are very well ironed," the stranger said.”
― Seasons: A Real Story of an Amish Girl
“I went back to my humdrum days of knowing what was around every corner. It seemed there was little surprise or excitement in my life now.”
― Seasons: A Real Story of an Amish Girl
― Seasons: A Real Story of an Amish Girl
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| Fans of Amish Fic...: Nominate February 2017 Group Read **VOTING CLOSED** | 12 | 18 | Jan 16, 2017 07:19AM | |
| The Life of a Boo...: May Monthly Reading Challenge 2018 | 25 | 54 | Jun 28, 2018 03:06PM | |
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“Whose boys are those with the holes in their pants?"
I cringed. How would my grandpa answer such an embarrassing question?
"Those are my daughter's children, my grandchildren," Grandpa spoke as if he'd just been asked who had won first place in a foot race or just been baptized into the church.
"Those pants are very well ironed," the stranger said.”
― Seasons: A Real Story of an Amish Girl
I cringed. How would my grandpa answer such an embarrassing question?
"Those are my daughter's children, my grandchildren," Grandpa spoke as if he'd just been asked who had won first place in a foot race or just been baptized into the church.
"Those pants are very well ironed," the stranger said.”
― Seasons: A Real Story of an Amish Girl
“Clean up a pigsty," she commented one evening, "and if the creatures in it still have pig-minds and pig-desires, soon it will be the same old pigsty again.”
― Christy
― Christy
“I love old places,” she said. “They have weight to them. Sometimes New York feels so transitory. Even London with all its history doesn’t have the same feel as Scotland.”
“The cities are too busy.” He shifted so he blocked some of the wind for her. “The quiet is deep here.” She glanced up at him, surprised by how well he understood her thoughts. “That’s exactly what it is. Deep quiet.”
― Five Days in Skye
“The cities are too busy.” He shifted so he blocked some of the wind for her. “The quiet is deep here.” She glanced up at him, surprised by how well he understood her thoughts. “That’s exactly what it is. Deep quiet.”
― Five Days in Skye
“All good stories are true. Even if they were completely made up by the storyteller, there is something in them that resonates with us. Courage. Love. Self-sacrifice. The storyteller makes his story real through the telling.”
― Oath of the Brotherhood
― Oath of the Brotherhood
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