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Title: When the Heart Cries (Sisters of the Quilt #1)
ISBN: 1400072921
Author:
Cindy Woodsmall
Publicate Date: 2006-09-19
Publish: 2006-09-19
List Price: $9.99
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Paperback
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1: V. Temple
If you like to read about the Amish, this is a good novel to learn something about the Amish way of life. The book is a fast read. You'll want to read Book #2 and #3 to find out what happens next. Book #1 leave you hanging.
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2: When the Heart Cries
What a great book, Made me cry, Ive lived in the Amish community for 18 yrs, Was so Intrested in learning about the Amish, While I was at Wal Mart I picked up this book, and could put it down, While I was reading this book I discovered my Amish neighbor name was in it. After several months of reading the book, I spoke with my neighbor, while speaking with her I discovered Cindy was going to be in the neighborhood, I met Cindy in person and discovered she had another book out continuing from When the heart Cries, I went back to Wal Mart to see if the carried the next book "When the Morning Comes" sadden to see they didn't carry it so I had to order it online, cant wait to get it and read it. It was a pleasure meeting Cindy.
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3: Courageous
This is a book of love and tragedy. Hannah is raised in the Old Order Amish community of Lancaster County. She is a lovely young woman but she has a secret. She has been in love with Paul Waddle for three years who is a conservative Minnonite.
Paul would return each summer during his university break to help his grandmother and work her fields. He also returned to see Hannah. Paul was just as much in love with Hannah as she was with him.
The last summer they shared Paul and Hannah talked about their love for one another. Paul has a plan to gain permission from Hannah's dad for her to marry him. He would work for her father until he could see how much he loved Hannah and that he would be good for her. Everything seemed magical for Hannah as she said good bye to Paul that faithful summer. As Hannah was walking back home a car stopped along the road, but Hannah did not think anything of it until a man came towards her who attacked and raped her.
Walking home in shock and pain her mother saw Hannah with her torn and bloody clothes and started running to Hannah, screaming for Hannah's dad. The rest of this story takes many different twists. It is not long before Hannah learns she is pregnant. Her sister who had always been jealous of Hannah began to tell lies about her. Hannah's family had no choice but to turned against her because of events that had taken place.
She had to leave the only home she had ever had in order for her family to be able to keep their name in good standing in their community. She had to find a place to go; in a world she has no knowledge about.
This book will bring tears to you eyes and touch your heart. You will not be able to put it down. I highly recommed this book. I can't wait to buy the second of the series "Sisters Of The Quilt".
Excellent subject matter and writing.
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4: Tears of Joy
I have just finished reading this book - with tears of joy streaming down my face. This book left me speechless and uplifted - knowing that God is a good God - even in times of the worst possible events.
Have a read - you will not be disappointed.
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5: Best novel I have read in a long time!
Cindy Woodsmall's novel, "When the Heart Cries" is a beautifully crafted masterpiece in my judgment. From the first page she sets up the theme and premise that we all want freedom to choose our own way of life without having others forcibly imposing their ways on us; even when it's been the family's Amish faith for hundreds of years. Hannah Lapp, the protagonist, lives with her parents and their property borders a Mennonite family who live a less restrictive lifestyle. Hannah works for the Mennonite woman, a widow, and meets her grandson Paul, a man of faith, yet he goes to college and teaches Hannah about computers, cell phones, and the knowledge in books and gives her the idea that a life of serving the community as a social worker is an honorable profession and is still following God's will. Hannah loves Paul and wants to marry him and leave her strict Old Order Amish faith, but she knows it's going to be hard getting her father to accept her decision. A move that if she left the Amish community could mean that she would be shunned by her Amish people. Paul has devised a plan to work his way into the hearts of Hannah's parents, only disaster hits before he can do that. A jealous sister, Sarah, tells lies about Hannah. Hannah, got to work for her Mennonite neighbor while Sarah was still in school. Hannah, as the oldest, got more privileges and freedom than her younger sister did which also peeved Sarah. Hannah is also prettier and Sarah is jealous of her and afraid she'll take the man Sarah wants because Hannah has kept her feelings for Paul a secret. But sometimes honesty, or lack of it in Hannah's case, can cause a problem. Hannah knew her parents would disapprove of her relationship with Paul, therefore she wasn't going to tell them until after she reached the age where she could make her own decisions, at eighteen. When the truth is hid too long though, it too, can cause misunderstandings. Woodsmall knows her craft and each page, each chapter holds some new twist to the story that the reader can never guess is coming and continuously pulls the reader, along with Hannah on her journey, into the story. As Hannah's heart cries so does the reader's as they see and feel how a young person living in a restrictive community can long for what the modern outside holds. The story was so well written and captivating that I couldn't put the book down. I loved it and I am half-way through book two.
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