An Amish Cookie Club Christmas

Written by Sarah Price

Narrated by Wendy Tremont King

Baking cookies every other Friday for their respective church districts gives Edna Esh and three of her closest friends a chance to give to the Plain community and strengthen their bond with each other. Now, with the blessings of Christmas in the air, they may even whip up a recipe for love . . .

With the holidays around the corner, Edna is busier than ever juggling baking with her business serving meals to Englische tourists. Thank goodness for Mary Ropp's help-until she breaks her leg. Mary's daughter, Bethany, is available to fill in, but Edna isn't so certain. She knows Bethany is so painfully shy that she's never even courted, never mind interacting with Englische tourists! But the remedy may be closer than they think . . .

When Bethany gets into a scrape with her bicycle, a personable, talkative young man comes to her rescue, and even accompanies her home. And he's none other than John Esh-Edna's oldest son. When he stops by again the next day, Mary gets an idea. Soon, with the encouragement of the Cookie Club, Bethany is indeed helping Edna, and spending more time around the Esh household-and John.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: Sep 24, 2019
• ISBN: 9781977334329

Sarah Price

Sarah Price comes from a long line of devout Mennonites, including numerous church leaders and ministers throughout the years. Ms. Price has advanced degrees in Communication (MA), Marketing (MBA), and Educational Leadership (PhD) and was a former college professor. She now writes full-time and talks about her books and her faith on a daily live stream with readers. Learn more about Sarah and her novels at SarahPriceAuthor.com.

Reviews for An Amish Cookie Club Christmas

[kevin shumway · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I very much enjoyed the reading of this wonderful book!

[Laura M · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Went over the same things over and over again. Not much action to the story

[thornton37814 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

With the current pricing models making dairy farming less profitable, Edna supplements her family's income by serving authentic Amish meals to Englisch tourists. Her friend Mary has been helping her through tourist season, but after she suffers an injury which lays her up, Mary is not sure what she will do. She hopes she need not resort to taking up her friend Wilma's offer of her two troubled daughters. Edna's son John works at an auction house. Her other two boys help their father on the farm. Eventually it is decided Mary's daughter Bethany, a very shy young woman, will help in Mary's place. As John picks Bethany up, the two begin to find a lot to admire in each other. The book includes cookie recipes. I enjoyed seeing the romance blossom and appreciated the author's adherence to biblical standards of waiting until after marriage for sexual relations.

[ecataldi-1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Sarah Price could write a phone book and I would read it. Listening to her Amish stories are always a joy. Edna's holiday season is jam packed - she makes and serves meals to tourists in her house and she is overbooked. She needs helps desperately. When she voices her concerns to her friends at her cookie club they come up with a plan to help her; what they don't realize is that their solution may have other unintended affects. Bethany is a shy and painfully quiet girl who doesn't even like to leave the house. When her mother forces her to go into town to get supplies after breaking her ankle, Bethany quite literally runs into a charming young man. The young man happens to be Edna's son and before you know it - the cookie club is up to their scheming ways. Can they match these two young couples? Great narration on the audiobook - that's for sure and certain.

[maydacat_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Edna helps out the family’s income by serving meals to the Englishers, and Mary has been helping her friend, since the task is too much for one person. When Mary breaks her leg, she enlists her daughter to take her place. But Bethany is extremely shy and sheltered, and the thought of interacting with strangers terrifies her. Edna’s son John steps in to help Bethany overcome her shyness, and both find themselves in a situation neither could have anticipated. This romantic story is quite nice, but extremely slow moving. Though perhaps intended to be that way to mimic the gentle way the relationship between the two protagonists develops, I found myself eager for the pace to pick up a bit. But it plods on slowly, like an old buggy horse, in no particular hurry. Still, it was a sweet read, and the character growth as Bethany realizes her strengths, is amazing.