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The Amish Nanny
The Amish Nanny
The Amish Nanny
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The Amish Nanny

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Bestselling author Mindy Starns Clark and coauthor Leslie Gould offer readers The Amish Nanny, Book 2 in the Women of Lancaster County series, which tells the stories of young Plain women as they explore their roots, connect with family, and discover true love.

Amish-raised Ada Rupp knows it’s time to make a commitment to the faith and join the church, especially if she wants a future with the handsome Amish widower Will Gundy.
But when she has the chance to travel to Switzerland as the caregiver of a young child, she leaps at the opportunity.

Anxious to learn more about her forebears, Ada enlists the help of a young Mennonite scholar named Daniel, but even as she develops feelings for him, she cannot get Will from her mind—or her heart. At a crossroads, Ada must decide what she is willing to give up from the past in order to embrace her future.

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Release dateJul 1, 2011
ISBN9780736941600
The Amish Nanny
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Mindy Starns Clark

Mindy Starns Clark is the author of many books, which include the popular Smart Chick Mysteries, Whispers of the Bayou, Shadows of Lancaster County, and Under the Cajun Moon. In addition, Mindy’s plays and musicals have been featured in schools and churches across the United States.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    This book is about the story of Ada Rupp. When her sister found her story. Ada now she need to commit to the faith. She was raised Amish. Though she has love for the widower Will Gundy. She is restless and want to find her story. So she finds out that a few of her family members are traveling to Switzerland.Her family and Grundy family need to work something out with the deed all the way back in the Switzerland. Alice and Christy go and Ada goes represent a member for her grandmother. Things her she start to want feeling for Daniel there travel companion though will she have found her true love and her story. She also is hoping to talk to her mother who is staying in Switzerland. Find out more by reading. You learn about Switzerland a bit as well.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    First off, I'm just going to say that I am not a fan of the title of this book nor am I of the cover. Both do really nothing for the story and in fact have good potential to turn readers away. I really didn't feel like a nanny is best way to describe Ada throughout the story. That being said, the story is a great book.The authors take this book into new levels with Amish fiction. For starters: they take the characters OUT OF THE COUNTRY! Yes that's right, we're not in Lancaster, PA or any other Amish community anymore. We're going to Europe! I was pleased that even the tiniest details were covered in this story involving Amish characters travel down to passport pictures. It made the story more believable and not once did I have to suspend belief. I enjoyed reading about Ada's and the rest of the gangs travels from the train, the ship and during their stays in New York and Europe. I really liked how the authors did not make these Amish characters appear like country bumpkins who don't know anything about the outside world.One of the things that thrilled me about the story was the fact that Daniel is an archivist! As someone who is also one, I was incredibly geeked to see my profession in a book! You don't know how rare this is and I was very excited to see this. I will admit that the ending could have ended a bit differently for me but I was actually rather surprised at the direction the authors chose to go. It was actually quite nice because I was predicting something else and the twist worked out well for me. Equally as pleasant was Ada's relationship with Giselle.One extremely tiny qualm was the long letter near the end of the book written in cursive. It was just very difficult to read in the font and it was a very long letter. I would have much preferred a different font because I normally don't like reading anything in cursive and this particular one was quite a challenge.I really have been pleased with this series because Clark and Gould do Amish fiction differently from other books . This is a wonderful blend of travelogue, history and a good storyline that just happens to feature Amish characters. Even though faith is not a huge part of the story, I feel that that they have portrayed both the Amish and Mennonites in a positive light without romanticizing the lifestyle. I really would love for there to be more books in this series as I look forward to seeing what more new directions the authors can go with this lifestyle.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I did not read the first book in this series, but was able to get the gist very fast, without feeling as if I was reading "the story so far..." so the novel worked pretty well as a standalone. I enjoyed The Amish Nanny very much. Ada, the central character, was believably torn between her love for her family and traditions and her wish to finally do something with her life after years spent as an invalid. The plot twist that takes her much farther away from home than she'd expected seemed a little contrived to me at first, but I found myself quite involved in the historical detail. I saw several of the later plot developments coming from a long way off, but that's fine. This is a genre where the reader likes to feel smarter than the characters. The romance was applied with an extremely light hand, so the novel is suitable for younger readers as well as adult. A light, but enjoyable read, my first Amish novel and definitely not my last.

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