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Mary's Christmas Goodbye : An Amish Romance by Linda Byler is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
What is Mary's Christmas Goodbye : An Amish Romance about?
Mary Stoltzfus is thirty years old, splashed with freckles, and unmarried. In her Amish world, that qualifies her to be called an old maid. She is living her quiet schoolteacher life in the Lancaster County Amish community when she gets a surprising invitation in the mail one day. Would she come to Montana to teach? Of course not, she decides, fully at home in eastern Pennsylvania, where she can go out to eat in dozens of restaurants, do her laundry in a newfangled washer that's powered by compressed air, and hire a driver if she wants to go farther than her horse and buggy can comfortably take her. What is there to do in Montana, she sniffs. But soon she becomes annoyed by the cracks in the floor of her one-room schoolhouse, the noise of the nearby road, and the two eighth-grade boys who try to make toilet paper cigarettes and nearly burn down the privy. Before long, Mary is on Amtrak, #147;just to take care of her curiosity," she explains to her mother. She arrives at a desolate station and meets Arthur Bontrager, who had signed the invitation and has come to introduce her to Beaver Creek School, dirt roads, and the fancy shed where she would live. When she settles into this worl
Who reads Mary's Christmas Goodbye : An Amish Romance?
It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.
Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Linda Byler
- Publisher
- Good Books / Skyhorse Publishing, Inc
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781680990577
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Romance, Christian, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 4.04 / 5 (51 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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