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Peace in the valley, Kelly Irvin

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Peace in the valley, Kelly Irvin

Language

eng

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genealogical tables

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Peace in the valley

Responsibility statement

Kelly Irvin

Summary

Nora Beachy is caught in the middle. She's been content to live a simple life in West Kootenai, working in the community store, taking care of her family, and courting with Isaac Burke. When wildfires threaten her home, she's forced to stay with family in Libby where the Amish community has embraced an evangelical form of worship frowned upon by her own parents and district elders in West Kootenai. She's drawn to their unfamiliar worship style, use of musical instruments, and more relaxed form of dress. A young preacher begins to woo her spiritually, telling her she needs a personal relationship with Jesus in order to flourish as a believer. He and her cousins want her to "come alive" in her faith "for the first time." Her parents rush her back to West Kootenai as soon as they can but fear the "damage" has already been done. Nora has to make a decision-return to her traditional Amish life or embrace this new way of worshipping and living. Will she leave behind her family and the man she loves for a different kind of faith?

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