A community of rural Mennonite Christians who purposefully deny themselves modern conveniences in order to live a more sin-free life. The strictest Amish live without electricity and gas, travel by ...

In time for Mother’s Day are several new Amish romance books! First is “A Mother’s Love” by Charlotte Hubbard. Rose has experienced too much in a year — the death of her husband and her mother. Her ...

Meet the hottest new women’s fiction subgenre: the Amish romance novel. Seeing as “the church has traditionally viewed fiction as distracting and deceitful,” the Wall Street Journal reports, Amish ...

Calling someone nostalgic is an “affectionate insult at best,” Svetlana Boym has written, and few people appreciate the affection. Although the term has shed its medical connotations—it was first used ...

Stroll through the romance shelves at any Barnes & Noble, and one subgenre stands out like Harrison Ford in Witness. In a territory marked by heaving chests and flexing muscles, Colorado Springs ...

Why can't we all be a little more like the Amish? This question lies at the heart of the Amish romance novels, churned out now with such regularity—and with such -success—that publishers are beginning ...

(RNS) There’s something strange about Kerry Nietz’s new Amish romance novel. The pretty blond girl on the cover wears a white hair bonnet and has an innocent look on her face. But then there’s the ...

With mommy porn bestseller Fifty Shades of Grey whipping up a sadomasochistic storm in the female book market this summer, it might seem safe to assume that old-fashioned romance novels, in which the ...

Lifelong community member Linda Byler, 65, penned "Tapestry of Love" (literally -- in a notebook) after beginning her writing career at an Amish newspaper. Linda Byler/Amazon A new Amish romance novel ...