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Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
“This intelligent, compassionate and hopeful book” examines an Amish community’s extraordinary response to a horrifying act of violence (Publisher’s Weekly, starred review).
On October 2, 2006, a gunman named Charles Roberts entered a one-room Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania. He took ten schoolgirls hostage, killing five and critically wounding the others before taking his own life....
On October 2, 2006, a gunman named Charles Roberts entered a one-room Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania. He took ten schoolgirls hostage, killing five and critically wounding the others before taking his own life....
3) The Amish
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Companion to the acclaimed PBS American Experience documentary.
Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRL
The Amish have always struggled with the modern world. Known for their simple clothing, plain lifestyle, and horse-and-buggy mode of transportation, Amish communities continually face outside pressures to modify their cultural patterns, social organization, and religious world view. An intimate
...4) Amish grace
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
After losing her daughter in a schoolhouse shooting, an Amish woman struggles with her faith and the ability to forgive.