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008			180816s20182018mnu ed 000 1 eng d
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099			_aF _bLEW
100	1		_aLewis, Beverly, _d1949- _eauthor. _97737
245	1	4	_aThe first love / _cBeverly Lewis.
250			_aLarge print edition.
264		1	_aMinneapolis, Minnesota : _bBethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group, _c[2018]
264		4	_c©2018.
300			_a366 pages (large print) ; _c22 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
340			_nlarge print.
520			_aIn the summer of 1951, eighteen-year-old Maggie Esh is in need of some hope. Sweet-spirited and uncommonly pretty despite struggling with a debilitating illness, she is accustomed to being treated kindly by the young men of her Old Order Amish church district. Yet no one but Jimmy Beiler ever asks her out, and she always declines, certain he only pities her. To make matters worse, Dat has recently remarried, less than a year after Maggie's mother died. And while her stepmother is kind, she's much younger than Mamm, and she simply doesn't understand Maggie or her illness the way Mamm did. Strong in her faith, Maggie has been taught to accept her lot in life as God's will. But with declining health, an unsettled family situation, and few future prospects, any sense of hope seems elusive. When tent revival meetings come to the area, Maggie attends out of curiosity, but the words of the evangelist begin to stir something deep inside her. Dare she hope for a brighter future?
650		0	_aAmish _vFiction. _93991
655		7	_aChristian fiction. _2gsafd. _93516
655		0	_aLarge type books. _9722
655		7	_aReligious fiction. _2lcgft. _918660
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