Today’s Free Book is:
An Amish Holiday by Cynthia Keller
Raised in a Pennsylvania Amish community, young mother Rachel Yoder has led a simple life within her close-knit family. Widowed three years ago, she has moved back in with her parents, attempting to raise her daughter, Katie, without further emotional upheaval. Meanwhile, four hours and a whole world away in New York City, Ellie Lawrence is laser-focused on a high-powered public relations career, with too little time for her family, her friends, or even her boyfriend.
Then one fateful day, these two very different women receive shocking news of a mistake made three decades earlier and long kept hidden: Shortly after their births, the two were accidentally switched in the hospital. Shaken to the core by this momentous news, Rachel and Ellie are plunged into an exploration of who they are and where they really belong. While Ellie is eager to learn more about her Amish family and their life in the countryside, Rachel cannot help but feel jealous as she watches the only mother she has ever known bonding so easily with her natural daughter. But Rachel also knows that her own biological family is out there, and with Katie at her side she heads for Manhattan, where she establishes a connection with the raucous, spirited Lawrences.
As Ellie and Rachel make their way through unfamiliar landscapes, they face life-altering challenges and grapple with a crucial question: Will their old conventions and desires give way to new customs and yearnings? With the Christmas holidays fast approaching, it takes the love of two families for Rachel and Ellie to discover their own paths to fulfillment and happiness.
ISBN 9780345528766, Trade Size Paperback
We will choose one winner at random from comments we receive here on the Blog from PBS members.
You have until Sunday, October 20, 2013 at 12 noon EDT, to leave a comment.
Good Luck to everyone!
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This sounds like a really good book that also happens to take you on an emotional roller coaster!
This sounds like a book I’d like to read.
Now I have to find out what happens!
would love a book to read. Grew up in PA and have been to Amish country several times.
love my paperback swap !!! hope I win
Sounds great. I have to remember to get this book.
This sounds like a great book! Thank you for the chance to win it.
This book sounds like a really good read!!
This sounds very intriguing!
That was a teaser. I’d like to know how it ends!!
I would love to read this book. Thank you for the opportunity.
I love books about the Amish!
Definitely an expansion of the turmoil that would be felt in such cases of switched babies, with the children being raised in such different cultures!
It sounds like a warm and soothing read to gather around the warm of the fireplace and share passages from this new book. Thanks for the opportunity to win this new entry!
I find the Amish to be a fascinating people group. Nearby they run a couple of farmer’s markets. It would be fun to read this book.
I would like to read this. Thanks for giveaway.
I love Amish books and would love to win this one. Thanks for the giveaway.
Looks like a good read… Thanks for the opportunity to win it!
Reading a book like this makes one think about their own life and what it may be like if you were born somewhere else, or life took you through events other than the ones you have already experienced. Who would I be today if even one simple incident was different?
I am always intrigued by Amish stories. This one sounds like a great story, perfect to read this time of year.
Switched at birth is such an intriguing topic.
My daughter is living close to the PA Amish communities now….would love to get a “glimpse” into the culture and the story line sounds very interesting! Thanks for this opportunity! Love paperbackswap!!
Would love to read this one. Sounds very interesting.
I would love to win this for my church library!
Never knew about free book Friday… will need to be more observant! Ordering Christmas presents from Paperback swap today…so far 8 out of 10 are accepted and on their way. Woohoo!!!
I would love to win this book. I am 7 and a half months pregnant and need something new to read in the last few weeks of sitting around–aka endless waiting.
I love paperback swap! In all the years I have belong I have never heard of free book Friday!!! LOVE IT! This sounds like a great read! Amish books are one of my many favorites!
Who wouldn’t want to win a free book? Sign me up, please! PBS has been a boon to my finances. Thank you for all the work you do!
thanks for the giveaway!
I haven’t had time, with six kids under foot all day, to read nearly as much s I need to lately. If I had this lovely book, the sweet rug rats promised me special Mommy Time to read it!
This sounds like a wonderful book! Thank you for the chance to win it!
This sounds like a great book. I think myself and my girls would really enjoy it.
I love Amish books. Their life seems so wonderful but I’m sure it has its problems too. I would love to read this one.
I was just searching for my next read…. I’d love for this to be it! Thank you.
This sounds like an interesting read and something that would be fun for this upcoming holiday season! 🙂
Sounds like my kind of book. Hope I get a chance to read it!
Love the theme and excerpt. Absolutely want to read the book!
Id love to have it also. Mom reads about a book a day. She is 96 and reading is her one pastime that she is still able to do. I cant keep up with her, but I try!
I always love trying new authors and genres. This book sounds interesting, I’d love to read it!
Sounds like the kind of story I love to read….
I want to win! This book sounds really interesting.
I would love to win a free book
looks like a good book!
Sounds like a really good book. I can’ t wait to read it!
Sounds like a good book.
Live 2 hrs. away from Lancaster and have visited a few times- enjoyed eating at Plain and Fancy, lol. Wonder if it still exists…. anyway, I haven’t yet read anything about the Amish and this book looks very interesting so I think it would be a good one to start with.
What a wonderful selection. Thanks for offering the giveaway!
Sounds lovely, and would make an awesome birthday present (yep, I’m another year older today) to win it!
It is wonderful that you run this contest for your members. We all love books and reading and your website has allowed many of us to have access to so many books and in a less expensive way. Thank you, PBS. I would like to win a copy of this book and once I have read it, to share it with others. It surely appears to be quite an entertaining read!