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The Handmaid's Tale is a futuristic dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood published in 1985. It is set in a near-future New England in a patriarchal, totalitarian theonomic state known as the Republic of Gilead, which has overthrown the United States government. Offred is the central character and narrator and one of the "Handmaids": women who are forcibly assigned to produce children for the "Commanders", who are the ruling class in Gilead.
Elizabeth George Speare was an American writer of children's historical fiction, including two Newbery Medal winners, recognizing the year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children". In 1989 she received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal for her contributions to American children's literature and one of the Educational Paperback Association's top 100 authors.
Marge Piercy is an American progressive activist, feminist, and writer. Her work includes Woman on the Edge of Time; He, She and It, which won the 1993 Arthur C. Clarke Award; and Gone to Soldiers, a New York Times Best Seller and a sweeping historical novel set during World War II. Piercy's work is rooted in her Jewish heritage, Communist social and political activism, and feminist ideals.
Harriette Simpson Arnow was an American novelist and historian, who lived in Kentucky and Michigan. Arnow has been called an expert on the people of the Southern Appalachian Mountains, but she herself loved cities and spent crucial periods of her life in Cincinnati and Detroit.
Helen Hooven Santmyer was an American writer, educator, and librarian. She is primarily known for her best-selling epic "...And Ladies of the Club", published when she was in her 80s.
Plain Truth (2001) is the seventh novel written by the American author Jodi Picoult. The story follows a murder on an Amish farm.
Gail Gaymer Martin was an American novelist and Christian speaker.
Kaye Dacus is an American author and editor who has been writing fiction for more than twenty years. Her first novel, Stand-In Groom, was published by Barbour Publishing with a release date of January 1, 2009. Subsequent titles in the Bonneterre Brides series are Menu for Romance and A Case for Love.
Kathleen Fuller is an American writer, specializing in Christian and Amish romantic fiction. She was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas and currently resides in Geneva, Ohio with her husband, James Fuller, and three children.
Leigh Bale is an American author of historical, contemporary romance novels. She lives in Nevada with her professor husband. She is a Publishers Weekly Bestselling author.
Vickie Stringer is an American novelist from Detroit, Michigan.
Jessie Hunter Brown Pounds was an American lyricist of gospel songs.
Love Finds You in Sugarcreek, Ohio is an Inspirational Fiction novel written by Serena B. Miller, published by Summerside Press, and released in July 2010. Love Finds You in Sugarcreek, Ohio is part of a larger series created by Summerside Press named the Love Finds You series. The idea behind the series was to create fictional inspirational stories that took place in uniquely named geographical locations like Sugarcreek, Ohio. Love Finds You in Sugarcreek, Ohio takes place during the Swiss Festival in Sugarcreek, Ohio and the surrounding areas including Millersburg, Ohio, Walnut Creek, Ohio, and the border between Holmes County, Ohio and Tuscarawas County, Ohio area.
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Love Finds You in Sugarcreek, Ohio is a film adaption of the novel of the same title by Serena B. Miller. Directed by Terry Cunningham, produced by George Shamieh, distributed by Mission Pictures International, production by Belltower Productions, and funded by Three Point Capital. The production was filmed on location in Holmes County, Ohio with a majority of the filming taking place in Sugarcreek, Ohio during the fall of 2013 which coincided with the time frame set by the Novel. The film first aired on Up in June, 2014, with a subsequent release scheduled later internationally and on DVD.
Beverly Jenkins is an American author of historical and contemporary romance novels with a particular focus on 19th century African-American life. Jenkins was a 2013 NAACP Image Award nominee and, in 1999, was voted one of the Top 50 Favorite African-American writers of the 20th century by the African American Literature Book Club. Jenkins's historical romances are set during a period of African-American history that she believes is often overlooked. This made it difficult to break into publishing because publishers weren't sure what to do with stories that involved African-Americans but not slavery.
Wanda E. Brunstetter is a novelist in the Amish romance genre, with more than 10 million books sold. Her books have been on the New York Times Best Seller list. Brunstetter is based in Washington.
Nancy Jane Dean, often referred to as Jennie Dean or N. J. Dean, was an American educator and Presbyterian missionary serving Assyrian Christians in Qajar Iran. She served as the head of Fiske Seminary, a girls' boarding school in Urmia, West Azerbaijan Province.
The Ohio Amish Country, also known simply as the Amish Country, is the second-largest community of Amish in the world, with in 2023 an estimated 84,065 members according to the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College. Ohio's largest Amish settlement is centered around Holmes County and in 2023 included an estimated 39,525 children and adults, the second largest in the world and the highest concentration of Amish in any US county; the Amish make up half the population of Holmes County, with members of other closely related Anabaptist Christian denominations, such as the Mennonites, residing there as well. The second largest community in Ohio is centered around Geauga County.
Shelley Shepard Gray is an American author of romance fiction novels.
