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Buggy Talk Podcast
by Tracy Fredrychowski, Author
Escape to a simpler time with Tracy Fredrychowski as she talks with some of your favorite Amish Fiction Authors and guests. Each week she’ll take a peek into the Amish lifestyle. It might be a book, an Amish business, or a must-see tourist spot. Who knows she might even have some of your favorite Amish book characters on for exclusive interviews.
Episodes
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Episode 78 – Tracy Fredrychowski – Barbara’s Amish Truth Exposed
Will this shame-filled believer ever allow God to heal her broken heart? Or will she carry the burden of her lie alone, permitting history to repeat itself?
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Episode 77 – Christen Krumm – On the Golden Cliffs
Lyla Taylor has built a social media empire around her Ruby Rose brand. Yet, one wrong post causes her carefully constructed world to collapse. With no other options, Lyla agrees to a six-week reset in rural Montana in what she believes will be a high-end spa. Lyla couldn't have been more wrong....
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Episode 76 – Jo Ann Brown – Where She Belongs
Ten years ago, Amish quiltmaker Leah Beiler and her twin brother left their community without a word. Now she's come home—with her orphaned niece. Before she left, she dreamed of marrying handsome dairy farmer Ezra Stoltzfus. But now that she is raising a child who knows nothing of Amish ways…
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Episode 75 – Amy Grochowski – An Amish Forever Home
Providence brings together a mismatched family, giving all three a second chance for love. Only love may never have had such a tough job.
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Episode 74 – Tricia Goyer – Beyond the Gray Mountains – Amish Big Sky Series
Marianna Sommer always dreamed of a simple Amish wedding, but there’s nothing simple about marrying rock star Ben Stone. Marianna struggles with trying to embrace new things while also longing for the traditions of her past. Yet wedding planning becomes the least of Marianna’s worries when the…
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Episode 73 – Kelly Irvin – Every Good Gift
During the most difficult season of her life, how could she know whether their meeting was a gift from God—or another temptation? Maisy never expected that a Plain girl like her could have her heart stolen by an Englisch boy. But when her rumspringa ends and Maisy realizes she’s pregnant, the...
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Episode 72 – Shelley Shepard Gray – Her Heart’s Desire
Mary Margaret Miller needs an escape from her small Amish community. She boards a bus, all alone, for a vacation in Pinecraft, Florida. Meeting Betsy and Lilly on the way, she's amazed to find two kindred spirits. They become fast friends and determine to have the best two weeks of their lives.…
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Episode 71 – Dana R. Lynn – Her Secret Amish Past
Stolen from the Amish… with no memory of her past. When her mother is shot as they flee an unknown threat, Josslyn Graham discovers her entire life is a lie. Not only is she adopted but she's the target of armed assailants—and she doesn’t know why.
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Episode 70 – J. Willis Sanders– The Forgiving Quilt
Ruth Raber, an elderly Old Order Amish woman, has led a lonely life. She never married, never sang with a boy at one of her community's gatherings, and ruined the only relationship she could've had. And worst of all, she doesn't understand why any of that happened. Or does she?
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Episode 69 – Patrick E. Craig – The Quilt That Knew
• A young girl buried in the woods for forty years... • A desperate killer loose in the village... • A mysterious quilt and a golden ring... Jenny Hershberger returns to Apple Creek, Ohio, the village where she grew up. But this is not a happy homecoming. She's been called upon to solve a…
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Episode 68 – Lenora Worth – The Forgiving Quilt
Eliza King already has a broken heart, and thanks to a rickety ladder, she now has a broken leg too. She isn’t dealing with either very well. Ever since a brief romance ended when the boy who’d been courting her tried a little too hard to take things further, Eliza has sought refuge in reading...
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Episode 67 – Debra Torres & Tracy Fredrychowski – An Amish Christmas at the Apple Blossom Inn
Two sisters. Two stories. One great Amish Christmas read. Orphaned just weeks before Christmas, the Beiler sisters suddenly discover they could lose their home and what’s worse—each other. To make ends meet, sisters Sadie and Katie are plunged into working at Willow Spring's Apple Blossom Inn.…
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Episode 66 – Jennifer Beckstrand – The Amish Quiltmakers Unconventional Niece
Resourceful Colorado Amish quiltmaker Esther Kiem has her hands full with husband, home, and a baby on the way. But putting her skills to the test for an outspoken niece who’s running for town council is a matchmaking challenge she can’t resist. Infused with her signature humor and saturated with...
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Episode 65 – Debby Giusti – In a Sniper’s Crosshairs
An assassin’s loose in Amish country…and she’s not the only target. When a radio broadcast describes taxi driver Lily Hudson’s passenger as an armed criminal, she becomes his immediate target. Narrowly escaping, Lily accepts Matthias Overholt’s offer to hide at his Amish family farm for...
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Episode 64 – Suzanne Woods Fisher – Anything But Plain
It's not easy being the bishop's daughter, especially for Lydie Stoltzfus. She's not like other Amish girls, as much as she wishes she were. The only thing she does well is disappoint others. Leaving her family and church seems unbearable, but staying might be worse.
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Episode 63 – Wendy Rich Stetson– Heartsong Hills
Amish girls don’t dance. Dancing is against the rules, and Nora Beiler always follows the rules…until a runaway logging truck shatters her world forever. Desperate to heal from the accident, she enrolls in Shuffle off to Fitness, an exercise class at the local senior center. She never dreamed it...
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Episode 62 – Sara Harris – Rebekah’s Riches
As the memory of the traumatic labor and delivery that made her a mother fades, life around Rebekah and Joseph’s Gasthof Village homestead returns to a shade of normal that is better than she could have ever imagined. That is, until her father, Samuel, takes sick yet again.
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Episode 61 – Jennifer Spredemann – The Newcomer
This is where it all began... Silas Miller's life is exciting, and he and his friends have their whole lives ahead of them. Until their rumspringa trip turns into a reeling tragedy.
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Episode 60 – Mindy Steele – Cicada Season
The Miller’s Creek matchmakers are multiplying, and they aren’t done with the Milford half dozen yet. Hannah Troyer thinks she can do it all, but it’s clear the young woman needs help with the apple harvest this year. The local bakers have an idea on how to remedy that. Throw in a handsome…
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Episode 59 – Rachel J. Good – An Amish Marriage of Convenience
When widower Stephen Lapp moves his five children from New York State to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, his only plan is to buy his family’s farm stand, Lapp’s Pastured Pork. That way, his brother can move closer to his fiancée and open his own stand. But on Stephen’s first trip to the market…
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Episode 58 – Paul Stutzman – The Wanderers
Johnny Miller grew up in a secure, stable Old Order Amish family. He often quipped, though, that he was Out of Order Amish, never able to totally accept all the rules and standards of his family's way of life. His early and constant doubts about the Amish lifestyle lead to unwise choices ad…
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Episode 57 – Tricia Goyer – Big Sky Series
What happens when life shakes your foundation? What if your foundation isn’t the foundation that God really wants you to have? Beside Still Waters is an Amish fiction novel by bestselling author Tricia Goyer that captures the struggle between dreams and the reality of life.
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Episode 56 – Amy Clipston – Building a Future
They both had different plans for their futures . . . until their hearts led them to each other. Michelle Lantz dreams of marrying and starting a family, and now that she’s been dating Korey for over a year, she thought it was only a matter of time before he proposed. But lately, Korey has seemed...
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Episode 55 – Jennifer Beckstrand – His Amish Sweetheart
Fondly nicknamed “The Peanut Butter Brothers,” Andrew, Abraham, and Austin Petersheim skillfully run one of Wisconsin’s most cherished family businesses. But their mischievous younger twin siblings have a talent all their own—for matchmaking . . .
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Episode 52 – Kelly Irvin – The Warmth of Sunshine
Abigail’s Amish life has always followed a certain path . . . until an Englisch woman disrupts all she’s known to be true. Growing up Amish, Abigail Bontrager often felt like a square peg in a round hole. Her pie crusts always turned out tough. Her stitches always ran crooked. She was clumsy. Not...
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Episode 54 –Tracey J. Lyons – A Love for Lizzie
Childhood friends joined by a painful past…Can love blossom between them?
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Episode 53 –Mary Alford – Among the Innocent
When Leah Miller's entire Amish family was murdered ten years ago, the person believed responsible took his own life. Since then, Leah left the Amish and joined the police force. Now, after another Amish woman is found murdered with the same MO, it becomes clear that the wrong man may have been...
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Episode 51 – Laurie Strop Smith – Pockets of Peace
Five years after an unexpected pregnancy forces Lydia Byler to make difficult decisions, she is offered a job helping Birdie Miller manage her bed and breakfast in Pinecraft. Single, shunned, and desperate for a fresh start, Lydia agrees to relocate and reunites with the handsome Wesley Hochstetler.
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Episode 50 – Adina Senft – The Amish Cowboy’s Bride
How can you dream about a man you’ve never met? Rebecca Miller is the shy twin, the thoughtful twin … the invisible twin next to her vibrant sister Malena. She’s content to dream of a man she saw at a distance the previous summer—until one stormy winter night when she rescues an unconscious...
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Episode 49 – Debra Torres – Forbidden Truth
What happens when living the dream means losing yourself? Johanna Yoder can breathe again. Willow Brook’s once tyrannical Bishop Zook has been replaced by Gott’s true elect, Gideon Hochstetler. And the new bishop can’t help but show some special leniency towards the aspiring Amish writer.
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Episode 48 –Lenora Worth – Secrets in an Amish Garden
After losing her first love, Amish garden nursery owner Rebecca Eicher thought she’d shuttered her heart forever. But when English stranger Jeb Martin asks for work, there’s an instantaneous connection—almost like Rebecca knows him.
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Episode 47 –Debby Giusti – Smugglers in Amish Country
Uncovering secrets in this Amish town could deliver deadly consequences.
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Episode 46 –Shelley Shepard Gray – Edgewater Road
When Jennifer Smiley's grandmother, Ginny, leaves her an old farmhouse on Edgewater Road in seemingly quiet Ross County, Ohio, Jennifer can't pass up the opportunity for a new beginning. Almost immediately she meets a group of men who generously help her move in. When she realizes that they work...
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Episode 45 –Debby Giusti – Amish Spring Romance Collection
Spring is in the air! And so is romance. Second chances and hope fill the pages of this new collection of Amish romances from seven of your favorite Amish fiction authors.
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Episode 44 – Ashley Emma – Amish Accident
While driving through Amish country in Unity, Maine, Freya Wilson accidentally hits an Amish man with her car in a blizzard, instantly killing him. Panicked, she leaves him there in the road and drives away, afraid that if she is arrested, her violent ex will locate her using his connections with...
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Episode 43 –MindySteele – The Butterfly Box
When the small town of Miller’s Creek suffers great loss, one band of brothers and a pair of town matchmakers help breathe life back into community.
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Episode 42 – Molly Jebber – Magdelena’s Choice
Fresh-baked muffins fragrant with ripe blueberries …cinnamon-scented turnovers that transform any meal into a feast. … In 1914 Ohio, the Amish Charm Bakery holds a special place within its close-knit, faith-filled community, where love finds a way through God’s grace …even for a widow faced with…
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Episode 41 –Jennifer Spredemann – Her Amish Identity
A troubled home. An altered identity. And a second chance at love. Sarah isn’t who she thinks she is… When amnesiac Sarah discovers she was Amish in the life she no longer remembers, her life is turned upside down. She has an Englisch family now—a husband and two daughters. But what happens when...
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Episode 40 –Laurel Blount – Strength in the Storm
In this touching Amish romance, a brokenhearted woman and a steadfast man discover that the safest place to weather tragedy is in each other’s arms. After the murder of both her parents, Emma Hochstedler returns to the small community of Johns Mill, hoping to resume her quiet existence.…
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Episode # 39 Amy Clipston, Kathleen Fuller, and Shelley Shepard Gray – An Amish Quilting Bee
A collection of charming stories of cozy quilting circles and a budding romance come from three of your favorite authors. Join award-winning authors Amy Clipston, Kathleen Fuller, and Shelley Shepard Gray as they introduce us to their latest release, An Amish Quilting Bee.
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Episode 38 – Kate Lloyd – A Lancaster Family Christmas
What starts as a getaway to Amish Country could turn into the Christmas that changes Diana’s life forever, if only she opens her heart. Diana can’t face another lonely Christmas in her Manhattan apartment. When a coworker invites her on a last-minute trip to visit her Mennonite family in…
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Episode 36 – Tracy Fredrychowski – Emma’s Amish Faith Tested
till fighting internally to forgive God for her tragedy, Emma sets out on a journey to discover the deep healing she craves. But her discovery of a newfound secret love of Jesus’s teachings puts her at direct odds with the traditions of her community.
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Episode 35 – Loree Lough – Christmas at the Amish Bakeshop
USA Today bestselling authors Shelley Shepard Gray, Rachel J. Good, and Loree Lough celebrate the spirit of the season
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Episode 34 –Mindy Steele – Christmas Grace
Grace Miller believed herself in love with the charming Englischer who eventually broke her heart. Now alone except for the secret life growing inside her, she arrives in the unfamiliar small village of Walnut Ridge, Kentucky, to hide and hopefully gain forgiveness.
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Episode 33 – Jennifer Beckstrand – More Amish Christmas Miracles
She can’t cook, sew, sing, or clean. And no matter how hard young Anna Yoder tries, she’d much rather help people in trouble than be a well-behaved pretty face and properly perfect Amish maidel.
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Episode 32 – Jennifer Beckstrand – First Christmas on Huckleberry Hill
Discover more miracles in Amish country! Curl up in front of the fire, wrap yourself in a fluffy blanket, and treat yourself to this collection of romantic Christmas stories by some of your favorite Amish fiction authors.
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Episode 31 – Sara Harris – Rebekah’s Cradle
Rebekah and Joseph are enjoying married life when a letter, addressed only to Joseph, arrives from Katie, telling of her pregnancy. Soon after, Rebekah learns that she, too, is with child; however, her difficult pregnancy is nothing like Katie’s idyllic one.
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Episode 30 –Laura Bradford – Her New Story
Tess Baker thought she had the perfect everything--until her best friend, and (now ex) husband, betrayed her, leaving her with nothing, except her career as an investigative reporter.
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Episode 29 – Ashley Emma – Princess and the Amish Pauper
Arabella and Damaris look like identical twins, but their lives couldn't be more different. One is an heiress from Germany who is about to inherit a multi-million-dollar bakery, and one is an Amish baker from Maine.
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Episode 28 – Molly Jebber – Maryann’s Hope
Secrets devastated Maryann Harding’s marriage to an Englischer—and took away her untrustworthy husband.
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Escape to a simpler time with Tracy Fredrychowski as she talks with some of your favorite Amish Fiction Authors and guests. Each week she’ll take a peek into the Amish lifestyle. It might be a book, an Amish business, or a must-see tourist spot. Who knows she might even have some of your favorite Amish book characters on for exclusive interviews.
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Escape to a simpler time with Tracy Fredrychowski as she talks with some of your favorite Amish Fiction Authors and guests. Each week she’ll take a peek into the Amish lifestyle. It might be a book, an Amish business, or a must-see tourist spot. Who knows she might even have some of your favorite...
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