{"product_id":"patchwork-anna-balmer-myers-9781647997076","title":"Patchwork: A Story of \"The Plain People\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnna Balmer Myers was an American author of romantic novels featuring the local color of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe was born in Lancaster County in Manheim, Pennsylvania and attended school there. She later attended Drexel University and lived and worked as a schoolteacher in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her most well known work is Amanda: A Daughter of the Mennonites (1921); other works include Patchwork; a Story of \"the Plain People\" (1920), The Madonna of the Curb (1922), I Lift My Lamp, and a collection of poetry entitled Rain on the Roof (1931). Amanda, about a young Mennonite girl who seeks an education, is hired as a teacher in a local one-room schoolhouse, and eventually marries a childhood friend, contains many delightful appreciations of life along with early 20th century reminiscences, as indicated by such chapters as: \"The Snitzing Party\", \"Boiling Apple Butter\", \"The Spelling Bee\", and \"One Heart Made o' Two\" . Patchwork, the story of a young girl growing up within a community of \"plain people\", some of the story in the format of a diary, includes the girl's first romance. ...(wikipedia.org)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anna Balmer Myers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1647997070\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781647997076\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bibliotech Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/10\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d","brand":"Anna Balmer Myers","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48485759189247,"sku":"9781647997076","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5100e2df-0a89-4482-9fff-77031c0db9e5.jpg?v=1778051399","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/patchwork-anna-balmer-myers-9781647997076","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}