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ZONDERVAN

A Mother’s Secret

Copyright © 2014 by Amy Clipston

ePub Edition © April 2014: ISBN 978-0-310-33582-5

Requests for information should be addressed to:

Zondervan,
Grand Rapids, Michigan 49546

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Clipston, Amy.

A mother’s secret / Amy Clipston.

pages cm — (Hearts of the Lancaster Grand Hotel ; book two)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-310-33581-8 (softcover : alk. paper)

I. Title.

PS3603.L58M68 2014

813'.6—dc23

2013049530

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Publisher’s Note: This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. All characters are fictional, and any similarity to people living or dead is purely coincidental.

Cover design: Faceout

Cover photography: Brandon Hill

Printed in the United States of America

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For Becky Philpott

Contents

GLOSSARY

HEARTS OF THE LANCASTER GRAND HOTEL FAMILY TREES

NOTE TO THE READER

ONE

TWO

THREE

FOUR

FIVE

SIX

SEVEN

EIGHT

NINE

TEN

ELEVEN

TWELVE

THIRTEEN

FOURTEEN

FIFTEEN

SIXTEEN

SEVENTEEN

EIGHTEEN

NINETEEN

TWENTY

TWENTY-ONE

TWENTY-TWO

GROUP DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Glossary

ach
: oh

aenti:
aunt

appeditlich
: delicious

Ausbund
: Amish hymnal

bedauerlich
: sad

boppli
: baby

brot
: bread

bruder
: brother

bruderskinner
: nieces/nephews

bu
: boy

buwe
: boys

daadi
: granddad

daed
: dad

danki
: thank you

dat
: dad

Dietsch
: Pennsylvania Dutch, the Amish language (a German dialect)

dochder
: daughter

dochdern
: daughters

dummle
: hurry

Englisher
: a non-Amish person

fraa
: wife

freind
: friend

freinden
: friends

freindschaft
: relative

froh
: happy

gegisch
: silly

gern gschehne
: you’re welcome

grandkinner
: grandchildren

grank
: sick

grossdaadi
: grandfather

grossdochder
: granddaughter

grossdochdern
: granddaughters

grossmammi
: grandmother

Gude mariye
: Good morning

gut
: good

Gut nacht
: Good night

haus
: house

Ich liebe dich
: I love you

kapp
: prayer covering or cap

kichli
: cookie

kichlin
: cookies

kind
: child

kinner
: children

kumm
: come

liewe
: love, a term of endearment

maed
: young women, girls

maedel
: young woman

mamm
: mom

mammi
: grandma

mei
: my

mutter
: mother

naerfich
: nervous

narrisch
: crazy

onkel
: uncle

Ordnung
: the oral tradition of practices required and forbidden in the Amish faith

schee
: pretty

schtupp
: family room

schweschder
: sister

Was iss letz
?: What’s wrong?

Wie geht’s
: How do you do? or Good day!

willkumm
: welcome

wunderbaar
: wonderful

ya
: yes

zwillingbopplin
: twins

Hearts of the Lancaster Grand Hotel Family Trees

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