On this week's Weekend Edition Saturday, Scott Simon talks to author Shelley Shepard Gray. Gray writes what are sometimes referred to as "bonnet rippers" -- Amish-themed romance novels, which are a ...

About the time my first novel was published — less than a decade ago — a fiction phenomenon was beginning. Amish fiction, it was called. The trend was so powerful my literary agent asked if I had any ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... DENVER—The Christian book business, optimistic that a little literary escapism might be an antidote for readers in hard times, is turning to bonnets, buggies ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To an outsider, these so-called “bonnet-rippers” look placid and innocuous. Notably, no bonnets are actually torn within the pages ...

I was perusing a list of recently published books when I saw a title with the word “Amish” in it. Right … this was a thing I never thought about. I wondered what Amish fiction spinners were getting up ...

With mommy porn bestseller Fifty Shades of Grey whipping up a sadomasochistic storm in the female book market this summer, it might seem safe to assume that old-fashioned romance novels, in which the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Why can't we all be a little more like the Amish? This question lies at ...

Two new books bring a variety of authors’ Amish fiction to readers. First from New York Times bestselling author Wanda Brunstetter comes the first book in her Amish Greenhouse Mystery series, “The ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Beth Wiseman, Amy Clipston, Kathleen Fuller, and Vanetta Chapman. Thomas Nelson, $15.99 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-0-5291-1853-0 Each of the four novellas from these veterans of Amish fiction is set ...

Several authors have continued their Amish romance series with new books. New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Shelley Shepard Gray continues the Amish of Hart County series with “His Guilt ...