Nominate August, 2023 **VOTING CLOSED**

[Barbara]

Nominations are now open for August, 2023!

So far, the authors exempt from nomination, since we've already selected one of their books this year, are Jean Brunstetter, Richelle Brunstetter, Wanda Brunstetter, Vanetta Chapman, Patricia Davids, Tracy Fredrychowski, Kelly Irvin, Carrie Lighte, Kate Lloyd, Emma Miller, and Debra Torres, although we may make exceptions for novella collections that include one of these authors. If you're not sure if your book is eligible for nomination, please leave a comment and one of the moderators will get back to you!

Rules:
1. Any Amish-themed novel is eligible.
2. One nomination per person.
3. If two people nominate the same book, each person's vote counts. So the book will feature twice in the list to give each vote an equal chance.
4. Nominations run until the 14th of the month, with the winner announced on the 15th.
5. The winning book is chosen using Random.org to make it completely fair.
6. Please don't nominate a book we have already read. You can see our list of previous group reads here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... or look at the group read's bookshelf here: https://www.goodreads.com/group/books... (it includes the Christian group read as well).
7. Only nominate the first book in a series UNLESS we have already read #1 (see above link). In this case, #2 is then eligible for nomination!

Nominate away!!

#1. Sweet as Honey (The Honeybee Sisters #1) by Jennifer Beckstrand -- Raven
#2. Her Heart's Desire (A Season in Pinecraft, #1) by Shelley Shepard Gray -- Katrina
#3. A Plain and Sweet Christmas Romance Collection by Jerry S. Eicher, Lauralee Bliss, Ramona K. Cecil, Dianne Christner, Melanie Dobson, Olivia Newport, Claire Sanders, Anna Schmidt, and Rachael O. Phillips -- Natalie
#4. Yesterday's Gone by Cindy Woodsmall and Erin Woodsmall -- Barbara
#5. Sweet as Honey (The Honeybee Sisters #1) by Jennifer Beckstrand -- Diane
#6.

[Raven]

Sweet as Honey - The Honeybee Sisters #1 - by Jennifer Beckstrand

[Katrina]

Her Heart's Desire by Shelley Shepard Gray

[Natalie]

I will nominate .

[Barbara]

I'm excited -- 2 of the 3 nominations are on my to read list!

Who else is going to add to the list??

[Barbara]

I'm working on my to-be-read-list, so here's my nomination and it's a stand-alone...

Yesterday's Gone by Cindy Woodsmall and Erin Woodsmall

[DianeLikesToRead]

I nominate - Sweet as Honey

[Barbara]

Just a couple of days left to nominate a book you'd like to read in August.

Three of the nominations have a 20% chance of being our groupread, while the fourth has a 40% chance. Can we have more nominations to have more choices?

Who hasn't nominated yet? What would you like to read?

[Barbara]

LAST DAY TO NOMINATE!!!

Actually, only a couple of hours. Any last nominations???

[Barbara]

Thanks for your nomination Diane...

Sweet as Honey (The Honeybee Sisters #1) by Jennifer Beckstrand is our groupread for next month!

[Raven]

Yay! I have been waiting all year and part of last year for this book to be one of our reads!