Stolen Bride (Paperback)

Naomi Knapp, a beautiful nineteen year old Amish girl is chosen,against her wil, by the domineering widowed old bishop to be his new bride. To prevent this marriage, the bishop's son, Jacob, who has left the community to become a successful model and actor in New York, abducts Naomi. Saved from a disasterous marriage, Naomi finds freedom and love in a new world. Large Print Version.

Valentine Dmitriev, Ph.D., spent a career as a pioneer in infant learning and early intervention for special needs children. She received national recognition for her Model Preschool Program for young children with Down Syndrome and other disabilities.  For more than 15 years she traveled widely, giving lectures and workshops in 40 cities in America and 11 foreign countries including Australia, England, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Russia and Spain.
Her years of front-line experience have led her to write seven remarkably insightful books on child development.  These include:  Teaching the Unteachable: A How-to Handbook; Tears & Triumphs: A look into the world of children with Down Syndrome or other Developmental Delays; Time To Begin: Early Education for Children with Down Syndrome; and Smart Baby, Clever Child.
Her most recent book, released in 2012, is a second edition of the book Smart Baby, Clever Child, updated to deal with the explosion of new media and technology, and how this can affect the development of a young child.
Dmitriev is also the author of four novels: An Heiress's Dilemma, the story of a romance between a downtrodden man and caring woman who tries to help the homeless against the wishes of a cold-hearted uncle who wants the poor swept under a bureaucratic rug; Five Magic Words, the love story of a successful illustrator and a widowed scientist who are kept apart by a malicious stepmother; Lori, Runaway Wife, a moving tale of a battered wife who escapes her abusive husband for a life of freedom with a man she is afraid to love because of her dark past; and Stolen Bride, a drama set in an Amish community that begins to unfold when a young Amish woman goes missing and only one young Amish man knows where she is really "hidden away."