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An accident cripples Caleb's dad. Despite being even more tightly bound to the farm and to the man who so opposed his courtship of Nellie, Caleb can't forget his first love.

Set in Amish country's beloved fictional Hickory Hollow, Tessie Miller, the youngest of her Old Order parents' five daughters, followed her heart, and the unthinkable has happened.

Romance, mystery, and family drama intertwine deep in the heart of Lancaster County's Amish country as two sisters yearn for new beginnings.

"Where there is stress, or receding hairlines and liver spots, there is humor." —John McPherson More than one third of the world's population is officially over the hill, while the

If laughter is the best medicine, The Get Well Book by John McPherson is just what the doctor ordered.

Start with an everyday occurrence, add several helpings of absurdity, a few cups of silliness and a dash of sickness and you get Close to Home.

Where there is stress, there is humor." —John McPherson Close to Home, syndicated by Universal uClick, lampoons the best of popular culture one controversy at a time.

Only in the world of Close to Home can you find hospitals staffed with hypochondriac-sniffing dogs, Yellowstone employees who secretly spike Old Faithful with gallons of Mr.

Ferociously Close to Home delivers McPherson's trademark take on the absurdities of everyday life.

No one walks away from a Close to Home cartoon unscathed. John McPherson's lumpy characters and bizarre situations are tailor-made for gut-splitting laughs.

Inside Women Are from Venus, Men Are Idiots, Close to Home cartoonist John McPherson illustrates what happens when planets—and planetary beings—just don't seem to align.

Some call it weird. Others, eclectic, creative, hilarious, laugh-out-loud funny and good old-fashioned snort-milk-out-your-nose humor.

Sports is one of cartoonist John McPherson's favorite topics for lampooning. The frustration inherent in almost any sport makes for a perfect comic target.

Journalist Philip Bradley can't forget Rachel Yoder, the blind Amish woman he met while on assignment in Pennsylvania. He is determined to find a cure for her and to get to know her better.

Sarah Cain is a strictly modern woman living in Oregon and developing a burgeoning career in real estate. Her sister Ivy left to pursue a plain life in Amish country twelve years ago.