Amish Confidential: Looking for Trouble on Heaven's Back Roads

Publisher Marketing:"Lebanon" Levi Stoltzfus, star of the hit Discovery Channel reality show "Amish Mafia," delivers a sizzling tell-all about Amish life today. From the forbidden joyrides to the senseless shunnings to the colorful family feuds, he shares his frank insider's view of this fascinating and secretive society. You've seen the pretty postcards and the shiny tourist brochures. Now, "Amish Confidential" takes listeners beyond the buggies, bonnets, and beards into the hidden heart of back-roads Amish country. The all-night field parties. The prohibited automobiles. The nosy neighbors and prissy tattletales. It's all here: the many "English temptations." The stitch-and-bitch quilting bees. The sex, alcohol, and illicit Wi-Fi. And the random acts of kindness and remarkable forgiveness, too. Interest in the Amish has never been greater. The tourist counts keep breaking new records. "Amish Mafia" is back for a fourth blockbuster season on TV, joined now by several spinoff shows. "Amish Confidential" taps right into America's fresh fascination with the throwback Amish. Stoltzfus weaves his never-before-told personal story through some high-profile Amish episodes that rocked the news in recent years, including the Nickel Mines shooting massacre, the Amish sisters' farm-stand kidnapping, and the Amish-Pagan drug gang. As America's most famous Amish tough guy makes clear in every minute, there is nothing plain or simple about the plain-and-simple life." Contributor Bio:  Henican, Ellis Ellis Henican is the coauthor of three New York Times bestsellers, a columnist for Newsday, and a popular television and radio commentator. Contributor Bio:  Stoltzfus, "Lebanon" Levi Lebanon Levi Stoltzfus is the star of Amish Mafia, the hit show on the Discovery Channel. He was raised Old Order Amish (the most traditional kind), speaking Pennsylvania Dutch in Pennsylvania s rural Lancaster and Lebanon counties. The Ordnung, the Amish code of conduct, does not prevent him from speaking about the closed society, because he was never baptized into the church. Contributor Bio:  Summerer, Eric Michael Eric Michael Summerer is an AudioFile Earphones Award winner, voice actor, and producer who has narrated numerous audiobooks as well as countless instructional recordings and video games. He also earned an Audie Award nomination for Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke.