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Series
Elm Creek Quilts volume 17
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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"Chiaverini has once again written an intense and beautiful book-so much so that readers will almost hear the hollow echo of the fife and drum as they immerse themselves in every compelling page . . . Truly unforgettable."—BookPage
In 1862, the men of Water's Ford, Pennsylvania, rally to President Lincoln's call while Dorothea Granger marshals her friends to "wield their needles for the Union." Meanwhile, Anneke Bergstrom hides...
In 1862, the men of Water's Ford, Pennsylvania, rally to President Lincoln's call while Dorothea Granger marshals her friends to "wield their needles for the Union." Meanwhile, Anneke Bergstrom hides...
Author
Series
Elm Creek Quilts volume 18
Language
English
Description
Meditating on the weddings she has attended in Elm Creek Manor throughout the years on the morning of her daughter's wedding day, Sarah McClure evaluates the symbolic features on a wedding quilt designed to display the signatures of beloved guests.
3) Katie's way
Author
Series
Pleasant Valley volume 5
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
In this compelling novel in the Pleasant Valley series, a woman opens a quilt shop that brings the Amish and the Englisch together—and brings her unexpected challenges...
Hoping for a distraction after a thwarted romance, new arrival Katie Miller sets up shop on Pleasant Valley’s Main Street. It’s not long before a quilting circle forms and women from both the Amish and Englisch worlds are crafting and socializing together—much...
Hoping for a distraction after a thwarted romance, new arrival Katie Miller sets up shop on Pleasant Valley’s Main Street. It’s not long before a quilting circle forms and women from both the Amish and Englisch worlds are crafting and socializing together—much...
Author
Series
Elm Creek Quilts volume 20
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Jennifer Chiaverini's Elm Creek Quilts novels are as lovingly crafted and heartwarming as the homemade quilts featured prominently in each story. The milestone 20th entry in this charming series, The Giving Quiltchronicles the week af-ter Thanksgiving- Quiltsgiving- as residents of Elm Creek Manor find creative ways to answer the question, ''Why do you give?''
Author
Series
Elm Creek Quilts volume 2
Language
English
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Description
The circle of women who work at Elm Creek Quilts in rural Waterford, Pennsylvania, share their troubles and find solace in their friendship while sewing a round robin hanging for the entrance wall.
Author
Series
Elm Creek Quilts volume 3
Language
English
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Description
Five women arrive at Elm Creek Manor in the hopes of completing a challenge quilt, which symbolizes each woman's personal goals, but they soon realize that their daily lives are interfering with their dreams.
Author
Series
Elm Creek Quilts volume 19
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rosa Diaz Barclay, mourning the loss of four of her eight children, lives on a rye farm in California with her abusive husband when she finally leaves him in order to save two of her remaining children from succombing to a mysterious wasting disease and when she reunites with her ex-husband, the father of her two healthy children, they try to start a winery in the midst of prohibition.
Author
Series
Elm Creek Quilts volume 14
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Master quilter Sylvia Bergstrom Compson, having uncovered letters in an antique desk written by slave Joanna, pieces together the story of the woman's life, learning of how she escaped only to be captured and sold again and created a quilt which hid clues about how to get back in order to be reunited with the son she was forced to leave behind.
Author
Series
Elm Creek Quilts volume 1
Language
English
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Description
An engaging tale full of warmth and wisdom, The Quilter's Apprentice is the first novel in best-selling author Jennifer Chiaverini's Elm Creek Quilts series. Sarah McClure takes a job helping elderly Sylvia Compson prepare her family estate for sale. Sylvia, a master quilter, agrees to share the tricks of the trade with Sarah. As the two women grow close, Sylvia shares her family's tragic past, compelling Sarah to look at her own life more closely....
Author
Series
Elm Creek Quilts volume 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
As each holiday season approaches, some revel in welcoming the New Year ahead; others quietly mourn the passing of time gone by. "We can't hold on to the past," says Master Quilter Sylvia Compson, "but we can keep the best part of 'Auld Lang Syne' in our hearts and in our memories, and we can look forward to the future with hope and resolve." As Sylvia, a late-in-life newlywed, has discovered, love can enter our lives at any age. Yet before she can...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Using scraps cut from the family's old clothing, Tanya helps her grandmother and mother make a beautiful quilt that tells the story of her family's life.
14) A single thread
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
First in the series of four very different women whose paths cross, changing their lives forever. "A big-hearted novel filled with wit and wisdom." —Susan Wiggs
It's a long way from Fort Worth, Texas, to New Bern, Connecticut, yet it only takes a day in the charming Yankee town to make Evelyn Dixon realize she's found her new home. The abrupt end of her marriage was Evelyn's wake-up call to get busy chasing her dream of opening
Author
Series
Elm Creek Quilts volume 8
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
When Christmas Eve comes to Elm Creek Manor, the tenor of the holiday is far from certain. Sylvia Bergstrom Compson, the Master Quilter, has her own reasons for preferring a quiet, even subdued, Christmas. Her young friend Sarah McClure, however, takes the opposite view and decides to deck the halls brightly. As she explores the trunks packed with Bergstrom family decorations that haven't been touched in more than fifty years, Sarah discovers a curious...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
In New Bern, Connecticut, one woman's marriage is suffering and another is trying to salvage a rundown cottage. The Cobbled Court Quilt Shop will bring them together and help them discover the power of sisterhood to heal old wounds.
Author
Series
Quilting story volume part 1
Publisher
Moody Publishers
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four female cousins face the trials of life along the wagon trail and the Texas frontier as they travel to and establish a new home at the abandoned military post at Forth Worth, Texas in 1856.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When her granddaughter June unexpectedly arrives and announces she's calling off her wedding, Ellen tells her the story of Nell, a Kansas-born woman who goes to the High Plains of New Mexico Territory in 1898 in search of a husband and the impending marriages she ran away from before marrying the love of her life"--
Author
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When aging matriarch Addie Ashwood dies, she leaves behind her an estranged daughter, three very different granddaughters, and a quilt that needs to be finished, which might be the Ashwood women's opportunity to stich their family back together, one truthat a time.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
When Cobble Court Quilts character Mary Dell Templeton and her twin sister Lydia Dale were children, their Aunt Velvet warned them away from local boys. This is the story of Mary Dell and her journey from a Texas ranch to becoming a wife, mother, and celebrated quilter.
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