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Elm Creek Quilts volume 4
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After learning of her familyâs ties to the slaveholding South, Sylvia Compson scours her attic for clues and discovers a window into the world of her ancestors: the memoir of her great-grandfatherâs spinster sister, Gerda Bergstrom. Gerdaâs memoir chronicles the founding of Elm Creek Manor and the tumultuous years when Hans, Anneke, and Gerda Bergstrom sheltered fugitive slaves within its walls, using quilts as a signal of sanctuary....
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Elm Creek Quilts volume 6
Pub. Date
[2004]
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The impending marriage of Elm Creek's most renowned quilting instructor prompts the stitching of a perfect commemorative bridal quilt, an endeavor that is challenged by closely guarded secrets among the Elm Creek Quilters
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As master quilter Sylvia Compson, a late-in-life newlywed, has discovered, love can enter our lives at any age. Yet before she can truly delight in her present happiness, she must face her role in the tragic circumstances that left her estranged from her sister. Vowing not to repeat the mistake with her new daughter-in-law, Amy, Sylvia must convince Amy that family is more precious than pride. As Sylvia takes up a quilt for the season, begun and abandoned...
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Quilt chronicles volume 2
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"Juliana Sutton has just about everything a woman could want. Her husband is riding a crest of success in the bustling capital city of Lincoln, and Juliana leads various philanthropic endeavors. Once finished, their new home, a spectacular mansion on five acres, will be the envy of all. Then a devastating scandal erupts... Cass Gregory, the foreman overseeing the Sutton mansion construction, has spent recent years trying to untangle the disastrous...
26) Bubble trouble
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Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Mabel blows a bubble that captures Baby and wafts him away, resulting in a wild chase that involves the whole neighborhood.
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Patchwork circle volume 1
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In this historical romance, ladies in the church quilting circle have their daughters compete with quilting squares to win the new bachelor pastor's heart.
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2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Since the early nineteenth century, the women of Gee's Bend in southern Alabama have created stunning, vibrant quilts. In the only photo-essay book about the quilts of Gee's Bend for children, award-winning author Susan Goldman Rubin explores the history and culture of this fascinating group of women and their unique quilting traditions. Rubin uses meticulous research to offer an exclusive look at an important facet of African American art and culture.
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"Enter a historic Nebraskan prison where three women find betrayal, love, and ultimate truth. Jane Prescott is serving a ten-year sentence for murder. Can a broken spirit be healed behind bars? Matron Mamie Dawson feels called to help the wounded women in her charge. Will a guard's attentions keep her from her mission? Warden's wife Ellen McKenna has changed her preconceptions about these female prisoners. Will it be enough to save her from a life-or-death...
31) Oma's Quilt
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Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Emily has an idea for a special way to make her grandmother feel at home no matter where she is living.
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[2011]
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After their quilting retreat upstate, the Someday Quilts ladies return to Archers Rest to prepare for the town's big anniversary celebration. But their plans are unexpectedly derailed by the discovery of a human skeleton in Nell's grandmother's backyard-making Eleanor the prime suspect in a murder. But a skeleton isn't the only thing that's long been buried. When a wave of vandalism raises fears that the town's bygone history of witchcraft has been...
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Here is the best available book on quilt making -- a complete, easy-to-follow guide that shows you how to make beautiful, useful quilts that you will be proud to own and display. Even if you are a beginner, you will soon find yourself quilting like an expert by following these clearly drawn patterns, photographs, and step-by-step instructions.
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Benni Harper mysteries volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
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A fifth go-around for Benni Harper (Goose in the Pond, 1997, not reviewed, etc.), the ranch-bred widow of Jack Harper, whos now married to San Celica, California, Police Chief Gabe Ortiz. San Celica is having a Heritage Days celebration, and Benni, as curator of the Folk Arts Museum and Artists Co-op, is in the thick of it. Her elegant southern cousin Emory Littleton (with a mega-crush on Bennis best friend Elvia Aragon) is staying with her, and at...
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Log cabin books volume 1
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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When Elvirey and her family move to a log cabin in the Michigan woods, something even more important than Granny's quilt pieces makes the new dwelling a home.
36) The quilt story
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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A pioneer mother lovingly stitches a beautiful quilt which warms and comforts her daughter Abigail; many years later another mother mends and patches it for her little girl.
37) A single thread
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Moving from Fort Worth, Texas to New Bern, Connecticut to open a quilt shop begins a new life for Evelyn Dixon, bringing unexpected connections with a trio of women who come to the shop for quilting classes.
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Pub. Date
2005
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Beaded Crazy Quilting Made EasyBeaded Crazy QuiltingBeaded Crazy Quilting while learning the basics.Features include:40 illustrated embroidery and bead stitchesDetailed instructions for fabric painting and imagery400 color step-by-step photos for 23 projects15 full-size applique patterns
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Pub. Date
2014
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Cross traditional crazy quilting with favorite pieced quilt patterns and today's machine quilting methods, and what do you get? Crazy fun for all kinds of quilters, even those who don't like handwork. Allie Aller and Valerie Bothell's guide offers an exuberant mixture of vintage and modern, hand and machine work, and clever ways to make traditional quilts a little crazy. Includes 10 projects in sizes from small wall hangings to bed quilts; photo instructions...
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