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Linda Davis's local fabric shop is a place where women gather to share their creations: quilts commemorating important events in their lives. Now, as her only child readies for college, Linda is torn between excitement for Molly and heartache for herself. Who will Linda be when she is no longer needed in her role as mom? What will become of her days? Of her marriage? Mother and daughter decide to share one last adventure together, a cross-country...
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Meditating on the weddings she has attended in Elm Creek Manor throughout the years on the morning of her daughter Caroline's wedding day, Sarah McClure evaluates the symbolic features on a painstakingly made wedding quilt designed to display the signatures of beloved guests.
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2022
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"The Secret Wish, Jodi Thomas: The little town of While-a-Way, Texas, may as well be named Last Chance as far as Avery Cleveland is concerned. Running her late great-grandmother's quilt shop is the only way to build back her life after losing her dancing career. But local sheriff Daniel Solis is stunned by Avery's beauty and spirit--and hopes to show her how to stitch brand-new dreams together...
Wish Upon a Wedding, Lori Wilde: Ellie Winter's sister...
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"It is 1864 and Eliza Spooner's husband Will has joined the Kansas volunteers to fight the Confederates, leaving her with their two children and in charge of their home and land. Eliza is confident that he will return home, and she helps pass the months making a special quilt to keep Will warm during his winter months in the army. When the unthinkable happens, she takes in a a woman and child who have been left alone and made vulnerable by the war,...
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Amish newlyweds Lamar and Emma Yoder Miller seek warmer weather in Florida and have purchased a house in the Pinecraft community. But Emma wishes her days had more purpose than walks on the beach. Before long she is advertising a quilting class. Wounded and hurting people have a knack for finding their way to Emma's classes for some quilting therapy.
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Elm Creek Quilts volume 12
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Judy prepares for a new job in Philadelphia, while Summer heads to graduate school in Chicago. Bonnie wonders whether she should rebuild her quilt shop, while Sarah learns she's going to have twins. And adding some intrigue, Gwen tries to determine the creator of a quilt found in a church basement.
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When two members decide to leave the fold, the Elm Creek Quilters must buckle down and choose a new pair. Excitement over the open slots is palpable. The top candidates include history lover Maggie, chef Anna, the groundbreaking Russ, the deeply gifted Karen, and the soulful Grethcen. Under the guidanceof the master Sylvia Compson, the quilters deliberate, knowing full well their decisions will have a profound impact on their legacy.
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Join the club of unlikely quilters who show up for Amish widow Emma Yoders quilting classes. A troubled young woman, a struggling couple, a widower, a rough and tough biker, and a preachers wife make up the mismatched lot. But as their problems begin to bind them together like the scraps of fabric stitched together in a quilt, they learn to open up and lend a helping hand. Is this what God had in mind to heal hurting hearts and create beauty from...
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Door County quilts volume 2
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2021
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An artist finds herself in the midst of a local controversy and a romance gone wrong in this charming mystery from the author of Quilters of the Door.
Claire Stewart is back with brand new adventures in her little hometown of Fish Creek in Door County, Wisconsin. As Claire continues to bloom as a quilt artist and painter, she finds herself disappointed with the prestigious quilt club she was privileged to join. She...
Claire Stewart is back with brand new adventures in her little hometown of Fish Creek in Door County, Wisconsin. As Claire continues to bloom as a quilt artist and painter, she finds herself disappointed with the prestigious quilt club she was privileged to join. She...
12) The quilt
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IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
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Mary's hands are gnarled, and she knows the time to join her Lord is approaching. But her heart tells her she must accomplish one last, loving task -- make one final quilt. Her son protests, but Mary begins anyhow, sewing every stitch in a spirit of prayer and thankfulness to God. As the quilt grows, the impact of Mary's endeavor is felt not only in her family, but in her entire community as well.
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Elm Creek Quilts volume 16
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2010.
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Bonnie faces a bleak winter alone, with her divorce looming. A welcome escape comes when Claire invites her to Maui to help launch an exciting new business: a quilter's retreat set at a bed and breakfast amid the vibrant colors and balmy breezes of the Hawaiian Islands.
14) The beach quilt
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"Everyone in Yorktide, Maine, knows sixteen-year old Sarah Bauer. She's a good student and a dutiful daughter, as well as a beloved best friend to Cordelia Kane. So its a surprise to all when sensible Sarah reveals that she is pregnant."--Back cover.
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"Christmas should be celebrated with family, but for Vera Swanson, that's not an option this year. Widowed and recently relocated, she is lonely in her condo-for-one--until little Fiona Albright knocks on her door needing help. With her mother seriously ill and her father out of town Fiona enlists Vera's aid, and when she finds out her new neighbor is a quilter, she has special request--a Christmas quilt for Mama. Vera will have to get a ragtag group...
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Little Valley series volume 1
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Ella Yoder's wedding with Aden Wengerd and the building of their dream home is set for June, but when tragedy strikes, Ella begins to doubt God's love. Can healing come through a house, a quilt, a community?
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2017.
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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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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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Half-Stitched Amish Quilting Club volume 2
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Join Emma Yoder Miller, the Amish widow-turned-newlywed, as she leads another quilting class with a new group of unlikely students, all with tattered pieces of their lives that need mending. Members of the patchwork group find friendship, faith, healing, and restoration while gathered around their quilts, under the Father's guiding hands--for only He can take what's ragged and shabby from the lives of His children and turn it into beauty for His glory....