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Elm Creek Quilts volume 20
Pub. Date
2012
Description
When the creative residents of Elm Creek gather the week after Thanksgiving to work on quilts for Project Linus, they respond to Sylvia's provocative questions to alleviate respective personal challenges and learn helpful lessons about the strength of human connections.
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Elm Creek Quilts volume 10
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Elizabeth Nelson leaves Pennsylvania with her new husband Henry for the 120-acre ranch they hold the deed to in California. Upon arriving, they discover that they've been bilked out of everything and are now penniless. While Henry takes a job as a farm hand for the owners of the ranch they thought was theirs, Elizabeth makes over a dilapidated cabin. It's only after she discovers quilts belonging to the property owners' mother that she begins to understand...
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Bonnie Markham, her divorce pending and her quilt shop out of business, accepts an offer from her friend Claire to help run a quilting retreat at a bed and breakfast in Hawaii where she learns the quilting traditions of the islands, but her idyll is threatened by her estranged husband's demand for her share in the Elm Creek Quilts cooperative.
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Pub. Date
c1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Worried that the coming of a new baby and her grandmother's serious illness will change the warm familiar life on her family's Vermont farm, ten-year-old Ariel combines her artistic talent with her grandmother's knowledge to make a very special quilt.
6) Show way
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Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The making of "Show ways," or quilts which once served as secret maps for freedom-seeking slaves, is a tradition passed from mother to daughter in the author's family.
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Pub. Date
2009
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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.
8) State fair
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Benni Harper mysteries volume 14
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Benni Harper finds more than caramel apples and calves at the San Celina Mid-State Fair when a valuable African-American quilt is stolen from one of the exhibits and a body is found in another, and tensions are further fueled by the arrival of Benni's great-aunt from Arkansas.
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The Quilter's Kitchen follows Anna Del Maso's flavorful explorations of the kitchens of Elm Creek Manor, past and present. As she records beloved recipes and creates original dishes seasoned with love, she discovers anew how the gifts of the table gather friends and family ever closer. (from the publisher, edited)
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The Brixton Brothers volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Twelve-year-old Steve Brixton, a fan of Bailey Brothers detective novels, is mistaken for a real detective and must elude librarians, police, and the mysterious Mr. E as he seeks a missing quilt containing coded information.
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Sylvia Compson, hoping to win over her new husband Andrew Cooper's daughter, Amy, who disapproves of her father's late-life marriage, takes up work on a long-unfinished quilt she calls New Year's Reflections, which brings back memories of youthful holiday celebrations and the reasons why she became estranged from her older sister, Claudia.
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Elm Creek Quilts volume 12
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Chapters center on the circle's various members, with a focus on backstory. First-time readers are thus not left out in the cold as Judy and her husband, Steve, prepare to leave for new jobs and lives in Philadelphia; Summer begins grad school in Chicago while boyfriend Jeremy's graduate work keeps him near Elm Creek Manor; Sarah discovers she's expecting twins; Bonnie isn't sure she wants to reinvent the quilt shop destroyed by vandals; and newcomers...
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Elm Creek Quilts volume 5
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Sylvia Bergstrom Compson gains insights into the untold life of her mother Eleanor, who died when Sylvia was just a child, when she sets out on a nationwide quest to locate Eleanor's hand-stitched quilts which have gone missing from the attic of Elm Creek Manor.
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Elm Creek Quilts volume 18
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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.
17) The quilt
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Pub. Date
c1984
Description
A child's new patchwork quilt recalls old memories and provides new adventure at bedtime.
19) The hope chest
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Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"An inheritance has reunited three estranged cousins. Their grandmother Lucy left Nessa, Flynn, and April her home nestled in the woods near Blossom, Texas, as well as a hope chest to be unlocked after they complete a special task. Together, they must hand-stitch a cherished quilt Lucy left unfinished. It meant everything to her. And now, to three people struggling with their own patchwork pasts... To Nessa, the house has always been an escape from...
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Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Karla's quilt Mooshka tells her stories about the pieces of fabric that Mooshka is made from, but when Karla's baby sister is born, Mooshka falls silent until Karla overcomes her jealousy and shares Mooshka with the baby.