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Elm Creek Quilts volume 3
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The third in the Elm Creek Quilts series, The Cross-Country Quilters introduces a group of far-flung friends who pledge to complete, in one year's time, a "challenge quilt" symbolic of each woman's personal goals. These five women arrive at Elm Creek Manor hoping to find an escape from the problems they left at home. Julia, an aging starlet, is pining for a role in a film whose director is under the mistaken impression that Julia already knows how...
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"Twenty-five-year-old Alice Paul returns to her native New Jersey after several years on the front lines of the suffrage movement in Great Britain. Weakened from imprisonment and hunger strikes, she is nevertheless determined to invigorate the stagnant suffrage movement in her homeland. Nine states have already granted women voting rights, but only a constitutional amendment will secure the vote for all.
To inspire support for the campaign, Alice...
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Elm Creek Quilts volume 4
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Master quilter Sylvia Compson comes across an heirloom quilt that muddles her heritage. She's always believed her ancestors were active in the Underground Railroad--but perhaps she's been mistaken.