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Series
An Elm Creek quilts novel volume 21
Language
English
Description
When severe winter weather damages a church hosting the annual Christmas boutique, Sylvia offers space at Elm Creek Manor, where fundraising efforts are complicated by the personal struggles of her fellow quilters.
Author
Series
Quilts volume 3
Language
English
Description
Follows the Cross Country Quilters, a group of five friends, on their quest to complete the "challenge quilt" that is symbolic of each woman's personal goals.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Elm Creek quilts volume 2
Language
English
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.
7) Just in time
Author
Language
English
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Description
"An uplifting story of three grief support group dropouts--women united in loss and rescued through friendship. An accident has left Grace's husband in a vegetative state. Nan, a widow for twenty years, is feeling the emptiness now that her children are grown. Monica is reeling over her husband's sudden death and the revelation of his infidelity"--
Author
Series
Quilts volume 1
Language
English
Description
Sarah, struggling to find a job and a sense of place in her new town, finds herself learning how to quilt from a cantankerous old woman who also teaches her about the deep love that can exist between friends.
Author
Series
Quilts volume 7
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
In Creek's Crossing, Pennsylvania, in the years before the Civil War, Dorothea Granger agrees to sew an unusual quilt to fulfill her uncle's deathbed request, realizing later that the quilt pattern contains an Underground Railroad map.
Author
Series
Quilts volume 8
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Language
English
Description
While decorating Elm Creek Manor on Christmas Eve, Sarah McClure discovers an incomplete Christmas quilt and sets out to uncover its history with the help of Sylvia Bergstrom Compson, who reveals why the quilt had never been finished.
Author
Series
Quilts volume 12
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
The arrival of newcomers into the circle of quilters heralds unexpected journeys down pathways near and far as well as capturing the spirit of friendship at the moment of its transformation.
Author
Series
An Elm Creek quilts novel volume 5
Language
English
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Description
Sylvia Bergstrom Compson and her fiance Andrew embark on a difficult journey to find her mother's missing heirloom quilts, all the while discovering secrets regarding her mother's life and untimely death.
Author
Series
Quilts volume 15
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
viii, 278 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Elm Creek Quilters are home for the holidays, during which days spent hand-stitching heartfelt gifts for loved ones brings forth the true spirit of generosity and kindness, especially when Gwen gifts a quilt project to her mentor's bone-marrow donor.
Author
Series
Quilts volume 10
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Newlyweds Elizabeth and Henry set out on a cross-country journey to the site of their new home only to discover that they have been the victims of fraud and are now penniless, which forces Henry to take a job as a ranch hand while Elizabeth begins a new quilt.
Author
Series
An Elm Creek quilts novel volume 16
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of a difficult divorce, Bonnie heads to Maui to help her friend Claire launch a quilter's retreat, a getaway marked by beautiful sunsets, regional quilting activities, and her ex's plot to claim Elm Creek Quilts' resources.
Author
Series
Elm Creek quilts volume 17
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
viii, 342 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Facing radical changes in their roles and outlooks when the men in their lives join the Union forces, the women of Elm Creek Valley's quilting bee begin an agonizing period of waiting that is shaped by their husbands' military duties and their respective circumstances.