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Elm Creek quilts novel volume 1
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After moving with her husband, Matt, to the small college town of Waterford, Pennsylvania, Sarah McClure struggles to find a fulfilling job. In the meantime, she agrees to help seventy-five-year-old Sylvia Compson prepare her family estate, Elm Creek Manor, for sale. As part of her compensation, Sarah is taught how to quilt by this cantankerous elderly woman, who is a master of the craft. During their lessons, Mrs. Compson reveals how her family was...
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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 respectivecircumstances.
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Amish matchmaker mystery volume 1
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English
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"When widowed Millie Fisher moves back to her childhood home of Harvest, Ohio, she notices one thing right away - the young Amish are bungling their courtships and marrying the wrong people! A quiltmaker by trade, Millie has nevertheless stitched together a few lives in her time, with truly romantic results. Her first mission? Her own niece, widowed gardener Edith Hochstetler, recently engaged to rude, greedy Zeke Miller. Anyone can see he's not right...
6) Spider web
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Benni Harper mysteries volume 15
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2011.
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English
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When a mysterious sharpshooter with a vendetta takes aim at a local cop during a craft festival, Benni Harper fears for her loved ones, particularly her police chief husband, but still vows to make her hometown safe.
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Eva Glennon, who was born with a physical defect, is content growing up in Oklahoma on a dusty little farm with good parents and a steadfast friend and pours her imagination into quilts until a pilot makes an impossibly gentle landing in her father's wheat field.
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Benni Harper mysteries volume 4
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Benni Harper--spirited ex-cowgirl, quilter, and folk art expert--finds herself on the trail of killer in this brand-new mystery from Agatha Award-nominee Earlene Fowler...When Benni finds a dead woman lying facedown in the lake, dressed in a Mother Goose costume, her investigation takes her inside the Storyteller's Guild.There she discovers that Mother Goose was telling more than fairy tales--she was a gossip columnist who aired the kind of secrets...
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Elm Creek quilts novel volume 11
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English
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A seasonally themed Elm's Creek quilts tale finds master quilter Sylvia Bergstrom Compson tackling a new quilt for her reluctant daughter-in-law that depicts holiday memories of Elm Creek Manor.
10) The giving quilt
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Elm Creek quilts novel volume 20
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Quilters gather at Elm Creek Manor the week after Thanksgiving to make quilts for Project Linus and help children in need. As the quilters swap fabrics and trade techniques, they infuse their quilts with love.
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Elm Creek quilts novel volume 12
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English
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Newcomers in the Circle of Quilters share the original members' struggles to balance their creative lives with their friendship and their work and family demands.
14) The aloha quilt
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2010.
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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.
18) Sonoma Rose
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2012.
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Struggling with a meager existence on a Prohibition-era farm in Southern California and devastated by the losses of four of her children to a wasting disease, Rosa flees with her surviving children after a shattering act of violence.
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Meet Benni Harpera spirited ex-cowgirl, quilter, and folk-art expert whos staking out her own corner of the contemporary American West. Shes got an eye for murderous designsand a talent for piecing together the most complex and cold-blooded crimes When Jacob Chandler died, he left his home in Morro Bay and all its contents to Benni Harperthe only stipulation being that she had to stay in the house, alone,...
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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.
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