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c2012., Adult, Dutton Call No: FIC CHI Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Elm Creek quilts novelSummary Note: Quilters and aspiring quilters gather for a special winter session of quilt camp to make quilts for Project Linus, a charitable organization dedicated to providing handmade quilts and blankets to children in need, and each quilter shares their answer to the question from Master Quilter Sylvia Bergstom Compson Cooper, "why do you give?".
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2009., Adult, Simon & Schuster Call No: FIC CHI Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Elm Creek quilts novelSummary Note: 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.
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[2024]., Adult, William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: FIC CHI Edition: First edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: An Elm Creek Quilts novel Volume: [22]Summary Note: "Summer Sullivan, the youngest founding member of Elm Creek Quilts, has spent the last two years pursuing a master's degree in history at the University of Chicago. Her unexpected return home to the celebrated quilter's retreat is met with delight but also concern from her mother, Gwen; her best friend, Sarah; master quilter Sylvia; and her other colleagues--and rightly so. Stymied by writer's block, Summer hasn't finished her thesis, and she can't graduate until she does. Elm Creek Manor offers respite while Summer struggles to meet her extended deadline. She finds welcome distraction in organizing an exhibit of antique quilts as a fundraiser to renovate Union Hall, the 1863 Greek Revival headquarters of the Waterford Historical Society. But Summer's research uncovers startling facts about Waterford's past, prompting unsettling questions about racism, economic injustice, and political corruption within their community, past and present. As Summer's work progresses, quilt lovers and history buffs praise the growing collection, but affronted local leaders demand that she remove all references to Waterford's troubled history. As controversy threatens the exhibit's success, Summer fears that her pursuit of the truth might cost the Waterford Historical Society their last chance to save Union Hall. Her only hope is to rally the quilting community to her cause"--
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c2012., Adult, Dutton Call No: FIC CHI Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Elm Creek quilts novelSummary Note: Rosa Diaz Barclay, mourning the loss of four of her eight children, lives on a rye farm in California with her abusive husband when she finally leaves him in order to save two of her remaining children from succombing to a mysterious wasting disease and when she reunites with her ex-husband, the father of her two healthy children, they try to start a winery in the midst of prohibition.
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c2011., Adult, Dutton Call No: FIC CHI Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Elm Creek quilts novelSummary Note: A group of women with a penchant for quilting all live in Water's Ford, Pennsylvania, during the American Civil War and look to one another for support as they cope with changes, share their experiences as their husbands answer the call for war, and devise a business plan to keep their town alive.
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c2011., Adult, Dutton Call No: FIC CHI Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Elm Creek quilts novelSummary Note: A group of friends tell each other stories over a wedding quilt being made for Sarah McMlure's daughter under the supervision of Master Quilter Sylvia Compson.