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Chiaverini, Jennifer.

Summary: 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2012

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Chiaverini, Jennifer

Summary: "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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024

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Chiaverini, Jennifer.

Summary: As the nation grapples with the strictures of Prohibition, Rosa Barclay lives on a Southern California rye farm with her volatile husband, John, who has lately found another source of income far outside the federal purview. Mother to eight children, Rosa mourns the loss of four who succumbed to the mysterious wasting disease that is now afflicting young Ana and Miguel. Two daughters born of...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012

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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC CHI

Chiaverini, Jennifer.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2007

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Fowler, Earlene.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2004

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Chiaverini, Jennifer.

Summary: The Elm Creek Quilters have begun a round robin--a quilt created by sewing concentric patchwork to a central block as it is passed around a circle of friends. Led by Sarah McClure, who came to Waterford, Pennsylvania, with her husband, Matt, a few years ago, the project is to be their gift to their beloved fellow quilter Sylvia Compson. But like the most delicate cross-stitch, their lives are...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2000

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Chiaverini, Jennifer.

Summary: "'The giving quilt' chronicles the week after Thanksgiving-- Quiltsgiving-- as residents of Elm Creek Manor find creative ways to answer the questions, 'Why do you give?'" -- from publisher's web site.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012

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Chiaverini, Jennifer.

Summary: 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2002

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Chiaverini, Jennifer.

Summary: As the nation moves toward civil war, one resident of Creek's Crossing, Pennsylvania has her live irrevocably changed. Dorothea Granger is asked by her uncle--shortly before his violent death--to stitch an unusual quilt. When she learns the quilt contains hidden clues for the Underground Railroad, Dorothea makes a brave decision tol put her own life at risk to continue the work that cost her...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2005

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Chiaverini, Jennifer.

Summary: 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005

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Chiaverini, Jennifer.

Summary: Bonnie's quilting shop goes out of business just as her divorce approaches. But Bonnie gets a chance to escape when her old friend Claire invites her to Hawaii to help launch a new quilter's retreat at a charming bed and breakfast.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010

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Chiaverini, Jennifer.

Summary: As the wedding day of Sarah McClure's daughter Caroline approaches, Sarah's thoughts are filled with brides of Elm Creek Manor past and present. A wedding quilt is a powerful metaphor, and Sarah is determined that the blocks in her daughter's quilt will display a vivid pastiche of love in all its varieties.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2011

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Chiaverini, Jennifer.

Summary: 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2011

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Chiaverini, Jennifer.

Summary: Colored illustrations on endpapers.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003

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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS Chiav

Chiaverini, Jennifer.

Summary: 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.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CHI

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Chiaverini 2012

Chiaverini, Jennifer.

Summary: Master quilter Sylvia Compson discovers a stash of letters in the attic of Elm Creek Manor and traces a tale back to 1859. An escaped slave, Joanna, spent a brief period at Elm Creek Farm until she was captured and returned to bondage, leaving her son in the care of the Bergstrom family. If Sylvia is to determine the fate of Joanna and her son, she must rely on one important clue-- the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2008

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Chiaverini, Jennifer.

Summary: 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2008

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Fowler, Earlene.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Beeler Large Print 2001

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M FOW

Fowler, Earlene.

Summary: Steps to the Altar: Ninth in the Agatha Award-winning series, this book finds a California folk art expert Benni Harper preparing for two upcoming weddings, digging up clues to a decades-old unsolved murder-and struggling with a very personal crisis of heart. Ninth in the Agatha Award-winning series that's been hailed as "engrossing" (Publishers Weekly), Steps to the Altar finds California folk...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2002

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOW

Brunstetter, Wanda E.

Summary: Stitch by stitch, six unlikely lives are transformed with a little help from an Amish widow's quilting classes. . .and the healing hand of God. Annotation: Stitch by stitch, six unlikely lives are transformed with a little help from an Amish widow's quilting classes. . .and the healing hand of God.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Barbour Pub., Inc. 2012

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRU

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Brunstetter 2012

Chiaverini, Jennifer

Summary: 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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Chiaverini, Jennifer.

Summary: For the Elm Creek quilters, the day after Thanksgiving marks the start of the quilting season, a time to gather at Elm Creek Manor and spend the day stitching holiday gifts for loved ones. This year, in keeping with the season's spirit of gratitude, Master Quilter Sylvia Bergstrom Compson Cooper is eager to revive a cherished family tradition. A recent remodeling of the manor's kitchen...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CHI

Fowler, Earlene.

Summary: When her boss, Constance Sinclair, insists that she investigate the death of a local socialite, Benni Harper's search for a killer is threatened by plans to put her quilting museum on the map and a visit from her daunting mother-in-law and "surprise" newhusband.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2007

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOW

Chiaverini, Jennifer.

Summary: Jennifer Chiaverini's bestselling Elm Creek Quilts series continues at a quilter's retreat in scenic Hawaii.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010

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