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Hennie Comfort is eighty-six and has lived in the mountains of Middle Swan, Colorado since before it was Colorado. Nit Spindle is just seventeen and newly married. She and her husband have just moved to the high country in search of work. It's 1936 and the depression has ravaged the country and Nit and her husband have suffered greatly. Hennie notices the young woman loitering near the old sign outside of her... (more)

The Quilter's Apprentice

by Jennifer Chiaverini

"A heartwarming story of relationships that, like pieces of a quilt, can be connected with discord or with harmony."-Sandra Dallas, author of The Persian Pickle Club 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... (more)

The Persian Pickle Club

by Sandra Dallas

It is the 1930s, and hard times have hit Harveyville, Kansas, where the crops are burning up, and there's not a job to be found. For Queenie Bean, a young farm wife, a highlight of each week is the gathering of the Persian Pickle Club, a group of local ladies dedicated to improving their minds, exchanging gossip, and putting their quilting skills to good use. When a new member of the club stirs up a dark secret,... (more)

The Lost Quilter: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel

The Lost Quilter: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel

by Jennifer Chiaverini

Master Quilter Sylvia Bergstrom Compson treasures an antique quilt called by three names -- Birds in the Air, after its pattern; the Runaway Quilt, after the woman who sewed it; and the Elm Creek Quilt, after the place to which its maker longed to return. That quilter was Joanna, a fugitive slave who traveled by the Underground Railroad to reach safe haven in 1859 at Elm Creek Farm. Though Joanna's freedom proved... (more)

Round Robin (Elm Creek Quilters Novels)

by Jennifer Chiaverini

Round Robin reunites readers with the Elm Creek Quilters in this poignant and heartwarming follow-up to The Quilter's Apprentice , Jennifer Chiaverini's acclaimed debut novel. 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,... (more)

Circle of Quilters (Elm Creek Quilts Novels)

Circle of Quilters (Elm Creek Quilts Novels)

by Jennifer Chiaverini

Elm Creek Quilts, the thriving artists' retreat at Elm Creek Manor, is a place that stakes its sterling reputation on the palpable creative energy and collective goodwill of its teachers and students. But when two of its founding members decide to leave the fold, the Elm Creek Quilters face untold changes not only in their personal lives but also in their business. As the news spreads, a single question emerges:... (more)

A Single Thread

by Marie Bostwick

It's a long way from Fort Worth, Texas, to New Bern, Connecticut, yet it only takes a day in the charming Yankee town to make Evelyn Dixon realise she's found her new home. The abrupt end of her marriage was Evelyn's wake-up call to get busy chasing her dream of opening a quilt shop. Finding a store front is easy enough; starting a new life isn't. Little does Evelyn imagine it will bring a trio like Abigail... (more)

The Winding Ways Quilt: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel (Elm Creek Quilts Novels)

The Winding Ways Quilt: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel (Elm Creek Quilts Novels)

by Jennifer Chiaverini

Jennifer Chiaverini's bestselling Elm Creek Quilts series continues with The Winding Ways Quilt , in which the arrival of newcomers into the circle of quilters heralds unexpected journeys down pathways near and far. Quilters have flocked to Elm Creek Manor to learn from Master Quilter Sylvia Compson and her expert colleagues. There's Sarah, Sylvia's onetime apprentice who's paired her quilting accomplishments... (more)

How to Make an American Quilt

by Whitney Otto

"Remarkable...An affirmation of the strength and power of individual lives, and the way they cannot help fitting together." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW An extraordinay and moving reading experience, HOW TO MAKE AN AMERICAN QUILT is an exploration of women of yesterday and today, who join together in a uniquely female experience. As they gather year after year, their stories, their wisdom, their lives, form the... (more)

The Runaway Quilt: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel

The Runaway Quilt: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel

by Jennifer Chiaverini

The fourth book in the popular Elm Creek Quilts series explores a question that has long captured the imagination of quilters and historians alike: Did stationmasters of the Underground Railroad use quilts to signal to fugitive slaves? In her first novel, The Quilter's Apprentice, Jennifer Chiaverini wove quilting lore with tales from the World War II home front. Now, following Round Robin and The... (more)

The Quilter's Legacy (Elm Creek Quilts Novels)

The Quilter's Legacy (Elm Creek Quilts Novels)

by Jennifer Chiaverini

The New York Times bestselling fifth novel in the Elm Creek Quilt series Resolving to locate her mother's heirloom quilts after so many years, Sylvia Compson embarks on a cross-country investigation of antique shops, quilt museums, and other, more unexpected places, where offers of assistance are not always what they seem. And as Sylvia recovers some of the missing quilts and accepts others as lost forever,... (more)

The Cross Country Quilters: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel

The Cross Country Quilters: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel

by Jennifer Chiaverini

Julia, Megan, Donna, Grace, and Vinnie are cross-country friends who are about to begin work on a challenge quilt. A piece of fabric is divided among the women, with the understanding that the following year they will all meet at the Elm Creek Quilt Camp to sew the sections together into a single quilt. But the friends have set themselves a special challenge: no one can start working on her block until she has... (more)

Benni Harper: Book 5

Dove in the Window

by Earlene Fowler

Benni Harper, the spirited ex-cowgirl, quilter, and folk-art expert, has an eye for murderous designs--and a talent for piecing together the most complex and cold-blooded crimes Benni and her relatives and friends are gathered for the family's annual barbecue and cattle roundup. Among the guests is Shelby Johnson, a young photography student from a wealthy Chicago family. In Benni she finds a favorite subject... (more)

Benni Harper: Book 8

Arkansas Traveler

by Earlene Fowler

Soon after arriving in Sugartree, Arkansas-where she spent many lazy, languid childhood summers-folk art expert Benni Harper discovers that there's something seriously sinister brewing in this usually-peaceful small town... "The sweet sentimentality of this paean to small Southern towns...is the glaze that holds this story together." ( Houston Chronicle ) "Winning...Fowler delivers cozy entertainment... (more)

Benni Harper: Book 6

Mariner's Compass

by Earlene Fowler

The newest Benni Harper mystery from the three-time Agatha Award Nominee and author of Dove in the Window . The ex-cowgirl, quilter, and resident sleuth of San Celina, California, is back-navigating her way through a stormy sea of puzzling clues to a home she never knew existed... Jacob Chandler knew everything about Benni Harper, and in his house were pieces of her life: a scrapbook of newspaper clippings that... (more)

Benni Harper: Book 13

Tumbling Blocks

by Earlene Fowler

New in the Agatha Award-winning series! With Christmas just a few weeks away, Benni's queenly boss, Constance Sinclair, demands that she investigate the death of a local socialite. It's not long before Benni recognizes that there may be some deadly truth to Constance's suspicions. But with a famously reclusive artist about to put Benni's quilting museum on the map-and her daunting mother-in-law and her... (more)

Benni Harper: Book 1

Fool's Puzzle

by Earlene Fowler

Benni Harper starts over as curator of a folk-art museum after her husband's death, but when an artist is found dead and her cousin is accused, the clues lead to a different truth about her husband's death. Reprint.

Benni Harper: Book 12

Delectable Mountains

by Earlene Fowler

When the musical director of Benni Harper's church is called away, Benni gets "volunteered" to take over a children's play already in rehearsal. But the production comes to a screeching halt when Benni discovers the body of the church handyman right in front of the altar. With a growing cast of suspects, and a small girl as the only witness to the crime, Benni must unravel a plot of theft and murder before... (more)

Benni Harper: Book 3

Kansas Troubles

by Earlene Fowler

Visiting her new husband's Kansas hometown after a whirlwind marriage, Bennie meets aspiring country singer Tyler Brown and is shocked when he is later murdered, prompting a stormy investigation into the crime. Reprint.

Benni Harper: Book 7

Seven Sisters

by Earlene Fowler

While trying to unravel a feuding family's tragic past, Benni uncovers a shocking pattern of tragedy-and stitches a hodgepodge of clues into a very disturbing design.

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