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"Christmas should be celebrated with family, but for Vera Swanson, that's not an option this year. Widowed and recently relocated, she is lonely in her condo-for-one -- until little Fiona Albright knocks on her door needing help. With her mother seriously ill and her father out of town Fiona enlists Vera's aid, and when she finds out her new neighbor is a quilter, she has a special request--a Christmas quilt for Mama. Vera will have to get a ragtag...
2) Show Way
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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AD 650L
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The making of "show ways," or quilts which once served as secret maps for freedom-seeking slaves, is a tradition passed from mother to daughter in the author's family.
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"Eliza Bontrager and Jesse Ebersol have fallen in love and are determined to marry, despite the belief of their Amish community and respective families that there's a hidden curse - one that only shows up when an Ebersol and Bontrager marry. Before the ceremony on the day of the wedding, Eliza's great-aunt Rose gives her a family heirloom quilt and tells her that she may use it to change one event in the past. Eliza appreciates the woman's heart,...
4) The heirloom
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"Clara Bender believes a visit to Hickory Hollow may help her find direction after her father remarries. While restoring an heirloom quilt with her great-aunt Ella Mae Zook, the two form a warm bond. When Claras life is again upended by an unexpected incident and a young Amish man, will she find where her heart belongs?"--"--
5) The quilt
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
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Despite her arthritis, Mary, an elderly grandmother, is determined to make one final quilt
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Luella's promise: Luella Ebersol has been caregiver for a dying woman and her young son. When Dena Zook gives Luella her favorite quilt, she makes Luella promise to pass it down to her daughter. But Luella isn't sure she will ever marry if she can't find someone with maturity and faith like Dena's husband Atlee Zook.
Karen's gift: Karen Allgyer and her husband moved to a slow-paced village to raise their children, but Karen longs for the closeness...
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To welcome the new circuit-riding preacher, a bachelor, the women of the Maintown church ladies society make him a quilt; but the project turns into a fierce competition as each young woman tries to create a quilt block to gain the young minister's attention.
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Elm Creek Quilts volume 12
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Judy prepares for a new job in Philadelphia, while Summer heads to graduate school in Chicago. Bonnie wonders whether she should rebuild her quilt shop, while Sarah learns she's going to have twins. And adding some intrigue, Gwen tries to determine the creator of a quilt found in a church basement.
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While Lilly Lapp has loved Jacob for years, she wouldn't compete with Sarah King, the woman Jacob was determined to marry. But when Sarah marries another, Jacob spontaneously agrees to wed Lilly. Lilly divides her time between teaching the local Amish children and caring for her widowed mother who suffers from depression. Lilly's faith comforts her, but her heart still longs to be the sole object of Jacob's affection. As the days slip by, Lilly decides...
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Three charming stories of cozy quilting circles and budding romance. Joanne Lapp attempts to re-create a heirloom family quilt that Colin Zook's grandmother lost in a fire. Alex Lehman has returned to Middlefield after three years, and begins dating Susie Glick, but can she trust him if he leaves again? Rosie Raber's yearly project for the Pinecraft Mennonite Quilt Sale may be more ambitious than she can handle, especially when friendship with Tim...
13) State fair
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For Benni, the annual San Celina Mid-State Fair is a much anticipated break in her normal routine of overseeing museum exhibits, temperamental artists and stubborn cattle. Even her police chief husband, Gabe Ortiz, takes time from his busy schedule to enjoy the fair's activities and exotic fried foods....
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The Brixton Brothers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
590L
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When twelve-year-old Steve Brixton, a fan of Bailey Brothers detective novels, is mistaken for a real detective, he must elude librarians, police, and the mysterious Mr. E as he seeks a missing quilt containing coded information.
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Shadow Lake novels volume 3
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"As the holidays approach, Collette King is eager for Matthew Mueller's return to Shadow Lake. Especially now that she has finally surrendered to the truth-that the friend she has known forever, the first man she ever kissed, is the one she longs to spendher life with. So when Mattie shows up at her sister's wedding with another woman on his arm, Collette's hopes are shattered. To heal her broken heart, she begins a quilt honouring her memories of...
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Elm Creek Quilts volume 5
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When precious heirloom quilts hand-stitched by her mother turn up missing, Sylvia Bergstrom Compson recovers some while accepting others as lost forever. She is then able to reflect on the woman her mother was and mourn the woman she never knew.
17) Lover's knot
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A lover's knot quilt becomes the catalyst for saving a troubled marriage when newspaper journalist Kendra Taylor and her husband Isaac come together to solve the mystery of the quilt and of the family he has never known.
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Elm Creek Quilts volume 3
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English
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The third installment in the popular Elm Creek Quilts series (The Quilter's Apprentice; Round Robin) once again features an ensemble cast of women who learn the importance of friendship and sisterhood by way of their passion for quilting. This time, five women from across the country meet during a weeklong visit to Elm Creek quilting camp in rural Waterford, Pa. Craft and crises intertwine as each woman reveals her private tale of family conflict,...
19) The giving quilt
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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.
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Esme Cahill thinks she has failed spectacularly: fired from her New York City publishing job, divorced from her husband, and possessing little more than a broken-down car and a pile of unfinished manuscripts, she drives home to Asheville at the request of her late grandmother, Adele, who had begged her, just before she died, to return to the place she grew up. There she discovers the once-charming lakeside retreat run by her family is sliding toward...
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