Jennifer Chiaverini
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Timeless Quilts Inspired by the New York Times Best-Selling Novels. 11 traditional quilts for all skill levels, featuring more than 30 traditional blocks. Read about your favorite Elm Creek novels: The Sugar Camp Quilt, The Christmas Quilt, Circle of Quilters, The Quilter's Homecoming, and The New Year's Quilt. Complete instructions and full-sized patterns for each quilt, plus a chapter on quilting basics. Jennifer Chiaverini is back with another...
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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...
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An Elm Creek Quilts omnibus includes The Runaway Quilt, in which a master quilter searches for evidence of her ancestors' courageous involvement in the Underground Railroad; The Quilter's Legacy, involving a cross-country search for missing heirloom quilts; and The Master Quilter, in which a circle member embarks on marriage.
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Early in the Great War, men left Britain's factories in droves to enlist. Struggling to keep up production, arsenals hired women to build the weapons the military urgently needed. "Be the Girl Behind the Man Behind the Gun," the recruitment posters beckoned. Thousands of women, cooks, maids, shopgirls, and housewives, answered their nation's call. These "munitionettes" worked grueling shifts often seven days a week, handling TNT and other explosives...