Chiaverini, Jennifer
Summary: Rosie the Riveter meets A League of Their Own in Jennifer Chiaverini's lively and illuminating novel about the "munitionettes" who built bombs in Britain's arsenals during World War I, risking their lives for the war effort and discovering camaraderie and courage on the soccer pitch. Early in the Great War, men left Britains factories in droves to enlist. Struggling to keep up production,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "The only legitimate child of Lord Byron, the most brilliant, revered, and scandalous of the Romantic poets, Ada was destined for fame long before her birth. Estranged from Ada's father, who was infamously "mad, bad, and dangerous to know," Ada's mathematician mother is determined to save her only child from her perilous Byron heritage. Banishing fairy tales and make-believe from the nursery,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: "The only legitimate child of Lord Byron, the most brilliant, revered, and scandalous of the Romantic poets, Ada was destined for fame long before her birth. Estranged from Ada's father, who was infamously "mad, bad, and dangerous to know," Ada's mathematician mother is determined to save her only child from her perilous Byron heritage. Banishing fairy tales and make-believe from the nursery,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2017
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Summary: 1875. Elizabeth Todd Edwards reels from news that her younger sister Mary, former First Lady and widow of President Abraham Lincoln, has attempted suicide. The shocking act followed legal proceedings arranged by Mary's eldest and only surviving son that declared her legally insane. The Todd sisters - maternal Elizabeth, peacemaker Frances, envious Ann, and much adored Emilie - had always turned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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Summary: In present-day Boston, a dedicated teacher in the Watertown public school system is stunned by somber holiday tidings. Sophia's music program has been sacrificed to budget cuts, and she worries not only about her impending unemployment but also about the consequences to her underprivileged students. At the church where she volunteers as music director, Sophia tries to forget her cares as she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2007
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2000
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2002
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2005
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005
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Summary: Just weeks before Christmas, severe wintry weather damages the church hall hosting the Christmas Boutique--an annual sale of handcrafted gifts and baked goods that supports the county food pantry. Determined to save the fundraiser, Sylvia Bergstrom Compson offers to hold the event at Elm Creek Manor, her ancestral family estate and summertime home to Elm Creek Quilt Camp.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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Summary: John Wilkes Booth's misguided quest to avenge the vanquished Confederacy led him to commit one of the most notorious acts in the annals of America. Four women were integral in his life: Mary Ann, the mother he revered above all but country; his sister and confidante, Asia; Lucy Lambert Hale, the senator's daughter who loved him; and the Confederate widow Mary Surratt, to whom he entrusted the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume/Penguin Group 2005
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini, a bold, revelatory novel about one of the great untold stories of World War I-the women of the US Army Signal Corps, who broke down gender barriers in the military, smashed the workplace glass ceiling, and battled a pandemic as they helped lead the Allies to victory"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Summary: Inspired by actual events, this novel offers a fascinating account of a crucial but little-remembered moment in American history that follows three courageous women who bravely risked their lives and liberty in the fight to win the vote.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2008
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Summary: New York Times best-selling author Jennifer Chiaverini has a gift for transporting listeners into the past for riveting explorations of how seemingly ordinary women overcome extraordinary circumstances. In this departure from her beloved Elm Creek Quilts series, Chiaverini weaves a historical fiction tale profiling the life of Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley, a former slave who would become a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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Summary: Presents a fictionalized account of the friendship between Mary Todd Lincoln and her dressmaker Elizabeth Keckley, a former slave.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2013
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Summary: "Kate Chase was born in 1840 in Cincinnati, Ohio, the second daughter to the second wife of Salmon P. Chase. Her father was Abraham Lincoln's secretary of the treasury, and he aspired to even greater heights. Kate stepped into the role of establishing her thrice-widowed father in Washington society and as a future presidential candidate. Her efforts were successful enough that The Washington...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014