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Elm Creek Quilts # 7 Elm Creek Quilts ; # 7 Elm Creek quilts novel Elm Creek quilts novel (Recorded Books, Inc.) Elm Creek quilts novel (Recorded Books, LLC) Elm Creek quilts novel (Recorded Books, LLC) ; bk. 20 Elm Creek quilts novel. Spoken word Thorndike Press large print core Thorndike Press large print core seriesChiaverini, Jennifer
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,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CHIChiaverini, Jennifer
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,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CHIChiaverini, Jennifer
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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CHIChiaverini, Jennifer.
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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CHIChiaverini, 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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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CHIChiaverini, Jennifer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2007
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHIChiaverini, 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 CHIChiaverini, 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
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHIChiaverini, 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
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHIChiaverini, 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 CHIChiaverini, 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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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CHIChiaverini, 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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHIChiaverini, Jennifer
Summary: 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHIChiaverini, Jennifer
Summary: "The world would not look upon his like again. John Wilkes Booth--driven son of an acclaimed British stage actor and a Covent Garden flower girl, whose misguided quest to avenge the vanquished Confederacy led him to commit one of the most notorious acts in the annals of America--has been the subject of scholarship, speculation, and even obsession. Though in his plot to assassinate President...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2016
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CHIChiaverini, Jennifer
Summary: After Wisconsin graduate student Mildred Fish marries brilliant German economist Arvid Harnack, she accompanies him to his German homeland, where a promising future awaits. In the thriving intellectual culture of 1930s Berlin, the newlyweds create a rich new life filled with love, friendships, and rewarding work--but the rise of a malevolent new political faction inexorably changes their fate....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CHIChiaverini, 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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Chiaverini 2010Chiaverini, Jennifer.
Summary: Just weeks before Christmas, severe wintry weather damages the church hall hosting the program, an annual sale of handcrafted gifts and baked goods that support 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. In the spirit of the season,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Chiaverini 2019Chiaverini, Jennifer.
Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker and Mrs. Lincoln's Rival imagines the inner life of Julia Grant, beloved as a Civil War general's wife and the First Lady, yet who grappled with a profound and complex relationship with the slave who was her namesake-until she forged a proud identity of her own. In 1844, Missouri belle Julia Dent met dazzling horseman...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CHIChiaverini, Jennifer.
Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker and Mrs. Lincoln's Rival imagines the inner life of Julia Grant, beloved as a Civil War general's wife and the First Lady, yet who grappled with a profound and complex relationship with the slave who was her namesake-until she forged a proud identity of her own. In 1844, Missouri belle Julia Dent met dazzling horseman...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2015
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Chiaverini 2015Chiaverini, Jennifer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CHIChiaverini, 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: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2012
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CHIChiaverini, 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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Chiaverini 2012Chiaverini, Jennifer.
Summary: Born to slave-holding aristocracy in Richmond, Virginia, and educated by Northern Quakers, Elizabeth Van Lew was a paradox of her time. When her native state seceded in April 1861, Van Lew's convictions compelled her to defy the new Confederate regime. Pledging her loyalty to the Lincoln White House, her courage would never waver, even as her wartime actions threatened not only her reputation,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CHIChiaverini, Jennifer.
Summary: As the nation moves toward civil war, one resident of Creek's Crossing, Pennsylvania has her life irrevocably changed. Dorthea 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, Dorthea makes a brave decision. She will put her own life at risk to continue the work that cost...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005