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The lost quilter / Jennifer Chiaverini.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Chiaverini, Jennifer. Elm Creek quilts novel ; | Thorndike Press large print core seriesPublication details: Detroit : Thorndike Press, c2009.Edition: Large print edDescription: 503 p. (large print) ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 1410414027 (alk. paper)
  • 9781410414021 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: In 1859, a runaway slave and quilter named Joanna traveled the Underground Railroad to Elm Creek Farm -- only to be captured and forcibly returned to Virginia. More than a century later, Master Quilter Sylvia Bergstrom Compson recovers a bundle of letters that Joanna wrote from South Carolina. Reading transports Sylvia into the thick of the Civil War and to Edisto Island in the years afterward, where a group of ex-slaves formed a quilting circle.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Vol info Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Large Print Book Large Print Book Main Library Large Print Fiction Chiaverini, Jennifer EC 14 Available 33111005714296
Total holds: 0

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The bestselling Elm Creek Quilts series continues, as Master Quilter Sylvia Compson's investigation of her ancestry reveals unexpected connections to a long-forgotten visitor to Elm Creek Manor.

In 1859, a runaway slave and quilter named Joanna traveled the Underground Railroad to Elm Creek Farm -- only to be captured and forcibly returned to Virginia. More than a century later, Master Quilter Sylvia Bergstrom Compson recovers a bundle of letters that Joanna wrote from South Carolina. Reading transports Sylvia into the thick of the Civil War and to Edisto Island in the years afterward, where a group of ex-slaves formed a quilting circle.

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