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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100452284686
ISBN-139780452284685
eBay Product ID (ePID)43432421
Product Key Features
Book TitleMaster Quilter
Number of Pages336 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral, Literary
Publication Year2005
GenreFiction
AuthorJennifer Chiaverini
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight9.8 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2003-061711
ReviewsChiaverini's Elm Creek Quilts books&have become classics of their kind. ( The Dallas Morning News ) Even a newcomer to the popular Elm Creek Quilts series will quickly get caught up in the lives of the ladies who stitch. ( Publishers Weekly ), Chiaverini’s Elm Creek Quilts books…have become classics of their kind. (The Dallas Morning News) Even a newcomer to the popular Elm Creek Quilts series will quickly get caught up in the lives of the ladies who stitch. (Publishers Weekly)
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition22
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal813/.54
Grade ToUP
SynopsisThis ninth Elm Creek Quilts novel continues the series with a tribute to matriarch Sylvia Compson, who surprised her fellow quilters by marrying her longtime sweetheart on a recent holiday. Eager to honor their favorite Master Quilter, the Elm Creek Quilters hasten to stitch a bridal quilt for the newlyweds. Until the time comes to unveil the surprise gift, Sylvia will be the one in the dark. Such little white lies seem harmless enough. But the quilting retreat at Elm Creek Manor thrives on women sharing their creativity, their challenges and their dreams. Somehow, in their race to commemorate in the bridal quilt all they hold dear about Sylvia's wisdom, skill and devotion, her fellow quilters forget to give honesty its pride of place. Just when it seems that the women have everything to celebrate, forces conspire to threaten their happiness and prosperity. Two among them falter in their personal relationships, while another suffers financial problems. As still two others weigh the comfort of the present against dreams of a future far from Elm Creek Manor, closely guarded secrets strain the bonds of friendship with those who may be left behind., Amanda Moss is a young hairstylist with ambitions to become a musician and play in a band. She was adopted at age three after her parents were killed in a car crash. At least that's what her adoptive mother Shelley has always told her. Shelley is also a hairdresser. But beyond that, mother and daughter don't see eye to eye on much. Then one day Amanda's life changes dramatically when a stranger shows up and tells her a very different story about her parents. Her real mother has just died of cancer while serving a life sentence for the murder of Amanda's father. Suddenly Amanda feels her whole life has been a lie. Was her mother really guilty? When she also discovers that her father was in a successful rock-and-roll band when he was killed, she goes looking for former band members to try to find out what really happened so many years before. In the process she learns some unpleasant truths about her family. She also learns that you can love and hate someone at the same time. Ebooks available from the following retailers: