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"It is 1864 and Eliza Spooner's husband Will has joined the Kansas volunteers to fight the Confederates, leaving her with their two children and in charge of their home and land. Eliza is confident that he will return home, and she helps pass the months making a special quilt to keep Will warm during his winter months in the army. When the unthinkable happens, she takes in a a woman and child who have been left alone and made vulnerable by the war,...
11) That summer
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A family, including a child who is dying, sews together a quilt of its memories and love.
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"Shota and Esther are best friends. They have lived in the same apartment block for years and spend every day together. But when a letter arrives to say that the appartment block is to be redeveloped, they know they face separation. On holiday with Shota's grandmother at Pine Ridge reservation, they decide to make a starquilt. A powerful celebration of their friendship and the homes and community they love, the remarkable quilt becomes central to...
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In the poverty of the Appalachian coal country in 1908, eight-year-old Minna's life gets even more difficult after her father dies of black lung, and that winter she cannot go to school because she does not have a coat--until the quilting mothers make her a coat using pieces of cloth from their own lives, each with a special story behind it.
17) The Texas star
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Papa grumbles that the family doesn't need another quilt, but is happy to use it after the quilting bee.