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A Quilt For Christmas
Sandra Dallas

A Quilt For Christmas

St. Martin's Press (Oct 2014)
9781250045942
| Hardcover, Dust Jacket
242 pages
Dewey ^ FIC DAL
LC Classification PS3554.A434 .Q55 2014
LC Control No. 2014021176

Genre

  • Historical Fiction

Subject

  • Fiction / Historical
  • Fugitive Slaves - Fiction
  • Grief - Fiction
  • Kansas - History - Fiction
  • Quilting - Fiction

Plot

"It is 1864 and Eliza Spooner's husband Will has joined the Kansas volunteers to fight the Conferedates, 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, and she finds solace and camaraderie amongst the women of her quilting group. And when she is asked to help hide an escaped slave, she must decide for herself what is right, and who can she can count on to help her."--

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