Record Added: 1/30/2019 Series Elm Creek Quilts #10 Setting  United States Topic Adult Fiction, Classics Publisher Simon and Schuster ISBN 0743260228 Year 2007 Age Adult Pages 320 Description Printed dustjacket
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A Roaring Twenties tale of boom and bust unfolds as young bride Elizabeth Bergstrom Nelson sets off with her husband, Henry, from her family home of Elm Creek Manor in Pennsylvania to start a new life in the unfamiliar terrain of southern California. Expecting to assume ownership of Triumph Ranch, the couple instead learns that their deed is a fake, and that they must work for the rightful proprietors to earn their keep.
Resourceful Elizabeth trades her trousseau, including the fine quilts stitched by her Bergstrom relatives, or the practical goods the Nelsons need to survive, and finds friendship with California native Rosa Diaz Barclay. When Elizabeth discovers a mysterious cache of quilts made by a member of the Diaz family that reveals a misplaced legacy of love, land, and ancestral ties, it becomes clear that only by stitching the rift between the past and the future can the inhabitants of Triumph Ranch hope to live in peace alongside history. |
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