Jennifer Chiaverini, Author Simon & Schuster $23 (309p) ISBN 978-0-7432-6020-6
In a move that may frustrate fans, the eighth episode of Chiaverini's best-selling Elm Creek Quilts series (after The Sugar Camp Quilt) focuses on a roster of new quilting talent, as the rural Pennsylvania quilting retreat loses two of its charmed...
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Jennifer Chiaverini. Dutton, $27 (448p) ISBN 978-1-101-98520-5
This intricate fictional memoir of Ada Lovelace, considered the first computer programmer, by Chiaverini (Fates and Traitors) combines biography with the style of a novel of manners. The novel opens with a lengthy prologue imagining the courtship...
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Jennnifer Chiaverini. Dutton, $26.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-525-95429-3
Against the backdrop of the Civil War and Ulysses S. Grant's rise to power, historical fiction writer Chiaverini's latest (after 2014's Mrs. Lincoln's Rival) imagines the fractured relationship between Grant's wife, Julia, and an enslaved woman...
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Jennifer Chiaverini. Penguin, $26.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-525-95361-6
Elizabeth “Lizzy” Keckley, a freed slave in Washington, D.C., right before the start of the Civil War, gains fame as a dressmaker for Northerners and Southerners alike, but when Lincoln is elected and the Southerners secede, she chooses to remain in
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Jennifer Chiaverini. Dutton, $25.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-525-95360-9
Chiaverini returns to the quilters of Elm Creek Manor and introduces several new characters in her sweet latest novel (after Sonoma Rose). When Sylvia asks the participants in Quiltsgiving, a post-Thanksgiving weeklong get-together, why they quilt...
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Jennifer Chiaverini. Dutton, $27.50 (416p) ISBN 978-0-525-95264-0
Set in California during Prohibition, Chiaverini's newest Elm Creek Quilts novel (after The Union Quilters) follows Rosa Diaz Barclay as she flees her abusive, bootlegger husband, John, in search of a better life with her true love, Lars Jorgensen,...
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Jennifer Chiaverini. C&T Publishing, $27.95 trade paper (96p) ISBN 978-1-60705-402-3
Chiaverini (The Wedding Quilt) writes novels plotted around the Elm Creek Quilters. She describes well the work produced by the women, but all the fine adjectives in the fiction do not do justice to the quilts she produces. Perhaps that's why, in...
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Jennifer Chiaverini. Dutton, $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-525-95242-8
This latest installment in the popular Elm Creek Quilts series proves to be a mild, unambitious addendum. In the run-up to protagonist Sarah McClure's daughter Caroline's wedding, which takes place at Elm Creek Manor, Sarah reflects on the people...
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Jennifer Chiaverini, Dutton, $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-525-95203-9
In her true-to-form latest, Chiaverini (The Aloha Quilt; etc.) goes back to the Civil War era as the men go off to fight and the women of Elm Creek Valley support the Union troops. While the women struggle with their own problems, updates from the...
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Jennifer Chiaverini, Author Simon & Schuster $20 (336p) ISBN 978-0-684-86892-9
The Elm Street quilters return in this sequel to the popular The Quilter's Apprentice, and again a round-robin quilt is made collaboratively by a group of friends, each contributing a border of patchwork around a central block. The apt metaphor is...
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The third installment in the popular Elm Creek Quilts series (The Quilter's Apprentice; Round Robin) once again features an ensemble cast of women who learn the importance of friendship and sisterhood by way of their passion for quilting. This...
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Jennifer Chiaverini, Author Simon & Schuster $18.95 (225p) ISBN 978-0-7432-8657-2
Chiaverini, author of the Elm Creek Quilts novels, delivers a rich holiday tale that predates last year's Master Quilter , also set during the Christmas season. Sylvia Compson, ne Bergstrom, 77, is determined to make it the dullest holiday ever at...
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Jennifer Chiaverini, Author Simon & Schuster $18 (272p) ISBN 978-0-684-84972-0
Quilting is the overall motif of this leisurely paced, predictable first novel, set in a small Pennsylvania college town. Young Sarah McClure, an accountant tired of number-crunching, has accompanied her landscaper husband to the area, but she soon...
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Jennifer Chiaverini, Author . Simon & Schuster $24 (336p) ISBN 978-1-4165-3318-4
In this latest entry to the bestselling Elm Creek Quilts series, quilting queen Bonnie Markham explores Hawaii and learns about the islands' quilting traditions while setting up a tropical quilt camp. Weary from a difficult divorce battle,...
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Jennifer Chiaverini, Author . Simon & Schuster $24 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4165-3316-0
In her 14th series installment, Chiaverini picks up the threads from The Runaway Quilt
to spin another tale of adventure, love, perseverance and, of course, quilting. When Sylvia Bergstrom Compson and her staff find a stash of old letters hidden in
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Jennifer Chiaverini, Author . Simon & Schuster $24 (310p) ISBN 978-1-4165-3314-6
Pieced together more like a quilt than a driving narrative, Chiaverini’s 13th novel centered around the quilting circle of Elm Creek, Pa., finds change afoot. Chapters center on the circle’s various members, with a focus on backstory....
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Jennifer Chiaverini, Author . Simon & Schuster $19.95 (223p) ISBN 978-1-4165-4755-6
The latest in the author’s Elm Creek Quilts series finds septuagenarian Sylvia Compson determined not to repeat past mistakes. Having married on Christmas Eve at Elm Creek Manor, the family homestead turned quilter’s haven, Sylvia and...
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Jennifer Chiaverini, Author . Simon & Schuster $25 (309p) ISBN 978-0-7432-6022-0
Chiaverini's latest Elm Creek Quilts installment suffers at the hands of its lackluster hero and heroine. Newlyweds Elizabeth and Henry leave Elizabeth's sprawling Pennsylvania family farm in 1925 to work a Southern California ranch Henry...
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Jennifer Chiaverini, Author . Simon & Schuster $18.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7394-5881-5
Chiaverini, author of the Elm Creek Quilts novels, delivers a rich holiday tale that predates last year's Master Quilter
, also set during the Christmas season. Sylvia Compson, née Bergstrom, 77, is determined to make it the dullest...
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Jennifer Chiaverini, Author . Simon & Schuster $22 (327p) ISBN 978-0-7432-3615-7
Even a newcomer to the popular Elm Creek Quilts series will quickly get caught up in the lives of the ladies who stitch. Sylvia Compson, the doyenne of the quilters who teach their art at the Elm Creek Quilt Camp, has married Andrew Cooper—an
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Jennifer Chiaverini, Author . Simon & Schuster $22 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7432-3613-3
Chiaverini's fifth and best Elm Creek Quilts novel again stitches together a patchwork of American life. This time she focuses on Elm Creek Quilts founder Sylvia Bergstrom Compson and her search for five quilts made by her mother, Eleanor, who...
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Jennifer Chiaverini, Author . Simon & Schuster $21 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7432-2226-6
Chiaverini's fourth offering in her Elm Creek Quilts series weaves a modern-day family mystery around a pre–Civil War tale of bravery, deception and the Underground Railroad. Sylvia Bergstrom Compson, proprietress of Elm Creek Quilts and...
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Jennifer Chiaverini. Morrow, $26.99 (608p) ISBN 978-0-06-284110-0
Chiavernini (Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker) offers an intimate and historically sound exploration of the years leading up to and through WWII. At this novel’s center, four women—Mildred Fish, Greta Kuckoff, Sara Weitz, and Martha Dodd—do what they can...
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Jennifer Chiaverini. Morrow, $28.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-308069-0
Chiaverini’s enchanting latest (after The Women’s March) highlights the heroic efforts of a group of women who helped the U.S. war effort during WWI. After the U.S. joins the war in 1917, General Pershing discovers there’s a lack of adequate phone...
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Jennifer Chiaverini. Morrow, $28.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-06-308074-4
Chiaverini (Resistance Women) adds to the glut of revisionist war stories featuring strong women characters with a serviceable if overlong tale focused on England during WWI, where women were encouraged to take jobs in industry and agriculture....
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