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"Della Wright can't believe her luck when celebrity designer Bunny Boyd walks into her weaving studio in small-town Briar Hollow, North Carolina, with a large custom fabric order. Bunny needs materials for her latest design project: Bernard Whitby's mansion. Bernard is Briar Hollow's resident millionaire, and Della soon discovers that Bunny has designs on the man as well as his house. And he's happy to have a celebrity at his side when he announces...
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2013.
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Della Wright is offering weaving workshops to promote her new business in Briar Hollow, at the foot of the Blueridge Mountains. When a shady local businessman is found murdered and one of her weaving students is suspected, Della can't help getting entangled in the investigagtion.
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Sourcebooks Landmark
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2013.
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"Trenow's first novel chronicles civilian life in England during the terrors of war while also weaving a beautifully moving love story. Reminiscent in tone and subject of Nicholas Spark's The Notebook (1996) and Ian McEwan's Atonement (2002), Lily's tale will resonate with fans of each."—BooklistOnline.com
We all make mistakes. Some we can fix.
But what happens when we can't?
Decades ago, as
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J. Paul Getty Museum
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[2015]
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"Step back in time to seventeenth-century Paris with Thérèse, a talented young girl who lives and works at the Gobelins Manufactory, where Europe's greatest artisans make tapestries and luxury objects for King Louis XIV. ... inspired by real pepole, the actual Gobelins Manufactory, and a beautiful tapestry that hangs today in the J. Paul Getty, Museum."--Jacket.
7) Spin
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[2023]
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Sixteen-year-old Arachne turns to weaving for solace, but when word spreads of her skill she is confronted by the goddess Athena and the two enter a weaving contest that results in transformation and redemption.
8) Beguiled
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Amulet Books
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2022.
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After making a deal with an old washerwoman spirit called the Bean-Nighe, seventeen-year-old weaver Ella begins creating beautiful pieces that attract the notice of a rich patron, and soon Ella is entangled in magic that refuses to let her go.
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Avon Impulse, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2021]
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"Sophie Roseingrave hates nothing more than a swindler. After her family lost their piano shop to a con man in London, they're trying to start fresh in a new town. Her father is convinced Carrisford is an upright and honest place, but Sophie is not so sure. She has grave suspicions about silk-weaver Madeline Crewe, whose stunning beauty doesn't hide the fact that she's up to something. All Maddie Crewe needs is one big score, one grand heist to properly...
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Blackstone Publishing
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1760s, Spitalfields. Esther Thorel, wife of a master silk weaver, rescues Sara Kemp from a brothel thinking she is doing God's will, but her good deed is not returned. Sara, realizing the Thorel household is built on hypocrisy and lies, tires of the drudgery of life as Esther's maid. Esther yearned to be a silk designer, but her water colors are dismissed by her husband, Elias, as the daubs of a foolish girl. Bisby Lambert is brought in by Elias to...
14) A silken thread
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2019.
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Eighteen-year-old Laurel Millard, youngest of seven children, is expected to stay home and "take care of Mama" by her older siblings, but Laurel has dreams of starting her own family. Operating a silk loom at the Atlanta Exposition will give her the chance to capture the heart of a man wealthy enough to take care of Laurel and any children she might bear, as well as her mother. Langdon Rochester's parents have given him an ultimatum: settle down with...
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Disney-Hyperion
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2020.
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"Extraordinary things just don't happen to fourteen-year-old Sydelle Mirabil, a talented weaver who dreams about life outside of her tiny village. But that all changes when a mysterious young wizard named Wayland North appears and asks for Sydelle's help. He's got a shocking secret that could stop a war between kingdoms--if he can reach the capital with the news in time. North needs a navigator who can mend his magical cloaks, and Sydelle is perfect...
17) The weaver
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Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2010
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High above the world, a weaver spins thread from such things as clouds, dyes it with colors from the sky and grass, and weaves a cloth filled with the emotions she sees throughout the day to make a blanket of dreams.
19) Brightly woven
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Egmont USA
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c2010
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Sixteen-year-old Sydelle Mirabel, an unusually talented weaver, must master her mysterious power and join a young wizard in stopping an imminent war in land.
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