Lizzy Albright and the Attic WindowSummaryThe mage council in the Kingdom of Ailear is up in arms over a sorceress who has assembled an army of grackles. She is invincible. They decide their highest priority is to find a missing princess that was taken to another world far away.It's Christmas Eve 1964 and Lizzy Albright is celebrating her 10th birthday with her family in Overland Park, Kansas. Later that day the family make a journey to Cordelia, Kansas to spend Christmas week in the old family mansion with Lizzy's granny, Esther McHale.That night, Lizzy discovers an old quilt in a secret drawer of the cedar chest in the attic. The names of the quilt blocks spark her imagination. She is allowed to sleep under the quilt but is awoken by a tapping noise. She discovers a goose outside the attic window as a winter storm is raging. The goose urges Lizzy to come with her because their kingdom has befallen a curse. The goose believes that Lizzy is the lost princess and is the only one who can break the curse.In the Kingdom of Ailear, we learn that Calixta, a sorceress, and Beatrice, the queen, are related. Beatrice is barren and desperately wants a child. Calixta assists by making a fertility potion, with the caveat that Queen Beatrice's first grandchild is handed over to the sorceress.Beatrice has her child and years pass. The royal grandchild is born, Beatrice has schemed to betray Calixta by sending the child with a goose through the Tunnel of Stars. The sorceress returns and puts the Groaning Stone Curse on the castle and its inhabitants and informs everyone that the only one who can reverse the curse is the royal child.For ten years the mages are doing what they must in order to find the child, but also find a way to save her from the hands of the sorceress. The plot ultimately succeeds and the kingdom is saved. There are unexpected plot twists that are revealed during the final chapters of the story.Ricky Tims - Kat Bowser 2020

Make One-of-a-Kind Contemporary Quilts With a Traditional Flair - Ricky Tims Shows You How! Learn to design, choose fabrics, and make templates for these one-of-a-kind beauties. Handle curves easily with Ricky's sure-fire method for No-Pin Precision Curved Piecing. Start with 5 ready-made design outlines, then expand the possibilities by composing your own Rhapsody quilts. Learn Ricky's secrets for enhancing your designs with appliqué. Get inspired by the gallery of Rhapsody quilts made by Ricky and other quilters just like you! Rhapsody Quilts are medallion-style quilts with graceful, curved designs in a reversed and mirrored arrangement. Like a musical rhapsody, the form is flexible and lets you express an endless variety of themes and motifs. Ricky shows you how to work with your quilt's basic “skeleton,” then enhance your design themes with original appliqué or lush quilting. You'll take away all the techniques you need to start making your own beautiful quilt rhapsodies.

Become a fabulous quilt artist - the fun, easy way! Popular quilting expert Ricky Tims presents an imaginative, new piecing technique that quilters will adore! Convergence quilts feature two or more fabrics cut into strips, sewn together, then cut and pieced again. Nothing could be simpler - or more magical! Ricky offers lots of creative guidelines but no hard-and-fast rules, so every Convergence quilt is a unique work of art. • 4 projects walk you through the steps of making Convergence quilts • Quilts look complex but are fun, easy, and, best of all, creative to make • Use any fabric from commercial prints to hand-dyed • Add decorative touches such as appliqué to dress up your projects • An infinite number of looks from one ingenious technique

A quilt artist finds a new home—and beautiful new horizons—on the shores of Lake Michigan in this series debut by the author of The Jane Austen Quilt Club. At fifty-five, Claire Stewart has left her Missouri home for the charming community of Door County, Wisconsin. A watercolor quilt artist, she soon joins a small quilting club in town. The beauty of Door County offers boundless inspiration for new quilt projects. But it is the man with the red scarf who intrigues her most of all . . . When Claire left Missouri, she also escaped a bad relationship. Now, as she grows more comfortable with her move to Door County, she becomes open to new ideas, new friendships, and even the possibility of new love.

Create a sampler quilt as unique as you are! Tula Pink gives you an inspiring quilt block collection with Tula Pink's City Sampler. Make a beautiful, modern quilt of your own design with the 100 original quilt blocks or try one of the 5 city-themed sampler quilts designed by Tula. A note from Tula: "You will notice...that the blocks are not named but simply numbered. This is intentional. I may have designed the blocks and given you the instructions on what to cut and where to stitch, but I have not infused the blocks with any meaning. This is your quilt. The fabrics that you choose, the colors that you use and why you are making it are what will give the quilt a purpose. Name your blocks, write in the margins, cross out the ones that you don't like, draw hearts around the ones that you love. In a perfect world, everyone's book would end up looking like a journal, coffee stains and all. The more adventurous ones might rename the book and write their own introduction. Tula Pink's City Sampler is a collaboration between you and me. I am the platform and you are the speaker, so stand on my shoulders and tell the future who you are and why you make."

An artist confronts her former flame and new challenges with her quilt circle in this holiday mystery from the author of the Wine Country Quilt series. Claire Stewart continues her quilt adventures in her little hometown of Fish Creek in Door County, Wisconsin. This time, Claire must face her former lover, Dr. Austen Page, since his terrible accident. How does this awkward moment work out? Her new Door County relationship with the man wearing the red scarf is the first who wants to know. Meanwhile, The Quilters of the Door have a new member, Anna Marie Meyer, who has recently moved from Germany. She brings with her an antique Tannenbaum Christmas quilt that has been in her family for generations. Claire embarks on embracing Anna and a wonderful German Christmas, as well as navigating her complicated love life. Praise for Ann Hazelwood and her novels “I found myself immersed in the tale of this extended family and this wonderful quaint town . . . You will laugh, cry and share in their hopes and dreams.” —Community News “Ann Hazelwood knows a few things about the human spirit, family and dreaming big. Add a mixture of the love of quilting and all the things Missouri historic and otherwise; you will experience the words and passion of this unique and gifted author. Enjoy the experience!”—StreetScape Magazine

“Guides readers toward the road less consumptive, offering practical advice and moral support while making a convincing case that individual actions . . . do matter.” —Elizabeth Royte, author, Garbage Land and Bottlemania Like many people, Beth Terry didn’t think an individual could have much impact on the environment. But while laid up after surgery, she read an article about the staggering amount of plastic polluting the oceans, and decided then and there to kick her plastic habit. In Plastic-Free, she shows you how you can too, providing personal anecdotes, stats about the environmental and health problems related to plastic, and individual solutions and tips on how to limit your plastic footprint. Presenting both beginner and advanced steps, Terry includes handy checklists and tables for easy reference, ways to get involved in larger community actions, and profiles of individuals—Plastic-Free Heroes—who have gone beyond personal solutions to create change on a larger scale. Fully updated for the paperback edition, Plastic-Free also includes sections on letting go of eco-guilt, strategies for coping with overwhelming problems, and ways to relate to other people who aren’t as far along on the plastic-free path. Both a practical guide and the story of a personal journey from helplessness to empowerment, Plastic-Free is a must-read for those concerned about the ongoing health and happiness of themselves, their children, and the planet.

OUR Jerusalem- an American Family in the Holy City, 1881-1949 by Bertha Spafford Vester. Introduction by LOWELL THOMAS. Many of the earliest books, dated from the 1900s and before, are extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, modern editions using the original text and artwork.

This genealogical resource provides a detailed account of the early settlers of New York State, including their ancestors and descendants. Based on extensive research, this book serves as a valuable reference for anyone interested in tracing their family history in the region. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

5,000 phrasal verbs, including new ones from computing, business, and the Internet. Unique Phrasal Verbs Activator® helps learners choose the right phrasal verb for the context. Clear grammar patterns show how to use phrasal verbs.