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After the sudden loss of Stella, her only child, Mary Baxter joins a knitting circle in Providence, Rhode Island. Seeking a way to fill the empty hours and lonely days, she little realizes that the circle will change her life. Each woman in the circle teaches Mary a new knitting technique, and, as they do, they reveal to her their own personal stories of love, loss, and hope. Eventually, Mary is able to tell her own story of grief. In doing so, she...
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Blossom street novels volume 10
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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After being let go from her competitive, high-pressure Seattle law firm, Libby Morgan reaches out to old friends and spends her afternoons at A Good Yarn, the local knitting store, where she forms close bonds with three women and finds time for romance with a charming and handsome doctor who seems to be her perfect match. But just as everything is coming together, Libby must make a choice that could forever change the life she holds so dear.
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Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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Grandmother wants so badly to be left alone to finish the knitting for her grandchildren that she leaves her tiny home and her big family to journey to the moon and beyond to find peace and quiet to finish her knitting.
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Hereville volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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Eleven-year-old Mirka Herschberg dreams of fighting dragons and spends her days honing her skills, even though there are no dragons in her Orthodox Jewish community, but when she accepts a challenge from a mysterious witch, Mirka just might win her dragon-fighting sword after all.
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Penguin (Salina Yoon) volume 3
Publisher
Walker Books for Ypung Readers, an imprint of Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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One day, Penguin goes looking for love and finds, instead, a mitten but as he tries to locate the mitten's owner, he knits his way through a blizzard to an unexpected meeting.
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©2013.
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English
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Springtime in Fort Connor, Colorado, is a breeze until a veteran con man shows up in town. Everyone-including the House of Lambspun knitters-is up in arms, and once again it's up to Kelly Flynn to untangle the threads of a complicated crime. Years ago, Jared Rizzoli operated a Ponzi scheme that defrauded countless Fort Connor residents-including Barbara, one of the shop's knitters. Jared went to jail for his crime, but after being released for good...
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Tiger Tales
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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In this retelling of the classic fable, how's Mr. Troll supposed to sleep when the three Billy Goats Fluff travel noisily over his bridge every day? The goats go to a field that makes their fleece extra fluffy for Mother Goat's knitting business. One day Mr. Troll loses his temper and threatens to eat the Fluffs. How will Mother Goat solve the problem and make a friend of Mr. Troll?
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2008]
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English
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Kelly Flynn is eager to renovate the alpaca ranch she's just bought, but someone else has different ideas for keeping her busy, which seem to include slashing tires, cracking windshields, and covering the walls of her cottage with red paint. Then her local yarn shop, House of Lambspun, is trashed and a young woman is found dead in the basement, drowned in a tub of dye. As disturbing incidents continue to pile up, Kelly knows she must try to pick up...
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Baabwaa and William are friends, and together they decide to have an adventure of their own. After meeting a fierce wolf in sheep's wool they form an unusual friendship with the wolf, teaching him to read and knit. They also lose a little weight.
13) Snowy Sunday
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"One very snowy Sunday, snowflakes as big as balls of wool are falling on Bonnie Bumble's farm. The cow, the duck, the hens, and even Spot the dog are all shivery and cold. "This will never d-d-d-do," says Bonnie with chattering teeth. So she gets busy with needles and wool and knits and knits--hats and scarves, beak-warmers and tail-warmers. But how can she get the sun to make everyone warm and toasty again?" --
14) Crafty Llama
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Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Llama knits while considering what special thing she wants to do, and soon all of her friends have joined her except Beaver, who only likes to make things that are useful.
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Blossom street novels volume 11
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English
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Does the perfect wedding make the perfect marriage? As three very different women meet in their local knitting store, they find strength in friendship to help them through their problems. After adopting a daughter, Lydia hoped her life would be complete, but traumatic memories from her daughter's past threaten to ruin their happiness. And Lauren has always yearned for marriage and a family of her own, but her long-term boyfriend just won't commit....
17) Purl up and die
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English
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Kelly Flynn's summer in Fort Connor, Colorado, is off to a great start with romantic celebrations with her boyfriend, Steve, and enjoyable--albeit challenging--knitting classes taught by her friend Barb at the House of Lambspun. But while Barb's advanced stitches are giving Kelly the slip, a more deadly problem soon has her friend coming apart at the seams. A young woman has accused Barb's son, Tommy--a young doctor doing his residency--of assaulting...
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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Kelly's friend, Jennifer, is a top-notch knitter - and a bit of a party girl. But she's always stayed out of trouble, until one night when she's attacked by a stranger. As she recovers, she leans on Kelly and her close-knit group of friends for support. A ranch retreat in the mountains, stitching and talking, is exactly what Jennifer needs. But they're all in for a shock - because the owner of the ranch turns out to be Jennifer's attacker. When the...
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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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Slip One - A year after her husband's death, Jo Mackenzie is finally starting to get the hang of being a single parent. Knit Two Together - The boys are thriving in their new seaside home, the wool shop is starting to do well and despite two weddings, an in-school knitting project and Trevor the Wonder Dog coming to stay, she's just about keeping her head above water. Cast off - But boys, babies and best friends certainly make life a lot more interesting....
20) Extra yarn
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Balzer & Bray
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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With a supply of yarn that never runs out, Annabelle knits for everyone and everything in town until an evil archduke decides he wants the yarn for himself.
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