Product Description: The Sweet Briar Ladies Society Sewing Circle is needled by the death of a highly strung woman in the new mystery by the author of Wedding Duress.   Downtown Sweet Briar is now home to a new sewing shop run by one of the circle’s own...read more

On the road, Oklahoma to Nashville, 1938--as a 14-year-old dustbowl lad comes of age in the footloose company of his raunchy, alcoholic, gifted-country-singer uncle. Yes, it's a familiar, movieish mix of sentiment and dueling-banjo slapstick, but Carlile's young narrator Whit Wagoner spins it out efficiently enough, especially in the opening account of Uncle Red's careening surprise appearance, from California, during a dust storm at the barren Wagoner farm: he's broke, drunk, recklessly driving a gorgeous Packard limousine, and bursting with confidence about an upcoming audition for the Grand tie Opry. But trip money is needed (Whit's sad folks are totally busted), and Red does some mesmerizing singing and picking at the local nightspot, plus some midnight chicken-stealing with Whit as reluctant chauffeur-accomplice. Result: chicken-feather chaos, chasing cops, the jailing of Red, and Whit's spontaneous rescue mission. So now they're criminals on the lam, heading for Nashville, giving quick, tearful goodbyes to the family and taking Whit's harmonica-playing grandpa along for the ride (he wants to go home to die in Tennessee). From there on, unfortunately, the picaresque doings become ever more predictable: a slapstick encounter with a bull; an attempt to collect a debt in Tulsa; a gushy, would-be Red Stovall groupie who stows away in the trunk; Whit's first prostitute and first reefer; Red's incorrigible binges and dashing moments; farewell to Grandpa. And finally they do get to Nashville, where Red's audition is a triumph. . . till a coughing fit clues the Opry folks into the truth: Red's a ""lunger"" and therefore not a good broadcasting risk. But despite Whit's pleas, instead of going into a sanitarium, Red keeps drinking and singing, recording his repertoire with his last dying breaths. . . while Whit goes into showbiz too, teaming up with groupie Marlene, who does indeed (thanks to one drunken, on-the-road tryst) bear Red's baby. . . .

Product Description: As the year passes, the narrator’s favorite dress goes through a series of creative changes, from dress to shirt to tank top to scarf and so on, until all that’s left of it is a good memory. Assisted by her patient and crafty mama, the narrator finds that when disaster strikes her favorite things, she doesn’t need to make mountains out of molehills―she “makes molehills out of mountains” instead! Structured around the days of the week, the story is also illustrated to show the passing of the seasons, a perfect complement to the themes of growing older and keeping hold (and letting go) of special mementos...read more

A clever witch gets creative with a pair of scissors and a magical needle and thread. Using cut-out shapes she creates everything she needs for a comfortable life. But what happens when her cat gets hold of her needle and thread while she sleeps? Children will learn basic shapes: squares, triangles and circles through a book illustrated in the patchwork theme by celebrated UK illustrators The Pope Twins.

Product Description: These fairies are crafty!Rainspell Island is hosting an Arts and Crafts Week. Rachel and Kirsty can't wait to try all the different creative activities! But Jack Frost has other plans. He likes making chaos more than making art.The goblins have stolen Zadie the Sewing Fairy's thimble and no one can sew a stich while it's gone...read more

Product Description: With a needle and thread, Harlow Jane Cassidy is capable of magic. Her neighbors in Bliss, Texas, on the other hand, are capable of murder....Any garment Harlow stitches together has the power to grant the deepest desire of whomever wears it...read more

Product Description: "When a trip to the Big Apple ends in murder, the sewing circle searches for a killer who's rotten to the core"--

Product Description: When a cantankerous Sweet Briar resident ends up six feet under, the ladies of the sewing circle have to deal with a town full of suspects… With the library’s budget dwindling, Tori Sinclair is forced to let go of her predecessor, and fellow sewing circle member, Dixie Dunn...read more

Product Description: Down south, the holidays mean family—and for Yankee librarian Tori Sinclair, family means the Sweet Briar Ladies Society sewing circle. It may not be a white Christmas, but it’s one she’ll never forget—no matter how hard she tries…Instead of spending a nice, relaxing Christmas with her fiancé, Tori Sinclair has been drafted into Sweet Briar’s holiday Decorating Committee...read more

Product Description: Down south, the holidays mean family—and for Yankee librarian Tori Sinclair, family means the Sweet Briar Ladies Society sewing circle. It may not be a white Christmas, but it’s one she’ll never forget—no matter how hard she tries…Instead of spending a nice, relaxing Christmas with her fiancé, Tori Sinclair has been drafted into Sweet Briar’s holiday Decorating Committee...read more

UH-OH! What's a family to do when there's a baby on the way but no place to put a crib? The big brother-to-be is worried. His mom does have a sewing room, but its every nook and cranny is stuffed with cast-off items and outgrown clothes that people have given her to recycle and reuse—some day. Now that day has come—because the new arrival will need someplace to sleep and something to wear. So the resourceful mom gets to work, making new clothes from old to outfit the baby-to-be. Inspired by her creativity, the neighbors get involved, and soon everyone is stitching and knitting something. As the months go by and the family celebrates the Jewish holidays from Passover to Hanukkah, big brother helps his mom get ready, too. But things move slowly and he continues to worry: will there ever be room for the baby?

Every day Grandma Rose sews and every day she saves for a set of beautiful dishes with pink and red roses and blue trim. And whenever she sews, something magical happens. A tale of generosity rewarded.

Product Description: Librarian Tori Sinclair would do anything for her new circle of friends-including throw a birthday bash for a fellow sewer's daughter. While the party is a hit, self-important pageant mom Ashley Lawson leaves the ladies wanting to permanently shut her high maintenance mouth...read more

Product Description: When Tori Sinclair's philandering ex turns up dead, the police chief believes it was murder-and that Tori may have been involved. Now, only the girls from the sewing circle will be able to help keep her life from coming apart at the seams...

Product Description: The members of South Carolina's Sweet Briar Ladies Society sewing circle are as loyal and close-knit as the day is long. But when the richest and meanest woman in town turns up murdered, the new Yankee librarian Tori Sinclair finds that some threads can bind dangerously tight.