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  <title><![CDATA[Alice's Tulips]]></title>
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  <default_description>Alice Bullock is a young bride whose husband, a Union soldier in the Civil War, leaves her on his Iowa farm with his formidable mother. Equally talented at quilting and gossip, Alice fills her letters to her sister with accounts of her daily life, from the local quilting bees, to the rigors of farm life, to the customs and restraints of small-town America. No town is too small, however, to escape intrigue and treachery, and when Alice finds herself accused of murder, she must rely on support from unlikely sources. Rich in details of quilting, Civil War-era America, and the hardships and rewards of a womans life in the 19th century, this is Sandra Dallas at her best.</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Sandra Dallas]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Alice's letters to her sister while her husband Charlie is away to fight for the Union in the Civil war.  I love the interactions between Alice and Charlie's mother and couldn't put down the book until Charlie came home.]]></body>
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    <review id="72473260">
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Apparently a good book is hard to come by lately!  Alice's character is really shallow which I found irritating.  The book is written in letter form to her sister during the Civil War era.  The things that matter to Alice shouldn't matter at all.  But what is worse is that even though her husband ge...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72473260">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="52813033">
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another great book by a very talented author. Set in the Civil War, a young bride is left by her husband as he goes to war. She lives with her mother-in-law on a farm in southern Iowa. There is plenty of conflict between the two women, as well as various townsfolk when Alice is suspected of murder. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52813033">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="76956624">
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Nov 06 16:10:08 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[In letters to her sister, the newly married Alice Bullock writes of her life in Slatyfork Iowa just after the beginning of the Civil War. With her husband gone for a soldier, Alice and her mother-in-law-, the grouchy and formidable Serena, must make peace in order to keep the farm running. When a da...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76956624">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48272978">
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  <date_added>Wed Mar 04 18:27:04 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Mar 04 18:32:21 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of my favourite books. Set during the American civil war, it's about the relationship between a young war bride and her mother-in-law, and a coming of age story. Told through letters sent to her sister, mother, and new husband, we see the evolution of a young girl into a young woman. It ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48272978">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48534926">
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <recommended_by><![CDATA[Eunice from my knitting club]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Fri Mar 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Mar 07 14:49:05 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Mar 07 14:56:51 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I forgot I had this book. Now I remember why I do. I enjoy the growth and self-realization of the heroine. I like the story-telling device (her letters to her sister) and that with only a few lines we get almost a full picture of her sister's story as well. It's earthy, but I like a bit of frankness...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48534926">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="52348140">
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  <read_at>Sun Apr 19 17:27:08 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Better than I expected.  The cover looked a bit iffy and the protagonist sounds smarmy at first but once you get into the story you realize that she is only sixteen years old and newly married to an equally naive young man who has gone to fight for the Union in the American Civil War leaving his you...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52348140">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="70384536">
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    <location><![CDATA[Lincoln, NE]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked this a lot. The civil war from the point of view of the wife at home, with some quilting blended in.  It's in the form of letters between sisters. I always like books that are written in this form because it seems to easy to get to know and understand the characters.  I've liked her o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70384536">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50873397">
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Mar 29 20:17:55 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this book about the American Civil War. It was told through Alice's letters to her sister. Alice was an accomplished quilter so each chapter told about a quilt pattern and related it to the story. It was different hearing about the women folk left behind. The story took place in the northe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50873397">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="3915936">
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    <name><![CDATA[Gina]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Castleton On Hudson, NY]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Aug 01 11:27:43 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a page-turner, nothing else got accomplished for a couple of days because I couldn't put it down! Set on the home front in the Civil War, and written as a series of letters, you will enjoy it, especially if you favor historical fiction and like old time crafts. This was the first of Sandra Dall...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3915936">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="71108264">
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Set in the Civil War times -- one women writes letters to her sister, and with that alone you find out about the tough hard life of the times. Amazingly the quilts made for the soldiers become an important part -- history does not teach this day to day struggle, the inter-connectedness of people in ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71108264">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="63895027">
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    <location><![CDATA[Sanger, TX]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Fri Jul 17 14:13:33 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book several years ago.  I bought it because I had read other books by Sandra Dallas (actually, I can't remember the order in which I read them except that <em>The Persian Pickle Club</em> was the first one.<br/><br/>I enjoyed this book very much.  It worked on several levels, particularly the re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63895027">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="62783237">
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    <name><![CDATA[Kathy]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[LOVED this one! Another in the &quot;letters to home&quot; style ...and some crossover with the Mattie Spenser story so that's a treat. Great set of characters and the setting is one I enjoy reading about (Civil War). Definately one you should read if you like this author (and I do!!) Keep a tissue ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62783237">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="19319671">
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 31 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book.  It was a great read, lots of history and stories of sewing. I have never tried to sew anything completely from hand, thinking about sewing everything from hand is mind boggling.  The most I have done is hand embroidery for fun, I might have to sew something from hand now just to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19319671">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="69824678">
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    <body><![CDATA[A novel told in letters from a young woman living on a farm with her mother-in-law while her husband is off fighting in the Civil War.  After buying this as a bargain book, it sat on my bookshelf for a year or two before I actually picked it up, but once I started reading it I found it totally capti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69824678">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="68889657">
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This epistolary novel consisting of letters from left-behind housewife Alice to her sister is mostly a gentle read.  Be aware, however, that there is a brief discussion of what to use in the bedroom since Charlie is not available at the moment that might make some readers uncomfortable.  It made me ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68889657">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is very similar in tone to the author's other one that I read previously, the _Persian Pickle Club_.  This time, it's the Civil War; but again, there's a young bride who has to come to terms with farming, living in a small community, being poor, and a gruff mother-in-law.  Thankfully the f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28640371">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2002</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Nov 03 14:02:09 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Aug 12 13:17:21 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Told in epistolary form, we get a glimpse of what it was like, &quot;back home&quot; for the women left behind when their men left for the Civil War. Alice is a young (18 years old) Civil War bride living with her mother-in-law to help run the farm when her new husband goes to war. She is new to tow...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36843649">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu May 30 00:00:00 -0700 2002</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Aug 11 14:22:15 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Aug 11 14:22:40 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[An epistolary Iowa Civil War story (with thanks in the acknowledgments to the &quot;Iowa Historical Society&quot;) that tries too hard to show off the author's historical knowledge, but gets the tone all wrong. I gave up on it pretty quickly.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Oct 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Oct 14 11:38:04 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Oct 14 11:42:14 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another excellent book by my new favorite author--Sandra Dallas. Women's friendships and understanding--that is the theme. Set is Civil War, this shows the home life of women thrown together because their men were off to war. ]]></body>
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