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Barbara Schwartz was born into a family of quilters, but she would rather eat dirt than partake in another quilting frolic or sew on another binding. When her parents send her to Indiana to help her grandmother in her quilt shop, she finds herself amongst a very different community--one shaped by tourism and their own set of Ordnung. It's only one summer and then she will be back in Kentucky where she belongs. Melvin Bontrager's world stopped six...