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Where Lilacs Still Bloom: A Novel - Jane Kirkpatrick
Where Lilacs Still Bloom: A Novel
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One woman, an impossible dream, and the faith it took to see it through.  German immigrant and farm wife Hulda Klager possesses only an eighth-grade education—and a burning desire to create something beautiful. What begins as a hobby to create an easy-peeling apple for her pies becomes Hulda’s... show more
One woman, an impossible dream, and the faith it took to see it through.  German immigrant and farm wife Hulda Klager possesses only an eighth-grade education—and a burning desire to create something beautiful. What begins as a hobby to create an easy-peeling apple for her pies becomes Hulda’s driving purpose: a time-consuming interest in plant hybridization that puts her at odds with family and community, as she challenges the early twentieth-century expectations for a simple housewife.   Through the years, seasonal floods continually threaten to erase her Woodland, Washington garden and a series of family tragedies cause even Hulda to question her focus. In a time of practicality, can one person’s simple gifts of beauty make a difference?   Based on the life of Hulda Klager, Where Lilacs Still Bloom is a story of triumph over an impossible dream and the power of a generous heart. “Beauty matters… it does. God gave us flowers for a reason. Flowers remind us to put away fear, to stop our rushing and running and worrying about this and that, and for a moment, have a piece of paradise right here on earth.”
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9781400074303 (1400074304)
ASIN: 1400074304
Publisher: WaterBrook Press
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
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Nighttime Reading Center
Nighttime Reading Center rated it
5.0 Where Lilacs Still Bloom: A Novel
I really enjoyed this book. It about life and it cycle as though Flowers. There are alots of lesson though out the book though followers. It teaches us that we must move on and keep going. Hulda had lost most of her family and she wondered why she did. Her children died before see did. That must be ...
Nighttime Reading Center
Nighttime Reading Center rated it
5.0 Where Lilacs Still Bloom: A Novel
I really enjoyed this book. It about life and it cycle as though Flowers. There are alots of lesson though out the book though followers. It teaches us that we must move on and keep going. Hulda had lost most of her family and she wondered why she did. Her children died before see did. That must be ...
Shelly's Book Journal
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4.0 Where Lilacs Still Bloom: A Novel
This is not a story about vampires or werewolves, criminals or mysteries, love or romance - but is the fictionalized life of a remarkable woman who loved her flowers, and worked her whole life to improve them through hybridization. Along the way, lots of things happen - people come and go in her li...
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