02242cam a2200433 4500 337187252 TxAuBib 20100226120000.0 080102s2007||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2007007117 9780764201332 13.99 0764201336 13.99 9 780764 201332 WiMaMI TxAuBib Pella, Judith. Bachelor's puzzle : a novel / Judith Pella. Bachelor's puzzle. Minneapolis, Minn : Bethany House, 2007. 351 p. ; 21 cm. Patchwork circle ; ; 1 Includes pattern at end of book. The women of the Maintown church ladies society eagerly await the arrival of the new circuit-riding preacher--a bachelor, they've been told. To welcome him, they and their eligible daughters decide to make him a quilt. The project turns into a fierce competition as each young woman tries to outdo the other in creating a quilt block so exquisite that it--and she--will gain the young minister's attention. Zack Hartley is unlike any preacher the church has ever seen. He bumbles about in the pulpit, and when he visits the sick, instead of praying for them he hangs laundry, washes dishes, tends children--does whatever needs doing. His inexperience and humorous blunders, however, eventually prove endearing and only further encourage the young ladies in their obvious attempts to snare him. But Zack is hiding something, and if his deception is found out, disappointing Maintown ladies may be the least of his worries. 20080102. Women Fiction. Swindlers and swindling Fiction. Impostors and imposture Fiction. Bachelors Fiction. Patchwork quilts Fiction. Quiltmakers Fiction. Quilting Fiction. Quilts Fiction. Clergy Fiction. Love stories. Large type books. Oregon Fiction. Christian fiction. Historical fiction. Patchwork circle ; ; 1.