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THE ART OF MAKING HISTORY ALIVE By ALYSON RICHMAN & SHAUNNA J. EDWARDS, authors of THE THREAD COLLECTORS The THREAD COLLECTORS (Graydon House/Harper Collins)  - while historical fiction - is drawn from the authors’ real-life ancestral experiences, both touched by slavery. ALYSON RICHMAN (a white writer) and SHAUNNA J. EDWARDS (a black writer) offer up a rich historical novel set during the Civil War about 2 women - one Black and yearning for freedom in New Orleans, the other a Jewish abolitionist in New York - whose resourceful sewing to support their communities leads them on unexpected, dangerous journeys as they fight to bring their beloveds home from the front. These authors have succeeded in bringing history to life! About the book: THE THREAD COLLECTORS is set in  1863: In a small Creole cottage in New Orleans, an ingenious young Black woman named Stella embroiders intricate maps on repurposed cloth to help enslaved men flee and join the Union Army. Bound to a man who would kill her if he