Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy were an unlikely pair to make movie history. Their sparks ignited a nation, creating some of the greatest musicals of the Golden Age of Hollywood--films that continue to enchant and inspire. This revised edition contains a complete discography, biographies and historical overviews, and 590 photos.

In 1905, a young wife arrived in a strange land to join her mining engineer husband. The challenges of her new life proved both exciting and dangerous. She recorded her domestic-and, later, historical-adventures with youthful enthusiasm and naive bigotry in this series of engaging autobiographical essays. Her literary time capsules capture the attitudes and mores of the era while revealing a woman gently reared to live a life quite different than the difficult one she chose.

How far can you push a single traditional quilt block? How many different designs can you create from a simple graphic? A dozen years ago, Eleanor Dugan set out to make three or four variations on the block, 'Borrow from Peter to Pay Paul, ' using polka dot fabrics. Today, she has completed 33 innovative art quilts and is still counting. Find fun and inspiration in these light-hearted evolutions. You'll never look at a simple quilt block in the same way again-in your own work and the work of others."