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Ladies of liberty volume 2
Language
English
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Whisked away to America when her father is falsely accused of slave trading, Catherine Newbury disguises her identity and becomes a sought-after seamstress in Philadelphia, where she catches the eye of an architect who met her before she went into hiding.
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English
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Bestselling author Viola Shipman delights with this captivating summertime escape set along the sparkling shores of Lake Michigan, where a woman searches for clues to her secretive mother's past. Devastated by the sudden death of her mother--a quiet, loving and intensely private Southern seamstress called Miss Mabel, who overflowed with pearls of Ozarks wisdom but never spoke of her own family--Sutton Douglas makes the impulsive decision to pack up...
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English
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"Sometimes a familys deepest silences hide the most important secrets. For Mina, a London-based travel writer, the enigmatic silence surrounding her aunt Carmela has become a personal obsession. Carmela disappeared from her Italian hometown long ago and is mentioned only in fragments and whispers. Mina has resisted prying, respectful of her familys Sardinian reserve. But now, with her mother battling cancer, its time to learn the truth. In 1952, Simius...
7) The gown
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English
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"London, 1947: Besieged by the harshest winter in living memory, burdened by onerous shortages and rationing, the people of postwar Britain are enduring lives of quiet desperation in spite of their nation's recent victory. Among them are Ann Hughes and Miriam Dassin, embroiderers in the famed Mayfair fashion house of Norman Hartnell. Together they forge an unlikely friendship, but their bond, along with their nascent hopes for a brighter future, are...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 452 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Arthur Clennam returns to London after several years abroad, he wants to learn more about his mother's new seamstress, young Amy Dorrit. His search brings him to the Marshalsea Debtors Prison, where he learns the truth about struggle and hardship in 1820s England.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
328 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A tale rich in color, character, and vivid historical detail, When we were strangers chronicles the tumultuous life journey of a young immigrant seamstress, as she travels from her isolated Italian mountain village through the dark corners of late nineteenth century America."--From publisher's description.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
281 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
After Jacqueline Kennedy's iconic pink suit becomes entrenched in the world's collective memory for all the wrong reasons, the young Irish immigrant seamstress at New York's Chez Ninon boutique who made it feels her world being torn apart.
Author
Series
Montana sky volume 9
Publisher
[Debra Holland]
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
269 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Jilted seamstress Constance Taylor travels to Sweetwater Springs to live with her estranged father, the livery stable owner. She plans to open a dressmaking shop and bring sophisticated clothing styles to the frontier town. Doctor Angus Cameron is bitter and discouraged from his work with upper class Londoners and the wretched poor in the East End slums. He arrives in Sweetwater Springs to join the medical practice of his brother, the town doctor....
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
331 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Paris, 1958: Rose, a seamstress at a fashionable atelier, has been entrusted with sewing a Grace Kelly--look-alike gown for a wealthy bride-to-be. But when, against better judgment, she finds herself falling in love with the bride's handsome brother, Rose must make an impossible choice, one that could put all she's worked for at risk: love, security and of course, the dress. Sixty years later, tech CEO Rachel, who goes by the childhood nickname "Rocky,"...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2012, ©2012
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
10 paperbacks, 1 folder with supplementary materials or online supplementary materials ; in canvas bag.
Language
English
Description
Two star-crossed lovers--Enzo and Ciro--meet and separate, until, finally, the power of their love changes both of their lives forever. Set during the years preceding and during World War I.
Author
Publisher
Atria Español
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Primera edición en rústica de Atria Español.
Physical Desc
614 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
Español
Description
La joven modista Sira Quiroga abandona el Madrid agitado de los meses previos al alzamiento arrastrada por el amor desbocado hacia un hombre a quien apenas conoce. Con él se instala en Tánger, una ciudad exótica y vibrante donde todo puede suceder. Incluso la traición. Sola, desubicada y cargada de deudas ajenas, Sira se traslada a Tetuán, capital del Protectorado Español en Marruecos. Gracias a la ayuda de nuevas amistades forjará una nueva...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In London, 1939, Ada Vaughan is a young woman with an unusual dressmaking skill, and dreams of a better life for herself. That life seems to arrive when Stanislaus, an Austrian aristocrat, sweeps Ada off her feet and brings her to Paris. When war breaksout, Stanislaus vanishes, and Ada is taken prisoner by the Germans, she must do everything she can to survive: by becoming dressmaker to the Nazi wives. Abandoned and alone as war rages, the choices...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
422 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A plus-size Texas gal has designs on an old crush in New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown's exuberant, bighearted romance, featuring a custom wedding-dress boutique catering to big brides-to-be with big dreams"--
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
287 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1900 Sardinia, an intelligent and ambitious young woman with an impossible dream--to become the seamstress for a wealthy family--is drawn into a world far different than her own where she observes the town's residents, who are not quite what they pretend to be.
Author
Publisher
Mira
Language
English
Description
While preparing The Hollywood Glamour Exhibition at the Smithsonian, costume conservator Sylvia Early discovers another name beneath a label and unearths the story of Zora Hough, a talented young seamstress who left her poverty-stricken life in 1924 Jazz Age Seattle behind to realize her dreams of becoming a designer.
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