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A gripping new novel by bestselling author Mary Chamberlain

Heart-wrenching historical fiction from bestselling novelist Mary Chamberlain

Heart-wrenching historical fiction from bestselling novelist Mary Chamberlain

Spanning the intense years of war, The Dressmaker's War is a dramatic tale of love, conflict, betrayal and survival. It is the compelling story of one young woman's resolve to endure and of the choices she must make at every turn - choices which will contain truths she must confront. London, spring 1939. Eighteen-year-old Ada Vaughan, a beautiful and ambitious seamstress, has just started work for a modiste in Dover Street. A career in couture...

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Mary Chamberlain explores the nature and meaning of migration for Barbadians who migrated to Britain and elsewhere in this oral and social history, based on life-story interviews across three or more generations of Barbadian families.

Her heart died in the war ¿ can she breathe new life into it?¿Dora Simon and Joe O¿Cleary live in separate countries, accepting of their twilight years. But their monochrome worlds are abruptly upended by the arrival of Barbara Hummel, who is determined to identify the mysterious woman whose photograph she has found among her mother¿s possessions.¿Forced to confront a time they thought buried in the past, Dora and Joe¿s lives unravel ¿ and ent...

Excerpt from A Study of the Purkinje Phenomenon With Spectral Lights: A Dissertation, Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of PhilosophyG. M. Fernald (15) (16) published two papers on the rela tion of brightness of background to colors on the peripheral retina. With the darker backgrounds red appeared as orange or yellow, orange as yellow or yellow-orange, green as yellow ...

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Her heart died in the war - can she breathe new life to it?

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Excerpt from Library Work With the BlindOne of the smaller libraries reports a subject use of the shelf list that might be widely adopted. In all the forms of literature, poetry, essays, etc., where the catalog would practically repeat the shelf-list, a card is inserted in the catalog referring to the shelf-list, as Poetry. For complete list of poetry see shelf list in office.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands o...

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Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

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This original and exciting book examines the processes of nation building in the British West Indies. It argues that nation building was a more complex and messy affair, involving women and men in a range of social and cultural activities, in a variety of migratory settings, within a unique geo-political context. Taking as a case study Barbados which, in the 1930s, was the most economically impoverished, racially divided, socially disadvantage...

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The Dressmaker of Dachau. London, 1939 god. Ade Voan vosemnadcat', ona krasiva i ochen' ambiciozna. Nesmotrja na molodost' ona vysokoklassnaja portniha, i u nee est' vse dannye, chtoby kogda-nibud' otkryt' svoe atel'e - "Dom Voan", kak viditsja v ee mechtah. I kogda Ada vstrechaet zagadochnogo Stanislasa, ej kazhetsja, chto ona pochti uhvatila pticu udachi za hvost. Novaja zhizn' nachinaetsja s ee pervogo puteshestvija - i ne kuda-nibud', a v ...

Londra, 1939. Ada Vaughan non ha ancora compiuto diciotto anni quando capisce che basta un sogno per disegnare il proprio destino. E il suo è quello di diventare una sarta famosa, aprire una casa di moda, realizzare abiti per le donne più eleganti della sua città. Ha da poco cominciato a lavorare presso una sartoria in Dover Street, e la vita sembra sorriderle. Un viaggio imprevisto a Parigi le fa toccare con mano i confini del suo sogno. Ma l...