| International Standard Book Number |
9780785232179 (epub)
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780785232186
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780785232162 (paperback)
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| International Standard Book Number |
0785232168 (paperback)
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| Personal Name |
Cambron, Kristy. author.
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| Title Statement |
The Paris dressmaker / Kristy Cambron.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
Nashville, Tennessee : Thomas Nelson, 2021.
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| Physical Description |
387 pages ; 22 cm.
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| General Note |
"Based on true accounts of how Parisiennes resisted the Nazi occupation-from fashion houses to the city streets"--Back cover.
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| General Note |
Includes discussion questions.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-376).
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| Summary, Etc. |
"Paris, 1939. Maison Chanel has closed, thrusting haute couture dressmaker Lila de Laurent out of the world of high fashion as Nazi soldiers invade the streets and the City of Lights slips into darkness. Lila's life is now a series of rations, brutal restrictions, and carefully controlled propaganda while Paris is cut off from the rest of the world. Yet in hidden corners of the city, the faithful pledge to resist. Lila is drawn to La Resistance and is soon using her skills as a dressmaker to infiltrate the Nazi elite. She takes their measurements and designs masterpieces, all while collecting secrets in the glamorous Hotel Ritz - at he heart of the Nazis' Parisian headquarters. But when dashing Rene Touliard suddenly reenters her world, Lila finds her heart tangled between determination to help save his Jewish family and bolstering the fight for liberation. Paris, 1943. Sandrine Paquet's job is to catalog the priceless works of art bound for the Fuhrer's Berlin, masterpieces stolen from prominent Jewish families. But behind closed doors, she secretly forages for information from the underground resistance. Beneath her compliant facade lies a woman bent on uncovering the fate of her missing husband . . . but at what cost? As Hitler's regime crumbles, Sandrine is drawn in deeper when she uncrates an exquisite blush Chanel gown concealing a cryptic message that may reveal the fate of a dressmaker who vanished from within the fashion elite. Told across the span of the Nazi occupation, The Paris Dressmaker highlights the brave women who used everything in their power to resist darkness and restore light to their world."--Provided by publisher.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Secrecy Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
World War, 1939-1945 Underground movements France Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Undercover operations Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Dressmakers Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Nazis France Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust France Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Women France Paris Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Paris (France) Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Christian fiction.
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