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The Parisian design houses in 1928, the crash of 1929, the losses of war, the drug culture of the 1960s--history holds many surprises, and lives are changed forever. For richer or for poorer, in cramped apartments and grand mansions, the treasured wedding dress made in Paris in 1928 follows each generation into their new lives, and represents different hopes for each of them, as they marry very different men. From inherited fortunes at the outset...
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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...
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IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
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Regan Reilly and her fiancé Jack "no relation" Reilly--head of the NYPD Major Case Squad--are getting married! But when Regan arrives at the bridal salon to pick up her gown, she discovers the shop has been broken into, the designers bound and gagged, and her dress missing. Even though it's a week before her wedding, Regan gets on the case. Meanwhile, Jack is determined to solve a perplexing series of bank robberies before their nuptials.
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