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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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"Three plucky women lift the spirits of homefront brides in wartime Britain, where clothes rationing leaves little opportunity for pomp or celebration-even at weddings-in this heartwarming novel based on true events, from the bestselling author of The Chilbury Ladies' Choir. After renowned fashion designer Cressida Westcott loses both her home and her design house in the London Blitz, she has nowhere to go but the family manor house she fled decades...
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Berkley
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Prized and stored away for safekeeping, the timeless ivory wedding dress, with its scooped neck and cleverly fitted bodice, sits gently folded in its box, whispering of Happily Ever Afters. To Kendra, Brianna, and Lauren it's a reminder of what could have been, the promise of a fairy tale, and a friendship torn apart. But as Kendra knows firsthand: it wasn't the dress's fault. Once closer than sisters, Lauren and Bree have grown up and grown apart,...
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Two Love Lane novels volume 2
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St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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Greer Jones has made a real name for herself at the elegant matchmaking agency Two Love Lane. For a lot of reasons including a past engagement she broke off. Practical tech expert Greer is more interested in the business of love than the experience of it, but she can't help but covet a gorgeous wedding gown that's the prize in an upcoming cocktail-party contest. In a moment of brazen inspiration, Greer asks a handsome Brit she's only just met to...
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Thomas Nelson
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English
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"One dress. Four women. An amazing destiny. Charlotte Malone is getting married. Yet all is not settled in the heart of Birmingham's chic bridal boutique owner. Charlotte can dress any bride to perfection -- except herself. When she discovers a vintage mint-condition wedding gown in a battered old trunk, Charlotte embarks on a passionate journey to discover the women who wore the gown before her. Emily in 1912. Mary in 1939. And Hillary in 1968. Each...
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St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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A rising star on the bridal design scene, Felicity Grant must come to terms that she will never walk down the aisle herself, while Nell, the top model headlining her show, deals with her own wedding drama, prompting them to team up in hopes of finding a Christmas miracle.
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Accelerated Reader
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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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