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  • De kleermaakster van Dachau

    de Mary Chamberlain ...
    Traducido por Elisabeth van Borselen ...
    'Spannend en aangrijpend boek over een Britse, aanvankelijk naieve jonge vrouw die snel haar onschuld kwijtraakt in misschien wel de meest dramatische periode van de Europese geschiedenis.' - Nederlands Dagblad ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • La Couturière de Dachau

    de Mary Chamberlain ...
    Londres, 1939. Quand Ada Vaughan commence à travailler au sein d’un atelier de mode de Dover Street, la jeune femme rêve d’une carrière dans la haute couture. Et d’échapper ainsi à l’atmosphère familiale pesante. Impossible alors de résister à l’énigmatique Stanislaus von Lieben, un gentleman entreprenant qui lui propose un voyage à Paris. Mais, à la fin de leur séjour, la nouvelle tombe : le ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • La sarta di Dachau

    de Mary Chamberlain ...
    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 ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • The Dressmaker's War

    A Novel

    de Mary Chamberlain ...
    For readers of Amy Bloom, Sarah Waters, and Anthony Doerr, The Dressmaker’s War is the story of a brilliant English seamstress taken prisoner in Germany during World War II: about her perseverance, the choices she makes to stay alive, and the haunting aftermath of war.London, 1939. Ada Vaughan is a young working-class woman with an unusual skill for dressmaking who dreams of opening her own ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Old Wives' Tales

    The History of Remedies, Charms and Spells

    de Mary Chamberlain ...
    We may all know that dandelions make us wet the bed, and that stewed prunes are a cure for constipation, but how many of us were aware that a poultice of chicken manure is a remedy for baldness? Or that eel liver will aid a difficult labour?The woman healer is as old as history. For millennia she has been doctor, nurse and midwife, and even in the age of modern medicine her wisdom is handed down ... Leer más

    $10.49 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Narratives of Exile and Return

    de Mary Chamberlain ...
    In this original and compelling book, Mary Chamberlain explores the nature and meaning of migration for Barbadians who migrated to Britain and elsewhere. It is a unique oral and social history, based on life-story interviews across three or more generations of Barbadian families. Locating migration within the contemporary debate on modernity, Narratives of Exile and Return highlights the ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Handbook of Oral History

    de Rebecca Sharpless, Mary Chamberlain, Pamela Dean, James E. Fogerty, Jeff Friedman, Sherna Berger Gluck, Charles Hardy III, Alice M. Hoffman0, Howard S. Hoffman1, Elinor A. Mazé2, Eva M. McMahan3, Charles T. Morrissey4, Kim Lacy Rogers5, Linda Shopes6, Valerie Raleigh Yow7, Ronald J. Grele8, Mary A. Larson9, Richard Cándida Smith0 ...
    Originally intending to produce the first comprehensive scholarly reference guide to the antecedents, practices, and theory of oral history, the editors have gone even further, creating a highly readable and useful tool for scholars, students, and the general public. Covering the vast scope of this increasingly popular field, the eminent contributors discuss almost every aspect of a field that ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • Family Love in the Diaspora

    Migration and the Anglo-Caribbean Experience

    de Mary Chamberlain ...
    Series series Memory and Narrative
    Colonial social policy in the British West Indies from the nineteenth century onward assumed that black families lacked morals, structure, and men, a void that explained poverty and lack of citizenship. African-Caribbean families appeared as the mirror opposite of the "ideal" family advocated by the white, colonial authorities. Yet contrary to this image, what provided continuity in the period and ... Leer más

    $67.99 USD

  • Empire and nation-building in the Caribbean

    Barbados, 1937–66

    de Mary Chamberlain ...
    Series Libro 82 - Studies in Imperialism
    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 ... Leer más

    $93.99 USD

  • Six for Gold

    de Mary Reed, Eric Mayer ...
    Series Libro 6 - John, the Lord Chamberlain Mysteries
    Why are sheep in the remote Egyptian village of Mehenopolis cutting their own throats? That's the mystery Emperor Justinian inexplicably sends John, his Lord Chamberlain, to Egypt to solve. Mehenopolis is a pilgrim destination, thanks to its ancient shrine to a snake deity.Among the characters John encounters are a pretentious local landowner battling a self-styled magician for control of the ... Leer más

    $1.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Two for Joy

    de Mary Reed, Eric Mayer ...
    Series Libro 2 - John, the Lord Chamberlain Mysteries
    Winner, the Glyph Award - Best MysteryHonorable Mention, Glyph Best Book Award list IPPY Best Mystery Award finalistJohn the Eunuch, Lord Chamberlain to the Emperor Justinian, is skilled at keeping his footing on the treacherous slopes of court intrigue, but even he may slip when presented with a new and byzantine problem: why would a holy man high atop his pillar spontaneously combust during a ... Leer más

    $8.09 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Audiolibro

    The Dressmaker's War

    de Mary Chamberlain ...
    Narrado por Susan Duerden ...

    Completo

    10 hora 37 minutos

    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 ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD