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The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe (P.S.)

by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Published: 2011-03-15

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The life Kamila Sidiqi had known changed overnight when the Taliban seized control of the city of Kabul. After receiving a teaching degree during the civil war?a rare achievement for any Afghan woman?Kamila was subsequently banned from school and confined to her home. When her father and b...

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The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe

by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Published: 2011-03-01

Hardcover: 288 pages

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The life Kamila Sidiqi had known changed overnight when the Taliban seized control of the city of Kabul. After receiving a teaching degree during the civil war?a rare achievement for any Afghan woman?Kamila was subsequently banned from school and confined to her home. When her father and b...

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The Dressmaker: A Novel

by Elizabeth Birkelund Oberbeck

Published: 2007-05-15

Paperback: 320 pages

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Claude Reynaud is an old-fashioned tailor, designing his famous gowns by hand in a cluttered studio well outside Paris. But one spring afternoon a woman arrives in search of a wedding dress and shatters all his composure: Valentine de Verlay is charming, beautiful, sophisticated, and, of c...

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The Dressmaker: A Novel

by Kate Alcott

Published: 2012-02-21

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Just in time for the centennial anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic comes a vivid, romantic, and relentlessly compelling historical novel about a spirited young woman who survives the disaster only to find herself embroiled in the media frenzy left in the wake of the tragedy. Tess, ...

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The Dressmaker: A Novel

by Posie Graeme-Evans

Published: 2010-10-12

Paperback: 464 pages

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From international bestselling author Posie Graeme-Evans comes the passionate tale of a woman ahead of her time.   Ellen Gowan is the only surviving child of a scholarly village minister and a charming girl disowned by her family when she married for love. Growing up in rural Norfolk, Ell...

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Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power

by Rachel Maddow

Published: 2013-03-05

Paperback: 288 pages

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The #1 New York Times bestseller that charts America’s dangerous drift into a state of perpetual war. Written with bracing wit and intelligence, Rachel Maddow's Drift argues that we've drifted away from America's original ideals and become a nation weirdly at peace with perpetual war. To...

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Drifting House

by Krys Lee

Published: 2012-02-02

Hardcover: 224 pages

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An unflinching portrayal of the Korean immigrant experience from an extraordinary new talent in fiction. Spanning Korea and the United States, from the postwar era to contemporary times, Krys Lee's stunning fiction debut, Drifting House, illuminates a people torn between the traumas of...

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Driftless

by David Rhodes

Published: 2009-05-05

Paperback: 448 pages

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When David Rhodes's first three novels were published in the mid-seventies, he was acclaimed as "one of the best eyes in recent fiction" (John Gardner), and compared favorably to Sherwood Anderson. In 1976, a motorcycle accident left him paralyzed from the chest down, and unpublished for t...

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The Driftless Area: A Novel

by Tom Drury

Published: 2007-08-10

Paperback: 224 pages

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Driftwood Lane: A Nantucket Love Story

by Denise Hunter

Published: 2010-07-06

Paperback: 336 pages

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Meridith can handle anything: guardianship of three distant siblings, a dilapidated Bed-and-Breakfast, even an ever-present handyman who's dismantling more than her fireplace--or can she? When the death of Meridith's estranged father leaves her with custody of three siblings she's never m...