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“lucy adlington”

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  • Four Red Sweaters

    Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust

    by Lucy Adlington ...
    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmakers of Auschwitz tells the true stories of four Jewish girls during the Holocaust, strangers whose lives were unknowingly linked by everyday garments in this unforgettable work of WWII history, revealing how the ordinary can connect us in extraordinary ways.Jock Heidenstein, Anita Lasker, Chana Zumerkorn, and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Dressmakers of Auschwitz

    The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

    by Lucy Adlington ...
    A powerful true story of survival, this chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust tells of an extraordinary fashion workshop created within one of the most notorious WWII death camps.At the height of the Holocaust twenty-five young inmates of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp—mainly Jewish women and girls—were selected to design, cut, and sew ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Women's Lives and Clothes in WW2

    Ready for Action

    by Lucy Adlington ...
    An illustrated history of World War II-era women's fashions, featuring ladies from all nations involved in conflict.What would you wear to war?How would you dress for a winter mission in the open cockpit of a Russian bomber plane? At a fashion show in Occupied Paris? Singing in Harlem, or on fire watch in Tokyo?Women's Lives and Clothes in WW2 is a unique, illustrated insight into the experiences ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Red Ribbon

    by Lucy Adlington ...
    Shining a light on a little-known aspect of the Holocaust, Lucy Adlington weaves an unforgettable story of strength, survival, and a friendship that can endure anything.Three weeks after being detained on her way home from school, fourteen-year-old Ella finds herself in the Upper Tailoring Studio, a sewing workshop inside a Nazi concentration camp. There, two dozen skeletal women toil over stolen ... Read more

    $20.89 CAD

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    The Dressmakers of Auschwitz

    The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

    by Lucy Adlington ...
    Narrated by Lucy Adlington ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours

    A powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching beautiful clothes at an extraordinary fashion workshop created within one of the most notorious WWII death camps.At the height of the Holocaust twenty-five young inmates of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp—mainly Jewish women and girls—were selected to design, cut, and sew beautiful ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Stitches in Time

    The Story of the Clothes We Wear

    by Lucy Adlington ...
    Riffling through the wardrobes of years gone by, costume historian Lucy Adlington reveals the rich stories underlying the clothes we wear in this stylish tour of the most important developments in the history of fashion, from ancient times to the present day.Starting with underwear – did you know Elizabeth I owned just one pair of drawers, worn only after her death? – she moves garment by garment ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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    Four Red Sweaters

    Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust

    by Lucy Adlington ...
    Narrated by Esther Wane ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 54 min

    The New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmakers of Auschwitz tells the stories of four Jewish girls during the Holocaust, strangers whose lives were unknowingly linked by everyday garments, revealing how the ordinary can connect us in extraordinary ways.Jock Heidenstein, Anita Lasker, Chana Zumerkorn, and Regina Feldman all faced the Holocaust in different ways. While they did not know ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Great War Fashion

    Tales from the History Wardrobe

    by Lucy Adlington ...
    Imagine stepping into someone else's shoes. Walking back in time a century ago, which shoes would they be? A pair of silk sensations costing thousands of pounds designed by Yanturni of Paris, or wooden clogs with metal cleats that spark on the cobbles of a factory yard? Would your shoes be heavy with mud from trudging along duckboards between the tents of a front-line hospital or stuck with tufts ... Read more

    $21.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    From Broken Glass

    My Story of Finding Hope in Hitler's Death Camps to Inspire a New Generation

    by Steve Ross ...
    Narrated by Robert Blumenfeld, Ray Flynn, Michael Ross ...

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    6 hours 11 min

    From the survivor of ten Nazi concentration camps who went on to create the New England Holocaust Memorial, a "devastating...inspirational" memoir (The Today Show) about finding strength in the face of despair.On August 14, 2017, two days after a white-supremacist activist rammed his car into a group of anti-Fascist protestors, killing one and injuring nineteen, the New England Holocaust Memorial ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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    Daughter of Genoa

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    by Kat Devereaux ...
    Narrated by Carlotta Brentan ...

    Unabridged

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    ""Enthralling and eloquently bittersweet—a vivid historical portrait of the pivotal yet overlooked struggle to save Italian Jews in WWII, and how one unforgettable woman risks everything for love. Devereaux writes with great authority and masterfully blends imagination and history. A deeply affective novel that captivated me from the first page."" — Shelly Sanders, bestselling author of Daughters ... Read more

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    A Light in the Northern Sea

    Denmark's Incredible Rescue of Their Jewish Citizens During WWII

    by Tim Brady ...
    Narrated by David de Vries ...

    Unabridged

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    August 25, 1943. A lone bicyclist transports a cache of explosives, hidden in a beer crate, to a Copenhagen hall being readied to house German troops. In a violent blast, the would-be barracks is reduced to rubble. It's the boldest act yet of Holger Danske and the growing Danish resistance combating the oppressiveness of Hitler's Reich.In 1940, on its way to conquering Western Europe, Germany ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Whatever Happened to Lori Lovely?

    A Novel

    by Sarah McCoy ...
    Narrated by Cassandra Campbell, Helen Laser, Stephanie Németh-Parker ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 11 min

    From New York Times bestselling author Sarah McCoy—a spellbinding novel based on a true story: a beautiful young movie star of Hollywood’s Golden Age gives up her bright career to become a nun.In 1969, twenty-three-year-old starlet Lori Lovely, the apple of Hollywood’s eye, shocks the world by ditching a promising film career to take vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience as a Benedictine nun. ... Read more

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