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(0)Annie Goetzinger
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Movie "Colette" coming in September starring Keira Knightley! From her marriage at the age of 20, until her divorce, this snapshot of Colette's life focuses on her formative years. Incredibly complex, powerfully determined, truly gifted, Colette challenged herself to reinvent her life and assert herself as a free woman. In her day, her behavior scandalized and vexed the establishment. But in the end, she helped to free women in their thinking and...
2) Girl in Dior
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"The Girl in Dior is Clara, a freshly hired chronicler, fan of fashion and our guide in the busy corridors of the brand new house of Christian Dior. It's February 12, 1947 and the cr©·me de la cr©·me of Paris Haute Couture is flocking to the momentous event of Dior's first show. In a flurry of corolla shaped skirts, the parade of models file down the runway. The audience is mesmerized: it's a triumph! Carmel Snow of Harper's Bazaar cries out:...
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NBM
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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Movie "Colette" coming in September 2018 starring Keira Knightley! From her marriage at the age of 20, until her divorce, this snapshot of Colette's life focuses on her formative years. Incredibly complex, powerfully determined, truly gifted, Colette challenged herself to reinvent her life and assert herself as a free woman. In her day, her behavior scandalized and vexed the establishment. But in the end, she helped to free women in their thinking...
4) Girl in Dior
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NBM
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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Winner of: YALSA 2016 Great Graphic Novels for Teens!
The Girl in Dior is Clara, a freshly hired chronicler, fan of fashion and our guide in the busy corridors of the brand new house of Christian Dior. Its February 12, 1947 and the crme de la crme of Paris Haute Couture is flocking to the momentous event of Diors first show. In a flurry of corolla shaped skirts, the parade of models file down the runway. The audience is mesmerized: its a triumph!...
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Europe Comics
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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Unsolved cases come home to roost in Edith Hardys latest caper, rounding off the first trilogy of the detectives adventures. When secret services in France and America start pulling stringsnot to mention the machinations of a certain pharmaceutical industrialistEdith winds up behind the Iron Curtain, in Moscow! But is she there to recover the legacy of state painter Alexis Limonovich or save naive young chemist Antoine Dubreuil from being manipulated?...
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Europe Comics
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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Ever calm, classy, and resourceful, Edith Hardy is on the case again. When pharmaceutical magnate Le Cauchois asks her to wangle an invitation to the Red Baronesss exclusive gatherings of Soviet sympathizers, Edith isnt sure she should say yesuntil an invitation falls right in her lap. Next thing, shes off to the Baronesss chteau in the snowy Ardennes, where she runs smack dab into a triangle of intrigue. Le Cauchois is working for French intelligence,...
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Europe Comics
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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Edith Hardy runs a small detective agency off an unassuming alley in the 13th arrondissement. Its the 1950s, and foreign forces are busy vying for power in a Paris still recovering from World War II. Edith has a good heart and a missing husband, and her attempts to do right by her small world get her caught up in far larger, darker affairs. A classic Pierre Christin scripta strong sense of place and history, humane leftist sympathiescombines with...
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Europe Comics
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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This is the story of two women. One of those women is Lady Sheringham, interviewed in her manor house, the other is Emma Piggott, who has just passed away in her London apartment, alone. To the former, life has been kind. She's gone from Shanghai to Hong Kong to Kuala Lumpar, from governess to sultana. She lives in the lap of luxury, engaged in an endless cycle of drinks parties, outings on horseback and the delicious little scandals of the British...
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NBM
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Nominee: YALSA Great Graphic Novels for Teens During the 1930s, Maud, an artist, discovers she has a psychic gift. The first signs manifest themselves in the royal gardens of the Trianon where gradually she understands that a woman from the beyond is attempting to communicate with her. The revelation is beyond belief: it is the ghost of Marie Antoinette appearing to her to share a terrible secret that has tormented her for centuries. After being guillotined,...
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During the 1930s, Maud, an artist, discovers she has a psychic gift. The first signs manifest themselves in the royal gardens of the Trianon where gradually she understands that a woman from the beyond is attempting to communicate with her. The revelation is beyond belief: it is the ghost of Marie Antoinette appearing to her to share a terrible secret that has tormented her for centuries. After being guillotined, the Queen is said to have been thrown...