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"Based on true accounts of how Parisiennes resisted the Nazi occupation in World War II--from fashion houses to the city streets--comes a story of two courageous women who risked everything to fight an evil they couldn't abide. Paris, 1939. Maison Chanel has closed, thrusting haute couture dressmaker Lila de Laurent out of the world of high fashion as Nazi soldiers invade the streets and the City of Lights slips into darkness. Lila's life is now a...
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"A young prodigy in need of family. A painting that shatters a woman's peace. And a decades-old mystery demanding to be solved. Australia, 1906 Orphan Jane Piper is nine years old when philanthropist siblings Michael and Elizabeth Quinn take her into their home to further her schooling. The Quinns are no strangers to hardship. Having arrived in Australia as penniless immigrants, they now care for others as lost as they once were. Despite Jane's mysterious...
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" Paryż, rok 1939. Miasto Świateł ogarnia mrok. Dla Sandrine Paquet wojna zmieniła wszystko. Jej mąż zaginął na froncie, a szczęśliwe, pełne blasku życie stało się jedynie mglistym wspomnieniem. Tymczasem z polecenia nazistów Sandrine kataloguje dzieła sztuki kradzione żydowskim rodzinom, w tajemnicy przekazując informacje na ich temat francuskiemu ruchowi oporu. Pewnego dnia otrzymuje skrzynkę zawierającą suknię Chanel z zagadkową...
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