duenas maria the seamstress
Duenas Maria The Seamstress
Spain, 1936 and the brink of civil war. Aged twelve, Sira Quiroga was apprenticed to a Madrid dressmaker. As she masters the seamstress's art, her life seems to be clearly mapped out - until she falls passionately in love and flees with her seductive lover. But in Morocco she is betrayed and left penniless. As civil war engulfs Spain, Sira finds she cannot return and so turns to her one true skill - and sews beautiful clothes for the expat elite and their German friends. With Europe rumbling towards war, Sira is lured back to Franco's Nazis-friendly Spain. She is drawn into the shadowy world of espionage, rife with love, intrigue and betrayal. And where the greatest danger lies. . .
2421 Руб.
Trenow Liz The Forgotten Seamstress
A stunning book set in the Edwardian era about a seamstress working at Buckingham Palace. Full of drama, betrayal and compelling historical detail, perfect for fans of Lucinda Riley and Tracy Rees. It is 1914 and Maria, a shy teenager, is appointed to Buckingham Palace as a seamstress for the royal family. There, she is lucky enough to meet the Prince of Wales and is soon captivated by his glamour and intensity. But theirs is a doomed love affair and before long Maria’s life takes a tragic turn. Torn between passion and integrity, she makes a choice that has devastating consequences … Can a beautiful quilt, discovered many years later reveal the truth behind what happened to Maria?
1873 Руб.
Duenas Maria Виниловая пластинка Duenas Maria Beethoven And Beyond
Состояние носителя: S. Состояние конверта: S. Beethoven And Beyond. Виниловая пластинка . 2 lp Concerto For Violin And Orchestra In D Major Op. 61 = Konzert Für Violine Und Orchester D-Dur Cadenza [Cadenzas] – María Dueñas Composed By – Ludwig van Beethoven A1 1. Allegro Ma Non Troppo 27:56 B1 2. Larghetto 9:51 B2 3. Rondo. Allegro 11:54 B3 Adagio WoO 13/II Composed By – Louis Spohr Harp – Volker Kempf 4:49 C1 Berceuse Op. 20 Composed By – Eugène Ysaÿe 5:11 C2 Havanaise Op. 83 Composed By – Camille Saint-Saëns 10:22 C3 Légende Op. 17 Composed By – Henryk Wieniawski 8:02 C4 Liebesleid Composed By – Fritz Kreisler 3:41 D1 Cadenza For The 1st Mvt. Of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto Composed By – Louis Spohr 1:21 D2 Cadenza For The 1st Mvt. Of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto Composed By – Eugène Ysaÿe 4:04 D3 Cadenza For The 1st Mvt. Of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto Composed By – Camille Saint-Saëns 4:18 D4 Cadenza For The 1st Mvt. Of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto Composed By – Henryk Wieniawski 4:15 D5 Cadenza For The 1st Mvt. Of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto Composed By – Fritz Kreisler 4:00 Тип носителя: Виниловая пластинка
8541 Руб.
Mara Wil Betsy Ross
This brief biography of Betsy Ross, the woman who allegedly stitched the first American flag together in the 1770s, includes information on her youth, her marriage, and her career as a seamstress.
979 Руб.
Виниловая пластинка Duenas, Maria, Beethoven And Beyond (0028948635139)
Испанская скрипачка Мария Дуэньяс представляет свой дебютный альбом с одним из самых музыкально требовательных и эмоционально глубоких произведений в репертуаре - Концертом для скрипки Бетховена. В концерте Бетховена нельзя полагаться на виртуозность, вы должны раскрыть себя, - говорит Мария Дуэньяс. А это можно сделать только с помощью звука. Записанный вживую в венском Musikverein с the Wiener Symphoniker и Манфредом Хонеком, этот альбом является вступительной работой к ее дебютному альбому Deutsche Grammophon Бетховен и за его пределами. В записи представлены ее собственные, недавно написанные каденции для каждой части, раскрывающие Марию Дуэньяс и как исполнительницу, и как композитора.
5540 Руб.
Виниловая пластинка Duenas, Maria, Beethoven And Beyond (0028948635139)
Испанская скрипачка Мария Дуэньяс представляет свой дебютный альбом с одним из самых музыкально требовательных и эмоционально глубоких произведений в репертуаре - Концертом для скрипки Бетховена. В концерте Бетховена нельзя полагаться на виртуозность, вы должны раскрыть себя, - говорит Мария Дуэньяс. А это можно сделать только с помощью звука. Записанный вживую в венском Musikverein с the Wiener Symphoniker и Манфредом Хонеком, этот альбом является вступительной работой к ее дебютному альбому Deutsche Grammophon Бетховен и за его пределами. В записи представлены ее собственные, недавно написанные каденции для каждой части, раскрывающие Марию Дуэньяс и как исполнительницу, и как композитора.
6142 Руб.
Lester Natasha The Paris Seamstress
What must Estella sacrifice to make her mark? 1940: Parisian seamstress Estella Bissette is forced to flee France as the Germans advance. She is bound for Manhattan with a few francs, one suitcase, her sewing machine and a dream: to have her own atelier. 2015: Australian curator Fabienne Bissette journeys to the annual Met Gala for an exhibition of her beloved grandmother’s work – one of the world’s leading designers of ready-to-wear. But as Fabienne learns more about her grandmother’s past, she uncovers a story of tragedy, heartbreak and secrets – and the sacrifices made for love.
2125 Руб.
Marshall Laura Friend Request
Maria wants to be friends. But Maria is dead. Maria Weston wants to be friends with me Maybe that had been the problem all along: Maria Weston had wanted to be friends with me, but I let her down. She's been hovering at the edge of my consciousness for all of my adult life, although I've been good at keeping her out, just a blurred shadow in the corner of my eye, almost but not quite out of sight. Maria Weston wants to be friends. But Maria Weston has been dead for more than twenty-five years.
1990 Руб.
Hoffman Alice Magic Lessons
For centuries, the women of the Owens family have been cursed: any man who loves an Owens woman will die. It begins with a baby abandoned in a snowy English field in the 1600s. Gentle Hannah Owens takes the baby in, and as the child grows, Hannah teaches little Maria about the 'Unnamed Arts'. Maria has a gift for them – a gift that may well prove her undoing. When Maria is abandoned by the man she loves, she invokes the curse that will haunt her family for centuries. Because magic has rules, and they must be obeyed.
1115 Руб.
Cooper Jay The Pepper Party Family Feud Face-Off
Maria Pepper wants to win her school's mascot competition. But her tryout goes terribly! Her always-embarrassing family manages to humiliate her for the millionth time. So Maria decides enough is enough. The Pepper Party is about to get one person smaller!
1184 Руб.
McGurl Kathleen The Girl from Ballymor
What would you sacrifice for your children? Ballymor, Ireland, 1847 As famine grips the country Kitty McCarthy is left widowed and alone. Fighting to keep her two remaining children alive against all odds, Kitty must decide how far she will go to save her family. Present day Arriving in Ballymor, Maria is researching her ancestor, Victorian artist Michael McCarthy – and his beloved mother, the mysterious Kitty who disappeared without a trace. Running from her future, it’s not only answers about the past that Maria hopes to find in Ireland. As her search brings her closer to the truth about Kitty’s fate, Maria must make the biggest decision of her life.
2017 Руб.
Slinkard P.. The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion
Celebrated and hidden figures from First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln's seamstress to Elsa Schiaparelli and Chromat revealed through their stories and most compelling works.Diane Von Furstenberg, Vivienne Westwood, Sarah Burton, Kate and Laura Mulleavy, Donna Karan, and Iris van Herpen are among the great women designers to emerge in the last few decades. We now live in an age when no one would dare call them "that little seamstress," as Paul Poiret disdainfully referred to Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel more than a century ago. The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion highlights early innovative and contemporary designers working in a variety of materials and genres. This unique volume profiles widely-known early fashion vanguards such as Jeanne Lanvin, Callot Soeurs, and Madeleine Vionnet, as well as underrepresented women who revolutionized fashion from the mid-1700s to the present. More than one hundred works--including street fashion, ready-to-wear, traditional, and haute couture--celebrate women designers' concepts of dress and beauty. Through the work of more than fifty individual style makers, The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion illuminates issues of representation, creativity, and distinctiveness, as well as the labor challenges surrounding fashion today.
6900 Руб.
Coelho Paulo Eleven Minutes
The bestselling novel from international literary phenomenon Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist. A chance meeting in Rio takes Maria to Geneva, where she dreams of finding fame and fortune, yet ends up working the streets as a prostitute. In Geneva, Maria drifts further and further away from love while at the same time developing a fascination with sex. Eventually, Maria's despairing view of love is put to the test when she meets a handsome young painter. In this odyssey of self-discovery, Maria has to choose between pursuing a path of darkness, ‘sexual pleasure for its own sake’, or risking everything to find her own 'inner light' and the possibility of sacred sex, sex in the context of love. A daring modern fable about the nature of love and sex.
1585 Руб.
Sijie Dai Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Here is one of those rare novels, so captivatingly original, so absurdly funny, surprising and moving, that it crosses all boundaries. 1971: Mao's cultural Revolution is at its peak. Two sons of doctors, sent to 're-education' camps, forced to carry buckets of excrement up and down mountain paths, have only their sense of humour to keep them going. Although the attractive daughter of the local tailor also helps to distract them from the task at hand. The boys' true re-education starts, however, when they discover a hidden suitcase packed with the great Western novels of the nineteenth century. Their lives are transformed. And not only their lives: after listening to the stories of Balzac, the little seamstress will never be the same again.
2177 Руб.
O`Donnell Paraic The House on Vesper Sands
In Victorian London, poor women are vanishing, and rumours abound of a shadowy gang known as the Spiriters. In the unfamiliar streets of Soho, Gideon Bliss sets out in search of his lost love. From a ledge above Mayfair a seamstress jumps to her death, a mysterious message stitched into her own skin. Nearby, her aristocratic employer makes an abrupt exit from a gala ball, with society columnist Octavia Hillingdon in pursuit. And on the sullen Kent shore, as the darkness gathers, secrets lie hidden at the house on Vesper Sands.
2479 Руб.
Chamberlain Mary The Dressmaker of Dachau
Spring 1939. Taken prisoner by the Nazis, eighteen-year-old Ada is forced into a life of slavery and horror in Dachau concentration camp. Her skill as a seamstress is the only bargaining chip she has against the brutal SS guards. Back in London, she dreamed of being a world-renowned designer; now she must sew to save her life…but at what cost? For readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and The Librarian of Auschwitz, this is a powerful and moving story of courage and resilience, betrayal and passion.
1789 Руб.