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Narrated by:
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Barrie Kreinik
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By:
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Kristy Cambron
About this listen
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 could not 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 Light slips into darkness. Lila’s life is now a series of rations, brutal restrictions, and carefully controlled propaganda while Paris is cut off from the rest of the world. Yet in hidden corners of the city, the faithful pledge to resist. Lila is drawn to La Resistance and is soon using her skills as a dressmaker to infiltrate the Nazi elite. She takes their measurements and designs masterpieces, all while collecting secrets in the glamorous Hotel Ritz—the heart of the Nazis’ Parisian headquarters. But when dashing René Touliard suddenly reenters her world, Lila finds her heart tangled between determination to help save his Jewish family and to bolster the fight for liberation.
Paris, 1943. Sandrine Paquet’s job is to catalog the priceless works of art bound for the Führer’s Berlin, masterpieces stolen from prominent Jewish families. But behind closed doors, she secretly forages for information from the underground resistance. Beneath her compliant facade lies a woman bent on uncovering the fate of her missing husband . . . but at what cost? As Hitler’s regime crumbles, Sandrine is drawn in deeper when she uncrates an exquisite blush Chanel gown concealing a cryptic message that may reveal the fate of a dressmaker who vanished from within the fashion elite.
Told across the span of the Nazi occupation, The Paris Dressmaker highlights the brave women who used everything in their power to resist darkness and restore light to their world.
- Stand-alone World War II historical fiction
- Includes discussion questions for book clubs
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- Narrated by: Morgan Hallett, Susan Bennett
- Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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It's 1945: When the critically wounded Captain Cooper Ravenal is brought to a private hospital on Manhattan's Upper East Side, young Dr. Kate Schuyler is drawn into a complex mystery that connects three generations of women in her family to a single extraordinary room in a Gilded Age mansion. Who is the woman in Captain Ravenel's portrait miniature who looks so much like Kate? And why is she wearing the ruby pendant handed down to Kate by her mother?
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The same story 3 times over...
- By Amazon Customer on 03-30-16
By: Karen White, and others
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Witchmark
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- Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
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Magic marked Miles Singer for suffering the day he was born, doomed either to be a slave to his family's interest or to be committed to a witches' asylum. He went to war to escape his destiny and came home a different man, but he couldn't leave his past behind. The war between Aeland and Laneer leaves men changed, strangers to their friends and family. Even after faking his own death and reinventing himself as a doctor at a cash-strapped veteran's hospital, Miles can't hide what he truly is.
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hell of a ride
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By: C. L. Polk
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The Gown
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- Narrated by: Marisa Calin
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Such a disappointment...
- By Cynthia in NoCO on 05-12-19
By: Jennifer Robson
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Lost Among the Living
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England, 1921. Three years after her husband, Alex, disappeared, shot down over Germany, Jo Manders still mourns his loss. Working as a paid companion to Alex's wealthy, condescending aunt, Dottie Forsyth, Jo travels to Wych Elm House, the family's estate in the Sussex countryside. But there is much she never knew about her husband's origins...and the revelation of a mysterious death in the Forsyths' past is just the beginning.
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Interesting Story
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By: Simone St. James
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Once Upon a Dickens Christmas
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- By: Michelle Griep
- Narrated by: Nan McNamara
- Length: 17 hrs and 29 mins
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Three delightful Christmas tales from beloved storyteller Michelle Griep! Pour yourself a cuppa, get lost in the merriment of the season, and enjoy a Dickensian Christmas in three stories from fan favorite Michelle Griep: 12 Days at Bleakly Manor, A Tale of Two Hearts, and The Old Lace Shop.
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I loved this book!
- By Mukilhead on 12-05-19
By: Michelle Griep
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The Perfume Collector
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- By: Kathleen Tessaro
- Narrated by: Heather Wilds
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London, 1955: Grace Monroe is a fortunate young woman. Despite her sheltered upbringing in Oxford, her recent marriage has thrust her into the heart of London's most refined and ambitious social circles. Then one evening a letter arrives from France that will change everything. Grace has received an inheritance. There's only one problem: she has never heard of her benefactor, the mysterious Eva d'Orsey. Told by invoking the three distinctive perfumes she inspired, Eva d'Orsey's story weaves through the decades, from 1920s New York to Monte Carlo, Paris, and London.
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Unbearable Narration
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By: Kathleen Tessaro
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Between Two Thorns
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- By: Emma Newman
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The new season is starting and the Master of Ceremonies is missing. Max, an Arbiter of the Split Worlds Treaty, is assigned with the task of finding him - with no one to help but a dislocated soul and a mad sorcerer. There is a witness, but his memories have been bound by magical chains only the enemy can break. A rebellious woman trying to escape her family may prove to be the ally Max needs. But can she be trusted? And why does she want to give up eternal youth and the life of privilege she’s been born into?
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I hate writing Bad reviews but.....
- By Joseph Reeves on 04-26-17
By: Emma Newman
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Spellbreaker
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The orphaned Elsie Camden learned as a girl that there were two kinds of wizards in the world: those who pay for the power to cast spells and those, like her, born with the ability to break them. But as an unlicensed magic user, her gift is a crime. Commissioned by an underground group known as the Cowls, Elsie uses her spellbreaking to push back against the aristocrats and help the common man. Elite magic user Bacchus Kelsey is one elusive spell away from his mastership when he catches Elsie breaking an enchantment. To protect her secret, Elsie strikes a bargain.
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Interesting read/listen
- By Roderica Ruddle on 12-21-20
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The Orphan of Cemetery Hill
- By: Hester Fox
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Tabby has a peculiar gift: She can communicate with the recently departed. It makes her special, but it also makes her dangerous. As an orphaned child, she fled with her sister, Alice, from their charlatan aunt Bellefonte, who wanted only to exploit Tabby's gift so she could profit from the recent craze for seances. Now a young woman and tragically separated from Alice, Tabby works with her adopted father, Eli, the kind caretaker of a large Boston cemetery.
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It was a good story
- By LYSO129 on 12-13-23
By: Hester Fox
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The Luxe
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Beautiful sisters Elizabeth and Diana Holland rule Manhattan's social scene. Or so it appears. When the girls discover their status among New York City's elite is far from secure, suddenly everyone from the backstabbing socialite Penelope Hayes, to the debonair bachelor Henry Schoonmaker, to the spiteful maid Lina Broud threatens Elizabeth's and Diana's golden future. With the fate of the Hollands resting on her shoulders, Elizabeth must choose between family duty and true love.
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Good story, but. . .
- By Shellra on 05-17-09
By: Anna Godbersen
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The Debutante's Code
- Thorndike & Swann Regency Mysteries Series, Book 1
- By: Erica Vetsch
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Newly returned from finishing school, Lady Juliette Thorndike is ready to debut in London society. Due to her years away, she hasn't spent much time with her parents, and sees them only as the flighty, dilettante couple the other nobles love. But when they disappear, she discovers she never really knew them at all. They've been living double lives as government spies-and they're only the latest in a long history of espionage that is the family's legacy.
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Satisfying
- By April Game on 05-14-24
By: Erica Vetsch
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The Shifting Fog [also published under the alternate title The House at Riverton]
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Summer 1924: On the eve of a glittering society party, by the lake of a grand English country house, a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses, sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, will never speak to each other again. Winter 1999: Grace Bradley, 98, one-time housemaid of Riverton Manor, is visited by a young director making a film about the poet's suicide. Ghosts awaken and memories, long consigned to the dark reaches of Grace's mind, begin to sneak back through the cracks.
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Alternate title for "The House at Riverton"
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By: Kate Morton
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Brussels, 1943. Twelve-year-old street orphan Helene survives by living as a boy and selling copies of the country’s most popular newspaper, Le Soir, now turned into Nazi propaganda. Helene’s entire world changes when she befriends a rogue journalist, Marc Aubrion, who draws her into a secret network that publishes dissident underground newspapers. The Nazis track down Aubrion’s team and give them an impossible choice: Turn the resistance newspapers into a Nazi propaganda bomb that will sway public opinion against the Allies, or be killed.
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Too much love story for me
- By Melissa on 01-04-21
By: E. R. Ramzipoor
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- 02-23-21
Excellent in all ways
I'm normally pretty critical of the literature I digest and that often takes away from my enjoyment of the story. This book was over in a blink for me - I drank in the heartwrenching details, felt the fear, and felt like I was standing side by side with the characters in the story. Wow, what a ride! This book was so well-written, I couldn't poke holes in the grammar or sentence structure. I just got to enjoy it. I can imagine this as a major motion picture film in the years to come, but I would hate to see any of the delicious details changed for screen. The narration was excellent as well. Well done to both author and narrator. Now I want to read more books from this author. Bravo!!
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- mlj1776
- 11-12-23
excellent - great details and pacing
loved this story - didn't know much about the civilians in occupied Paris and loved the two parallel stories of the women. Great pacing forward and backwards in time and the citing of the years was helpful. Exciting story I plan to listen to a second time. Clean, hopeful story despite the dark, heavy circumstances and historical setting
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- Vjdmc
- 06-08-21
Felt like I was there
The performance was 1st rate. The story in many ways made you feel some of the anxiety of living through the war
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- BeckieCorbitt73
- 01-12-22
I loved it.
I enjoyed this book. It sucked me in and I was totally enthralled with the story. when i first read the reviews I was dishearten by them, but I had no problem with the time travel back and forth. Kristy Cambron can paint a picture and it was enjoyable to be transported. I have a 2 hour commute everyday and I look forward to listening to the story. I found myself putting the story on whenever I got in the car. I loved it!
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- Happy Day
- 01-16-25
Elegant suspense, courage under fire.
I liked the female efforts of French resistance in WWII. The author created dramatic happenings among intelligent , creative women who stood against the Nazis. Great read.
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- Amazon customer
- 10-19-22
Hard to follow
I enjoyed this book but as others have said the back and forth timeline was difficult to follow in the audio version. Possibly clearer to follow in a book. The back and forth timeline is popular with authors of these historical fiction books. I prefer to stick to one period.
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- dv
- 08-27-22
great read
Excellent...could not put down. very exciting. I enjoyed the back story very much. this was an excellent story about Paris during WW2.
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- Katherine Ward
- 02-19-24
Fascinating and engaging
This story is amazing. I love how the author illustrates the story. There are several story lines in one. It jumps back and forth then ties them all together. The actual history mixed with the author imagination is captivating.
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- Bob
- 03-30-23
Loved it!
I couldn’t wAit to have time to get back to this story! Great narration - I felt like I was living the experiences happening in the book. Recommend!
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- Mali
- 08-04-24
Excellent Novel
THE PARIS DRESSMAKER is an excellently written and narrated novel with a wonderful cast of characters and an intriguing story. So refreshing to listen to such a well conceptualized, written, and performed work of art in itself.
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