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"In The Other Side of the Coin, The Queen has personally given Angela her blessing to share their extraordinary bond with the world. Whether it's preparing for a formal occasion or brightening Her Majesty's day with a playful joke, Angela's priority is to serve and support. Sharing never-before-seen photographs - many from Angela's own private collection - and charming anecdotes of their time spent together, this revealing book provides memorable...
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Borders in the style of medieval manuscripts, patterns based on Greek and Persian pottery, designs adapted from Venetian lace-this unique sourcebook abounds in splendid original ornaments. Its gorgeous black-and-white drawings include such diverse influences as German Gothic, Japanese, Arabic, Indian, Celtic, and ancient Roman art. A pioneer of modern design, Christopher Dresser (1834–1904) was one of the Victorian era's most important and influential...
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Walt Whitman's "The Wound-Dresser" is a sixty-five-line free-verse poem in four sections describing the suffering in the Civil War hospitals and the poet's suffering, faithfulness to duty, and developing compassion as he tended to soldiers' physical wounds and gave comfort. Published at war's end, the poem opens with an old veteran speaking, imaginatively suggesting some youths gathered about who have asked him to tell of his most powerful memories....
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BAWB Inc
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2022
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Français
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Colt Anderson est épuisé. Chaque aspect de sa vie quotidienne est devenu une corvée fastidieuse. Il ne se souvient pas de la dernière fois qu'il a pris un jour de congé ou, encore pire, de la dernière fois qu'il a ressenti l'abandon volontaire d'une femme. Et comme par hasard, pour son premier jour de congé depuis des lustres, il tombe sur une squatteuse sexy sur sa propriété, sans se douter que cette seule interaction va changer le cours
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From award-winning author Kathy Kacer - Gabi, our heroine, recounts how as a young Jewish girl she lived on a family farm in Eastern Europe during the Second World War. She describes her community before the Nazi occupation and the events that unfolded afterwards. When the Nazis conducted house searches for Jewish children, Gabi successfully hid in the dining-room dresser. The only thing retrieved from the home after the war was the dresser that saved...
7) The dresser
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Starz Media, LLC
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[2016]
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English
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"One fateful night in a small English regional theatre during World War II, a troupe of touring actors stage a production of Shakespeare's 'King Lear.' Bombs are falling, sirens are wailing, the curtain is up in an hour but the actor/manager 'Sir' who is playing Lear is nowhere to be seen. His dresser 'Norman' must scramble to keep the production alive but will Sir turn up in time? And if he does, will he be able to perform that night?" --
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Gila Bend is a political thriller with astonishing subplots that will leave you wondering (and worrying) if the manifestations could really happen! A history teacher from the tiny bedroom community of Gila Bend, Arizona, unexpectedly teams up with a dishonorably-discharged ex-Colonel from the US Air Force, to save America from a covert hostile takeover led by foreign dignitaries. Wealthy British parliamentarian, Lord John Shaffer, discovers a potent...
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Xequina Maria Berber started writing short stories because after coming out, a flood of inventiveness was liberated and she suddenly had many new stories to tell. Ever since, she's been on a mission to write about dignified women who are self-accepting and proud to be out.
In her first collection of stories, Xequina combines fiction and nonfiction into a rich mosaic that elevates characters and settings to legendary and even mythic status. She developed...
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How do we thrive?
In “God's in a Box on My Dresser: An Inquiry into The Human Capacity to Thrive”, Dr. Luciana Passeri takes readers on her journey to the Peruvian Amazon Jungle as she struggles with God and religion while traversing childhood abandonment, abuse, and an eating disorder that almost took her life.
Passeri finds healing, hope, and a transformed relationship with God while living thirty days on the little island in the Amazon where...
12) American dresser
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[2018]
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"When a recent widower is consumed with regret, he embarks in a cross country motorcycle ride looking for absolution and to confront the mistakes of his past and unexpectedly discovers that life is about moving forward, one mile at a time." --
14) Comment dresser un chiot. Un guide complet pour l'éducation d'un chiot avec Potty Train en 7 jours
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Youcanprint
Pub. Date
2022
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Découvrez la méthode qui vous permettra d'éduquer votre petit chiot à la propreté en seulement 7 jours grâce à "Comment éduquer un chiot : un guide complet pour éduquer un chiot avec Potty Train in 7 Days". L'apprentissage de la propreté à la maison pour votre chiot est une question de constance, de patience et de renforcement positif. L'objectif de ce type de formation est d'inculquer de bonnes habitudes et de créer un lien d'amour...
15) The dresser
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Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
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[2004]
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English
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Film adaptation of Harwood's play about an aging English actor/manager, his dresser, and their theatre company touring England during WWII. Both the leader of the company and his dresser are essential to each other. However, the devoted dresser struggles to support the unreasonable demands of the tyrannical head of the company, during the London blitz.
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Authored by wine connoisseur John James DeFour, who established the first commercial vineyard in the United States, The American Vine-Dresser's Guide is an amazingly thorough work on grape growing and wine making specifically adapted to the American climate and soil. Despite being published nearly 200 years ago in 1826, DeFour's practices and recommendations are still being utilized and referenced today since little has changed in the wine-making...
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Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Christopher Dresser (1834-1904) was one of the most influential British designers of all time and he is widely regarded as Britain's first independent industrial designer. His works still look remarkably modern more than a century later. Like his contemporary William Morris, Dresser advocated for an 'honesty of materials', but unlike Morris he fully embraced industrial techniques, designing for the growing consumer market. Dresser's fascination with...
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