Corsets and Crinolines
 Wonderful Book!: I had to use this book for my final project in my Costume Technologies class and I loved it! I made the 18th century woman's stays (1776) and they worked out wonderfully! Warning, though: this book is not for people who cannot draft [... more]
CDN$56.25
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Eight Cousins
a great book: Rose has lost her mother & father & has been left in the care of her uncle.Rose is afraid of having to be around all 7 of her cousins which are all boys. Rose gets used to all of her cousins and has many good times with them.Rose [... more]
CDN$5.75
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In the Shadow of the Moon
Wanted: Likeable Heroine: While the writing is smooth and competent, the plotting and characterizations leave something to be desired. Laura Truitt, apparently intended to be spunky and forthright, comes across as thoughtless, rude and sometimes cruel, [... more]
CDN$6.50
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Gigi
Your own personal time machine!: I love the way Colette writes, her descriptions and words just take me back to that period of time, turn of the century Paris. She gives flavor to the book making us feel what the Parisian culture was like at that time. I [... more]
CDN$19.95
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Picnic, Lightning
From Amazon.com: In these playful, conversational poems, Billy Collins immerses us in the minutiae of a life--cow viewing, parsley chopping, "buzzing around on espresso"--and restores a sense of wonder. In a voice half confessional, half [... more]
CDN$14.59
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The Fun of It: Stories from The Talk of the Town
Start Spreading the News: This is a wonderful book. A compilation of pieces from The Talk of the Town section of The New Yorker spanning nine (!) decades, this is a social history of our nation and of New York. The Fun of It sat forgotten on my shelf for [... more]
CDN$25.95
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Fashion
Awe Inspiring: I don't know how many times I've just flipped the pages of these books (there's 2) in awe. The photography and quality of the pieces the Kyoto Costume Institute has collected is spectacular, with close-up shots of materials. Each era - [... more]
CDN$65.99
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Catherine The Great
From Amazon.com: Russian history occurs on a sweeping scale, but that takes a bigger budget than A & E can muster. So instead the cable network keeps its treatment of Russian empress Catherine II indoors as much as possible. That allows the camera to [... more]
CDN$24.99
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Mary Reilly (Widescreen)
Amazon.com Essential Video: Stephen Frears reunites with the production talents who made the tempting Dangerous Liaisons for this new look at the infamous Dr. Jekyll (a deft John Malkovich). Instead of being in the laboratory where the good doctor [... more]
CDN$9.95
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Eight Cousins
a great book: Rose has lost her mother & father & has been left in the care of her uncle.Rose is afraid of having to be around all 7 of her cousins which are all boys. Rose gets used to all of her cousins and has many good times with them.Rose [... more]
CDN$4.97
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Fashion & Fetishism: Corsets, Tight-Lacing and Other ...
Author: David Kunzle Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 391.42 EAN: 9780750938099 ISBN: 0750938099 Number Of Pages: 384 Publication Date: 2006-08-01 [... more]
CDN$27.95
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Fashion & Fetishism: Corsets, Tight-Lacing and Other ...
Author: David Kunzle Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 391.42 EAN: 9780750938082 ISBN: 0750938080 Number Of Pages: 384 Publication Date: 2004-08-01 [... more]
CDN$32.95
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