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Language
English
Description
"Sydney Wells's perfect life with her wealthy, devoted husband vanishes when he dies suddenly in an accident. Widowed at forty-nine, she discovers he has failed to include her in his will. With Andrew's vicious daughters in control of his estate, and no home or money, Sydney finds a job in fashion, despite her own designer daughters' warnings. Naïve, out of her element, and alone in a world of shady international deals and dishonest people, she...
7) Coco Chanel
Author
Series
Publisher
Francis Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
Presents designer Coco Chanel's early life in an orphanage, where her sewing genius leads her to become a cabaret performer, hat maker, and international fashion icon.
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Fleeing for Ireland in the wake of a failed relationship, fashion designer Kate Robinson finds herself in a coastal Gaelic village and bonds with the members of a lace-making society, through whom she finds healing by listening to their stories of loss and suffering.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Part memoir and part motivational toolbox, Makeover from Within is a moving and uniquely inspiring book, as Ty shares candid stories from his humble beginnings onwards to his astonishing achievements, and relates how his attitude and perseverance have led him to not only meet, but then surpass some truly extraordinary goals. Rather than letting obstacles such as a life-threatening gunshot (required him to learn how to walk again) diminish his journey,...
12) Zoolander
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
3-time winner of the Male Model of the Year, Derek, loses out the fourth time to rival, Hansen. Now the ridiculously good-looking supermodel must save the world from an evil clothes manufacture.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"This extraordinary memoir of struggle and perseverance offers new ways of envisioning economic equality for everyone-from a leading activist and fashion pioneer. Aurora James's story is not a "success story." Or at least, it shouldn't be told that way. Having dropped out of high school, struggled with body image, and dabbled in street racing, her eventual arrest might have been her rock bottom. But as a visionary and optimist, that experience became...
16) I.M: a memoir
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In I.M., Isaac Mizrahi offers a poignant, candid, and touching look back on his life so far. Growing up gay in a sheltered Syrian Jewish Orthodox family, Isaac had unique talents that ultimately drew him into fashion and later into celebrity circles that read like a who's who of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: Richard Avedon, Audrey Hepburn, Anna Wintour, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Meryl Streep, and Oprah Winfrey, to name only a few. In his elegant...
