A photo shoot in a graveyard ends in a grave shooting . . . Cookie Chanel--owner of the chic clothing store It's Vintage Y'All in Sugar Creek, Georgia--has been hired to dress models for a fashion shoot. The spread will be featured in Fashion and Style magazine's October issue--so the models are posing in a cemetery. As someone who can see and talk to ghosts, Cookie's not spooked by the location. But she is surprised when a new ghost appears, decked...

Traces the history of America through its gravestones, graveyards, and burial practices, in an illustrated study that follows the historic pattern of American immigration to reveal changing ideas about death, gender, and class.

Multi-volume major reference work bringing together histories of companies that are a leading influence in a particular industry or geographic location. For students, job candidates, business executives, historians and investors.

Multi-volume major reference work bringing together histories of companies that are a leading influence in a particular industry or geographic location. For students, job candidates, business executives, historians and investors.

Drawing on a vast array of sources, including interviews with the last surviving seamstress, this powerful book tells the story of the brave women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, exposing the greed, cruelty and hypocrisy of the Third Reich. At the height of the Holocaust, young inmates of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp-- mainly Jewish women and girls-- were selected to design, cut, and sew beautiful fashions in a...

"In 1900 Sardinia, a young woman's remarkable talent with a needle earns her a position as a seamstress with a wealthy family. Inside this privileged world far different from her own humble beginnings, the skilled sewer quietly takes measurements, sketches designs, mends hems--and in the silence, hears whispered secrets and stories of all those around her. Through the watchful young seamstress's eyes, this small Italian city and its residents emerge...

In this 1920s version of Sex and the City, Dorothy Parker and three other extraordinary women form a bridge group that grows into a firm friendship as they help each other get over setbacks while jazz music flows through the air and bathtub gin fills their glasses. New York City 1921: The war is over, fashions are daring, and bootleg liquor is abundant. Here four extraordinary women form a bridge group that grows into a firm friendship. Dorothy Parker:...