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Pub. Date
2011
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The mother of best-selling memoirists Augusten Burroughs and John Elder Robison, Margaret Robison offers her own version of the events so famously chronicled in her sons' much-talked about works. From one view, Margaret and her husband John's life together began with a sheen of normality: he a successful academic and she an artist, poet, and mother. But when John turns to the bottle, and Margaret sinks farther and farther into mental illness, the...
162) Fade to blue
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Pub. Date
[2011]
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"Suz Mitchell is a determined dreamer, and won't allow her ex-husband's jail sentence to ruin their young son Jeremiah's life. An accomplished artist, Suz moves with her child across the country to California's central coast, and lands a job restoring priceless art for the historic Hearst Castle overlooking the sea. But even dreams have shocking twists. To her surprise, a serious old flame, Seth, works at the castle and jumbles the new aspirations...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
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Lethal undercover agent Stefan Prakenskii knows a thousand ways to kill a man -- and twice as many ways to pleasure a woman. That's why he's looking forward to his new mission. He must go to the coastal town of Sea Haven and insinuate himself into the life of an elusive beauty who has mysterious ties to his past and a link to a dangerously seductive and equally elusive master criminal who wants only one thing: to possess her. Judith Henderson is an...
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Pub. Date
c2004.2010
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Kelly McGregor's life along the Lehigh Canal has nothing in commom with the beauty that surrounds her. Forced to help her family survive by driving her father's mules as they pull boatloads of coal to the city, she dreams of saving enough money so that she can escape the drudgery of home and be an artist, sharing the beauty of the world with others. When a shopkeeper along the canal gives Kelly an outlet for her drawings, she wonders if she may be...
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Series
Cottage tales of Beatrix Potter volume 6
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
In 1910 Miss Beatrix Potter is able to get away from her parents and goes to her properties in the Land Between the lakes, Hill Top Farm and Castle Farm, where trouble is brewing in the hamlet. When Mr. Harmsworth barricades the foot path running through his property, Applebeck Farm, claiming he did it because someone lit a fire to his hayloft, and another fire ruins a place of business, Miss Potter is on the case!
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"In a Paris art gallery, physician Dr. Michael Pearce is forced to confront his past when he views a sculpture by the artist Katherine Morgan. The vivid bronze artwork evokes memories of a summer many years ago, when Michael and Katherine-Kit-first met as teenagers by a lake in New Hampshire. He was a small town boy who skied, played guitar, and was destined to run his father's hardware store; she was the restless, troubled daughter of a wealthy New...
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"This is what we long for: the profound pleasure of being swept into vivid new worlds, worlds peopled by characters so intriguing and real that we can't shake them, even long after the reading's done. In his earlier, award-winning novels, Dominic Smith demonstrated a gift for coaxing the past to life. Now, in The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, he deftly bridges the historical and the contemporary, tracking a collision course between a rare landscape...
170) Frida
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Cuando su madre la deja a cargo de sus cinco hermanas, su padre la enseña a utilizar los pinceles y a colorear. Cuando una enfermedad la hace guardar cama durante meses, Frida dibuja para no aburrise. Cuando un accidente en autobús la sume en el dolor, Frida expresa su tristeza y depresión en sus pinturas. Una y otra vez, durante toda su vida, Frida Kahlo utiliza el arte para expresar sus sentimientos. Jonah Winter y Ana Juan se asoman a la vida...
171) All fours: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country, from LA to NY. Twenty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, beds down in a nondescript motel, and immerses herself in a temporary reinvention that turns out to be the start of an entirely different journey"--
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Pub. Date
2016
Description
In The Girl From Oto, a young American scholar navigates a foreign world, experiencing friendship, betrayal and love as she chases the ghost of a Renaissance-era artist through Europe. American art historian Zari Durrell scores a coveted post-doctorate position in Scotland, studying artist Cornelia van der Zee. As Zari decodes clues hidden in two sixteenth-century portraits attributed to Van der Zee, she unearths the traces of a mysterious artist...
173) Heart of a dog
Series
Criterion collection volume 846
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
In this essay film, multimedia artist Laurie Anderson presents a monologue touching upon her relationship with her rat terrier Lolabelle, the death of her mother, the heightening of surveillance following 9/11, and other topics.
175) Throne of the fallen
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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
To avoid a ruinous scandal after one desperate mistake, Miss Camilla Antonius enters a devil's bargain with the Prince of Envy, who whisks her away to the Underworld where her true nature is awakened-and where they must avoid the most dangerous trap of all: love.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"It's 1939, and all across Europe the Nazis are coming for Jews and anti-fascists. The only way to avoid being imprisoned or murdered is to assume a new identity. For that, people are desperate for papers. And for that, the underground needs forgers. Sarah, a young Jewish artist, and her music teacher and father figure, Mr. Lieb, have already fled one home--Berlin. Now in Paris, they meet Cesar, a Spanish Republican who knows well the brutality of...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Discover the lives and locations of trailblazing women who changed the course of history as you journey to the heart of women's activism, history and creativity through the ages. From the temple of Queen Hatshepsut in Egypt and Empress Dowager Cixi's summer palace in Beijing, to the homes and meeting sites of suffragette heroes Sylvia Pankhurst and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the creative workrooms of Frida Kahlo and Virginia Woolf, and the tennis courts...
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2022.
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"Emilia arrives in Rome reeling from heartbreak and reckoning with her past. What was supposed to be a romantic trip has, with the sudden end of a relationship, become a solitary one instead. As she wanders, music, art, food, and the beauty of Rome's wide piazzas and narrow streets color Emilia's dreamy, but weighty experience of the city. She considers the many facets of her life, drifting in and out of memory, following her train of thought wherever...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"True love is at stake in this charming, debut romantic comedy. Cassie Greenberg loves being an artist, but it's a tough way to make a living. On the brink of eviction, she's desperate when she finds a too-good-to-be-true apartment in a beautiful Chicago neighborhood. Cassie knows there has to be a catch--only someone with a secret to hide would rent out a room for that price. Of course, her new roommate Frederick J. Fitzwilliam is far from normal....
180) The color line
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Inspired by true events, this gorgeous, haunting novel intertwines the lives of two Black female artists more than a century apart, both outsiders in Italy. It was the middle of the nineteenth century when Lafanu Brown audaciously decided to become an artist. In the wake of the American Civil War, life was especially tough for Black women, but she didn't let that stop her. The daughter of a Chippewa woman and an African-Haitian man, Lafanu had the...