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"Diana O'Toole has a plan: be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and move out to the New York City suburbs, all while climbing the professional ladder in the cutthroat art auction world. She's an associate specialist at Sotheby's now, but her boss has hinted at a promotion if she can close a deal with a high-profile client. She just knows her boyfriend, Finn, a surgical resident, is about to propose on their romantic getaway to the...
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In this splendid account of the world's oldest and richest auction house, Lacey brings to life the personalities, ambition and shrewd business dealings behind the glamour and the glitz. From its beginning in 18th century London as a modest book dealer, Sotheby's owes its rise to a succession of clever and colourful entrepreneurs who knew how to read the winds of economic change and sniff out buyers and sellers of the moment.
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The art market has been booming. Museum attendance is surging. More people than ever call themselves artists. Contemporary art has become a mass entertainment, a luxury good, a job description, and, for some, a kind of alternative religion. In a series of narratives, Sarah Thornton investigates the drama of a Christie's auction, the workings in Takashi Murakami's studios, the elite at the Basel Art Fair, the eccentricities of Artforum magazine, the...
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Grace has just been released from prison, where she was sent for trying to run over her ex-husband's new wife with her Jaguar in a supermarket parking lot. It may make things a little awkward when all three of them attend a glittering charity ball in London together...
From the Booker Prize-nominated author of The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, this is a tale of passion, spite, romance, and revenge, set in the world of the rich, the stylish, the...
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Katharine the almost great volume 8
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[2012]
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IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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The school is having a secret silent auction of student art works to raise money for charity and Katharine is annoyed because someone keeps bidding against her and also worried that her cousin Crockett will not get the item he really wants.
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[2022]
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"Diana O'Toole tiene la vida calculada al mil©Ưmetro: se casar©Ł a los treinta, tendr©Ł hijos a los treinta y cinco y se mudar©Ł a los suburbios de la ciudad de Nueva York. Todav©Ưa no est©Ł comprometida, pero sabe que su novio, Finn, un residente de cirug©Ưa, est©Ł a punto de proponerle matrimonio en su pr©đxima escapada rom©Łntica a las islas Gal©Łpagos. ℗ŁJusto antes de su trig©♭simo cumplea©łos! Sin embargo, la vida...
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