Catalog Search Results
1) Watch me die
Author
Language
English
Description
Mira Gallier finds her personal life and career are blossoming after years of pain over the loss of her husband in Hurricane Katrina, but everything changes when she is attacked by a man known as "The Preacher," who is soon after found dead, and a series of events unfold, leading Mira to become a suspect for the murder of her own assistant, and mirages of her dead husband cause Mira to question her own sanity.
Author
Language
English
Description
Nora Eldridge, an elementary school teacher in Cambridge, Massachusetts, long ago abandoned her dream to be a successful artist. Instead she has become the "woman upstairs," a reliable friend and tidy neighbor always on the fringe of others' achievements. Then into her classroom walks Reza Shahid, a child who enchants as if from a fairy tale, and Nora is drawn into the complex world of his glamorous and cosmopolitan family. As happiness explodes her...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
1120L
Language
English
Description
The classic novel follows Stephen Dedalus from his days as a student at the Clongowes Wood School, to the deep religious conflict he experiences at a day school in Dublin, to his college years during which he challenges the conventions of his upbringing.
5) Safe harbour
Author
Language
English
Description
Pip, at age 11 has lost her father and brother and her mother is over come by grief. Pip cares for her mother as best she can but she is lonely until a local artist offers to teach her to draw. At first her mother is not pleased until she sees how much joy he has brought to their lives. But fate strikes another blow--will they be able to recover this time?
6) Impossible
Author
Language
English
Description
Successful businesswoman Sasha attempts to keep her reputation intact while juggling between her career and her relationship with the much younger, off-beat artist, Liam, until a family tragedy forces Liam to make difficult choices and sacrifices.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Asher Lev, born into a devout Jewish family and community, struggles to reconcile his burning need to create art with the restrictions and expectations placed on him by his faith and his people.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Stolen art. A New Mexico archaeological dig. An abandoned dog. And a secret that's worth killing for. Evelyn McTavishs world came crashing down with the suicide of her fianc©♭. As she struggles to put her life back together and make a living from her art, she receives a call that her dog is about to be destroyed at the pound. Except she doesn't own a dog. But the shelter is adamant that the microchip embedded in the canine with her name and address...
Author
Series
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
"Of Human Bondage" is the first and most autobiographical of Maugham's novels. It is the story of Philip Carey, an orphan eager for life, love and adventure. After a few months studying in Heidelberg, and a brief spell in Paris as a would-be artist, Philip settles in London to train as a doctor. And that is where he meets Mildred, the loud but irresistible waitress with whom he plunges into a formative, tortured and masochistic affair which very nearly...
Author
Language
English
Description
It’s 1893, and at the Chicago World’s Fair, Louis Comfort Tiffany makes his debut with a luminous exhibition of innovative stained-glass windows that he hopes will earn him a place on the international artistic stage. But behind the scenes in his New York studio is the freethinking Clara Driscoll, head of his women’s division, who conceives of and designs nearly all of the iconic leaded-glass lamps for which Tiffany will long be remembered....
13) The tragic muse
Author
Series
Harper torchbooks. Academy library volume TB1017
Language
English
Formats
Description
This early work by Henry James was originally published in 1890 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Henry James was born in New York City in 1843. One of thirteen children, James had an unorthodox early education, switching between schools, private tutors and private reading.. James published his first story, 'A Tragedy of Error', in the Continental Monthly in 1864, when he was twenty years old. In 1876, he emigrated...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Most newcomers don't stay long in remote Lochdubh. They arrive filled with romantic notions of life in northern Scotland until boredom, dampness, and nosy villagers send them running back to civilization. Hamish Macbeth is surprised when artist Effie Garrard sticks it out through the winter, especially since her cottage is so far up in the hills that it might take weeks before anyone would know if something happened to her. By spring Macbeth fears...
15) Dating dead men
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Wollie Shelley, a greeting card artist and small business owner, is dating forty men in sixty days as a participant in a social science research project when she stumbles over a dead body. Wollie decides to investigate the murder because she is afraid her paranoid schizophrenic brother may be involved.
16) Bluebeard
Author
Language
English
Description
"Broad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who, at age seventy-one, wants to be left alone on his Long Island estate with the secret he has locked inside his potato barn. But then a voluptuous young widow badgers Rabo into telling his life story-and Vonnegut in turn tells us the plain, heart-hammering truth about man's careless fancy to create or destroy what he loves."--Amazon.
18) Draw me a star
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
170L
Language
English
Formats
Description
An artist's drawing of a star begins the creation of an entire universe around him as each successive pictured object requests that he draw more.
19) Stain of guilt
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
For the highly successful TV show American Fugitive, forensic artist Annie Kingston agrees to draw the updated face of Bill Bland, a cunning fugitive wanted for a double murder committed twenty years ago. In studying the man and his crime, Annie knows she must descend into the mind of a killer, but someone is determined to stop her.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 46
Language
English
Description
Serialized first in the Little Review in 1918 and published first in Paris in 1922, although its censorship for obscenity in America and England were not lifted until the mid-1930sIn terms of its story it defies abridgement or explanation except that it all takes place on one day, 16 June 1904, or Bloomsday, which was the anniversary of Joyces first walk with his beloved Nora Barnacle. It (very) loosely follows the episodes of Ulysses from the Odyssey...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request