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"Who gets to leave a legacy? 1985. Anita de Monte, a rising star in the art world, is found dead in New York City; her tragic death is the talk of the town. Until it isn't. By 1998 Anita's name has been all but forgotten--certainly by the time Raquel, a third-year art history student is preparing her final thesis. On College Hill, surrounded by progeny of film producers, C-Suite executives, and international art-dealers, most of whom float through...
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A woman in desperate straits ... A fearless man ... A marriage of convenience on turbulent waters ...
Cerynise Kendall has been left destitute and in dire need following the death of her doting patron and protectress. A brilliant young artist tossed from her home with only the clothes on her back, Cerynise must now turn to a childhood companion for assistance - the dashing sea captain Beauregard Birmingham - and beg him to provide her with passage...
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Another high-society thriller from New York Times bestselling author Jane Stanton Hitchcock, Trick of the Eye is a tale of art, intrigue, and murder in a world where evil tarnishes privilege and nothing is what it appears to be. Trompe l'oeil artist Faith Cromwell is hired to paint the famed ballroom of an opulent Long Island estate, but her patron is obsessed with the long-unsolved murder of a daughter, and soon Faith begins to piece together the...
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2024.
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A lonely thirtysomething disrupts the relationship between a mother and her teenage daughter on a beautiful Greek island, distorting the lines between lover and beloved and child and adult, in a queer version of Lolita by an award-winning Swedish writer.
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Rona Parish mysteries volume 7
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The new Rona Parish mystery - Rona Parish is asked to write a biography of reclusive artist Ellie by her concerned sister. Ellie has seemingly disappeared, and the mystery surrounding her whereabouts has fuelled a new interest in her work. But when Rona discovers that Ellie's closest friend committed suicide, Rona wonders whether Ellie, wracked by guilt over her friend's death, could have been driven to do likewise . . .
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Hidden faces series volume 3
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"A string of murders terrorizes citizens in the Redding, California area. The serial killer is coming, stealthy. Masked by day, unmasked by night. Forensic artist Annie Kingston discovers the sixth body practically in her own backyard. Is the location a taunt aimed at her? One by one, Annie must draw the unknown victims for identification. Dread mounts. Who will be taken next? Under a crushing oppression, Annie and other Christians are driven to pray...
8) Bayou moon
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Old secrets are rising up to haunt the inhabitants of Louisiana's small, rustic St. Germaine Parish, where no one is quite who they seem, and restless spirits are rumored to roam the woods and the antebellum mansion of the town's richest family, the St. Michels.
Successful New York City artist Mignon Thibeaux doesn't believe in ghosts, but even she can't resist the rumors that the St. Michel mansion may be haunted, especially since its owner, Luc...
9) Snowed in
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Imagine having always lived in Washington, D.C., and suddenly being stuck in Portland, Maine, for a year. With the pipes freezing--inside the house. And a husband who seems to have his eyes on a hiking-booted L.L. Bean femme fatale rather than you. Not to mention the mother-in-law from hell who never fails to let you know that you leave too much to be desired. That's Sophie Quinn's life. Luckily for Sophie (an unassertive type who's always favored...
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A young mother fights impossible odds to be reunited with her child in this acutely insightful first novel about an intercultural marriage gone terribly wrong. Jill Parker is an American painter living in Japan. Far from the trendy gaijin neighborhoods of downtown Tokyo, she's settled in a remote seaside village where she makes ends meet as a bar hostess. Her world appears to open when she meets Yusuke, a savvy and sensitive art gallery owner who...
11) Empire rising
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A Novel of High-Stakes Romance and Betrayal, Set During the Race to Finish the World's Tallest Building
In Empire Rising, his extraordinary third book, Thomas Kelly tells a story of love and work, of intrigue and jealousy, with the narrative verve that led the Village Voice's reviewer to dub him "Dostoevsky with a hard hat and lead pipe."
As the novel opens, it is 1930-the Depression-and ground has just been broken for the Empire State Building....
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Sharing a house with an elderly man and his young grandson in order to make ends meet, single mother Jamie McClintock finds her life thrown into turmoil by the old man's sudden death and the return of his estranged son, Nate, to reclaim the house and his son.
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"Esther's family has always believed they were descended from a great, though scandalously underappreciated Impressionist-era artist. But when questions arise about her ancestor's greatest work-The Lady with the Dark Hair-her once-solid family history rests on shaky ground as a search for the truth begins."--
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Brides of Montclair volume 15
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The final book of the fictional Brides of Montclair Series, in which contemporary artist Joy Montrose, heir to the Southern patrician Montrose family, discovers healing, the secret of her past, and hope for the future.
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Witch's cat mystery volume 02
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While painting murals in a new coffee house, witch and artist Annabelle Britton is asked by the owners to evict a restless spirit before the grand opening, which leads to the discovery of hidden smugglers' tunnels beneath the shop, a dead body and a killer with a score to settle.
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Those who do not remember family history are condemned to repeat it...Haunted by a failed marriage, a resentful son left deaf by a bout of meningitis, and the slow death of her artistic aspirations, Margaret Yearwood takes refuge in Blue Dog, New Mexico. There, in the shadow of Shiprock Mountain, and in the unlikely arms of Owen Garrett, she finds the courage to love again, and to be loved. And she comes to realize that even the most primal wounds...
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"Sinner. Villain. Ruthless.These are wicked names the Prince of Envy welcomes. They remind him what he isn't: a saint. And when a cryptic note arrives, signaling the beginning of a deadly game, he knows he'll be called much worse before it ends. Riddles, hexed objects, anonymous players, nothing will stand in his way. With a powerful artifact and his own future at stake, Envy is determined to win, though none of his meticulous plans prepare him for...
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"After months of nursing her father back to health, artist Leah Culhane-Petrovic is finally focusing on her work again. But her longtime crush on Sean O'Sullivan is hard to forget. Especially when he moves back to Cedar River--and into the lake house next door! Sean has come home, but is clearly keeping secrets from everyone, even his family. So why does he find himself wanting to bare his soul--and his heart--to Leah?" -- Page [4] cover.
19) Booked to kill
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Harlequin romantic suspense volume 2214
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He's her only protection from a killer's obsession. Widowed artist Olivia Hickman starts renting out the Manhattan loft she can no longer afford to live in. When two of her guests are murdered, Detective Jack Stone fears that Olivia might be the real target--and that his attraction to her is clouding his judgment. Will whisking her away from the city save her life, or will it put them both on a collision course with death?
20) BEAUTY
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Beauty and the Beast may be a fairy tale, but for one woman its moral rings true in real life.
When Alix Miller goes to New Hampshire to paint a portrait of Leland Crompton, she is following family tradition- Miller artists have always painted the Crompton aristocrats. But the reclusive Leland is hideously disfigured by a rare genetic disease, and Alix is uncomfortable rendering him on canvas. She begins the task anyway, and through her...
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