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When Robert Oliver, a famous painter, attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and is hospitalized, psychiatrist Andrew Marlow tries to help the artist by coaxing him into providing answers about his past, including his old lovers, while delving into the history of French Impressionism.
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New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Lowell creates another masterpiece of excitement and chills, passion and surprise. Die in Plain Sight. When Lacey Quinn inherits the striking landscapes done by her late, much-loved grandfather, she believes they are as good as anything hanging in museums. But the paintings now in her possession are more than the works of a talented master. They are anguished voices from the grave . . . crying murder! Lacey...
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James Wilson's The Dark Clue is as stylishly inventive as the oil paintings of J. M. W. Turner, the elusive genius who lies at the thriller's heart. Sheltered, upright Walter Hartright is commissioned to write a biography of England's great Romantic landscape artist. When he discovers the "dark clue" hidden deep within Turner's paintings, he becomes eerily obsessed with reconstructing a life that is shrouded in mystery and steeped in rumor. To do...
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In 1869 Japan, a young woman escapes the confines of her arranged marriage by painting memories of her lover on mulberry paper. She secretly wraps the painting around a ceramic pot that's bound for Europe. In France, a disenchanted young man works as a clerk at an import shop. When he opens the box from Japan, he discovers the brilliant watercolor of two lovers locked in an embrace under a plum tree. He steals the painting and hides it in his room....
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Ecco
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English
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Engaging the services of a miniaturist to furnish a cabinet-sized replica of her new home, 18-year-old Nella Oortman, the wife of an illustrious merchant trader, soon discovers that the artist's tiny creations mirror their real-life counterparts in eerie and unexpected ways.
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It has been noted many times that artists are usually not the most pleasant human beings to be around; Maughams novel is, among other things, a compelling examination of why this is so. The obsessed artist who dominates this book, Charles Strickland (based on the notorious Paul Gauguin), walks away from his cushy middle-class existence in England to pursue his dream to paint, amid frightful poverty, in France. Strickland is an unforgettable character,...
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Harlequin presents volume 3936
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Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Haunted by his father's scandalous reign, Crown Prince Alessio commissions artist Hannah to depict him as a new kind of ruler. Alessio is instantly enchanted by the innocent, independent beauty who is unlike anyone in his world. Hannah is far from the perfect princess Alessio's position demands. After the losses she's experienced, she guards her heart fiercely. But as the Mediterranean sun melts Hannah's inhibitions, their dangerous desire grows....
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"Ben Contini, a disenchanted painter of considerable talent, has just buried his mother. Rifling through the attic of her Kilkenny house he stumbles across a Modigliani nude, worth millions. Determined to learn the provenance of the painting, he and Elsa, a disturbed and secretive woman who accosts him at the funeral, become embroiled in the sinister world of Nazi art theft. But they are not the only one with an interest in the painting... Together...
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HarperCollins
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[2009]
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English
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An artist born outside his time, Chaz Wilmot can paint like Leonardo, Goya, Gainsborough-and he refuses to shape his talent to fit the fashion of the day. His unique abilities attract the attention of Werner Krebs, an art dealer with a dark past and shadier present, and soon Wilmot is working with a fervor he hasn't felt in years. But his creative burst is accompanied by strange interludes-memories that are not memories . . . and he begins to wonder...
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Barbour Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Book 3 in the Creektown Discoveries series An Artist Seeks Her Birth Mother Welcome to Apple Creek, Ohio, where a piano teacher has a fascination with painting the rural Amish landscapes around her home. Andrea Wagner has made it to her thirties feeling like she has had a charmed life and finally has fallen in love with Brandon Prentice, a local veterinarian. But then she discovers she was adopted--and all she thought she knew about herself has crumbled....
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Open Road Media
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2015.
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English
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An art teacher searches for meaning in a strange town as his wife spirals into madness in this stunning novel from Man Booker Prize–winning author David Storey Colin Freestone had not planned to live in northern England. The people here are so passionate and raw that he does not expect to ever understand them or feel at ease. But when his wife, Yvonne, fell sick, she would only accept psychiatric care if she could be near her mother, so Colin had...
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Abrams / Vearsa Limited
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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The classic neo-noir novel acclaimed as Willeford's best, soon to be a major film Fast-talking, backstabbing, womanizing, and fiercely ambitious art critic James Figueras will do anything -- blackmail, burglary, and beyond -- to make a name for himself. When an unscrupulous collector offers Figueras a career-making chance to interview Jacques Debierue, the greatest living -- and most reclusive -- artist, the critic must decide how far he will go to...
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Open Road Media Romance
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2012.
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English
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When Ann infiltrates the dark corners of the Big Easy to clear her ex-husband's name, what begins as an innocent investigation becomes a matter of life and death Ann and Jon Marcel are a rare case; five years after their divorce, they're good friends, and Ann has come to love Jon's hometown of New Orleans. Until the day Jon staggers through her door covered in blood and mumbling, "I didn't do it." Jon is charged with murdering a stripper, and in order...
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From the author of A Dangerous Duet comes the next book in her Victorian mystery series, this time following a daring female painter and the Scotland Yard detective who is investigating her brother’s suspicious death.
A young painter digs beneath the veneer of Victorian London’s art world to learn the truth behind her brother’s murder...
Edwin is dead. That’s what Inspector
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This heartstring-tugger is certain to win fans. -Publishers Weekly STARRED Review for A New Leash on Love Animal portrait painter Mia Chambers and architect Ben Thomas have volunteered at the High Grove Animal Shelter for years, and they share a complicated history. Ben has secretly loved Mia all this time, but she was married to his best friend. Now she's newly widowed, with a young son, and Ben doesn't know how to tell her what's in his heart. All...
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Amish inn novels volume 1
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"Both of them have vowed from the bottom of their broken hearts never to love again. Sweet Naomi Byler cooks meals for the guests at The Peony Inn, where Amish sisters and owners of the inn Esther and Lizzie love her like a granddaughter. She's as happy there as a young woman can be, considering that her fiancè, Thomas, has left her to court someone else. She knows she'll get over the love of her life in due time, but she assumes marriage will never...
17) My Devotion
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Europa Editions
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"An ambiguous relationship is turned inside out in this intensely vivid novel... Kerninon's novel charms and unsettles to an equal degree." -- Kirkus Reviews Winner of the 2018 F n on Literary Prize Helen and Franck, both born into high-ranking diplomatic families, meet in Rome as high-school students and immediately detect in each other the wounded child hidden beneath their gilded social status. Their relationship becomes a dangerous, explosive...
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Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"This vengeful tale that pits artistic genius against mental health and happiness will captivate fans of dark suspense." -- Library Journal , STARRED review A debut thriller for fans of Lucy Foley and Liz Moore, Dark Things I Adore is a stunning Gone Girl -esque tale of atonement that proves that in the grasp of manipulative men, women may momentarily fall. But in the hands of fierce women, men will be brought to their knees. Three campfire secrets....
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