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1) Shadow tag
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Irene America, having discovered that her artist husband Gil is reading her diary, begins making things up for him to find, placing their marriage on even shakier ground, and while she drinks and works on her doctoral thesis about a painter of Native American subjects, Gil begins the defining work of his career, and their three children suffer the consequences of their parents' failed relationship.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account of events surrounding the death of Vincent van Gogh in 1890, in which the artist's friends, Lucien Lessard and Henri Toulouse-Latrec, travel around nineteenth-century Paris in search of answers about how van Gogh died.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
1914. In the village of Dunwich on the Suffolk coast young Thomas Maggs befriends mysterious Scotsman and artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh whom the locals call Mac. Just as Thomas and Mac's friendship begins to bloom, war with Germany is declared and as the war weighs increasingly heavily on the community, the villagers on the home front become increasingly suspicious of Mac and his curious behavior.
Author
Publisher
Twelve/Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
On her first day at a new school, Lily befriends one of the daughters of infamous avant-garde painter Evan Trentham. He and his wife are trying to escape the stifling conservatism of 1930s Australia by inviting other like-minded artists to live and work at their family home. Lily becomes infatuated with this wild, makeshift family and longs to truly be part of it. As the years pass, Lily observes the way the lives of these artists come to reflect...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 49
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The author of the classic bestsellers The Secret History and The Little Friend returns with a brilliant, highly anticipated new novel. A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Alone and abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by a friend's family and struggles to make sense of his new life. In the years that follow, he becomes entranced by one of the few things that reminds...
7) Luster
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Edie is stumbling her way through her twenties--sharing a subpar apartment in Bushwick, clocking in and out of her admin job, making a series of inappropriate sexual choices. She is also haltingly, fitfully giving heat and air to the art that simmers inside her. And then she meets Eric, a digital archivist with a family in New Jersey, including an autopsist wife who has agreed to an open marriage--with rules. As if navigating the constantly shifting...
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