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The trackers : a novel2023
Summary: Hurtling past the downtrodden communities of Depression-era America, painter Val Welch travels westward to the rural town of Dawes, Wyoming. Through a stroke of luck, he's landed a New Deal... more »- place hold (0)
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The crane husband2023
Summary: A fifteen-year-old teenager is the backbone of her small Midwestern family, budgeting the household finances and raising her younger brother while her mother, a talented artist, weaves beautiful... more »- place hold (0)
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Woman on fire : a novel2022
Summary: After talking her way into a job with Dan Mansfield, the leading investigative reporter in Chicago, rising young journalist Jules Roth is given an unusual -- and very secret -- assignment. Dan needs... more »- place hold (0)
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Fake : a novel2022
Summary: Emma Caan is a fake. She's a forger, an artist who specializes in nineteenth-century paintings. But she isn't a criminal; her copies are commissioned by museums and ultra-wealthy collectors... more »- place hold (0)
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The last Mona Lisa : a novel2021
Summary: August, 1911: The Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincent Peruggia. Exactly what happens in the two years before its recovery is a mystery. Many replicas of the Mona Lisa exist, and more than one historian... more »- place hold (0)
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The night portrait : a novel of World War II and Da Vinci's Italy2020
Summary: Milan, 1492: When a sixteen-year old beauty becomes the mistress of the Duke of Milan, she must fight for her place in the palace, and against those who want her out. Soon, she finds herself sitting... more »- place hold (0)
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The masterpiece : a novel2018
Summary: "For the nearly nine million people who live in New York City, Grand Central Terminal is a crown jewel, a masterpiece of design. But for Clara Darden and Virginia Clay, it represents something quite... more »- place hold (0)
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Still lives : a novel2018
Summary: Kim Lord is an avant-garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur in the L.A. art scene. Her groundbreaking new exhibition Still Lives is comprised of self-portraits depicting herself as... more »- place hold (0)
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The last painting of Sara de Vos2016
Summary: "This is what we long for: the profound pleasure of being swept into vivid new worlds, worlds peopled by characters so intriguing and real that we can't shake them, even long after the reading's... more »- place hold (0)
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The muralist : a novel2015
Summary: "When Alizee Benoit, a young American painter working for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), vanishes in New York City in 1940, no one knows what happened to her. Not her Jewish family living... more »- place hold (0)
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The last nude2011
Summary: "A novel by the author of The Teahouse Fire about an artist and a young American woman beginning in 1920's Paris"--- place hold (0)
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Claude & Camille : a novel of Monet2010
Summary: In the mid-nineteenth century, a young man named Claude Monet decided that he would rather endure a difficult life painting landscapes than take over his father's nautical supplies business in a... more »- place hold (0)
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Loving Frank : a novel2007
Summary: This fictionalization of the life of Mamah Borthwick Cheney, best known as the woman who wrecked Frank Lloyd Wright's first marriage, is a portrayal of an independent, educated woman at odds with the... more »- place hold (0)
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The birth of Venus : a novel2003
Summary: Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family's Florentine palazzo.... more »- place hold (0)
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Girl with a pearl earring1999
Summary: "History and fiction merge seamlessly in this luminous novel about artistic vision and sensual awakening. Girl with a Pearl Earring tells the story of sixteen-year-old Griet, whose life is... more »- place hold (0)
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