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Author
Language
English
Description
"Zee Devohr is a Marxist literary scholar who detests her parents' wealth yet lives in their carriage house. Her mother, Gracie, claims she can tell our lot in life by looking at your teeth and Bruce, her stepfather, stockpiles supplies for Y2K. Zee's husband, Doug, an out-of-work academic, is stalled on his biography of poet Edwin Parfitt, who was in residence at the house when it served as the Laurelfield Arts Colony. But when Doug begins to poke...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A dazzling novel of one of America's most celebrated photographers--exploring Dorothea Lange's wild years in San Francisco that awakened her career-defining grit, compassion, and daring. In 1918 Dorothea leaves the East Coast for California, where a disaster kick-starts a new life. Her friendship with Caroline Lee, a vivacious, straight-talking woman with a complicated past, gives her entrée into Monkey Block, an artists' colony and the bohemian...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A sweeping romance set at a bohemian artist colony on the picturesque coast of pre-war England and is based on the true story of painter Sir Alfred Munnings and his blue-blood best friend Gilbert. Munnings rises to become one of the premier artists of his time, winning the affection of beauty Florence Carter-Wood. But when Gilbert falls for Florence as well, a love triangle emerges with tragic consequences.
Author
Pub. Date
1993
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Witt's End is in trouble. The small town of artists is at risk of disappearing from the map if Serenity Makepeace can't expand her small grocery store into a mail order enterprise to sell her neighbors' handcrafted goods. High-priced start-up advisor Caleb Ventress was intrigued by Serenity's impassioned letter. A small town grocer wasn't high profile enough for him, but her request earned her a meeting. And Calebs's attraction to her earned her a...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Attracted to an artists' colony on a drought-stricken honey farm where residents are offered free room and board in exchange for hard labor, a wide-eyed poetry graduate falls for a fellow artist and begins to notice tensions linked to ominous events and her hostess's past.
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 166
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
154 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
At River Arts, Nancy's perfecting her performance-under cover!
Set high above the river, the grand old Pennington estate is the perfect place for an arts colony. College students can work with established artists, and the owner, elderly Marianna Pennington, gets to keep her home. But when Rhoda Benton, the colony's director, gets a disturbing threat, Nancy and Bess start hunting for an elusive suspect.
From the owner's nephew who wants to build...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Atria books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 316 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"New York, 1924. Twenty-four-year-old Jenny Bell is one of a dozen burgeoning artists invited to Louis Comfort Tiffany's prestigious artists' colony. Gifted and determined, Jenny vows to avoid distractions and romantic entanglements and take full advantage of the many wonders to be found at Laurelton Hall. But Jenny's past has followed her to Long Island. Images of her beloved mother, her hard-hearted stepfather, waterfalls, and murder, and the dank...
9) Sparrow Road
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Lexile measure
530L
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Raine spends the summer at a mysterious artists colony and discovers a secret about her past.