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Series
Publisher
AvonBooks, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
415 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Libby Shaw is determined to become a member of Edinburgh's all-male Royal College of Surgeons. Disguising herself as a man, she attends the surgical theater and nearly fools everyone. Forced to leave his home as a boy, famed portraitist Ziyaeddin is secretly the exiled prince of a distant realm. When he first met Libby, he memorized every detail of her face and drew her. But her perfect lips gave him trouble--the same lips he now longs to kiss. When...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Hollywood starlet Tia Beckett knows one moment can change your life. Her career had been on the fast track before a near-fatal accident left her with a debilitating facial scar. Certain her A-lister dreams are over, she agrees to house-sit at her producer's secluded estate in Silver Springs. It's the escape from the limelight Tia's been craving, until she discovers she's not the only houseguest for the holidays. And her handsome new roomie is impossible...
83) Be afraid
Author
Language
English
Description
Determined to find closure, forensic artist Jenna Thompson, haunted by the brutal murder of her family, returns to Nashville where she is faced with a new horror when she helps Detective Rick Morgan identify the remains of a young child that is linked to a recent spate of killings - and her past.
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
399 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The Velveteen Daughter reveals for the first time the true story of two remarkable women: Margery Williams Bianco, the author of one of the most beloved children's books of all time-- The Velveteen Rabbit --and her daughter Pamela, a world-renowned child prodigy artist whose fame at one time greatly eclipses her mother's. But celebrity at such an early age exacts a great toll. Pamela's dreams elude her as she struggles with severe depressions, an...
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Series
Publisher
WaterBrook
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Stunning Yosemite National Park sets the stage for this late 1920s historical romance with mystery, adventure, heart, and a sense of the place John Muir described as 'pervaded with divine light.' Watercolorist Olivia Rutherford has shed her humble beginnings to fashion her image as an avant-garde artist to appeal to the region's wealthy art-collectors. When she lands a lucrative contract painting illustrations of Yosemite National Park for a travel...
86) Cowboy tough
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Bronc-buster Mack Boyd can ride a wild stallion to a standstill, but he can't say no when his family prevails on him to come home and help run the ranch. The last person he expects to find there is a high-class Easterner like Cat Crandall. When Cat Crandall gives up a lucrative advertising job to follow her artistic dreams, she's thinking Paris, Tuscany-- not the vast and lonely open country of Wyoming. Her success at Boyd's Ranch's artists' retreat...
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English
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Kathryn Callaghan has just finished her novel about painter Élisabeth Vigée-LeBrun, a survivor of the French Revolution hated for her sympathetic portraits of Marie Antoinette. Though still haunted by the story she has written, Kathryn must leave the eighteenth-century European world she has researched and made vivid in order to return to her own life as an American in 2012. Despite being separated by time, place, and culture, Katheryn and Élisabeth...
89) Body work
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
A shooting in Chicago is nothing new, certainly not to V.I., who is hired by a veteran's family to clear his name after his arrest for the murder of a performer known as the Body Artist. As V.I. seeks answers, her investigation will take her from the North Side of Chicago to the far reaches of the Gulf War.
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...
Author
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
693 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Preacher's daughter Annie Zook finds herself at a crossroad, struggling to understand her place in the Amish world and the inclinations of her heart. Special 3-in-1 edition"--
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In small-town Michigan, Abby Graven leads a solitary life. Once a bright student on the cusp of a promising art career, she now languishes in her childhood home, trudging to and from her job as a supermarket cashier. Each day she is taunted from the magazine racks by the success of her former best friend Elise, a rising Hollywood starlet whose life in pictures Abby obsessively scrapbooks. At night Abby escapes through the films of her favorite director,...
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English
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"After burning out in her corporate marketing career, Michelle Amato has built a thriving freelance business as a graphic designer. So what if her love life is nonexistent? She's perfectly fine being the black sheep of her marriage-obsessed Puerto Rican-Italian family. Besides, the only guy who ever made her want happily-ever-after disappeared thirteen years ago. Gabriel Aguilar left the Bronx at eighteen to escape his parents' demanding expectations,...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
490 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When her husband is arrested for fraud and embezzlement and she faces jail time, Grenadine Scotch Wild moves to central Oregon to await the trial, and finally finds the courage to confront her troubled past.
95) Elsey come home
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
239 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Elsey's husband, Lukas, hands her a brochure for a week longong mountain retreat, she knows he is really giving her an ultimatum: Go, or we're done. Once a successful painter, Elsey set down roots in China after falling passionately for Lukas, the tall, Danish MC at a warehouse rave in downtown Beijing. Now, with two young daughters and unable to find a balance between her identities as painter, mother, and, especially, wife, Elsey fills her...
Author
Publisher
HQN Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
380 pages ; 17 cm
Language
English
Description
Artist Isabelle West has good reasons for preferring a solitary life. Tucked away in a cabin in the woods, she has everything she needs... except a red-hot love life. That is, until a hard-bodied US marshal threatens to unearth secrets she's spent years protecting. But giving in to the sparks flying between them can only lead to one thing... disaster. Tom Duncan lives by the letter of the law. But no one has tempted him--or confused him--more than...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Claire, an aspiring artist and part-time serial killer, realizes someone is watching her--someone who knows about her murderous hobby--and she, while attending a weekly bereavement support group after losing her father, must finish off her blackmailer before they reveal all.
100) Gray hair don't care
Author
Publisher
Karen Booth
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
At 47, newly divorced makeup artist Lela Bennett is dreading her next steps. Dating. Meeting people. Not letting herself go. But then she runs into Donovan James and tries something different--sleeping with her sexy crush from college. Unfortunately, in a post-orgasm stupor, Lela confesses she was in love with Donovan all those years ago. He responds by leaving while she sleeps. The next morning, her gray hairs are practically taunting her. She knows...