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Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Maine, 1969. After losing her parents in a car accident, aspiring artist Annalisa Mancuso lives with her grandmother and their large Italian family in the stifling factory town of Payton Mills. Inspired by her mother, whose own artistic dreams disappeared in a damaged marriage, Annalisa is dedicated only to painting. Closed off to love, and driven as much by her innate talent as she is the disillusionment of her past, Annalisa just wants to come...
144) Last night
Author
Language
English
Description
"A fierce blizzard is burying the eastern seaboard, but on the icy Rhode Island shore renowned artist Maddie Morrison finds warm sanctuary from a contentious divorce at the legendary Ocean House. Hours later, her body is found buried under a blanket of snow and her little daughter, CeCe, has disappeared without a trace. For Detective Conor Reid; his brother, Tom, a coast guard commander; and Maddie's grieving sister, Hadley, the posh hotel becomes...
145) Dating dead men
Author
Series
Wollie Shelley mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Description
Wollie Shelley, a greeting card artist and small business owner, is dating forty men in sixty days as a participant in a social science research project when she stumbles over a dead body. Wollie decides to investigate the murder because she is afraid her paranoid schizophrenic brother may be involved.
146) Forever never
Author
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Under Brick Callan's mile-wide chest beats a loyal heart with a few cracks in it. He's the steadfast, overprotective type. Especially when it comes to the one woman he can never have. It's a long, complicated history punctuated by fights, friendship, family, and an attraction that strains his iron will power. When Remi Ford returns to Mackinac Island in the dead of winter, Brick makes it his mission to find out what put the shadows in those green...
147) The bounce back
Author
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Aspiring artist Neale Delacroix should be on top of the world. She's landed a spot in an exclusive art program that's sure to be her ticket to success, but then her best shot at stardom goes up in flames-literally. When her relationship follows suit, Neale finds herself a stone's throw from rock bottom. Her heart broken and her dream deferred, Neale decides to work a soul-crushing nine-to-five job until the heat dies down. However, that's not exactly...
Author
Publisher
Wayne State University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Translated originally from Hebrew, Transnational Identities: Women, Art, and Migration in Contemporary Israel offers a critical discussion of women immigrants in Israel through an analysis of works by artists who immigrated to the country beginning in the 1990s. Though numerous aspects of the issue of women migrants have received intense academic scrutiny, no scholarly books to date have addressed the gender facets of the experiences of contemporary...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
"In the first of the Cottage Tales mysteries, author Susan Wittig Albert creates her own tale featuring Beatrix Potter, animal lover and Good Samaritan - with a knack for solving mysteries. And with her entourage of animal friends, Beatrix sets out to win over the human hearts of Sawrey." "In 1905 England, it was most unusual - if not outright scandalous - for an unmarried woman to buy and run a farm. But that's exactly what Beatrix Potter sets out...
153) The crane husband
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Award-winning author Kelly Barnhill brings her singular talents to The Crane Husband, a raw, powerful story of love, sacrifice, and family. "Mothers fly away like migrating birds. This is why farmers have daughters." 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 tapestries. For six years, it's been just...
Author
Series
Annie's people volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
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"--
155) Halsey Street
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Penelope Grand has scrapped her failed career as an artist in Pittsburgh and moved back to Brooklyn to keep an eye on her ailing father. She's accepted that her future won't be what she'd dreamed, but now, as gentrification has completely reshaped her old neighborhood, even her past is unrecognizable. Old haunts have been razed, and wealthy white strangers have replaced every familiar face in Bed-Stuy. Even her mother, Mirella, has abandoned the family...
156) We spread
Author
Publisher
Scout Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Penny, an artist, has lived in the same apartment for decades, surrounded by the artifacts and keepsakes of her long life. She is resigned to the mundane rituals of old age, until things start to slip. Before her longtime partner passed away years earlier, provisions were made, unbeknownst to her, for a room in a unique long-term care residence, where Penny finds herself after one too many "incidents." Initially, surrounded by peers, conversing,...
157) Wilde for you
Author
Series
Dark Horse Dive Bar novel volume 2
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to the Dark Horse Dive Bar, where the Wildes throw one hell of a party and love could be a barstool away. Landscape artist Layla Brock knows what it feels like to love someone so completely you'd do anything for them--even take their secrets to the grave. Widowed after her husband's betrayals and tragic death, Layla is searching for a new scene to paint, a new life to live. And Wyoming feels like the perfect place to get lost and find herself...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Hidden treasures and betrayal mingle with unexpected love in Abigail Wilson's latest Regency romance. After studying art under Miss Drake, a renowned painter, Phoebe Radcliff is certain she can finally move beyond the childish mistake that's kept her away from home. She is thrilled when Miss Drake employs her to complete a complicated ballroom renovation, believing it will lead to a new, happier future. Everything changes, however, the moment Miss...
160) Leaving Eldorado
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
In the late 1890s, after her gold-mad father abandons her in the small New Mexico Territory mining town of Eldorado, fourteen-year-old Maude struggles to survive and to hold onto her dream of becoming an artist.