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Author
Series
Charming Inn volume 2
Publisher
Zura Lu Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Charlotte finds herself living back on Belle Island, struggling to make a living in her now floundering art career. She moves in with her life-long friend, Robin, and attempts to find her love of painting again and prove to her family that she's a successful artist. A bonus would be if she could make a bit of money from it so she could pay the bills. Ben works nonstop running the marina he took over when his father suddenly passed away. That, along...
563) Tulip fever
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cornelis Sandvoort, a wealthy merchant in 1630s Amsterdam, and his beautiful young wife Sophia have been unsuccessful in conceiving a child, but things get even more complicated when Sophia and Jan van Loos, the artist Cornelis hires to paint their portrait, begin to desire each other.
564) Super host: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
Renting out his West London home in the wake of marital and career setbacks, an award-winning artist rediscovers his sense of purpose through relationships with a lonely American, a tortured fellow artist, and a cautiously optimistic divorcě.
"Bennett Driscoll is a Turner Prize-nominated artist who was once a rising star. Now, at age fifty-five, his wife has left him, he hasn't sold a painting in two years, and his gallery wants to stop selling...
565) One-punch man: 15
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
After finishing a martial arts tournament and dealing with the Monster Association invasion, Saitama asks King for advice on how to live like a hero.
Author
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Akiko's school days are long over and her work as a manga artist is keeping her very busy. Yet when Hidaka-sensei declares that he has four months left to live, it turns out he's got one final lesson to teach her. The emotional finale of mangaka Akiko Higashimura's dramatic memoir!"--Provided by publisher
Author
Series
Naruto (Manga) volume 15
Publisher
Viz
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
In the village of Konohagakure, school is literally a battlefield where classmates are ninjas in training competing to become the greatest ninja in the land.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"This is the story of Marcel Duchamp and how the Dada art movement changed the way people thought about what art could be and what could be art. From drawing a mustache on the Mona Lisa to attaching a bicycle wheel to a stool, Duchamp challenged long-held notions of art and how it should be made. People were amused, confused, and sometimes offended, and that was just the way Marcel Duchamp liked it. With Marcel's Masterpiece, Jeff Mack explores Duchamp's...
Author
Series
Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun volume 3
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Drawing comics is hard work, as high school boy and shoujo manga-ka Umetarou Nozaki and his motley crew of friends-turned-assistants know well. But being a manga pro doesn't necessarily make Nozaki great at everything. In fact, Chiyo is about to discover that his talent just might be full of holes?! As it turns out, everyone's got some weaknesses, and nobody's perfect--not even school "prince" Kashima! And Chiyo doesn't get a pass either... because...
Author
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Kate arrives in Paris hoping to find inspiration. Instead she finds Rylan. In a swirl of stolen kisses and hot, tangled sheets, Kate is quickly swept away by the sexy stranger, longing to surrender to his expert touch. With Rylan, nothing is forbidden-except the truth. An American ex-pat worth millions, Rylan never flaunts his fortune. Rather, he guards his identity from everyone, especially women. No strings, no commitments, no complications. But...
571) Starfish
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Kiko Himura yearns to escape the toxic relationship with her mother by getting into her dream art school, but when things do not work out as she hoped Kiko jumps at the opportunity to tour art schools with her childhood friend, learning life-changing truths about herself and her past along the way.
572) Grandma's gift
Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
After they prepare their traditional Puerto Rican celebration, Eric and Grandma visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a school project, where he sees a painting by Diego Velasquez and realizes for the first time that he could be an artist when he grows up. Grandma witnesses his fascination, and presents Eric with the perfect Christmas gift-a sketchbook and colored pencils-to use in his first steps toward becoming an artist. A heartwarming story...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"For fans of The Paris Wife and Loving Frank comes a captivating novel that offers an intimate glimpse into the lives of Vanessa Bell, her sister Virginia Woolf, and the controversial and popular circle of intellectuals known as the Bloomsbury Group. London, 1905: The city is alight with change, and the Stephen siblings are at the forefront. Vanessa, Virginia, Thoby, and Adrian are leaving behind their childhood home and taking a house in the leafy...
Author
Publisher
A Paula Wiseman Book, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Today Juanito is accompanying his father who is in the landscaping business, and he takes his sketchbook along to draw anything that catches his eye, and gets to help his father plan an entire garden--and then help plant it. Includes an autobiographical note.
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Ryuji Goda, Art Squad president and sterling example of self-confidence, has become anxiety-ridden Ranmaru's greatest role model. Surely under the guidance of such a genius, Ranmaru will come into his own? But now a film camp at a remote mansion is putting Goda's assurance to the test. Is Ranmaru up to the challenge of saving his mentor from his greatest fear--a child?"--Back cover.
577) The Disenchantments
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
�2012
Language
English
Description
Colby's post-high school plans have long been that he and his best friend Bev would tour with her band, then spend a year in Europe, but when she announces that she will start college just after the tour, Colby struggles to understand why she changed her mind and what losing her means for his future.
578) A scatter of light
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The summer of 2013 in the Bay is a momentous one for eighteen-year-old Aria Tang West, for the working-class queer community she finds herself in, and for her artist grandmother.
Aria Tang West was looking forward to a summer on Martha's Vineyard with her best friends--one last round of sand and sun before college. But after a graduation party goes wrong, Aria's parents exile her to California to stay with her grandmother, artist Joan West. Aria...
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club) volume 9
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"Claudia has always been the most creative kid in her class... until Ashley Wyeth comes along. Ashley's really different: She wears hippie clothes and has multiple earrings, and she's the most fantastic artist Claudia has ever met. Ashley says Claudia is a great artist, too, but thinks she's wasting her artistic talent with The Baby-sitters Club. When Claudia starts spending more time with Ashley and missing BSC meetings, it becomes clear that Claudia...
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Anne McFarland, a modern-day, thirty-something San Francisco artist in search of spiritual guidance, buys a corset in a Flagstaff resale botique--a purchase that results in her having to make a decision that will change her life forever. One hundred and thirty-five years earlier, in 1885, naïve Sally Sue Sullivan, a young woman from the Midwest, is kidnapped on a train by a handsome but dangerous bank robber. Held prisoner on a homestead in Northern...