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Pub. Date
2024.
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"Who gets to leave a legacy? 1985. Anita de Monte, a rising star in the art world, is found dead in New York City; her tragic death is the talk of the town. Until it isn't. By 1998 Anita's name has been all but forgotten--certainly by the time Raquel, a third-year art history student is preparing her final thesis. On College Hill, surrounded by progeny of film producers, C-Suite executives, and international art-dealers, most of whom float through...
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A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap, and it is Audrey Niffenegger's cinematic storytelling that makes the novel's...
3) Countdown
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Eve Duncan novels volume 6
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Iris Johansen sets her readers' pulses racing once again in this relentless psychological thriller of a young woman caught in a maze of secrets and stalked by a merciless killer. The countdown begins the moment you open this riveting novel that only grows more electrifying as the pages turn, more exciting as time runs out.
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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310 pages ; 25 cm
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"Hoping to escape the pain of the recent murder of her best friend, art student Zoe Beech finds herself studying abroad in the bohemian capital of Europe-Berlin. Zoe, rudderless, relies on the arrangements of fellow exchange student Hailey Mader, who idolizes Warhol and Britney Spears and wants nothing more than to be an art star. On Craigslist, Hailey unknowingly stumbles on an apartment sublet posted by a well-known thriller writer. Feeling as though...
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Pub. Date
2014.
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257 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
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After surviving sixth grade, Rafe expects seventh grade to be a fun zone because he has been accepted to art school in the big city, but when he discovers it is more competitive than he expected, he sets out to turn his boring life into the inspiration for a work of art.
6) Art boss
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Piper Perish volume 2
Pub. Date
[2018]
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339 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Finally in New York City, working as an assistant to a famous modern artist, and planning for art school in the spring, Piper Perish is living her dream--but she is also dealing with a difficult future classmate, a challenging friendship with a fellow budding activist, and trying to figure out what it means to live as a working artist.
7) Countdown
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Pub. Date
2005
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403 p. ; 24 cm.
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Orphaned at an early age, Jane grew up the hard way, but she was given a new life, a loving family, and a chance to pursue her interest in one of the greatest archaeological finds ever unearthed. Now someone was trying to destroy that new life before it could even get started. Iris Johansen sets her readers' pulses racing once again in this relentless psychological thriller of a young woman caught in a maze of secrets and stalked by a merciless killer....
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A poor art student living in New York stumbles on a bag of diamonds . . . but they come at a price in this unforgettable novel from "America's #1 storyteller" (Forbes).
Matthew Bannon, a poor art student living in New York City, finds a duffel bag filled with diamonds during a chaotic attack at Grand Central Station. Plans for a worry-free life with his stunning girlfriend Katherine fill his thoughts - until he realizes that he is...
Matthew Bannon, a poor art student living in New York City, finds a duffel bag filled with diamonds during a chaotic attack at Grand Central Station. Plans for a worry-free life with his stunning girlfriend Katherine fill his thoughts - until he realizes that he is...
9) Sisters
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Pub. Date
c2007
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341 p. ; 24 cm.
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Four sisters temporarily move into a Manhattan brownstone together after a car accidents kills there mother and blinds one of the sisters.
10) Her every fear
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Pub. Date
2017.
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333 pages ; 24 cm
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Growing up, Kate Priddy was always a bit neurotic, experiencing momentary bouts of anxiety that exploded into full blown panic attacks after an ex-boyfriend kidnapped her and nearly ended her life. When Corbin Dell, a distant cousin in Boston, suggests the two temporarily swap apartments, Kate, an art student in London, agrees, hoping that time away in a new place will help her overcome the recent wreckage of her life. But soon after her arrival at...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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320 pages ; 19 cm
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"Raised to be obedient by a stern grandmother in a blue-collar town in Massachusetts, Rosie accepts a scholarship to art school in New York City in the 1980s. One morning at a museum, she meets a worldly man twenty years her senior, with access to the upper crust of New England society. Bennett is dashing, knows that 'polo' refers only to ponies, teaches her which direction to spoon soup, and tells of exotic escapades with Truman Capote and Hunter...
13) A cast-off coven
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Pub. Date
c2010
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323 p. ; 17 cm.
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Lily, a witch who can sense vibrations of the past from vintage clothing and jewelry, is called to investigate possible paranormal activity at the San Francisco School of Fine Arts. Instead she discovers the body of a wealthy patron of the school and must use her magical skills to try to solve the murder.
Pub. Date
[2015?]
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1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Talented art student Angelique is madly in love with Loic, a married cardiologist whose wife is expecting their first child. Things take a dangerous turn as Angelique grows less discrete in her affections and her attempts to separate the couple fail.
15) Over easy
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Over easy volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
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271 pages : illustrations ; c 22 cm
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"After being denied financial aid to cover her last year of art school, Margaret finds salvation from the straightlaced world of college and the earnestness of both hippies and punks in the wisecracking, fast-talking, drug-taking Imperial Café" -- page [4] of cover.
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Pub. Date
2011
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1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
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"Asher Machnik is a teenage boy cursed with a beautiful androgynous face. Guys punch him, girls slag him and by high school he's developed an intense fear of being touched. Art remains his only escape from an otherwise emotionally empty life. Eulalie Mason is the lonely, tough-talking dyke from school who befriends Ash. The only one to see and accept all of his sides as a loner, a fellow artist and a best friend, she's starting to wonder if Ash is...
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Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
xvi, 207 p. : ill. (come col.) ; 29 cm.
Description
Classical drawing is staging a comeback. The author presents a unique celebration of this revival: a gallery of never-before-published 19th- and 20th-century drawings and invaluable insight from teachers along with exemplary works by them and their select students.
18) Never look away
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (189 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR-regime.
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Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
223 pages ; 22 cm
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"A high-speed, high-stakes thriller from Ken Follett, the grand master of international action and suspense.Look out for Ken's newest book,A Column of Fire, available now. A fabulous "lost masterpiece" becomes the ultimate prize--for an art historian whose ambition consumes everyone around her, an angry young painter with a plan for revenge on the art establishment, and a desperate gallery owner who may have double-crossed his own life away. Behind...
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