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Gwen Marcey novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2016
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443 PAGES. $30.99. FORENSIC ARTIST GWEN MARCEY IS BETWEEN JOBS WHEN SHE ACCEPTS TEMPORARY WORK IN PIKEVILLE, KENTUCKY-A SMALL TOWN FACING BIG-CITY CRIME.
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Pub. Date
2017
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“The remarkable women celebrated in [this] vibrantly illustrated collection . . . offer stirring words of encouragement to any woman, of any age” (Booklist).
The glory of growing older is the freedom to be more truly ourselves. With age we gain the confidence to pursue bold new endeavors and worry less about what other people think. In this richly illustrated volume, bestselling author and artist
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Bad Kitty (Chapter books) volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Author/illustrator Nick Bruel tries to explain to the reader how to write a story, but Bad Kitty is not at all happy about the plot, which has her going on a turnip diet to lose weight. Includes a recipe for roasted turnips.
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"What's the one secret no one knows about you? Archie Mint has a secret. He's led a charmed life--he's got a beautiful wife, two impressive kids, and a successful military career. But when he's killed while trying to stop a robbery in his own home, his family is shattered--and then shocked when the other shoe drops. Mint's been hiding criminal secrets none of them could have imagined. While working on Mint's body before his funeral, mortician 'Zig'...
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"New York Times bestselling author Donna Andrews first introduced us to Meg Langslow as a crime-solving bridesmaid. In her 31st mystery, Round Up the Usual Peacocks, Meg returns to her roots, juggling cold cases and wedding guests. Kevin, Meg's cyber-savvy nephew who lives in the basement, comes to her with a problem. He's become involved as the techie for a true-crime podcast, one that focuses on Virginia cold cases and unsolved crimes. And he thinks...
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Pub. Date
2022
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New special edition with bonus material by Dave McKean! Best known for his collaborations with Neil Gaiman, McKean defied expectations with his stunning debut as writer and artist in Cages, winner of multiple awards for Best Graphic Album. Dark Horse proudly presents a new original graphic novel by the legendary artist based on the life of Paul Nash, a surrealist painter during World War 1. The Dreams of Paul Nash deals with real soldier's memoirs,...
7) Inkling
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
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The Rylance family is stuck. Dad's got writer's block. Ethan promised to illustrate a group project at school--even though he can't draw. Sarah's still pining for a puppy. And they all miss Mom. So much more than they can say. Enter Inkling. Inkling begins life in Mr. Rylance's sketchbook. But one night the ink of his drawings runs together--and then leaps off the page! This small burst of creativity is about to change everything. Ethan finds him...
10) Goya
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Robert Hughes turns his renowned critical eye to Francisco Jos de Goya y Lucientes, an artist whose life and work bridged the transition from the eighteenth-century reign of the old masters to the early days of the nineteenth-century moderns.
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Michael Rockefeller disappeared in New Guinea in 1961. Despite exhaustive searches, no trace of Rockefeller was ever found. Soon after his disappearance, rumors surfaced that he'd been killed and ceremonially eaten by a local tribe of warriors. The Dutch government and the Rockefeller family denied the story and Michael's death was officially ruled a drowning. Carl Hoffman traveled to the jungles of New Guinea to solve this decades-old mystery and...
14) Roses and rot
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Imogen has grown up reading fairy tales about mothers who die and make way for cruel stepmothers. As a child, she used to lie in bed wishing that her life would become one of these tragic fairy tales because she couldn't imagine how a stepmother could be worse than her mother now. As adults, Imogen and her sister Marin are accepted to an elite post-grad arts program; Imogen as a writer and Marin as a dancer. Soon enough, though, they realize that...
15) Tiffany blues
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Pub. Date
2018
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"The New York Times bestselling author of The Library of Light and Shadow crafts a dazzling Jazz Age jewel--a novel of ambition, betrayal, and passion about a young painter whose traumatic past threatens to derail her career at a prestigious summer artists' colony run by Louis Comfort Tiffany of Tiffany & Co. fame. "[M.J. Rose] transports the reader into the past better than a time machine could accomplish" (The Associated Press). New York, 1924....
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Pub. Date
c1993
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Art & Fear explores the way art gets made, the reasons it often doesn't get made, and the nature of the difficulties that cause so many artists to give up along the way. The book's co-authors, David Bayles and Ted Orland, are themselves both working artists, grappling daily with the problems of making art in the real world. Their insights and observations, drawn from personal experience, provide an incisive view into the world of art as it is experienced...
17) Sparrow Road
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Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 7
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Twelve-year-old Raine spends the summer at a mysterious artists colony and discovers a secret about her past.
18) All that we are
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Wyndham Beach volume 3
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"In the decade since Emma Dean's husband died, she's maintained a peaceful and organized life in her hometown of Wyndham Beach -- until she finds evidence of her husband's longtime affair. How, Emma wonders, can a man who's been gone for ten years still break her heart? Still reeling from the betrayal, Emma must focus on the group of artists she's invited to take up residence at the art center she founded, one of whom is secretly seeking refuge from...
20) The curiosities
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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Nell Parker has a Ph.D. in art history, a loving husband named Josh, and a bungalow in Madison, Wisconsin. But Nell's last pregnancy ended in the second trimester, and her husband encourages her to apply for jobs rather than pause to grieve, believing she needs something to focus on other than the baby that may never be. Finding a job turns out to be difficult for an art historian—until Nell sees the ad seeking a director for a new nonprofit called...