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Author
Language
English
Description
Hurtling past the downtrodden communities of Depression-era America, painter Val Welch travels westward to the rural town of Dawes, Wyoming. Through a stroke of luck, he's landed a New Deal assignment to create a mural representing the region for their new Post Office. A wealthy art lover named John Long and his wife Eve have agreed to host Val at their sprawling ranch. Rumors and intrigue surround the couple: Eve left behind an itinerant life riding...
42) Hidden cove
Author
Series
Solace Island volume 3
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When Solace Island gallery owner Zelia Thompson's close friend Alexus Feinstein of the prestigious art gallery Feinstein & Co. dies of a "drug overdose," Zelia's intuition sounds an alarm. The Alexus she knew didn't do drugs and had everything to live for. As Zelia begins looking into the circumstances of her friend's death, what she uncovers will put her life in imminent danger. Will Zelia--with the help of the reclusive crime fiction novelist Gabe...
43) Hooked on you
Author
Series
Maple Falls volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
Description
Riley McAllister left Maple Falls, Arkansas hoping to make it big in New York as a mixed media artist. When her grandmother breaks a leg sliding into third base at a church softball game, Riley plans to convince her grandmother to sell the family yarn shop and retire. Hayden Price's chance to make it out of Maple Falls ended when he blew out his pitching arm during a minor league game. Stuck at the family hardware store, he's coaching the softball...
44) Hummingbird Lane
Author
Language
English
Description
"Ever since childhood, Emma and Sophie were bound by a passion for painting. Like all young best friends, they promised to never lose touch. But the girls came from different worlds, and their paths diverged when Emma went to an elite college and Sophie worked her way through state school. After a decade they've reconnected, both in a time of need. Emma has been struggling with depression since her college years, and she's lost herself under the suffocating...
45) Last night
Author
Language
English
Description
Hadley Cooke arrived at the fancy Ocean House in Providence, Rhode Island, excited to spend Christmas with her sister Maddie and niece CeCe. When they weren't at the hotel to greet her, she searched on a favorite path from their childhood visits. Hadley found her sister's body, but not six-year-old CeCe. Fellow guests Connecticut state police detective Conor Reid and his long time girlfriend, Kate Woodward, were next on the scene, quickly becoming...
46) The shadow box
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
After artist Claire Beaudry Chase is attacked and left for dead in her home on the Connecticut coast, she doesn't know who she can trust. But her well-connected husband, Griffin-who is running for governor-is her prime suspect. Just before the attack, Claire was preparing for an exhibit of her shadow boxes, one of which clearly accuses Griffin of a violent crime committed twenty-five years ago. If the public were to find out who her husband is, his...
47) The painter
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Peter Heller, the celebrated author of the breakout best-seller The Dog Stars, returns with an achingly beautiful, wildly suspenseful second novel about an artist trying to outrun his past. Years ago, a well-known expressionist painter named Jim Stegner shot a man in a bar. The man lived, Jim served his time, and he has learned to live with the dark impulses that sometimes overtake him. Jim enjoys a quiet life in the valleys of Colorado. He works...
48) Art dog
Author
Publisher
Live Oak Media
Pub. Date
p1999
Language
English
Description
When the Mona Woofa is stolen from the Dogopolis Museum of Art, a mysterious character who calls himself Art Dog tracks down and captures the thieves.
49) Just like home
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Just Like Home is a darkly gothic thriller from nationally bestselling author Sarah Gailey, perfect for fans of Netflix's The Haunting of Hill House as well as HBO's true crime masterpiece I'll Be Gone in the Dark. "Come home." Vera's mother called and Vera obeyed. In spite of their long estrangement, in spite of the memories - she's come back to the home of a serial killer. Back to face the love she had for her father and the bodies he buried there,...
50) Haunted
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales you'll ever encounter--sometimes all at once.
51) Luster
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Edie is stumbling her way through her twenties--sharing a subpar apartment in Bushwick, clocking in and out of her admin job, making a series of inappropriate sexual choices. She is also haltingly, fitfully giving heat and air to the art that simmers inside her. And then she meets Eric, a digital archivist with a family in New Jersey, including an autopsist wife who has agreed to an open marriage--with rules. As if navigating the constantly shifting...
52) Shark girl
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
After a shark attack causes the amputation of her right arm, fifteen-year-old Jane, an aspiring artist, struggles to come to terms with her loss and the changes it imposes on her day-to-day life and her plans for the future.
53) Bridget's beret
Author
Publisher
Spoken Arts
Pub. Date
p2011
Language
English
Description
When Bridget loses the beret that provides her with artistic inspiration like other great artists, she thinks she will never be able to draw again.
Author
Language
English
Description
In West Adams, a rapidly changing part of South Los Angeles, they're referred to as these women. These women on the corner... These women in the club... These women who won't stop asking questions... These women who got what they deserved... Ivy Pochoda creates a kaleidoscope of loss, power, and hope featuring five very different women whose lives are steeped in danger and anguish. They're connected by one man and his deadly obsession, though not...
55) Dreadful acts
Author
Publisher
Random House/Listening Library
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Eddie Dickens survives encounters with an escape artist in a runaway hearse's coffin, a hot air balloon bearing the escape artist's lovely assistant, a gas explosion, and a jewel thief on the run.
Author
Publisher
Random House/Listening Library
Pub. Date
p2007
Language
English
Description
Masterpiece for Bess: Flattered at first that all the other fairies and sparrow men want her to paint their portraits, Bess soon begins to feel overwhelmed and tries to find a way to return to the kind of painting she really wants to do.
Prilla and the butterfly lie: After lying to spare a friend's feelings, Prilla, a mainland-visiting, clapping-talent fairy, finds herself spending a day as a butterfly herder, while strange things keep happening...
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Gabriel's angel: "All Gabriel Bradley wants is solitude. But when a very pregnant--and very beautiful--woman ends up at his remote cabin during a blizzard, desperate, alone, and on the run, the modern-day Scrooge can't bring himself to turn her away. Despite her intrusion, Laura brings Gabriel the gifts of passion, hope, and life--he just needs to find the courage to reach for them"--Page [4] of cover.
Home for Christmas: "After years spent abroad,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Dark surrender : When Maggie Sterline causes an accident that changes Saxon Tremayne's life forever, she'll do anything to right her wrongs. Even if that means staying in South Carolina to care for the fierce, accomplished giant whose world has suddenly turned dark. Though Saxon's raw emotions are unsettling, Maggie is able to help him confront his new reality, and soon the beauty is drawn to this beast. Can she resist his knee-weakening kisses and...
Author
Language
English
Description
On his first night with Detroit PD, Officer Walter O'Brien is called to a murder scene. A terrified twenty-year-old has bludgeoned her kidnapper with skill that shocks even O'Brien's veteran partner. The young woman is also a brilliant escape artist. Her bold flight from police custody makes the case impossible to solve, and, for Walter, even more impossible to forget. By the time Walter's promoted to detective, his fascination with the missing, gray-eyed...
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