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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
An exquisitely beautiful young man in Victorian England retains his youthful and innocent appearance over the years while his portrait reflects both his age and evil soul as he pursues a life of decadence and corruption.
3) That summer
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Julia Conley's inheritance of a house outside London leads to the discovery of a pre-Raphaelite painting -- a painting which will unveil the house's shrouded history and a hidden love affair.
Author
Series
Lady Darby mystery volume 4
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Seeking a respite from her pregnant sister's wedding plans in 19th-century Scotland, Lady Kiera Darby accepts a commission to paint the portrait of an abused baroness who is subsequently murdered.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home comes a historical novel inspired by true events, and the extraordinary female lighthouse keepers of the past two hundred years. "They call me a heroine, but I am not deserving of such accolades. I am just an ordinary young woman who did her duty." 1838: Northumberland, England. Longstone Lighthouse on the Farne Islands has been Grace Darling's home for all of her twenty-two years....
Author
Publisher
Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
An incredibly handsome young man in Victorian England retains his youthful appearance over the years while his portrait reflects both his age and evil soul as he pursues a life of decadence and corruption.
Author
Series
Hidden masterpiece novel volume 1
Publisher
Nashville, Tennessee
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Manhattan art dealer Sera James watched her world crumble at the altar two years ago, and her heart is still fragile. To distract herself, she decides to track down the history of a mysterious portrait of a young violinist.
Author
Series
Publisher
Skyhorse Pub
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Meet artist Rosemary Hall and follow her inevitable downfall brought by her lust for the famous Dorian Gray--a tale both familiar and new in this brilliant erotic mash up of one of the world's most beloved novels. With a mix of old-fashioned Victorian debauchery and erotic 21st-century lust, this cleverly sexed-up classic will leave readers wanting more.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
France, 1939. At the dawn of World War II, Anne Guichard, a young archivist is employed at the Louvre. Once they reach Paris, the Nazis will stop at nothing to get their hands on the Louvre's art collection. With the Germans hard on their heels, Anne frantically moves the Mona Lisa and other treasures again and again in an elaborate game of hide and seek. Florence, 1479. House servant Bellina Sardi's future seems fixed when she accompanies her newly...
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
An old-money East Coast family faces the suspicious death of its patriarch and the unsolved theft of a Goya painting rumored to be cursed. There are four cousins in the Morse family: perfect Kenny, the preppy West Coast lawyer; James, the shy but brilliant medical student; his seductive, hard-drinking sister Audrey; and Teresa, youngest and most fragile, haunted by the fear that she has inherited the madness that possessed her father. Their grandfather...
11) Until then
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1985, Old Order Amish couple Celeste and Vin Lantz have been married for six years. Vin is a carpenter by trade but an artist in his heart. He is especially captivated by drawing portraits, which the Amish consider idolatry. Knowing they could be shunned, Celeste is shocked to discover that Vin has secretly been sketching her and their sons. When she confronts Vin, they argue and Vin storms off...and seems to disappear, leaving Celeste to wonder...
12) The phantom tree
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Browsing an antiques shop in Wiltshire, Alison Bannister stumbles across a delicate old portrait--identified as the doomed Tudor queen, Anne Boleyn. Except Alison knows better. The subject is Mary Seymour, the daughter of Katherine Parr, who was taken to Wolf Hall in 1557 and presumed dead after going missing as a child. And Alison knows this because she, too, lived at Wolf Hall and knew Mary...more than four hundred years ago. The painting of Mary...
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
London, 1958. When Juliet Montague's husband disappears, so does she. As far as her Jewish community is concerned, she is invisible. Until, on her thirtieth birthday, she does something unexpected. Instead of buying a fridge, she impulsively spends her savings on a portrait of herself. The painting leads Juliet out of suburbia and into the heady art scene of London, where she proves an astute spotter of talent. Yet she remains an outsider in both...
Author
Series
Teresa Battaglia novels volume 2
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A decades-old murder investigation has landed on Superintendent Teresa Battaglia's desk. DNA analysis has revealed that a painting from the final days of World War II contains matter from a human heart. Teresa is able to trace the evidence to Val Resia,one of Italy's most isolated, untouched regions. When Teresa's investigation hits too close to the truth, a second human heart is hung at the valley's entrance, a warning not to cross its threshold....
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Milan, 1492: When a sixteen-year old beauty becomes the mistress of the Duke of Milan, she must fight for her place in the palace, and against those who want her out. Soon, she finds herself sitting before Leonardo da Vinci, who wants to ensure his own place in the ducal palace by painting his most ambitious portrait to date. Munich, World War II: After a modest conservator unwittingly places a priceless Italian Renaissance portrait into the hands...
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