Search Results: Returned 19 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 19
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-- Twenty-three-and-a-half lies.2023., Adult, Grand Central Call No: FIC PAT Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Women's murder club Volume: 23.5.Summary Note: "Enjoy three heart-racing thrillers from the New York Times bestselling master of suspense. 23 1/2 LIES: Lindsay Boxer's estranged father is gunned down execution-style, and her investigation uncovers life-altering truths. FALLEN RANGER: To Rory Yates, being a Texas Ranger means absolute loyalty to the badge. But he's put through the ultimate test when an armored car robbery suspect might be an ex-Ranger gone rogue. WATCH YOUR BACK: When a starving artist is paid to expose his client's cheating wife, can he paint the picture that will save his own life?"--
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2024., Adult, Flatiron Books Call No: FIC GON Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "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 life knowing that their futures are secured, Raquel feels herself an outsider. Students of color, like Raquel, are the minority there, and the pressure to work twice as hard for the same opportunities is no secret. But when Raquel becomes romantically involved with a well-connected older art student, she finds herself unexpectedly rising up the social ranks. As she attempts to straddle both worlds, she stumbles upon Anita's story, raising questions about the dynamics of her own relationship, which eerily mirrors that of the forgotten artist. Moving back and forth through time and told from the perspectives of both women, Anita de Monte Laughs Last, is a propulsive, witty examination of power, love, and art, daring to ask who gets to be remembered and who is left behind in the rarefied world of the elite"--
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c2006., Young Adult, Bethany House Call No: FIC LEW Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Annie's people Volume: 3Summary Note: Annie Zook, the daughter of an Amish preacher, finds herself caught between her world and the outside world while living with her shunned friend Esther and longing for her forbidden art and her relationship with Ben Martin.
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2002., Adult, Bantam Books Call No: FIC KOO Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A comic named Jillian and an artist named Dylan are attacked in Arizona by a mad doctor wielding a mysterious injection and are forced to run from his enemies, taking along Dylan's autistic brother, Shep, whereupon they develop incredible traits: psychic sight, extreme altruism, and the ability to teleport.
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c2006., Bethany House Call No: FIC LEW Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Annie's people Volume: 2
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c1999., Young Adult, Dutton Call No: FIC CHE Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The life of sixteen-year-old Griet is transformed forever when she goes to work as a maid in the home of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, and catches the eye of the famous artist.
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By Joshi, Alka2020., Adults, Harlequin MIRA Call No: FIC JOS Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Escaping from an abusive marriage, seventeen-year-old Lakshmi makes her way alone to the vibrant 1950s pink city of Jaipur. There she becomes the most highly requested henna artist--and confidante--to the wealthy women of the upper class. But trusted with the secrets of the wealthy, she can never reveal her own ... Known for her original designs and sage advice, Lakshmi must tread carefully to avoid the jealous gossips who could ruin her reputation and her livelihood. As she pursues her dream of an independent life, she is startled one day when she is confronted by her husband, who has tracked her down these many years later with a high-spirited young girl in tow--a sister Lakshmi never knew she had. Suddenly the caution that she has carefully cultivated as protection is threatened. Still she perseveres, applying her talents and lifting up those that surround her as she does."--Amazon.
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[2021]., Adults, Montlake Call No: FIC BRO Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Ever since childhood, Emma Merrill and Sophia Mason 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 influence of her controlling and manipulative mother. Sophie, under pressure to prepare for an upcoming gallery show, whisks the fragile Emma away to a small artist's colony in south Texas. It's a raw and beautiful landscape where wildflowers bloom, and perhaps Emma can bloom there, too. In the company of such nurturing and creative strangers, especially Josh Corlen, the openhearted manager of the commune, Emma allows herself to breathe again."--Back cover.
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[2009], c2004., Adults, Barbour Call No: FIC BRU Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Brides of Lehigh Canal Volume: #1Summary Note: "Kelly has big dreams! Kelly McGregor s life along the Lehigh Canal has nothing in common with the beauty that surrounds her. Forced to help her family survive by driving her father s mules as they pull boatloads of coal to the city, Kelly determines that she will never be stuck in a loveless marriage like her parents. Her dream is to save enough money so that she can escape the drudgery of home and become an artist, sharing the beauty of the world with others. When a shopkeeper along the canal gives Kelly an outlet for her drawings, she wonders if she may be starting to realize her dream. But as she gets to know Mike and learns about the God he worships, she begins to understand that life may offer even more than she has dared to hope. Will Kelly seize this chance for a love like she has never known, or will fear drive her away?"--Back cover.
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c2011., Bethany House Call No: FIC ALE Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: A Belmont Mansion novelSummary Note: After an unwanted past, Claire strives to create something that will last as an artist among Nashville's elite society in the 1860s.
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[2018]., Adults, Recorded Books Call No: AUD RIV Edition: Unabridged. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Recorded Books inspirational.Summary Note: A successful LA artist, Roman Velasco appears to have everything he could possibly want-money, women, fame. Only Grace Moore, his reluctant, newly hired personal assistant, knows how little he truly has. The demons of Roman's past seem to echo through the halls of his empty mansion and out across his breathtaking Topanga Canyon view. But Grace doesn't know how her boss secretly wrestles with those demons: by tagging buildings as the Bird, a notorious but unidentified graffiti artist-an alter ego that could destroy his career and land him in prison. Like Roman, Grace is wrestling with ghosts and secrets of her own. After a disastrous marriage threw her life completely off course, she vowed never to let love steal her dreams again. But as she gets to know the enigmatic man behind the reputation, it's as if the jagged pieces of both of their pasts slowly begin to fit together ... until something so unexpected happens that it changes the course of their relationship-and both their lives-forever.
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2024., Adult, Gallery Books Call No: FIC LAU Edition: First Gallery Books hardcover edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Anna Green thought she was marrying Liam "West" Weston for access to subsidized family housing while at UCLA. She also thought she'd signed divorce papers when the graduation caps were tossed, and they both went on their merry ways. Three years later, Anna is a starving artist living paycheck to paycheck while West is a Stanford professor. He may be one of four heirs to the Weston Foods conglomerate, but he has little interest in working for the heartless corporation his family built from the ground up.He is interested, however, in his one-hundred-million-dollar inheritance. There's just one catch. Due to an antiquated clause in his grandfather's will, Liam won't see a penny until he's been happily married for five years. Just when Liam thinks he's in the home stretch, pressure mounts from his family to see this mysterious spouse, and he has no choice but to turn to the one person he's afraid to introduce to his one-percenter parents--his unpolished, not-so-ex-wife. But in the presence of his family, Liam's fears quickly shift from whether the feisty, foul-mouthed, paint-splattered Anna can play the part to whether the toxic world of wealth will corrupt someone as pure of heart as his surprisingly grounded and loyal wife. Liam will have to ask himself if the price tag on his flimsy cover story is worth losing true love that sprouted from a lie"--
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c2005., Young Adult, Bethany House Call No: FIC LEW Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Annie's people Volume: 1Summary Note: Annie Zook, the only daughter of an Old Order Amish preacher, having passed up one chance at marriage, is torn between doing what is expected of her as a member of the Plain community, and her burning desire to be an artist.
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2018., Adults, Berkley Call No: FIC KRE Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Cutler, Sutter, and Salinas Volume: #2Summary Note: "A broken promise reveals a terrifying legacy in this electrifying novel from the New York Times bestselling author of When All the Girls Have Gone. A painter of fiery, nightmarish visions throws herself into the sea--but she'll leave some of her secrets behind... Seattle gallery owner Virginia Troy has spent years battling the demons that stem from her childhood time in a cult and the night a fire burned through the compound, killing her mother. And now one of her artists has taken her own life, but not before sending Virginia a last picture: a painting that makes Virginia doubt everything about the so-called suicide--and her own past. Like Virginia, private investigator Cabot Sutter was one of the children in the cult who survived that fire...and only he can help her now. As they struggle to unravel the clues in the painting, it becomes clear that someone thinks Virginia knows more than she does and that she must be stopped. Thrown into an inferno of desire and deception, Virginia and Cabot draw ever closer to the mystery of their shared memories--and the shocking fate of the one man who still wields the power to destroy everything they hold dear"--
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c2003., Adult, Bethany House Call No: FIC HEI Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Spoiled rich girl Noelle St. Claire flees New York after breaking off her engagement with her father's junior partner and seeks refuge at a Colorado ranch where she is forced to face the secret of her past in order to accept the love God has waiting for her.
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2021., Adult, Celadon Books Call No: FIC MIC Edition: First Celadon Books paperback edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Alicia Berenson's life is seemingly perfect. Until one night, when her husband, Gabriel, returns home late from work. Alicia shoots him five times in the face and then never speaks another word. Alicia's refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into a mystery that captures the public imagination. And she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids at the Grove, a secure psychiatric unit in North London. Criminal psychotherapist Theo Faber is captivated by Alicia's story and jumps at the opportunity to work with her. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband will take him down a path more unexpected and more terrifying than he ever imagined.
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2018., Adults, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: FIC MOR Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Tattooist of Auschwitz.Summary Note: "In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a TÃntowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners. Imprisoned for more than two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and barbarism--but also incredible acts of bravery and compassion. Risking his own life, he uses his privileged position to exchange jewels and money from murdered Jews for food to keep his fellow prisoners alive. One day in July 1942, Lale, prisoner 32407, comforts a trembling young woman waiting in line to have the number 34902 tattooed onto her arm. Her name is Gita, and in that first encounter, Lale vows to somehow survive the camp and marry her"--Dust jacket flap.
