Landman, Tanya
Summary: "How did the nightingale get its golden voice? A beautiful creation story answers the question. The mountains, trees, and plants are young and full of color, but the animals are dull and drab, so the painter gets to work. She dabs dots on ladybugs and spots on butterflies, stripes on zebras and pentagons on giraffes. Finally, she comes to the very last creature--a patient beetle--and uses her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Studios an imprint of Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LANWeiler, Maura
Summary: Learning that she has a long-lost twin sister who shares their father's artistic ability, Dorie goes undercover as a fellow nun in order to introduce her holy sister's works to the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Infinite Words 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEIWood, Laura (Laura Clare)
Summary: In 1933, seventeen-year-old Bea is invited to visit her bohemian uncle in Italy where she meets Ben, a brash young artist, who challenges her to create the perfect summer romance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WOOChilds, Laura
Summary: "The murder of a political bigwig at a Honey Bee Tea sends Theodosia Browning buzzing for answers in this latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series. Theodosia's Honey Bee Tea was an elegant affair set in Charleston's new Petigru Park amid newly planted native grasses and a community beekeeping project. But when a phony beekeeper shows up and sprays toxic smoke at the guests,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHIBradford, Laura
Summary: When she stumbles upon the dead body of her new client while delivering desserts at an artists' retreat, Winnie Johnson, the owner of the Emergency Dessert Squad, must whip up the clues to catch a killer. Includes recipes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing 2018
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Summary: When her father goes missing leaving behind a cryptic note and everyone around her begins acting strange, twelve-year-old Olympia knows she must find her dad in order to figure out what is going on.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TUCChilds, Laura
Summary: "Theodosia's outdoor tea party was an elegant affair set in Charleston's new Petigru Park. But when a shot rings out, Osgood Claxton III, candidate for state legislature, falls to the ground--dead. Holly Burns, the gallery owner who asked Theodosia to cater the tea, begs Theodosia to run a shadow investigation and help restore her gallery's good name. Theodosia questions everyone that had a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CHIBrown, Carolyn
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Brown 2021Watson, Larry
Summary: Sonja Skordahl, a Scandinavian immigrant, finds herself torn between her husband, Henry, and Ned Weaver, an internationally famous artist who uses her as a model, in a novel set against the backdrop of rural Wisconsin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WATAcampora, Lauren
Summary: "Celebrated by the Boston Globe as "a brilliant anthropologist of the suburbs," the seductively weird and darkly offbeat Lauren Acampora returns to the lush world that got us all hooked on the NPR Best Book of the Year The Wonder Garden, drawing us into the secret lives of a polished Connecticut haven and jolting us with the sparks that fly when those lives collide. Formerly a model and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ACAAcampora, Lauren
Summary: An electrifying debut novel from the acclaimed author of The Wonder Garden, The Paper Wasp is a riveting knife-edge story of two women's dark friendship of twisted ambition set against the backdrop of contemporary Hollywood. In small-town Michigan, Abby Graven leads a solitary life. Once a bright student on the cusp of a promising art career, she now languishes in her childhood home, trudging...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ACALauren, Christina
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2024