Carey, Edward
Summary: In 1761 a tiny, odd-looking girl named Marie is born in a village in Switzerland. After the death of her parents, she is apprenticed to an eccentric wax sculptor and whisked off to the seamy streets of Paris, where they meet a domineering widow and her quiet, pale son. Together, they convert an abandoned monkey house into an exhibition hall for wax heads, and the spectacle becomes a sensation....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2018
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARNorman, Howard A.
Summary: A Jewish woman in 1938 Nova Scotia becomes obsessed with a painting in a museum. It is called Jewess on a Street in Amsterdam and is on loan from Holland. The woman decides to live the subject's life, a momentous decision as the Nazis are on the march. By the author of The Bird Artist.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NORZimmerman, Jean.
Summary: Allegedly raised by wolves in the wilds of Nevada and adopted by a wealthy Manhattan couple, eighteen-year-old Bronwyn explosively enters Gilded Age high society and is implicated in the deaths of several suitors while her devoted brother resolves to take the fall for her.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014