James, Tania

Summary: "Abbas is just seventeen years old when he leaves his family to serve in the court of Tipu Sultan, a volatile and unpredictable ruler. An inspired woodcarver, Abbas is apprenticed to a master toy maker in order to build a massive tiger automaton, a gift to celebrate the return of the Sultan's sons from British captivity. Working alongside the legendary French clockmaker Monsieur du Leze, Abbas...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAM

Mezrich, Ben

Summary: "Hailey Gordon is looking to make some fast cash to help pay her tuition when she's caught counting cards at the Encore casino in Boston. She grabs her winnings and makes her escape. With guards closing in, she dives into an unlocked room to hide...only to find a dead body. Recently released from prison, Nick Patterson hasn't felt hope in a long time, but the job he "inherited" in prison...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MEZ

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEZ

Elkins, Aaron J.

Summary: Art curator Val Caruso is not a happy camper. His promotion has just been nixed, his divorce has become final, and he's dug himself into a nice little rut for his fortieth birthday. The uplift? A trip to Milan to help Holocaust survivor Sol Bezzecca recover a pair of cherished sketches by Renoir. They'd once been given to Sol's family by the then-unknown artist, looted by the Italian Fascist...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELK

Terrell, Heather.

Summary: Mara Coyne represents an auction house to prove the Crystalis, a 16th century masterpiece, wasn't stolen by the Nazis. She discovers that documents from the auction house have been forged and goes to London to discover the truth.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2007

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TER

Golden, S. K.

Summary: "It's 1958, and Evelyn Elizabeth Grace Murphy has not left the Pinnacle Hotel in fourteen months. She suffers from agoraphobia, and what's more, it's her father's hotel, and everything she needs is there. Evelyn's always been good at finding things; she discovered her mother dead in a Manhattan alleyway fifteen years earlier. Now she's finding trouble inside her sanctuary. At a party for artist...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2022

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOL

Anderson, Rebecca

Summary: "A free-spirited artist teams up with a no-nonsense detective to capture a thief who has stolen a priceless Michelangelo painting. Manchester, England, 1857. Rosanna Hawkins is one of Manchester's finest artists, even though no one knows her name. She reproduces "parlor versions" of classic masterpieces with near-perfect precision, which her employer then sells to the emerging upper-middle...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain Publishing 2023

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC AND

Lester, Natasha

Summary: "Paris, 1939: The Nazis think Éliane can't understand German. They're wrong. They think she's merely cataloging the art collection in The Louvre while they steal national treasures for their private collections. They have no idea she's carefully decoding their notes to ensure every painting can be recovered after the war. But Éliane is playing a very dangerous game. Does she dare trust the man...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Lester 2021