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Centres de détention (Immigration) Romans, nouvelles, etc Forests and forestry Fiction Guerre et familles Romans, nouvelles, etc Guilt Fiction Hope Fiction Painters Fiction Peintres Romans, nouvelles, etc Réfugiés Romans, nouvelles, etc Wildfires Fiction Émigration et immigration Romans, nouvelles, etcVande Zande, Jeff.
Summary: Betrayed by his art and disillusioned by his job as a professor, Ray Casper finds his long-time girlfriend has just left him. At the death of his estranged father, he links up with his out-of-work brother Sammy, and things really get complicated. Sammy moves in with Ray and needs a job; Ray needs inspiration to paint again, and both have to keep from killing each other. This novel unites...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bottom Dog Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANBunn, T. Davis
Summary: When his Aunt Amelia, his closest friend and greatest supporter, passes away, leaving him her home in Miramar, classical guitarist Ian Hart uses this opportunity to reflect and move forward after a scandal destroyed his career but instead finds himself drawn to another newcomer, artist Kari Langham, who changes everything.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLELefteri, Christy
Summary: "In present-day Greece, deep in an ancient forest, lives a family: Irini, a musician, who teaches children to read and play music; her husband, Tasso, who paints pictures of the forest, his greatest muse; and Chara, their young daughter, whose name means joy. On the fateful day that will forever alter the trajectory of their lives, flames chase fleeing birds across the sky. The wildfire that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEAkbar, Kaveh
Summary: "A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC AKBAllende, Isabel
Summary: This powerful and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea and Violeta weaves together past and present, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another in the United States in 2019. Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler is six years old when his father disappears during Kristallnacht--the night their family loses...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023