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Art Collectors and collecting Art Collectors and collecting Fiction Art dealers Crimes against Italy Venice Fiction Art thefts Fiction Eunuchs Turkey Fiction Istanbul (Turkey) Social life and customs 19th century Fiction London (England) Fiction Murder Fiction Venice (Italy) Social life and customs 19th century Fiction Yashim (Fictitious character : Goodwin) FictionTedrowe, Emily Gray
Summary: At the end of the 1990s, with the art market finally recovered from its disastrous collapse, Miss Rebecca Farwell has made a killing at Christie's in New York City, selling a portion of her extraordinary art collection for a rumored 900 percent profit. Dressed in couture YSL, drinking the finest champagne at trendy Balthazar, Reba, as she's known, is the picture of a wealthy art collector. To...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TEDHooper, Kay.
Summary: Art show director Morgan West is certain she hasn't seen the last of the infamous cat burglar Quinn, but she never expected him to turn up at her apartment one dark night in desperate need of her help--help she can't refuse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M HOORyder, Brandi Lynn.
Summary: Years after staging her kidnapping and death to run away with the heir to a renowned art collection, Karen finds her carefully constructed world falling apart when their daughter discovers the truth and brings about Karen's reunion with her sister.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RYDKilmer, Nicholas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KILGoodwin, Jason
Summary: In 1840, after hearing rumors that a long-lost Bellini painting has resurfaced in Venice, Sultan Abdulmecid tasks Yashim, his most trusted detective, with discovering the masterpiece's whereabouts. Once in Italy, Yashim collaborates with Palewski, his friend in the Polish consulate, to infiltrate the Venice underworld and locate the missing painting. Now, Yashim must solve the Bellini mystery...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GOOArcher, Jeffrey
Summary: A series debut introduces London Metropolitan Police Force detective William Warwick, who on his first investigation reflects on his complicated childhood while uncovering the schemes of a ruthless art collector.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ARCDickson, Athol
Summary: After a near-death experience, an artist whose family believes he is dead embarks on a pilgrimage to seek help from holy men around the world, hoping to make sense of his strange visions, and after twenty-five years the daughter he never knew he had learns he is alive and sets out to find him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Howard Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DICGoodwin, Jason
Summary: Sent to investigate rumors that a stolen art masterpiece has resurfaced in Venice, eunuch detective Yashim delegates negotiations for the work's return to Polish ambassador Palewski, in an unexpectedly dangerous case with ties to the alluring Contessa d'Aspi d'Istria.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOOHooper, Kay.
Summary: Max Bannister has been asked to risk his art collection, acquired by his family over centuries, as bait for a master criminal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M HOOGanek, Danielle.
Summary: In the aftermath of an emerging artist's untimely death on the night of his first opening, gallery receptionist and aspiring artist Mia McMurray witnesses a fierce competition for possession of the late artist's most-coveted painting.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GANLowell, Elizabeth
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LOWShapiro, Barbara A.
Summary: "It's the summer of 1922, and nineteen-year-old Paulien Mertens finds herself in Paris--broke, disowned, and completely alone. Everyone in Belgium, including her own family, believes she stole millions in a sophisticated con game perpetrated by her then-fiance, George Everard. To protect herself from the law and the wrath of those who lost everything, she creates a new identity, a Frenchwoman...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SHACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Shapiro 2018Berry, Steve
Summary: When her father dies under suspicious circumstances, a judge finds everything she loves threatened by the rival quests of two art collectors who seek one of the world's greatest treasures, lost after the Second World War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BERArcher, Jeffrey
Summary: "Nothing Ventured heralds the start of a brand new series in the style of Jeffrey Archer's #1 New York Times bestselling Clifton Chronicles: introducing Detective William Warwick. But this is not a detective story, this is a story about the making of a detective . . . William Warwick has always wanted to be a detective, and decides, much to his father's dismay, that rather than become a lawyer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ARCCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Archer 2019Lowell, Elizabeth
Summary: When Jill Beck's great aunt dies in a suspicious fire, several old family paintings are found in the aftermath. Word of the find creates a stir in the secretive art world, and soon Jill is being threatened by collectors who wish to get their hands on the pieces. Jill calls friend Zach Balfour, a part-time consultant for St. Kilda, for help, hoping to discover the truth about the paintings...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LOWHart, Ellen.
Summary: The shock that Minneapolis restaurateur Jane Lawless is in for when Chester Garrity, her ex-husband, returns to a city that he swore he'd never see again is nothing compared to Chester's own. After their divorce many years ago, he took off with his inheritance to travel the world, leaving Jane with enough seed money to open her first restaurant, which worked out well for Jane but less so for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARLowell, Elizabeth
Summary: Protecting a river guide with ties to the art world, private information collector and reluctant bodyguard Zach Balfour realizes his charge is in more danger than previously known, a situation that pits them against the ruthless multi-million-dollar Western art circuit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LowelBlack, Cara
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLASwan, Karen
Summary: In this glittering tale of forgotten treasures and long-held secrets, international bestseller Karen Swan explores one womans journey to discovering the truth behind an abandoned apartment and a family whose mysteries may be better left undiscovered.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SWAClements, Andrew
Summary: "Grace and Ellie have been best friends since second grade. Ellie's always right in the center of things -- and Grace is usually happy to be Ellie's sidekick. But what happens when everything changes? This time it's Grace who suddenly has everyone's attention when she accidentally starts a new fad at school. A fad that has first her class, then her grade, and then the entire school collecting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC CLEHigonnet, Anne
Summary: By 1850 cash-flush Americans like J.P. Morgan, Henry Clay Frick, Isabella Stewart Gardner, Henry E. Huntington, Arabella Huntington, and Mildred and Robert Bliss went on collecting campaigns that netted masterpiece after masterpiece, along with the furniture and fittings of dozens of aristocratic residences. From the outset, these collectors planned to present their trophies to the public as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Periscope Pub. 2009
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 708 HIGSummary: Tells the extraordinary story of a postal clerk and a librarian who managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history with very modest means.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Video Group 2009
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF HERDe Hamel, Christopher
Summary: "The people who made, saved, and sometimes destroyed medieval manuscripts, over a thousand years of history, from the acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts. The Manuscripts Club tells of twelve men and women, from the eleventh century to the twentieth, who all share an overwhelming obsession with illuminated manuscripts. The saint, the patron, the bookseller, the artist, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023