Musso, Guillaume
Summary: Paris, un atelier d'artiste caché au fond d'une allée verdoyante. Madeline l'a loué pour s'y reposer et s'isoler. À la suite d'une méprise, cette jeune flic londonienne y voit débarquer Gaspard, un écrivain misanthrope venu des États-Unis pour écrire dans la solitude. Ces deux écorchés vifs sont contraints de cohabiter quelques jours. L'atelier a appartenu au célèbre peintre Sean Lorenz et...
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Publisher / Publication Date: XO Editions 2017
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: 468 MUS FRENCHMomaday, N. Scott
Summary: Based on an Indian myth about a boy who turns into a bear, this mystic novel concerns a young artist who confronts his unusual destiny with the aid of the beautiful medicine woman who loves him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 1990
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Summary: A stranger came to town and stole her heart. Sue Pringle has never met anyone like John Darnay before. A painter who roams the countryside with brush in hand, Darnay is so absorbed in his art that he can barely remember to feed himself-a stark contrast to the practical shopkeepers and shepherds of her tiny village. Working as his housekeeper allows Sue to observe the eccentric Darnay unnoticed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STEVande 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 VANBrown, Kate Lord
Summary: "An international bestseller, Kate Lord Brown's debut novel The Perfume Garden has sold especially well in Canada, where it was selected as Walmart's Read of the Month for June 2015 and made it to the Globe & Mail bestseller list. The House of Dreams combines Brown's lovely, lyrical writing and signature interwoven past/present narrative style with an even more commercial time period and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRODunant, Sarah.
Summary: In the declining years of the rule of the Medici over Renaissance Florence, an atmosphere of enlightenment and sophistication prevailed; gorgeous art, relaxed mores, and intellectual freedom were the order of the day. But the puritan ideologue Savonarola began to exert ever more control over the city, and was turning it, bit by bit, into a totalitarian theocratic city-state, burning art and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2003
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Summary: She's a portrait artist whose paintings alter people's bodies, which is a talent some would kidnap, blackmail, and worse to control. Guarding that secret is the only way to keep her younger sister safe now that their parents are gone. But one frigid night, the governor's wife discovers the truth and threatens to expose Myra is she does not complete a special portrait that would resurrect the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC OLSBrock, Amber
Summary: Enduring a life of lonely desperation in spite of her beauty, pedigree, and Park Avenue penthouse, Vera is drawn to a secretive French artist who is painting a mural in her coveted building, a relationship that reminds her about a talented forger from her past who nearly cost her everything.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROLefteri, 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 TITLERogerson, Margaret
Summary: Isobel is a prodigy portrait artist with a dangerous set of clients: the sinister fair folk, immortal creatures who cannot bake bread, weave cloth, or put a pen to paper without crumbling to dust. They crave human Craft with a terrible thirst, and Isobel's paintings are highly prized. But when she receives her first royal patron--Rook, the autumn prince--she makes a terrible mistake. She paints...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ROGChristensen, Kate
Summary: Following the death of New York City painter Oscar Feldman, an artist known for his paintings of the female nude, two rival biographers set out to tell his life story, with the help of his wife Abigail, sister Maxine, and Teddy, his longtime mistress.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHREverett, Percival
Summary: "Kevin Pace's latest painting, like so much of his past, remains a secret. Ten years ago, he had an affair with a young watercolorist in Paris. And in the late 1970s, he traveled to El Salvador to search for his best friend's brother, a minor drug dealer gone missing in a country on the verge of war. When the past begins to resurface, Kevin struggles to justify the sacrifices he's made for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EVEHeller, Joseph.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner Paperback Fiction 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HELHustvedt, Siri.
Summary: The long friendship between art historian Leo Hertzberg and artist Bill Wechsler leads to a growing involvement between their two families as they deal with the joys, sorrows, tragedies, and loss that transform their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUSRachman, Tom
Summary: "A masterful novel that moves from Roman apartments to SoHo galleries to the South of France and tells the story of the son of a great painter striving to create his own legacy, by the bestselling author of THE IMPERFECTIONISTS. Rome, 1955. The artists gather for a picture at a party in an ancient villa. Bear Bavinsky, creator of vast canvases, larger than life, is at the centre of the picture....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RACSandford, John
Summary: When Kidd's superhacker friend Bobby has been murdered, Kidd has to move fast if he is going to survive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M SANAkbar, Kaveh
Summary: Cyrus Sham's is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother's plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father's life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest. Cyrus is a drunk, an addict, and a poet, whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC AKBBanville, John
Summary: "As he pushes fifty, painter and petty thief Oliver Otway Orme reflects on his life, trying to uncover the answer to how and why things have turned out as they have, excavating memories of family, of places he has called home, and of the way he has apprehended the world around him"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BANBanville, John.
Summary: Oliver Otway Orme, a semi-famous artist and petty thief, despairing of limits in his talents, flees when his latest theft is discovered and sequesters himself in his childhood home, where he struggles to understand how he reached his current state.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BANChristopher, Ben
Summary: They say the show must go on--but in the case of Broadway's next sensation, A Touch of Squalor, someone's out to make sure the show never opens. And when threats don't do the trick, a straight razor to the throat just might.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Subterranean Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLOGilbert, Elizabeth
Summary: " A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed. In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love, adventure and discovery. Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the novel follows...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: In Boston in 1764, the sudden death of revolutionary leader Samuel Bradstreet causes Scottish portrait painter Stewart Jameson and his apprentice Francis Weston--who is really a fallen woman from an elite family disguised as a boy--to search for the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAMLowell, Elizabeth
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOWMacomber, Debbie
Summary: Annie Marlow has been through the worst. Rocked by tragedy, she heads to the one place that makes her happy: Oceanside in the Pacific Northwest, the destination of many family vacations when Annie was a teenager. Once there, Annie begins to restore her broken spirit, thanks in part to the folks she meets: a local painter, Keaton, whose large frame is equal to his big heart--and who helps Annie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2018