Lowell, Joanna
Summary: "When an artist and a duke cross paths in the bustling London slums, an unlikely love story begins and their lives will be forever changed. Royal Academy painting student Lucy Coover quickly comes to the aid of the naked drunkard she stumbles upon one evening in the Shoreditch slums. If only she could banish his lovely form from her dreams as easily. Instead, she finds herself compelled to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LOWKenna, Alex
Summary: "Kate Myles was a promising Los Angeles police detective, until an accident and opioid addiction blew up her family and destroyed her career. Struggling to rebuild her life, Kate decides to try her hand at private detective work--but she gets much more than she bargained for when she takes on the case of a celebrated painter found dead in a downtown loft. When Margot Starling's body was found,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KENBrunstetter, Wanda E.
Summary: Welcome to Apple Creek, Ohio, where piano teacher and artist, Andrea Wagner, has a fascination with painting the rural Amish landscapes around her home. She has made it to her thirties feeling like she has had a charmed life and finally has fallen in love with Brandon Prentice, a local veterinarian. But then she discovers she was adopted and all she thought she knew about herself has crumbled....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barbour Publishing 2022
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Summary: "Rose Maning longs to wake up every morning in Florence, Italy, to a view of the Duomo and terra cotta rooftops dancing in the sunrise. So she flies across the pond with her best friend Zoey for a fun-filled house hunt. For the first time in her people-pleasing life, schoolteacher Rose uses her savings to do exactly what she wants to do: buy an apartment and pursue painting. Rose is passionate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Köehler Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REIBlack, Robin (Robin E.)
Summary: "Augusta and Owen are living a quiet country life of companionship and artistic creation--she a painter, he a writer--until Alison, a beautiful British woman, moves in to the previously unoccupied cottage next door. As Gus and Owen's life becomes intertwined with Alison's, past betrayals, losses, and new desires come to a head"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLAWalters, A. V.
Summary: The Emma Caites Way is the story of two lives separated by decades, yet intertwined. At the turn of the last century, the California Arts & Crafts movement and, in particular, the Plein Air Movement of painters, were hailed for their contributions and their new way of seeing landscape and light. One such artist, Emma Caites, was a woman outside her own time. Though she faded into obscurity, her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Rock Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALConley, Susan
Summary: When Elsey's husband, Lukas, hands her a brochure for a weeklong mountain retreat, he is really giving her an ultimatum: Go, or we're done. Once a successful painter, Elsey set down roots in China after falling for Lukas, the tall, Danish MC at a warehouse rave in downtown Beijing. Now, with two young daughters and unable to find a balance between her identities as painter, mother, and wife,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Conley 2018Dunant, 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: Renaissance portraitist Sofonisba Anguissola joins the Spanish court of Felipe II after a scandal in her native Italy and becomes embroiled in a love triangle involving the royal couple and the king's illegitimate half-brother, Don Juan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CULMujica, Barbara Louise.
Summary: Presents a fictionalized account of the tumultuous marriage between artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera as seen through the eyes of Frida's sister, Cristina.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUJWolff, Isabel.
Summary: At thirty-five, Gabriella Graham--"Ella" to her family and friends--has already made a name for herself as a successful portrait artist in London. She can capture the essential truth in each of her subjects' faces--a tilt of the chin, a glint in the eye--and immortalize it on canvas. This gift has earned Ella commissions from royals and regular folks alike. Ella realizes that there is so much...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOLKlassen, Julie
Summary: "In 1815, a painter's daughter on the north Devon coast agrees to marry a stranger to avoid scandal, but her choice is complicated by the return of a former lover and a growing affection for the husband she barely knows"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION KLAVreeland, Susan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VRESchuyler, Nina
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHAllen, Amanda
Summary: Madeline Vaughn-Alwin's picture-perfect life fades to gray when her childhood sweetheart perishes in the Great War. The aspiring painter leaves her wealthy New York family behind to travel across the country and start over in California. But when Maddie reaches Santa Fe, New Mexico, she halts her westward journey, certain she's found her new home amid the striking scenery and inspiring artistic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALLO'Farrell, Maggie
Summary: A spell-binding novel of two women connected across fifty years by art, love, betrayals, secrets, and motherhood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio Inc 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC O'FABunn, 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 New Fiction, Call number: FIC BUNChessman, Harriet Scott.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Partners 2002
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CHEGreenwood, T. (Tammy)
Summary: Teenaged Wyn Davies took a shortcut through the woods in her New Hampshire hometown and became a cautionary tale. Twenty years later, divorced, she lives in New York making her living painting commissioned canvases of birch trees to match her clients' furnishings. Then she hears that Robby Rousseau, who has spent the past two decades in prison for a terrible crime against her, may be released...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P GRELandman, Tanya
Summary: "How did the nightingale get its golden voice? A beautiful creation story answers the question. The mountains, trees, and plants are young and full of color, but the animals are dull and drab, so the painter gets to work. She dabs dots on ladybugs and spots on butterflies, stripes on zebras and pentagons on giraffes. Finally, she comes to the very last creature--a patient beetle--and uses her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Studios an imprint of Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LANMcMillan, Claire
Summary: Fleeing the Nazis, painter Remedios Varo and her poet lover await exit papers from a safe house on the Riviera and take refuge in a mysterious bookshop that opens up a world of occult learning that sparks creative genius.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Prep school teacher Jack Marcus meets his match in Dina Delsanto, an abstract painter and new teacher on campus. He challenges her to a war between words and pictures, and in the process, sparks an unlikely romance.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WOR RATED PG-13Sneed, Christine
Summary: "Jayne is questioning the choices she has made in the years since college and is struggling to pay her bills in Manhattan when she is given the opportunity to move to Paris with her wealthy lover and benefactor, Laurent Moller, who owns and operates two art galleries, one in New York, the other in Paris. He offers her the time and financial support she needs to begin her career as a painter and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SNESummary: The true story of Séraphine Louis, a simple, devout housekeeper who in 1905, at the age of 41, began painting brilliantly colorful canvases. In 1912, a German art critic discovered her paintings while she was working as his maid. Tells the story of the relationship between the avant-garde dealer and the visionary cleaning lady, forging a testament to the mysteries of creativity and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2010