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      2014., Adult, Riverhead Books Call No: Fic Pas    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "A contemporary retelling of Daphne du Maurier's gripping and iconic novel Rebecca, Alena tells the story of a bright young curator who finds herself haunted by the legacy of her predecessor at a small, cutting-edge art museum on Cape Cod."--Publisher.
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      c2011., Steerforth Press Edition: eBook ed.    Summary Note: P.T. Barnum is a newcomer to New York and still unknown to the world when he purchases an old museum on the corner of Broadway and Ann Street. With uncanny confidence and impeccable timing he transforms the dusty natural history collection into a great ark for public imagination. Though Barnum's bold vision and shameless huckstering are essential to creating his magical, lucrative museum, its inhabitants are Carlson's concern. To taxidermist Emile Guillaudeu, nature{u2019}s greatest beauty lies in its rational taxonomy, represented by his meticulous arrangements of mounted specimens. When Barnum takes over the museum, Guillaudeu's attempt to maintain order in an increasingly chaotic microcosm grows more frantic, and ultimately forces him out of the museum and into the unpredictable flux of antebellum New York. The giantess Ana Swift is plagued by chronic pain and jaded by a world of gawkers, but she is hopeful as she arrives in Barnum{u2019}s museum. Working without a manager for the first time, she can present herself as she wishes. But does this constitute real freedom? With Ana, the narrative travels beneath the museum{u2019}s baffling surface to visit the lives of Barnum{u2019}s human performers, his Representatives of the Wonderful.
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      c2010., Adult, McArthur Call No: Fic Man    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "In the middle of the night at the Museum of Volterra, young archeologist Fabrizio Castellani is immersed in his work. He has discovered that the famous Etruscan statue known as The Shade of Twilight contains a mysterious object, seemingly embedded within the sculpture itself. His work is suddenly interrupted by the phone ringing, and on the other end of the line an icy female voice warns him to abandon his research at once. A series of gruesome killings follow. The victims, who have all been involved in the desecration of an unexplored tomb, seem to be have been torn to pieces by a beast of unimaginable size. Meanwhile, as Fabrizio excavates the Etruscan tomb he discovers evidence of a legendary Etruscan ritual of horrifying violence, an ancient religious rite knows as the Phersu. What is hiding inside the enigmatic stature? What lies behind the bloodthirsty rage that has lain in wait for all these centuries? Will Fabrizio manage to unravel these secrets without being sucked into the spiral of violence himself?"--Back cover.
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      2020., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: MYS Fic Hea    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "When a young woman is tasked with safeguarding a natural history collection as it is spirited out of London during World War II, she discovers her new manor home is a place of secrets and terror instead of protection"--Provided by publisher.
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      2022., Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Call No: Fic Hay    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: The Secret History meets Ninth House in this sinister, atmospheric novel following a circle of researchers as they uncover a mysterious deck of tarot cards and shocking secrets in New York's famed Met Cloisters. When Ann Stilwell arrives in New York City, she expects to spend her summer working as a curatorial associate at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Instead she finds herself assigned to The Cloisters, a gothic museum and garden renowned for its medieval art collection and its group of enigmatic researchers studying the history of divination. Desperate to escape her painful past, Ann is happy to indulge the researchers' more outlandish theories about the history of fortune telling. But what begins as academic curiosity quickly turns into obsession when Ann discovers a hidden 15th-century deck of tarot cards that might hold the key to predicting the future. As the dangerous game of power, seduction, and ambition at The Cloisters turns deadly, Ann becomes locked in a race for answers as the line between the arcane and the modern blurs. A haunting and magical blend of genres, The Cloisters is a gripping debut that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
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      c2012., Harper Call No: Fic Sil   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: When a body is found beneath Michelangelo's dome, Gabriel Allon is summoned to secretly investigate the death that has been ruled a suicide--a case that brings about an unthinkable act of sabotage.
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      c2010., HarperCollins Canada Call No: Fic Gov    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: In an art gallery in Washington, Rebecca is accosted by the ghost of O-Ei. From modern-day Washington, DC, to colourful 19th-century Japan, this breathtaking work of imagination takes readers on a journey into the hidden life of one of the world's great "lost" artists: O-Ei, the daughter of the great Japanese printmaker Hokusai. The novel shines light on contemporary issues of authorship and masterworks, as well as the tender and ambiguous love between a father and daughter.
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      2018., Viking Call No: Fic Mak    Availability:0 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: A dazzling new novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary Paris, by the acclaimed and award-winning author Rebecca Makkai In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup, bringing in an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDS epidemic grows around him. One by one, his friends are dying and after his friend Nico's funeral, the virus circles closer and closer to Yale himself. Soon the only person he has left is Fiona, Nico's little sister. Thirty years later, Fiona is in Paris tracking down her estranged daughter who disappeared into a cult. While staying with an old friend, a famous photographer who documented the Chicago crisis, she finds herself finally grappling with the devastating ways AIDS affected her life and her relationship with her daughter. The two intertwining stories take us through the heartbreak of the eighties and the chaos of the modern world, as both Yale and Fiona struggle to find goodness in the midst of disaster.
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      2024., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: NEW Fic Akb   Edition: First edition.    Availability:0 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: 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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      2019., Adult, Grand Central Publishing Call No: MYS Fic Pre   Edition: First edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Nora Kelly   Volume: 1Summary Note: Nora Kelly, a young but successful curator with a series of important excavations already under her belt, is approached by the handsome Historian, Guy Porter, to lead an expedition unlike any other. Guy tells his story--one involving the ill-fated Donner Party, who became permanently lodged in the American consciousness in the winter of 1847, when the first skeletonized survivors of the party stumbled out of the California mountains, replete with tales of courage, resourcefulness, bad luck, murder, barbarism--and, finally, starvation and cannibalism. Captivated by the Donner Party, Nora agrees and they venture into the Sierra Nevada in search of the camp. Quickly, they learn that the discovery of the missing starvation camp is just the tip of the iceberg--and that the real truth behind those long-dead pioneers is not only far more complex and surprising than they could have imagined...but it is one that puts them both in mortal danger from a very real, present-day threat in which the search for the lost party, and its fabled fortune in gold, are merely means to a horrifying end.
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      2013., Adult, HQN Edition: eBook ed.    Summary Note: "This good girl's going bad.... Merry Kade has always been the good girl. The best friend. The one who patiently waits for the guy to notice her. Well, no more. Merry has just scored her dream job, and it's time for her life to change. As the new curator of a museum in Wyoming, she'll supervise a lot of restoration work. Luckily she's found the perfect contractor for the job. Shane Harcourt can't believe that someone wants to turn a beat-up ghost town into a museum attraction. After all, the last thing he needs is the site of his dream ranch turning into a tourist trap. He'll work on the project, if only to hasten its failure...until the beautiful, quirky woman in charge starts to change his mind. For the first time ever, Merry has a gorgeous stud hot on her heels. But can she trust this strong, silent man, even if he is a force of nature in bed? When Shane's ulterior motives come out, he'll need to prove to Merry that a love like theirs may be too hot to handle, but it's impossible to resist."--OverDrive.