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2010., St. Martin's Press Call No: Fic Joh Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Eve Duncan Volume: 10Summary Note: Eve Duncan's adopted daughter Jane has been targeted by a mysterious cult who has decided that she has only eight days to live.
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2022., Adult, Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC Call No: Fic Bro Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Kentucky, 1850. Jarrett, an enslaved groom, and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. As the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young artist who has made his name painting the racehorse takes up arms for the Union. On a perilous night, he reunites with the stallion and his groom, very far from the glamor of any racetrack. New York City, 1954. Martha Jackson, a gallery owner celebrated for taking risks on edgy contemporary painters, becomes obsessed with a 19th equestrian oil painting of mysterious provenance. Washington, DC, 2019. Jess, a Smithsonian scientist from Australia, and Theo, a Nigerian-American art historian, find themselves unexpectedly drawn to one another through their shared interest in the horse--one studying the stallion's bones for clues to his power and endurance, the other uncovering the lost history of the unsung Black horsemen who were critical to his racing success. Based on the remarkable true story of the record-breaking thoroughbred, Lexington, who became America's greatest stud sire.
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By Reyn, Irina2016., Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press Call No: Fic Rey Edition: First Canadian Edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "The Imperial Wife follows the lives of two women, one in contemporary New York City and the other in eighteenth-century Russia. Tanya Kagan, a specialist in Russian art at a top New York auction house, is trying to entice Russia's wealthy oligarchs to bid on the biggest sale of her career, The Order of Saint Catherine, while making sense of the sudden and unexplained departure of her husband. As questions arise over the provenance of the Order and auction fever kicks in, Reyn takes us into the world of Catherine the Great, the infamous 18th-century woman who may have owned the priceless artifact, and who it turns out faced many of the same issues Tanya wrestles with in her own life. The Imperial Wife asks what female ambition means, today and in the past, and whether a marriage can withstand an ambitious wife"--
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c2015., Adult, Knopf Call No: Fic Rot Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Annie McMorrow, 31 and not recovered from the end of her long-term relationship, is an assistant to film producer Carlo Spinetti and then to his chilling wife Rebecca Winkleman Spinetti whose father started Winkleman Fine Art in Curzon St. Annie has spent her meagre savings on a dusty painting from a junk shop to give to her new, unsuitable, boyfriend who never shows up for his birthday dinner. The painting, now hers, talks, but only to us. Shrewd, spoiled, charming, world weary and cynical, he comments perceptively on Annie, and the modern world and tells tales about his previous owners: Louis XV, Voltaire, Catherine the Great among others. The story unfolds through this voice and many others--unexpected, entertaining, and strangely authentic. Annie will have her apartment ransacked and be pursued by dealers, buyers and an auctioneer in an attempt to get back the painting. With The Improbability of Love, Rothschild has spun a dazzling tale--both irreverant and entertainng--of a many-layered, devious world where, in the end, love triumphs."--Publisher.
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2018., Adult, Bond Street Books Call No: Fic Mur Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: An unnamed thirty-something portrait painter, abandoned by his wife, becomes caretaker of the home of an aging famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When the younger man discovers an unknown painting in the attic, entitled "Killing Commendatore"--a painting that takes its cues from Mozart's opera Don Giovanni--he also discovers clues about Amada, his family and their involvement in a violent and failed plot to kill a Nazi leader in Vienna. As the painter slowly learns the truth, he is equally consumed by the story of a wealthy and mysterious neighbor, Menshiki, in what is, according to the author, a clear homage to The Great Gatsby. The painter becomes obsessed with Menshiki's doomed love affair, the young girl who might be his child and a stone-lined underground space in the nearby woods where Buddhist priests were once buried alive. This pit becomes a portal into another world, a surreal place where the figures from "Killing Commendatore" take form to guide our narrator on an epic journey.
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2011., Adult, Avon Call No: Fic Mar Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Ben Hope series.
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[2014]., Adult, HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: Fic Bur Edition: First Canadian edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Engaging the services of a miniaturist to furnish a cabinet-sized replica of her new home, 18-year-old Nella Oortman, the wife of an illustrious merchant trader, soon discovers that the artist's tiny creations mirror their real-life counterparts in eerie and unexpected ways.
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c2010., Adult, HarperCollins Call No: Fic Coo Edition: 1st Canadian ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Luc Simard is an archaeologist with a flawless academic career and a flawed history with women. An old friend invites Luc to France to help him decipher a 14th-century manuscript discovered after a fire in a monastery. The book contains a map that will lead them to a ten-chambered cave painted with images more sophisticated than those found at Lascaux.
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2006., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: Fic Car Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to watch Click here to view More...
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2023. Click to access digital title. Sample Summary Note: A dazzling and spellbinding debut about a mysterious painting, the secrets it keeps, and the two women connected across centuries by a quest to discover the truth – for readers of Geraldine Brooks, Tracy Chevalier and Maggie O'Farrell. London, 1991: Alex Johns, an art intern at the Courtauld, believes a hidden secret lies within Diego Velázquez's Las Meninas – one of the most written about paintings of all time. Her mother died in mysterious circumstances while trying to uncover its secrets and Alex is troubled by memories of her own encounter as a child with the girl in the painting – the Infanta Margarita – who continues to haunt her. Alex must take up her mother's work and find evidence to uncover the truths within the canvas. Madrid, 1656: The Infanta Margarita senses that those around her believe the royal household is cursed. She wonders why her father, the King, is a pale shadow of himself and why the Queen is distressed. What threatens the royal offspring? She struggles to fight for her own destiny as the forces around her seek to marry her off and send her from the home she loves. A treacherous trail through the art world, the church and 17th century Spanish court via drawings, letters and cryptic notes has Alex trying to piece together what happened in King Philip's court... But with powerful players who will do anything to stop these truths coming to light, will Alex live to share them or is she, too, cursed? In the tradition of Tracy Chevalier's Girl With a Pearl Earring and A.S. Byatt's Possession , Andrea Hotere's The Vanishing Point slowly reveals the secrets in the painting that have been closely guarded for centuries. Praise for The Vanishing Point 'This is an astonishing and beautiful novel that brings the art world into sharp relief, as well as a gutsy mysterious story of one woman's journey into the past. Simply a masterpiece in its own right.' – Fiona Kidman 'Captivating, filled with the spellbinding power that artworks have through history. I haven't read anything quite like this before. Scenes from The Vanishing Point have and will remain vividly in my mind.' – Hannah Bent.
