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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MORELL 2021
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FICTION MORELL 2021
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MORELL 2021
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FICTION MORELL 2021
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Separated by 500 years, two women--Anne Guichard, a young archivist at the Louvre, who at the dawn of WWII must keep treasures safe from the Nazis; and house servant, Bellina Sardi, who is tasked with keeping an impossible secret--each hide Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa with unintended consequences.
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SAMSON 2021
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FICTION SAMSON 2021
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An 18-year-old woman reeling from her mother’s death arrives at a proto-commune of poets, painters and musicians on the Greek island of Hydra where she has her ideas about art, relationships and her own innocence tested.
"In this novel based on real events and people, a young woman arrives on the Greek island of Hydra in 1960 and falls in with a bohemian group of poets, painters, and musicians, including the young Leonard Cohen and his beloved...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ROSE 2018
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FICTION ROSE 2018
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"The New York Times bestselling author of The Library of Light and Shadow crafts a dazzling Jazz Age jewel--a novel of ambition, betrayal, and passion about a young painter whose traumatic past threatens to derail her career at a prestigious summer artists' colony run by Louis Comfort Tiffany of Tiffany & Co. fame. "[M.J. Rose] transports the reader into the past better than a time machine could accomplish" (The Associated Press). New York, 1924....
4) painter from shanghai
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5) portrait of mrs charbuque
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"Part mystery, part coming-of-age story, and part tragedy, Scarlet In Blue, by acclaimed novelist Jennifer Murphy, traces the lives of a mother and daughter who, because of their fugitive lifestyle and the pain that overshadows it, share a dependence and a love so strong neither can imagine life without the other. Fifteen-year-old Blue Lake is a budding pianist who resents her mother Scarlet's nomadic lifestyle. She yearns to settle in one place so...
7) Second place
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CUSK 2021
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FICTION CUSK 2021
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CUSK 2021
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FICTION CUSK 2021
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A woman invites a famous artist to use her guesthouse in the remote coastal landscape where she lives with her family. Powerfully drawn to his paintings, she believes his vision might penetrate the mystery at the center of her life. But as a long, dry summer sets in, his provocative presence itself becomes an enigma—and disrupts the calm of her secluded household.
"From the author of the Outline trilogy, a fable of human destiny and decline, enacted...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION THOMSO 2014
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FICTION THOMSO 2014
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION THOMSO 2014
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FICTION THOMSO 2014
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Zummo, a Sicilian sculptor, is summoned by Cosimo III to join the Medici court. Late seventeenth-century Florence is a hotbed of repression and hypocrisy. All forms of pleasure are brutally punished and the Grand Duke himself, a man for whom marriage has been an exquisite torture, hides his pain beneath a show of excessive piety.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MORELL 2020
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FICTION MORELL 2020
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MORELL 2020
1 available
FICTION MORELL 2020
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MORELL 2020
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FICTION MORELL 2020
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Milan, 1492: When a sixteen-year old beauty becomes the mistress of the Duke of Milan, she must fight for her place in the palace, and against those who want her out. Soon, she finds herself sitting before Leonardo da Vinci, who wants to ensure his own place in the ducal palace by painting his most ambitious portrait to date. Munich, World War II: After a modest conservator unwittingly places a priceless Italian Renaissance portrait into the hands...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CRONIN 2021
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FICTION CRONIN 2021
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CRONIN 2021
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FICTION CRONIN 2021
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Verdi Community Library and Nature Center - Adult Fiction
FICTION CRONIN 2021
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FICTION CRONIN 2021
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2 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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Determined to leave a mark on the world even though they are in the hospital and their days are dwindling, unlikely friends, seventeen-year-old Lenni and eighty-three-year-old Margot, devise a plan to create one hundred paintings showcasing the stories of the century they have lived.
“Seventeen-year-old Lenni Pettersson lives on the Terminal Ward at the Glasgow Princess Royal Hospital. Though the teenager has been told she’s dying, she still...
11) Open water
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION NELSON 2021
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FICTION NELSON 2021
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1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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"In a crowded London pub, two young people meet. Both are Black British, both won scholarships to private schools where they struggled to belong, both are now artists-he a photographer, she a dancer-and both are trying to make their mark in a world that by turns celebrates and rejects them. Tentatively, tenderly, they fall in love. But two people who seem destined to be together can still be torn apart by fear and violence, and over the course of...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HELLER 2014
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FICTION HELLER 2014
2 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HELLER 2014
1 available
FICTION HELLER 2014
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HELLER 2014
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FICTION HELLER 2014
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Years ago, a well-known expressionist painter named Jim Stegner shot a man in a bar. The man lived, Jim served his time, and he has learned to live with the dark impulses that sometimes overtake him. Jim enjoys a quiet life in the valleys of Colorado. He works with a lovely model, he doesn't drink, he goes fly fishing in the evenings. His paintings fetch excellent prices at a posh gallery in Santa Fe. He is--if he can admit it--almost happy. One day,...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ALB 2009
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FICTION ALB 2009
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MAU 1919
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FICTION MAU 1919
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MAU 1919
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FICTION MAU 1919
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A British stockbroker abandons his wife and career to pursue a simple life as an artist in Tahiti.
Charles Strickland rebels against his life as a London stockbroker and decides to abandon civilization and his family to pursue a career as a painter in the South Pacific.
Inspired by the life of the French painter, Paul Gauguin, Maugham portrays a 19th century gentleman who abandons his profession and family to pursue his art in Paris. Through this...
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6 copies, 71 people are on the wait list.
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7 copies, 71 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
7 copies, 71 people are on the wait list.
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When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their center of gravity. Over the decades,...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ELKINS 2018
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FICTION ELKINS 2018
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Art curator Val Caruso is not a happy camper. His promotion has just been nixed, his divorce has become final, and he’s dug himself into a nice little rut for his fortieth birthday. The uplift? A trip to Milan to help Holocaust survivor Sol Bezzecca recover a pair of cherished sketches by Renoir. They’d once been given to Sol’s family by the then-unknown artist, looted by the Italian Fascist militia, and now after decades in hiding have turned...
17) How to be both
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SMITH 2014
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FICTION SMITH 2014
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SMITH 2014
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FICTION SMITH 2014
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"SHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like nothing else. How to be both is a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. There's a renaissance artist of the 1460s. There's the child of a child...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CLARK 2019
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FICTION CLARK 2019
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"Based on a true story, this gorgeous new novel follows the fortunes of three Berliners caught up in an art scandal--involving newly discovered van Goghs--that rocks Germany amidst the Nazis' rise to power. Hedonistic and politically turbulent, Berlin in the 1920s is a city of seedy night clubs and sumptuous art galleries. It is home to millionaires and mobs storming bakeries for rationed bread. These disparate Berlins collide when Emmeline,a young...
19) The last nude
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION AVERY 2011
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FICTION AVERY 2011
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"A stunning story of love, sexual obsession, treachery, and tragedy, about an artist and her most famous muse in Paris between the world wars. Paris, 1927. In the heady years before the crash, financiers drape their mistresses in Chanel, while expatriates flock to the avant-garde bookshop Shakespeare and Company. One day in July, a young American named Rafaela Fano gets into the car of a coolly dazzling stranger, the Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka....
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WALLAC 2011
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FICTION WALLAC 2011
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