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An Artist's Life: Historical Fiction about Art
Art & Artist Fiction
Author Birthdays - December
Read Alikes For Fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Art & Artist Fiction
Author Birthdays - December
Read Alikes For Fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia
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Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe, devoted to his profession and the painting hobby he loves, has a solitary but ordered life. When renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient, Marlow finds that order destroyed. Desperate to understand the secret that torments the genius, he embarks on a journey that leads him into the lives of the women closest to Oliver and a tragedy at the heart of French Impressionism....
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2022.
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English
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"From the bestselling author of Just Like You, High Fidelity, and Fever Pitch, a short, warm, and entertaining book about art, creativity, and the unlikely similarities between Victorian novelist Charles Dickens and modern American rock star Prince Everyso often, a pairing comes along that seems completely unlikely-until it's not. Peanut butter and jelly, Dennis Rodman and Kim Jong Un, ducks and puppies, and now: Dickens and Prince. Equipped with...
3) The namesake
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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When his Indian immigrant parents give him an odd name, a boy must struggle towards manhood suffering the burdens of this name as well as the conflicting loyalties of his heritage.
"With a new afterword from Jhumpa Lahiri, a new edition of the contemporary classic. Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta, trying their best to become Americans even as they pine for home. The name they bestow on their firstborn, Gogol, betrays all the conflicts...
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Moody Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"If you’re feeling distant from God, could it be because you’re ignoring His Word? But maybe you don’t know where to start. Maybe the long books and strange names feel overwhelming. Maybe you just don’t like reading. Whatever the case, How to Eat Your Bible will help you cultivate an appetite for life-long study of God’s Word. Find practical guidance for overcoming the hurdles that have kept you from making Bible study a regular part of...
8) Michelangelo
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Describes the life of the Italian Renaissance artist and examines some of his paintings and sculptures.
9) Botticelli
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Publisher
Childrens Press
Pub. Date
[1991-]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Examines the life and work of the Italian painter of the early Renaissance, describing and giving examples of his art.
10) Johannes Vermeer
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Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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An overview of the life and work of the seventeenth-century Dutch painter, famous for creating realistic scenes of everyday life.
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Abrams Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"Kurt Vonnegut was twenty years old when he enlisted in the United States Army. Less than two years later, he was captured by the Germans in the single deadliest US engagement of the war, the Battle of the Bulge. He was taken to a POW camp, then transferred to a work camp near Dresden, and held in a slaughterhouse called Schlachthof Fünf where he survived the horrific firebombing that killed thousands and destroyed the city. To the millions of fans...
12) Edward Hopper
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Publisher
Childrens Press
Pub. Date
[1990]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Briefly examines the life and work of the American realist painter, describing and giving examples of his art.
14) The rule of four
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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"Princeton. Good Friday. 1999. On the eve of graduation, two students are a hairsbreadth from solving the mysteries of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. Famous for its hypnotic power over those who study it, the five-hundred-year-old Hypnerotomachia may finally reveal its secrets--to Tom Sullivan, whose father was obsessed with the book, and Paul Harris, whose future depends on it. As the deadline looms, research has stalled--until an ancient diary surfaces"--Container....
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