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1) Still life
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English
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"From the acclaimed author of Tin Man comes a captivating, lively new novel of people brought together across four decades of love, war, art, flood, and the ghost of E. M. Forster"--
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English
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Vicky Bliss, peerless art historian and sleuth, searches for solutions to more than one heinous offense in the ever-shifting sands of Egypt's mysterious Valley of the Kings. When her longtime significant other, John Tregarth, the suave and dangerously charming international art thief, is accused of taking a world-famous, one-of-a-kind historic relic, it is up to Bliss to clear his name.
3) Color blind
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Kate McKinnon novels volume 2
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
c2004
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English
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English
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When a masterpiece on loan for the opening of an international exhibition is stolen in a manner calculated to embarrass the Italian government, Flavia di Stefano is ordered by the newly installed prime minister to recover the painting at all costs. Working together, Flavia and Bottando devise a plan to recover the painting. But no sooner has the ransom been paid than the art-napper is found dead under highly suspicious circumstances.
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Vicky Bliss mysteries volume 2
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English
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"Art historian Vicky Bliss may be blond and beautiful, but looks can be deceiving. She also has the brain of an Einstein, the reckless courage of a test pilot -- and no one's more savvy about fine works of art. For example: the gold pendant her boss at Munich's National Museum is currently dangling in front of her. It's an exquisite replica of a Charlemagne talisman -- and it was found, along with a note written in hieroglyphs, sewn into the suit...
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English
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"Joan Blakely had an unconventional childhood: the daughter of a globe-trotting supermodel and a world-famous artist. Her artist father died on 9/11, and Joan—an art historian by training—has spent more than a decade maintaining his legacy. Life in the art world is beginning to wear on her—and then one fateful afternoon her husband drops a bombshell: he’s fathered twins with another woman. Furious but secretly pleased to have a reason to...
14) Sabbath
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Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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The infamous 11th-century warrior Hexen Sabbath is plucked from death and certain damnation by a being claiming to be an angel of the Lord, and finds himself dropped into contemporary Manhattan with no clothes, no weapons, no resources, and one mission--to track down and kill the living personifications of the Seven Deadly Sins before they bring about Armageddon.ddon.
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English
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"A high-speed, high-stakes thriller from Ken Follett, the grand master of international action and suspense.Look out for Ken's newest book,A Column of Fire, available now. A fabulous "lost masterpiece" becomes the ultimate prize--for an art historian whose ambition consumes everyone around her, an angry young painter with a plan for revenge on the art establishment, and a desperate gallery owner who may have double-crossed his own life away. Behind...
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St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2004]
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English
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New England art history professor Sweeney St. George returns for her second brush with death (after the Agatha Award finalist O' Artful Death) as she investigates the death of a student, a descendant of a prominent family and collector of 19th-century mourning jewelry.
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"A comedic novel about an American woman leaving her 20-year marriage to her French husband, returning to her native San Francisco to pick up the life she left behind, and the entwining lives of her children and grandchildren"--
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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Sisters Natalie and Alice Kessler were close until adolescence wrenched them apart. Natalie is headstrong, manipulative and beautiful. Alice is a dreamer who loves books and birds. During their family's summer holiday at the lake, Alice falls under the thrall of a struggling young painter, Thomas Bayber, in whom she finds a kindred spirit. Natalie, however, remains strangely unmoved, sitting for a family portrait with surprising indifference. But...
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Carina Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"Charlotte Hilaire has a love-hate relationship with her work as a museum courier...[A] blizzard strands Charlotte in Spain for a few extra days and...the only question is: Dare she invite her grad school crush for an after-dinner drink on a snowy night? One night becomes three and three nights become a hot and adventurous long-distance relationship when Charlotte returns to the States. But when Adrianna plots her next career move just as Charlotte...
20) O' artful death
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St. Martins Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2003]
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English
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Art historian Sweeney St. George's interest in an unusual late-Victorian gravestone sculpture takes her to a former art colony in Vermont. Her arrival coincides with the suspicious death of an old local lady who believed that the young woman in the grave Sweeney is seeking was murdered. Sweeney investigates, attempting to find out who carved the beautiful monument and what really happened to the young woman. Her search into local family backgrounds...
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