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21) fountain of st james court or portrait of the arti
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION TRIPP 2016
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FICTION TRIPP 2016
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION TRIPP 2016
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FICTION TRIPP 2016
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A tale inspired by the romance between painter Georgia O'Keeffe and photographer Alfred Stieglitz describes how a young O'Keeffe becomes the married photographer's mistress and muse as her star rises in the art world.
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION VREELA 1999
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FICTION VREELA 1999
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In Susan Vreeland's gentle and beautiful new book, the ownership of a supposed Vermeer painting is traced back to the moment of its inspiration; and as the painting moves through each owner's hands, what was long hidden or forgotten or repressed quietly surfaces. Like Vermeer's paintings, this novel illuminates the poignantly dear moments in people's lives. Tied together by a collective admiration, even love, for the painting, Vreeland's characters...
24) girl reading
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CHEVAL 1999
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FICTION CHEVAL 1999
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION CHE 2000 UNABRIDGED
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CD FICTION CHE 2000 UNABRIDGED
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Through the eyes of sixteen-year-old Griet, the world of 1660s Holland comes dazzlingly alive in this richly imagined portrait of the young woman who inspired one of Vermeer's most celebrated paintings.
26) The goldfinch
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION TARTT 2013
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FICTION TARTT 2013
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In Processing - Adult Fiction
FICTION TARTT 2013
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FICTION TARTT 2013
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION TARTT 2013
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FICTION TARTT 2013
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION TARTT 2013 UNABRIDGED
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CD FICTION TARTT 2013 UNABRIDGED
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3 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Alone and abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by a friend's family and struggles to make sense of his new life. In the years that follow, he becomes entranced by one of the few things that reminds him of his mother: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the art underworld. Composed with the skills...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CHRIST 2007
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FICTION CHRIST 2007
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Following the death of New York City painter Oscar Feldman, an artist known for his paintings of the female nude, two rival biographers set out to tell his life story, with the help of his wife Abigail, sister Maxine, and Teddy, his longtime mistress.
28) 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 OLIVEI 2014
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FICTION OLIVEI 2014
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION OLIVEI 2014
1 available
FICTION OLIVEI 2014
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION OLIVEI 2014
1 available
FICTION OLIVEI 2014
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"A novel of Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas's great romance from the New York Times bestselling author of My Name Is Mary Sutter. The young Mary Cassatt never thought moving to Paris after the Civil War to be an artist was going to be easy, but when, after a decade of work, her submission to the Paris Salon is rejected, Mary's fierce determination wavers. Her father is begging her to return to Philadelphia to find a husband before it is too late, her...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ROTHSC 2015
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FICTION ROTHSC 2015
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ROTHSC 2015
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FICTION ROTHSC 2015
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"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,...
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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...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CHEVAL 2004
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FICTION CHEVAL 2004
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CHE 2004
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FICTION CHE 2004
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CHEVAL 2004
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FICTION CHEVAL 2004
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A tour de force of history and imagination, The Lady and the Unicorn is Tracy Chevalier’s answer to the mystery behind one of the art world’s great masterpieces—a set of bewitching medieval tapestries that hangs today in the Cluny Museum in Paris. They appear to portray the seduction of a unicorn, but the story behind their making is unknown—until now.
Paris, 1490. A shrewd French nobleman commissions six lavish
...33) 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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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SMITH 2016
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FICTION SMITH 2016
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SMITH 2016
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FICTION SMITH 2016
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SMITH 2016
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FICTION SMITH 2016
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"This is what we long for: the profound pleasure of being swept into vivid new worlds, worlds peopled by characters so intriguing and real that we can't shake them, even long after the reading's done. In his earlier, award-winning novels, Dominic Smith demonstrated a gift for coaxing the past to life. Now, in The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, he deftly bridges the historical and the contemporary, tracking a collision course between a rare landscape...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WALLAC 2011
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FICTION WALLAC 2011
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36) Leonardo's Swans
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LEONARDO'S SWANS is the story of the powerful Este sisters, Beatrice, Duchess of Milan, and Isabella, Marchesa of Mantua, as they compete for the affections of Italy's most influential prince, the Duke of Milan, and for the larger prize, to be immortalized in oil by his court painter and engineer, Leonardo da Vinci. Sexy, inspiring, and intelligent, her story of love, intrigue, and art is truly unforgettable.
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CARTER 2021
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FICTION CARTER 2021
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1940. A train carrying exiled German prisoners from a labor camp arrives in southern France. Within moments, word spreads that Nazi capture is imminent, and the men flee for the woods, desperate to disappear across the Spanish border. One stays behind, determined to ride the train until he reaches home, to find a woman he refers to simply as "her." 1937. Leonora Carrington is a twenty-year-old British socialite and painter dreaming of independence...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION VREELA 2014
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FICTION VREELA 2014
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION VREELA 2014
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FICTION VREELA 2014
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION VREELA 2014
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FICTION VREELA 2014
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION VREELA 2014 UNABRIDGED
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CD FICTION VREELA 2014 UNABRIDGED
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION VREELA 2014
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LP FICTION VREELA 2014
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP FICTION VREELA 2014
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LP FICTION VREELA 2014
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"A young Parisian woman is exiled to Provence to take care of her husband's ailing grandfather during the Vichy regime, but discovers that despite the horrors of war, the paintings of Cezanne, Pisarro, Chagall, and Picasso bring to life the landscape around her and allow her once again to experience love"--Provided by publisher.
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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...