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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HORAN 2007
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FICTION HORAN 2007
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Publisher description: I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright. Four years earlier, in 1903, Mamah and her husband, Edwin, had commissioned the renowned architect to design a new home for them. During the construction of the house, a powerful attraction...
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION VRE 2007
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FICTION VRE 2007
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION STO 1961
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FICTION STO 1961
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Lust For Life is Irving Stone's biographical novel about the life of the Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh.
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DEA 2006
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FICTION DEA 2006
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Gerlach Community Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY DAVIS 2018
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MYSTERY DAVIS 2018
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print Shelf
LP MYSTERY DAVIS 2018
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LP MYSTERY DAVIS 2018
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"For the nearly nine million people who live in New York City, Grand Central Terminal is a crown jewel, a masterpiece of design. But for Clara Darden and Virginia Clay, it represents something quite different. For Clara, the terminal is the stepping stone to her future, which she is certain will shine as the brightly as the constellations on the main concourse ceiling. It is 1928, and twenty-five-year-old Clara is teaching at the lauded Grand Central...
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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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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
ROMANCE PALOMB 2017
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ROMANCE PALOMB 2017
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"A girl as beautiful as Simonetta Cattaneo never wants for marriage proposals in 15th Century Italy, but she jumps at the chance to marry Marco Vespucci. Marco is young, handsome and well-educated. Not to mention he is one of the powerful Medici family's favored circle. Even before her marriage with Marco is set, Simonetta is swept up into Lorenzo and Giuliano de' Medici's glittering circle of politicians, poets, artists, and philosophers. The men...
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SHAPIR 2015
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FICTION SHAPIR 2015
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SHAPIR 2015
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FICTION SHAPIR 2015
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When Alizée Benoit, a young American painter working for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), vanishes in New York City in 1940, no one knows what happened to her. Not her Jewish family living in German-occupied France. Not her arts patron and political compatriot, Eleanor Roosevelt. Not her close-knit group of friends and fellow WPA painters, including Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, and Lee Krasner. And, some seventy years later, not her great-niece,...
50) The muse
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BURTON 2016
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FICTION BURTON 2016
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BURTON 2016
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FICTION BURTON 2016
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Odelle Bastien, a Caribbean émigré living in London in 1967, discovers a painting rumored to be the work of Isaac Robles, a young artist of immense talent and vision whose mysterious death has confounded the art world for decades. As she tries to sort through the conflicting stories of its discovery, she does not know who to believe, including her art gallery colleague, Marjorie Quick. The mystery surrounding the painting includes Olive Schloss,...
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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
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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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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CRONIN 2021
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FICTION CRONIN 2021
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South Valleys 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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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...
54) 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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"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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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BUCHAN 2013
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FICTION BUCHAN 2013
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BUCHAN 2013
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FICTION BUCHAN 2013
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BUCHAN 2013
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FICTION BUCHAN 2013
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In belle époque Paris, the Van Goethem sisters struggle for survival after the sudden death of their father, a situation that prompts young Marie's ballet training and her introduction to a genius painter.
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HIC 2005
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FICTION HIC 2005
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HELLER 2014
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FICTION HELLER 2014
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HELLER 2014
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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,...
58) painter from shanghai
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION GIBBON 2015
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FICTION GIBBON 2015
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"At seventeen, Victorine Meurent abandons her old life to become immersed in the Parisian society of dance halls and cafés, meeting writers and artists like Baudelaire and Alfred Stevens. As Manet's model, Victorine explores a world of new possibilities and stirs the artist to push the boundaries of painting in his infamous portrait Olympia, which scandalizes even the most cosmopolitan city"--Dust jacket flap.
60) Paris: the novel
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION RUTHER 2013
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FICTION RUTHER 2013
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Moving back and forth in time across centuries, the story unfolds through intimate and vivid tales of self-discovery, divided loyalties, passion, and long-kept secrets of characters both fictional and real, all set against the backdrop of the glorious city of Paris - from the building of Notre Dame to the dangerous machinations of Cardinal Richlieu; from the glittering court of Versailles to the violence of the French Revolution and the Paris Commune;...