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61) Safe harbour
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Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
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Eleven-year-old Pip Mackenzie doesn't think her lovely mother, Ophelie, will ever smile again. Overcome by grief at the loss of her husband and son in a plane crash, she spends most of her days asleep in a rented summer cottage near San Francisco. Pip, a child wise beyond her years, cares for Ophelie the best she can, but she is lonely, walking the beach, daydreaming of life before the accident, day after day, all by herself. Then one chilly July...
63) Local color
Publisher
Monterey
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
A renowned artist looks back with loving memories on the summer of his defining year, 1974, when he befriended an elderly alcoholic yet genius painter who has turned his back not only on art, but on life. Together, they give one another a priceless gift. The student learns to see the world through the eyes of an artist, while the master remembers how to see past the ugliness in life.
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English
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"A broken promise reveals a terrifying legacy in this electrifying novel from the New York Times bestselling author of When All the Girls Have Gone. A painter of fiery, nightmarish visions throws herself into the sea--but she'll leave some of her secrets behind... Seattle gallery owner Virginia Troy has spent years battling the demons that stem from her childhood time in a cult and the night a fire burned through the compound, killing her mother....
66) The brethren
Author
Series
Annie's people volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Nationally best-selling author Susan Wittig Albert cleverly blends fact and fiction in this cozy mystery starring iconic author Beatrix Potter. The serenity of Hill Top Farm is shattered when a local shephard is murdered. Beatrix-when she's not busy making friends with her fellow villagers-lends her insights to the investigation. "As charming as the 'little books' ."-Publishers Weekly, starred review
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Publisher
Kensington Books
Language
English
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Artist Celeste Cabot welcomes the chance to show her paintings at a craft fair in her hometown of Gatlinburg, Tennessee, where she and her Chihuahua, Van Gogh, can park her vintage Shasta trailer and sell her creations, too. Unfortunately, her sales take a hit when a customer returns a painting, claiming its haunted. When a fellow vendor discovers images hidden in Celestes artworkand a ghost pays her a late-night visitshes shocked to realize she has...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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On her first day at a new school, Lily befriends one of the daughters of infamous avant-garde painter Evan Trentham. He and his wife are trying to escape the stifling conservatism of 1930s Australia by inviting other like-minded artists to live and work at their family home. Lily becomes infatuated with this wild, makeshift family and longs to truly be part of it. As the years pass, Lily observes the way the lives of these artists come to reflect...
70) Dead ex: a novel
Author
Series
Wollie Shelley mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Author
Language
English
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Relegated to the status of schoolteacher and friendly neighbor after abandoning her dreams of becoming an artist, Nora advocates on behalf of a charismatic Lebanese student and is drawn into the child's family until his artist mother's careless ambition leads to a shattering betrayal.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six comes an intimate and contemporary study of time, space, and the nature of love. Alone with You in the Ether explores what it means to be unwell, and how to face the fractures of yourself and still love as if you're not broken. CHICAGO, SOMETIME-- Two people meet in the armory of the Art Institute by chance. Prior to their encounter, he is a doctoral student who manages his destructive thoughts...
Author
Series
Primas of power volume 2
Language
English
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"After burning out in her corporate marketing career, Michelle Amato has built a thriving freelance business as a graphic designer. So what if her love life is nonexistent? She's perfectly fine being the black sheep of her marriage-obsessed Puerto Rican-Italian family. Besides, the only guy who ever made her want happily-ever-after disappeared thirteen years ago. Gabriel Aguilar left the Bronx at eighteen to escape his parents' demanding expectations,...
77) The family Fang
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English
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Performance artists Caleb and Camille Fang dedicated themselves to making great art. But when an artist's work lies in subverting normality, it can be difficult to raise well-adjusted children. Just ask Buster and Annie Fang. For as long as they can remember, they starred (unwillingly) in their parents' madcap pieces. But now that they are grown up, the chaos of their childhood has made it difficult to cope with life outside the fishbowl of their...
80) Headcase
Author
Series
Chris Honeysett mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Carroll & Graf
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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