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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
A plethora of subplots unnecessarily complicates a convincing romance in this standalone contemporary romantic thriller from bestseller Krentz (When All the Girls Have Gone). After the mysterious death of eccentric artist and cult survivor Hannah Brewster, art gallery owner Virginia Troy-a fellow survivor who believes Hannah was trying to warn and protect her-tracks down private investigator Cabot Sutter. As children, Virginia and Cabot survived a...
Author
Series
Belmont Mansion volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
To create something that will last is Claire Laurent's most fervent desire as an artist. It's also her greatest weakness. When her fraud of a father deals her an unexpected hand, Claire is forced to flee from New Orleans to Nashville, only a year after the War Between the States has ended. Claire's path collides with that of Sutton Monroe, and she considers him a godsend for not turning her in to the authorities. But when they meet again and he refuses...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
What’s the one secret no one knows about you?
Archie Mint has a secret. He’s led a charmed life—he’s got a beautiful wife, two impressive kids, and a successful military career. But when he’s killed while trying to stop a robbery in his own home, his family is shattered—and then shocked when the other shoe drops. Mint’s been hiding criminal secrets none of them could have imagined.
While working on Mint’s body before his funeral,...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
After being jilted at the altar, artist Sophie Kincaid hopes to start a new life in the small Virginia town of Edilean, where she finds herself being drawn to arrogant Dr. Reede Aldredge after he nearly hits her with his car.
Author
Series
Annie's people volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Annie Zook--the preacher's eldest daughter--is expected to join the Amish church, but at 20 she is 'still deciding.' Because of the strict rules that guide the Plain community, she must continually squelch her artistic passion, although it has become her solace"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
564 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Anna Oh, a middle-age wife, mother and artist, divorces her husband after 27 years of marriage to marry Vivica, the Manhattan art dealer who orchestrated her professional success.
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Language
English
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Description
Susan Wittig Albert re-imagines Beatrix Potter wearing her sleuthing cap as the village of Sawrey lies buried beneath a blanket of Christmas snow. While she and her animal friends investigate a puzzling death, Miss Potter wonders if she can acknowledge her fondness for Mr. Heelis and still remain loyal to her fiancée’s memory.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"More than two decades ago, Ashley Baxter Blake made her most grievous mistake in Paris. Now, a forgotten voice brings new information about that terrible time, causing Ashley to see that experience in a new light. Can she finally lay down yesterday's pain and move on? In Paris, Alice Michel is having dinner with her son Gabe and his new friend, Jessie Taylor, an Indiana girl who is studying abroad for the semester. Alice's life is so good now, totally...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
459 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of two novels includes Christyne Butler's "The Last Chance Maverick," in which architect Jonah Dalton tries to get over his heartbreak with artist Vanessa Brent, who is hiding a trauma of her own.
13) Captive
Author
Series
Eve Duncan forensics thriller volume 29
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Eve Duncan's daughter Jane MacGuire seems to have found a perfect life with Seth Caleb - until a ruthless madman threatens to destroy it all in this gripping suspense novel from the #1 bestselling author of The Persuasion. Jane is an internationally renowned artist, while Seth channels his unique abilities as an agent for the MI6 intelligence service. But when Seth crosses crime lord Hugh Bohdan, he incurs the wrath of one of the world's most powerful...
14) The brethren
Author
Series
Annie's people volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House
Language
English
Formats
Description
Torn between her forbidden art and the Amish church, Annie Zook, the preacher's daughter, moves from her childhood home to live with her shunned friend, Esther, which increases her community's disapproval of her.
15) Luster
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
227 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Edie is stumbling her way through her twenties--sharing a subpar apartment in Bushwick, clocking in and out of her admin job, making a series of inappropriate sexual choices. She is also haltingly, fitfully giving heat and air to the art that simmers inside her. And then she meets Eric, a digital archivist with a family in New Jersey, including an autopsist wife who has agreed to an open marriage--with rules. As if navigating the constantly shifting...
16) Hooked on you
Author
Series
Maple Falls romance volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When her grandmother injures herself sliding into third base, Riley McAllister must return to her small hometown to help run the family yarn store in this sweet, lighthearted romantic comedy"--
17) The shadow box
Author
Language
English
Description
"After artist Claire Beaudry Chase is attacked and left for dead in her home on the Connecticut coast, she doesn't know who she can trust. But her well-connected husband, Griffin--who is running for governor--is her prime suspect. Just before the attack, Claire was preparing for an exhibit of her shadow boxes, one of which clearly accuses Griffin of a violent crime committed twenty-five years ago. If the public were to find out who her husband is,...
18) Hummingbird Lane
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
"Ever since childhood, Emma and Sophie were bound by a passion for painting. Like all young best friends, they promised to never lose touch. But the girls came from different worlds, and their paths diverged when Emma went to an elite college and Sophie worked her way through state school. After a decade they've reconnected, both in a time of need. Emma has been struggling with depression since her college years, and she's lost herself under the suffocating...
Author
Series
Zig and Nola volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"Who is Nola Brown? Nola is a mystery Nola is trouble. And Nola is supposed to be dead. Her body was found on a plane that mysteriously fell from the sky as it left a secret military base in the Alaskan wilderness. Her commanding officer verifies she's dead. The US government confirms it. But Jim "Zig" Zigarowski has just found out the truth: Nola is still alive. And on the run. Zig works at Dover Air Force Base, helping put to rest the bodies of...
20) Hello stranger
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sadie Montogmery has had good breaks and bad breaks in her life, but as a struggling artist, all she needs is one lucky break. Things seem to be going her way when she lands one of the coveted finalist spots in a portrait competition. It happens to coincide with a surgery she needs to have. Minor, they say. Less than a week in the hospital they say. Nothing about you will change, they say. Upon recovery, it begins to dawn on Sadie that she can see...