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Twenty-three stories chronicle the experiences of people who have answered an ad for an artist's retreat, believing that they will find a peaceful refuge, only to find themselves isolated and trapped in a cavernous old theater.
Haunted is a novel made up of stories: twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales you'll ever encounter. The stories are told by people who have all answered an ad headlined 'Artists...
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The year is 1975 and Reno--so-called because of the place of her birth--has come to New York intent on turning her fascination with motorcycles and speed into art. Her arrival coincides with an explosion of activity in the art world--artists have colonized a deserted and industrial SoHo, are staging actions in the East Village, and are blurring the line between life and art. Reno meets a group of dreamers and raconteurs who submit her to a sentimental...
43) A spectral hue
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Publisher
Word Horde
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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For generations, the marsh-surrounded town of Shimmer, Maryland has played host to a loose movement of African-American artists, all working in different media, but all utilizing the same haunting color. Landscape paintings, trompe l'oeil quilts, decorated dolls, mixed-media assemblages, and more, all featuring the same peculiar hue, a shifting pigment somewhere between purple and pink, the color of the saltmarsh orchid, a rare and indigenous flower....
44) The painter
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Orchard Books
Pub. Date
[1995]
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English
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Although her father is busy working as an artist at home, he still finds time to spend with his daughter.
45) Born in shame
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Born In trilogy volume 3
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Berkley Books
Pub. Date
©2013.
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English
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"When Vermont antique and art dealer Edie Brown discovers an unsettlingly dark collage by the famed reclusive "outsider" artist known only as Vespa, she opens a Pandora's Box of deception and danger. Edie teams up with Uncle Tuck and Kala to investigate the background of the collage but only uncover secrets that are more disturbing than the artwork itself. As Edie tracks down the validity of the piece, she stumbles into an art underground where some...
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"When the Cuban painter Wifredo Lam turns up dead in his Greenwich Village studio, the investigation takes Detective Juanita Diaz and her new NYPD counterpart Brian Fitzgerald from Chinatown's underworld to Spanish Harlem's gangland in search of a killer who left a grotesque calling card: an exquisite corpse. Suspicion soon falls on the tight-knit circle of Surrealist refugees who fled Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II. Did one of their bizarre...
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2017.
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English
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"Set in 1970, a watershed moment in American History, A Catalog of Birds tells the story of the Flynn family and the devastating impact of the Vietnam War. At the heart of the novel is the relationship between siblings Nell and Billy Flynn. Nell excels academically and is headed to college and a career in science. Billy, a passionate artist, enlists as a pilot to fulfill his lifelong dream of flying. He is the only survivor when his helicopter is...
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Ava Lee novels volume 7
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Spiderline, House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"Ava Lee is a young Chinese-Canadian forensic accountant, specializing in recovering debts and stolen money for wealthy clients. At 115 lbs. she hardly seems a threat, but her razor-sharp intellect and resourcefulness allow her to succeed where traditional methods have failed. Ava is mourning the death of her longtime business partner and mentor, "Uncle" Chow Tung. Looking to start fresh, Ava steps into a new business venture with her friend May Ling...
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Primas of power volume 2
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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,...
51) The bounce back
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Montlake
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"Aspiring artist Neale Delacroix should be on top of the world. She's landed a spot in an exclusive art program that's sure to be her ticket to success, but then her best shot at stardom goes up in flames-literally. When her relationship follows suit, Neale finds herself a stone's throw from rock bottom. Her heart broken and her dream deferred, Neale decides to work a soul-crushing nine-to-five job until the heat dies down. However, that's not exactly...
52) The blue guitar
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
©2015.
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English
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Oliver Otway Orme, a semi-famous artist and petty thief, despairing of limits in his talents, flees when his latest theft is discovered and sequesters himself in his childhood home, where he struggles to understand how he reached his current state.
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New York Review Books
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English
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"In England half a century ago, well-brought-up young women are meant to aspire to the respectable life. Some things are not to be spoken of; some are most certainly not to be done. There are rules, conventions. Meg Bailey obeys them. She progresses from Home Counties school to un-Bohemian art college with few outward signs of passion or frustration. Her personality is submerged in polite routines; even with her best friend, Roxane, what can't be...
54) Hidden cove
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Solace Island novels volume 3
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Chris Honeysett mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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Baker-turned-painter Lucien Lessard and bon vivant Henri Toulouse-Lautrec vow to discover the truth behind the untimely death of their friend Vincent van Gogh, which leads them on a surreal odyssey and brothel-crawl deep into the art world of late-nineteenth-century Paris.
57) Someone to hold
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Series
Westcott novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Camille Westcott, who has been declared illegitimate and without a title, moves to Bath to teach at an orphanage, where she meets artist Joel Cunningham, for whom she feels a mutual contempt until things take a passionate turn.
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Bergman brothers volume 4
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English
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"Opposites attract in this heartfelt, modern marriage-of-convenience romance about finding love--and home--in the most unlikely of places. Rooney Sullivan is sunshine incarnate and the antithesis of quiet, reserved Axel. He's been able to hide his attraction to her until a party game gets out of hand and ends in an unexpected kiss. Months later, Rooney's staying just next door to him for a cozy A-frame getaway and temptingly within reach. Axel, the...
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