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In mid-career, teh celebrated Dutch painted a girl wearing a turban and a pearl earring. This famous painting, Girl with a Pearl Earring, has been called the Dutch Mona Lisa. Sometimes she appears to be smiling sensuously, while other times she seems unbearably sad... History and fiction merge seamlessly in this luminous novel about artistic vision and sensual awakening as seen through the eyes of teh young woman who was the inspiration behind one...
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c2010
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On the windswept fossil-strewn beaches of the English coast Mary Anning learns that she has "the eye" - she finds what no one else can see. When Mary uncovers an unusual fossilized skeleton she sets the religious fathers on edge the townspeople to vicious gossip and the scientific world alight. But as a woman Mary is barred from the academic community. Luckily she finds a champion in prickly Elizabeth Philpot a recent exile from London.
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