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86) Alma's art
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Meet Alma, she loves to paint. With each new bucket of paint she finds, brushstrokes by brushstrokes, page by page, magic appears. Welcome to Alma's World. Alma's Art is inspired by the little-known African American painter Alma Woodsey Thomas, the treasured expressionist who made her national debut in the art world at age 80. Alma kept beauty and happiness at the forefront of her painting technique, studying how light and color worked together in...
Author
Series
Let it be volume 2
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Three years without seeing him. Three years without Axel. How do you move on from a broken heart? Three years have passed since Axel Nguyen shattered Leah Jones' heart into a million pieces, and Leah has spent every moment of those three years distracting herself from the devastation. She tries to move on with Landon, a guy she meets in college, but she can only truly escape thoughts of Axel when she's painting. At least one good thing has come out...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
To avoid a ruinous scandal after one desperate mistake, Miss Camilla Antonius enters a devil's bargain with the Prince of Envy, who whisks her away to the Underworld where her true nature is awakened-and where they must avoid the most dangerous trap of all: love.
Sinner. Villain. Ruthless.These are wicked names the Prince of Envy welcomes. They remind him what he isn't: a saint. And when a cryptic note arrives, signaling the beginning of a deadly...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Is someone out to get Annie? Or is she her own worst enemy?"--
"In this heart-pounding debut thriller for fans of Lisa Jewell and Celeste Ng, a first-generation Vietnamese American artist must confront nightmares past and present. ... Annie "Anh Le" Shaw grew up poor, but seems to have it all now: a dream career, a stunning home, and a devoted husband and daughter. When Annie's mother, a Vietnam War refugee, dies suddenly one night, Annie's carefully...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Two young women vanish in a seaside town. At the cliff's edge, nobody is who they seem. Desperate to escape the ghosts of his failed marriage, Cole upends his life. He leaves London behind for a remote stretch of coast, relishing the respite from the noise, drama, and relentless careerism that curdled his relationship and mental health. Leonora has made the same move for similar reasons. She's living a short walk from Cole's seaside cottage, preparing...
Author
Series
Birmingham Family saga volume 2
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A brilliant young artist tossed from her home, Cerynis Kendall has been left destitute following the death of her doting patron. Now she seeks a new life across the waters, but all depends upon the kindness of the dashing sea captain Beauregard Birmingham. Birmingham readily agrees to aid Cerynis, but perilous secrets, determined enemies, and tempests of the sea and soul threaten their future and safe passage.
95) Forever never
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Under Brick Callan's mile-wide chest beats a loyal heart with a few cracks in it. He's the steadfast, overprotective type. Especially when it comes to the one woman he can never have. It's a long, complicated history punctuated by fights, friendship, family, and an attraction that strains his iron will power. When Remi Ford returns to Mackinac Island in the dead of winter, Brick makes it his mission to find out what put the shadows in those green...
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
An Arab and a Jew open a restaurant together across the street from the United Nations. It sounds like the beginning of an ethnic joke, but it's the axis around which spins this gutsy, fun-loving, and alarmingly provocative novel, in which a bean can philosophizes, a dessert spoon mystifies, a young waitress takes on the New York art world, and a rowdy redneck welder discovers the lost god of Palestine, while the illusions that obscure humanity's...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Award-winning author Kelly Barnhill brings her singular talents to The Crane Husband, a raw, powerful story of love, sacrifice, and family. "Mothers fly away like migrating birds. This is why farmers have daughters." A fifteen-year-old teenager is the backbone of her small Midwestern family, budgeting the household finances and raising her younger brother while her mother, a talented artist, weaves beautiful tapestries. For six years, it's been just...
100) Tiffany girl
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"When a glassworker's strike threatened Louis Tiffany's dream of creating his stained glass mosaic chapel, he hand-picked art student Flossie Jayne to help complete the task. As an independent "New Woman" she races to complete the Tiffany chapel and make a name for herself in the art world--and learns some important lessons about life and love"--
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