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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Homeport	Nora Roberts	Kurzbeschreibung Das Haus der Donna (Homeport) - Nora Roberts Das Geheimnis der Dunklen Lady. Die amerikanische Kunstexpertin Dr. Miranda Jones reist nach Florenz, um eine kürzlich gefundene B…	OL111499W
Riña de gatos	Eduardo Mendoza	Un inglés llamado Anthony Whitelands llega a bordo de un tren al Madrid convulso de la primavera de 1936. Deberá autenticar un cuadro desconocido, perteneciente a un amigo de José Antonio Primo de Ri…	OL15504297W
Robbie Ross	Jonathan Fryer	"Robbie Ross is best known as the young man who first seduced Oscar Wilde and at the end acted as Wilde's devoted and able literary executor. He achieved something his lover appeared incapable of - m…	OL15839554W
Mulk Raj Anand, shaping the Indian modern	Annapurna Garimella	On the life and work of Mulk Raj Anand, b. 1905, Indian art patron and novelist; contributed articles by his associates on his contribution to Indian cultural traditions and Mārg̲, Indian serial.	OL18333317W
The Portrait	Iain Pears	An art critic journeys to a remote island off Brittany to sit for a portrait painted by an old friend, a gifted but tormented artist living in self-imposed exile. The painter recalls their years of f…	OL1900867W
The eye	Philippe Costamagna	"It's a rare and secret profession, comprising a few dozen people around the world equipped with a mysterious mixture of knowledge and innate sensibility. Summoned to Swiss bank vaults, Fifth Avenue …	OL19761367W
The spectacle of skill	Robert Hughes	"A selection of the best writing by the most important--and thunderously outspoken--art and culture critic of our time, including approximately 125 never-before-seen pages from the unfinished second …	OL20012951W
Vengeance in Venice	Philip Gwynne Jones	"There aren't that many perks to being Honorary Consul in Venice, but Nathan Sutherland does at least receive an invitation to the official opening of the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. A c…	OL20849727W
Until further notice, I am alive	Tom Lubbock	In 2008, Tom Lubbock was diagnosed with a rare brain tumour and told he had only two years to live. Physically fit and healthy, and suffering from few symptoms, he faced his death with the same direc…	OL20891679W
The Cat Who Could Read Backwards	Lilian Jackson Braun	The world of modern art is a mystery to many. But for Jim Qwilleran it turns into a mystery of another sort when his assignment to cover the art beat for the Daily Fluxion leads down the path to murd…	OL458050W
Im Gespräch mit Georg Lukács	Hauser, Arnold	136 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : 18 cm	OL5107238W
Brimstone	Lincoln Child,Douglas Preston	A body is found in the attic of a fabulous Long Island estate. There is a hoofprint scorched into the floor, and the stench of sulfur chokes the air. When FBI Special Agent Pendergast investigates …	OL549375W
Me and Kaminski	Daniel Kehlmann	Confronting a series of personal, romantic, and professional failures, Sebastian Zollner prepares to interview Manuel Kaminski, an eccentric and legendary painter living in seclusion as he loses his …	OL991403W