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Animosity
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David L. Lindsey |
Ross Marteau is the toast of the international art world for his sensualsculptures of rich and famous women. But when a long-term relationshipbreaks up badly, he retreats to his Texas hometown -- onl… |
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Alias Olympia
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Eunice Lipton |
In this stylish work of imaginative nonfiction, Eunice Lipton re-creates a provocative figure out of nineteenth-century art history, Victorine Meurent, the mysterious woman who modeled for Manet's mo… |
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The last nude
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Ellis Avery |
Paris, 1927. In the heady years before the crash, financiers drape their mistresses in Chanel, while expatriates flock to the avant-garde bookshop Shakespeare and Company. One day in July, a young Am… |
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La Princesa Dormida / Waking the Princess
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Susan King |
An antiquarian for the National Museum, Christina Blackburn has her reasons for disguising her smoldering beauty with a pair of prim spectacles and an icy facade. She posed for a painting that scanda… |
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Lydia Cassatt reading the morning paper
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Harriet Scott Chessman |
"The story is told in the absorbing and lyrical voice of Mary Cassatt's sister Lydia, as she poses for five of her sister's most unusual paintings (reproduced in this edition). Ill with Bright's dise… |
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Trilby
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George Du Maurier |
In the Latin Quarter of Paris, Trilby O'Ferrall - graceful, charming and innocent - is working as an artist's model. Her ingenuous nature makes her the perfect prey for the cruel magnetism of the dem… |
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The last word
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Quentin Crisp |
"Quentin Crisp (Dec. 25, 1908-Nov. 21, 1999) was an English-born writer, actor, eccentric and raconteur. He became famous from the publication of his 1968 autobiography The Naked Civil Servant, which… |
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Life with Picasso
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Françoise Gilot,Carlton Lake |
Extensive portrait of the artist written by a woman who lived with him for 11 years and was the mother of two of his children. |
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Girl with a pearl earring
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Tracy Chevalier |
This book "centres on Vermeer's prosperous household in Delft in the 1660s. The appointment of the quiet, perceptive heroine of the novel, the servant Griet, gradually throws the household into turmo… |
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Łabędzie Leonarda
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Karen Essex |
The story of the powerful Este sisters, Beatrice, Duchess of Milan, and Isabella, Marchesa of Mantua, as they compete for the affections of Italy's most influential prince, the Duke of Milan, and for… |
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Misia, reine de Paris
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Isabelle Cahn,Guy Cogeval,Robert, Marie (Museum curator) |
"Misia Godebska (1872-1950), figure de légende de la vie artistique de la Belle Époque aux Années folles, commence à se faire connaître par son talent de pianiste. Son premier mariage en 1893 avec Th… |
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Hidden in plain sight
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Jane Allen Petrick |
Stories of the Asian, African, and Native Americans who modeled for Norman Rockwell. |
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The unknown Rockwell
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James A. Edgerton |
"'The Unknown Rockwell: A Portrait Of Two American Families' is the personal memoir of James 'Buddy' Edgerton, Norman Rockwell's neighbor in West Arlington, Vermont, for fourteen years. Buddy was a f… |
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Deux sœurs pour Léonard
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Karen Essex |
Deux soeurs rivales dans l'Italie de la Renaissance, une lutte sans merci pour un artiste qui a marqué l'histoire. Dans l'Italie de la fin du XVe siècle, la maison d'Este compte sur ses deux filles p… |
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A small life
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Sue Vickerman |
Struggling writer and poet, Suki (a bit anorexic, just slightly suicidal) turns to life-modelling to make ends meet. A sad, funny story about loneliness, the quest for meaning and the search for love… |
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Naughty Paris
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Jina Bacarr |
After being jilted by her fiance, Autumn Maguire uses her nonrefundable honeymoon tickets to explore Paris on her own. Eager to experience the true bohemian lifestyle, she answers an ad for an artist… |
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The ruby ring
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Diane Haeger |
From critically acclaimed historical novelist Diane Haeger comes The Ruby Ring, an unforgettable story of love, loss, and immortal genius . . .
Rome, 1520. The Eternal City is in mourning. Raphael… |
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