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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Becoming O'Keeffe Becoming O'Keeffe Sarah Whitaker Peters "This critical biography casts a clear new light on how a fiercely independent young art student became the artist Georgia O'Keeffe. Examining the period 1915 to 1930, with flashbacks to O'Keeffe's l… OL16069182W
The last nude The last nude 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… OL16597105W
Diary Diary Chuck Palahniuk Misty Wilmot has had it. Once a promising young artist, she's now stuck on an island ruined by tourism, drinking too much and working as a waitress in a hotel. Her husband, a contractor, is in a coma… OL18937W
Lydia Cassatt reading the morning paper Lydia Cassatt reading the morning paper 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… OL1939611W
Beach house for rent Beach house for rent Mary Alice Monroe "Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times bestselling author of the Lowcountry Summer series, returns to her beloved Beach House series with the highly anticipated follow-up to Beach House Memories and The … OL20056005W
The very picture of you The very picture of you Isabel Wolff "Ella has always been an artist, jotting down pictures from a young age, and now in her thirties she has made it her profession. Commissioned to capture memories, fading beauty and family moments, he… OL20810743W
The Bone People The Bone People Keri Hulme At once a mystery, a love story, and an ambitious exploration of the zone where Maori and European New Zealand meet, Booker Prize-winning novel The Bone People is a powerful and unsettling tale satur… OL3991459W
Gwen John Gwen John Sue Roe "In 1942, at the height of his fame, Augustus John predicted that 'fifty years after my death I shall be remembered as Gwen John's brother'. Gwen John (1876-1939) is indeed now recognised as a great … OL4452081W
Black Beech and Honeydew Black Beech and Honeydew Ngaio Marsh Autobiography of the mystery writer, born in New Zealand, who started her string of detective stories during leisure hours while she ran a London gift shop. OL460787W
Sheer blue bliss Sheer blue bliss Lesley Glaister Thirty years after she first painted it, Connie & her portrait of lost lover Patrick Mount, have been swept into London by the National Portrait Gallery. While in another part of the city a disturbed… OL835227W