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Becoming O'Keeffe
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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… |
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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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Diary
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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… |
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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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Beach house for rent
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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 … |
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The very picture of you
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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… |
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The Bone People
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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… |
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Gwen John
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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 … |
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Black Beech and Honeydew
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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. |
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Sheer blue bliss
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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… |
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