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"A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed. In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love, adventure and discovery. Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the novel follows the fortunes of the extraordinary Whittaker family as...
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Sadie Montogmery has had good breaks and bad breaks in her life, but as a struggling artist, all she needs is one lucky break. Things seem to be going her way when she lands one of the coveted finalist spots in a portrait competition. It happens to coincide with a surgery she needs to have. Minor, they say. Less than a week in the hospital they say. Nothing about you will change, they say. Upon recovery, it begins to dawn on Sadie that she can see...
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Rocked by tragedy, Annie Marlow returns to the one place she knows she can heal: the cottage by the sea where she spent many happy childhood holidays with her family. There, Annie meets Keaton, a local painter with a big heart; Mellie, the reclusive landlord Annie is determined to befriend; and Britt, a teenager with a terrible secret. With them her broken spirit starts to heal. Then events threaten Annie's new idyll. And when the opportunity of a...
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Miniaturist novels volume 1
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Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
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400 pages ; 24 cm
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Engaging the services of a miniaturist to furnish a cabinet-sized replica of her new home, 18-year-old Nella Oortman, the wife of an illustrious merchant trader, soon discovers that the artist's tiny creations mirror their real-life counterparts in eerie and unexpected ways.
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Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2004.
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xv, 403 pages ; 21 cm
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From its first arresting sentence, Sarah Dunant's magnificent novel embroils the reader in the coming-of-age story of Alessandra Cecchi, a fourteen-year-old girl with a strong will and a passion for painting. The Birth of Venus is a tour de force, the first historical novel from one of Britain's most innovative writers of literary suspense. Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter...
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2012
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Is the heart smarter than the head? Artist Miranda Jones begins to trust her heart enough to escape from her life of privilege and start over in Milford-Haven, the small town of undiscovered beauty on California's Central Coast. She connects with environmentalist Samantha Hugo- a brilliant PhD twenty years her senior, who gave up a son years earlier, and with restaurant owner Sally O'Mally, who left Arkansas to create her own dream. Each woman wrestles...
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2018.
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"In the new novel from the bestselling author of Final Girls, The Last Time I Lied follows a young woman as she returns to her childhood summer camp to uncover the truth about a tragedy that happened there fifteen years ago. Two Truths and a Lie. The girls played it all the time in their tiny cabin at Camp Nightingale. Vivian, Natalie, Allison, and first-time camper Emma Davis, the youngest of the group. The games ended when Emma sleepily watched...
8) Séraphine
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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The true story of Séraphine Louis, a simple, devout housekeeper who in 1905, at the age of 41, began painting brilliantly colorful canvases. In 1912, a German art critic discovered her paintings while she was working as his maid. Tells the story of the relationship between the avant-garde dealer and the visionary cleaning lady, forging a testament to the mysteries of creativity and the resilience of one woman's spirit.
9) The muse
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Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
393 pages ; 24 cm
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Odelle Bastien, a Caribbean émigré living in London in 1967, discovers a painting rumored to be the work of Isaac Robles, a young artist of immense talent and vision whose mysterious death has confounded the art world for decades. As she tries to sort through the conflicting stories of its discovery, she does not know who to believe, including her art gallery colleague, Marjorie Quick. The mystery surrounding the painting includes Olive Schloss,...
10) The miniaturist
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Set in seventeenth-century Amsterdam, a young woman receives the gift of an exact replica of their home from her new husband and she soon finds that the miniature creations inside it mirror what is happening in the real house in unnerving ways.
11) Rococo: a novel
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Random House
Pub. Date
c2005
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272 p. ; 24 cm.
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Rufus McSherry, a handsome painter, arrives in a New Jersey town at the behest of Bartolomeo di Crespi, an interior decorator assigned to Our Lady of Fatima Church, and breathes new life into the old church as well as the women of the town.
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
499 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
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Charleston, 1799: A daughter of Southern gentility and a gifted painter, Catherine Edilean Harcourt has no lack of suitors at home in Virginia, waiting to fulfill her dream of marriage and family. But Cay's adventurous spirit, fostered by growing up with her three brothers, is piqued while visiting her godfather in South Carolina. Bedridden with a broken leg, he asks Cay to fill in for him on an urgent task: on her way to a fancy dress ball, she must...
13) The forest lover
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Viking
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
333 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
14) Cat's eye
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Anchor Books
Pub. Date
©1998
Physical Desc
477 pages ; 21 cm
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Years after painter Elaine Risley flees Toronto for Vancouver, she returns to search for long-missing parts of her life and pursue the elusive Cordelia, her best friend and sometimes enemy.
15) A village affair
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Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Recently returned to England from New York City, vivacious heiress Clodagh Unwin befriends a couple new to her village. The husband is entranced by the young aristocrat, but Clodagh has eyes for someone else: his wife Alice.
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Lionsgate Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2014, ©2013.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Prep school teacher Jack Marcus meets his match in Dina Delsanto, an abstract painter and new teacher on campus. He challenges her to a war between words and pictures, and in the process, sparks an unlikely romance.
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Portrait painter Iris Grey arrives at Pitfeldy Castle in the Scottish Highlands, at the request of Baron Jock MacKinnon. Jock has commissioned Iris to paint a portrait of his fiancaee, an American socialite Kathy Miller, ahead of their New Year wedding.Kathy invites Iris into her confidence, as she's received a series of threatening notes asking her to call off the wedding. Iris begins to investigate, and when a body is discovered in the grounds of...
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Criterion collection volume 1034
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Set in 1760 France, Marianne arrives at an isolated seaside estate to secretly paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has recently left the convent and is about to enter a chattel marriage.
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