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Sigma Force novels volume 7
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English
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Deep in the Rocky Mountains, a gruesome discovery - hundreds of mummified bodies - stirs international attention and fervent controversy. Despite doubts about the bodies' origins, the local Native American Heritage Commission lays claim to the prehistoric remains, along with the strange artifacts found in the same cavern: gold plates inscribed with an unfathomable script. During a riot at the dig site, an anthropologist dies horribly, burned to ashes...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Chevalier transports readers to a bygone time and place in this richly imagined portrait of the young woman who inspired one of Vermeer's most celebrated paintings. "Girl with a Pearl Earring" is the story of 16-year-old Griet, whose life is transformed by her brief encounter with genius, even as she herself is immortalized in canvas and oil. An Independent Bestseller Winner of the 2000 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award! Tracy Chevalier...
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Creektown discoveries volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to Apple Creek, Ohio, where piano teacher and artist, Andrea Wagner, has a fascination with painting the rural Amish landscapes around her home. She has made it to her thirties feeling like she has had a charmed life and finally has fallen in love with Brandon Prentice, a local veterinarian. But then she discovers she was adopted and all she thought she knew about herself has crumbled. Andrea becomes so fixated on finding her birth mother...
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English
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"New York, 1984: Twenty-two-year-old Phoebe Hayes is a young woman in search of excitement and adventure. But the recent death of her father has so devastated her that her mother wants her to remain home in Baltimore to recover. Phoebe wants to return to New York, not only to chase the glamorous life she so desperately craves but also to confront Ivan, the older man who painfully wronged her. With her best friend Carmen, she escapes to the East Village,...
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Ivy Nichols mysteries volume 1
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English
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"If you want to spend a night amid the luxury and charm of the early 20th century, book a room at Hotel 1911. You'll find 28-year-old Ivy Nichols behind the reception desk. The hotel is Ivy's only link to the family that abandoned her when she was a small child. Now, plagued by panic attacks, she pedals her sea-green Schwinn bicycle to work every evening, hoping desperately to hold on to her job. When wealthy, imperious Ms. Swain arrives at the hotel...
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Narrativas hisp�anicas volume 555
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
enero 2016.
Language
Español
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Rafael Chirbes wrote this novel over a span of 20 years and died shortly after completing it. The narrator is a young painter from Madrid who recalls, in an urgent confession, the steps that led to his relationship with Michel, his 50 year-old lover who is dying of a terminal illness.
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Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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July 1924. Sarah Cunningham, a young Modernist painter, arrives in Carmel-by-the-Sea from Paris to bury her older sister, Ada Belle. En route, she is shocked to learn that Ada Belle's suspicious death is a suicide. But why kill herself? Her plein air paintings were famous and her upcoming exhibition of portraitures would bring her even wider recognition. Sarah puts her own artistic career on hold and, trailed by Ada Belle's devoted dog, Albert,...
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Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the life and struggles of the highly acclaimed artist, from her childhood in Wisconsin through her art education and rise to fame, to the American Southwest where she found never-ending inspiration.
12) The Duke Undone
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Series
Duke Undone volume 1
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"When an artist and a duke cross paths in the bustling London slums, an unlikely love story begins and their lives will be forever changed. Royal Academy painting student Lucy Coover quickly comes to the aid of the naked drunkard she stumbles upon one evening in the Shoreditch slums. If only she could banish his lovely form from her dreams as easily. Instead, she finds herself compelled to paint the man in his natural form. Little does she know that...
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Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
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Shipmates: Jonesy, a sailor in the U.S. Navy, misrepresents himself as an oil tycoon to a Kit Corbin. He later learns that she is the daughter of his commander. Despite this shaky start, Jonesy is later able to redeem himself in his naval duties.
Man in possession: After his family snubs him, ex-convict Raymond gets a job as a bill collector. His work involves staying in the home of Crystal Wetherby, a supposedly rich woman, and she asks him to pose...
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