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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
North Carolina, 2018: Morgan Christopher's life has been derailed. Taking the fall for a crime she did not commit, she finds herself serving a three-year stint in the North Carolina Women's Correctional Center. Her dream of a career in art is put on hold-until a mysterious visitor makes her an offer that will see her released immediately. Her assignment: restore an old post office mural in a sleepy southern town. Morgan knows nothing about art restoration,...
83) Me, Frida
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Language
English
Formats
Description
Artist Frida Kahlo finds her own voice and style when her famous husband, Diego Rivera, is commissioned to paint a mural in San Francisco, California, in the 1930s and she finds herself exploring the city on her own.
87) Companion piece
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the Man Booker Prize shortlisted-author of the brilliant Seasonal Quartet series-a major new novel that promises to capture the present moment with Ali Smith's genius and bold spirit. "A story is never an answer. A story is always a question." Herewe are in extraordinary times. Is this history? What happens when we cease to trust governments, the media, each other? What have we lost? What stays with us? What does it take to unlock our future?...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A tale based on the true story behind the creation and near destruction of Gustav Klimt's most remarkable paintings traces the experiences of one of the master artist's lovers in 1900 Vienna, whose experiences with anti-Semitism inspire the survival of her niece when the Nazis invade Austria decades later.
89) Inkling
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When an inkblot, who can write, listen, learn, and draw, jumps out of Mr. Rylance's sketchbook, Ethan believes he may be the answer to their problems and names him Inkling.
90) Rock what ya got
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
An artist, displeased with her drawing, tries to make it better but the figure, Viva, comes to life and proclaims that she is happy just as she is.
Author
Series
Kat Karateka volume 1
Publisher
Beascoa
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Primera edición
Language
Español
Description
"Katerina Katosawa is a brave and audacious cat who wants to be the best karateka in the world, and she won't stop until she achieves it, no matter how much others tell her that she is too small and too adorable"--Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
Traces the intersecting lives of a young writer searching for her voice, a performance artist struggling with the confines of motherhood, and an aspiring film director who scouts locations in Copenhagen for a movie she will never make.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
In Renaissance Italy, Artemisia Gentileschi endures the subjugation of women that allows her father to take credit for her extraordinary paintings, rape and the ensuing trial, and torture, buoyed by her deceased mother's stories of strong women of the Bible.
94) Dual memory
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Antonio Moro lost everything to the Leviathan League. Now he's alone in a city on an Arctic island fighting the ruthless, global pirates with the chance to be the artist he always wanted to be. Unfortunately, he thinks it's a cover story for his real purpose-spying on sympathizers. When things look bleak, he discovers an unusual ally. His new personal assistant program, Par Augustus. It's insolent, extroverted, moody, and a not-quite-legal nascent...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A high-speed, high-stakes thriller from Ken Follett, the grand master of international action and suspense.Look out for Ken's newest book,A Column of Fire, available now. A fabulous "lost masterpiece" becomes the ultimate prize--for an art historian whose ambition consumes everyone around her, an angry young painter with a plan for revenge on the art establishment, and a desperate gallery owner who may have double-crossed his own life away. Behind...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Two narratives--Richard in present day, settingling into a quiet but pleasant life as a newly married art teacher; Sean in 1980s Virginia, when cult leaders, serial killers, and stranger danger are on the rise--converge around a few small lies that spiraled into a terrible tragedy. Thirty years later, it seems someone is out for revenge."--
97) Optic nerve
Author
Language
English
Description
"Whenever I'm in survival mode I find myself magnetised by museums and galleries, like people running for air raid shelters in wartime." The narrator of Optic Nerve is an Argentinian woman whose obsession is art. The story of her life is the story of the paintings, and painters, who matter to her. Her intimate, digressive voice guides us through a gallery of moments that have touched her. In these pages, El Greco visits the Sistine Chapel and is appalled...
Author
Series
Dork diaries volume 1
Publisher
RBA
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Primera edición en este formato, edición super guay.
Language
Español
Description
Fourteen-year-old Nikki Maxwell writes in her diary of her struggle to be popular at her exclusive new private school, then of finding her place after she gives up on being part of the elite group.
99) Houdini and me
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Harry Mancini lives in the house where Houdini spent his final years, so he has always been interested in the famous magician, and has even learned a few simple magic tricks; he just never expected Houdini to contact him from beyond the grave--and what Houdini wants him to do could well cost Harry his own life.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Nell Zink took on the challenge of reading a novel by a friend, Hebrew-language writer Avner Shats. Unable to make sense of his work, she resolved to rewrite it for him from scratch. Her tongue-in-cheek homage is available for the first time, accompanied by a dazzling and imaginative novella that ingeniously explores questions of art, language, and life.
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