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1) Cat's eye
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Cat's Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to Toronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisces about a trio of girls who initiated her into the fierce politics of childhood and its secret world of friendship, longing, and betrayal. Elaine must come to terms with her own identity as a daughter, a lover, an artist, and a woman--but above all she must...
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Language
English
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Where the eye sees the brushstroke, the heart sees the truth.
At thirty-five, Gabriella “Ella” Graham is a successful portrait artist in London. She captures the essential truth in each of her subjects’ faces—a tilt of the chin, a glint in the eye—and immortalizes it on canvas. But closer to home, Ella finds the truth more elusive. Her father abandoned the family when she was five, and her...
At thirty-five, Gabriella “Ella” Graham is a successful portrait artist in London. She captures the essential truth in each of her subjects’ faces—a tilt of the chin, a glint in the eye—and immortalizes it on canvas. But closer to home, Ella finds the truth more elusive. Her father abandoned the family when she was five, and her...
5) Nude men
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Language
English
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The internationally acclaimed debut of a novelist described by the New York Times Book Review as a "lovely comic surrealist"—a story of sex, love, and art found in the unlikeliest of places
Jeremy Acidophilus is not really named after the yogurt culture—he just likes to tell people that he is. Actually, he thought of that line years ago but has never been brave enough to use it on someone—until he meets Lady Henrietta...
Jeremy Acidophilus is not really named after the yogurt culture—he just likes to tell people that he is. Actually, he thought of that line years ago but has never been brave enough to use it on someone—until he meets Lady Henrietta...
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Language
English
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Ali Bobrow is an otherworldly single parent with an overwrought nine-year-old daughter, a malevolent ex and his grabby new wife, and an underused artistic talent. A pushover when it comes to needy neighbors and uninvited children, she allows her house to be the local drop-in center, until she collides with Noah Glazer, who falls for her pale red hair. A solid man of science, Noah walks into her over-populated life bringing good sense, order, and security....
8) Collages
Author
Publisher
Peter Owen
Pub. Date
[1964]
Language
English
Description
Collages explores a world of fantasy and dreams through an eccentric young painter. Nin's first book was published in the 1930s and she went on to write stories and a series of autobiographical novels and her celebrated volumes of erotica.
9) Seek my face
Author
Language
English
Description
A riveting novel that takes place in one day about an elderly painter and the New Yorker interviewing her—from one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series. • “A brief novel of deep feeling.”—Time
On a day that contains much conversation and some rain, the seventy-eight-year-old painter Hope Chafetz, who in the course of her eventful...
On a day that contains much conversation and some rain, the seventy-eight-year-old painter Hope Chafetz, who in the course of her eventful...
10) The golden hour
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Language
English
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Description
Teenaged Wyn Davies took a shortcut through the woods in her New Hampshire hometown and became a cautionary tale. Twenty years later, divorced, she lives in New York making her living painting commissioned canvases of birch trees to match her clients' furnishings. Then she hears that Robby Rousseau, who has spent the past two decades in prison for a terrible crime against her, may be released based on new DNA evidence. Wyn agrees to be temporary caretaker...
11) Cousins: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Four women from a poor, dysfunctional family in La Plata, Argentina are forced to suffer through a series of ordeals including sexual abuse and disfigurement in a novel widely regarded as the Spanish-language author's masterpiece, written at age 85"--
14) Diary: a novel
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Language
English
Description
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 after a suicide attempt, but that doesn’t stop his clients from threatening Misty with lawsuits over a series of vile messages they’ve found on the walls of houses he remodeled.
Suddenly, though, Misty finds her artistic talent...
Suddenly, though, Misty finds her artistic talent...
Author
Publisher
Broken Moon Press
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
In New York, a woman hears someone call the name of a man who died in a car crash 20 years earlier. She tracks him down and enters into a relationship, all the time wondering if the balding real estate dealer is the same as the actor who was the love of her youth. By the author of Duet.
17) The forest lover
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In her acclaimed novels, Susan Vreeland has given us portraits of painting and life that are as dazzling as their artistic subjects. Now, in The Forest Lover, she traces the courageous life and career of Emily Carr, who—more than Georgia O'Keeffe or Frida Kahlo—blazed a path for modern women artists. Overcoming the confines of Victorian culture, Carr became a major force in modern art by capturing an untamed British Columbia and...
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Series
Beach house ; 4
Language
English
Description
When Cara Rutledge rents out her quaint beach house on Isle of Palms to Heather Wyatt for the entire summer, it's a win-win by any standard: Cara's generating income necessary to keep husband Brett's ecotourism boat business afloat, and anxiety-prone Heather, an young artist who's been given a commission to paint birds on postage stamps, has a quiet space in which to work and tend to her pet canaries uninterrupted. It isn't long, however, before both...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
An erotic novel on a woman artist who trades her body for financial support from a male patron. The arrangement enables Monica Szabo, a struggling artist in her 50s, to paint what she likes. She makes her name with a painting of Jesus Christ, showing him spent after sexual orgasm. By the author of The Rest of Life.