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1815. Sophie Dupont assists her father in his studio, keeping her own artwork out of sight. Along the north Devon coast, popular with artists and poets, she meets Wesley Overtree, the first man to tell her she's beautiful. Captain Stephen Overtree, home on leave, is sent to find Wesley. He's startled to recognize Sophie from a miniature portrait-- one of Wesley's discarded works. When he realizes Wesley has left her with child, Stephen proposes to...
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"Welcome to Apple Creek, Ohio, where a piano teacher has a fascination with painting the rural Amish landscapes around her home. Andrea Wagner 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 that she pushes...
6) Martyr!
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2024.
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English
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"A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum"--
Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother’s plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father’s life in America was circumscribed by his...
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2017.
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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...
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Miramar Bay novels volume 9
Pub. Date
2024
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English
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When his Aunt Amelia, his closest friend and greatest supporter, passes away, leaving him her home in Miramar, classical guitarist Ian Hart uses this opportunity to reflect and move forward after a scandal destroyed his career but instead finds himself drawn to another newcomer, artist Kari Langham, who changes everything.
10) Cousins: a novel
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Soft Skull
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2023.
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English
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"Cousins, widely regarded as Venturini's masterpiece, is the story of four women from an impoverished, dysfunctional family in La Plata, Argentina, who are forced to suffer through a series of ordeals, including illegal abortions, miscarriages, sexual abuse, disfigurement, and murder, narrated by a daughter whose success as a painter offers her a chance to achieve economic independence and help her family as best as she can." -- Amazon.
11) A grave talent
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Picador, Minotaur Books, A Thomas Dunne Book
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2014.
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English
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Assigned, along with her new partner, to investigate the murders of three little girls, homicide detective Casey Martinelli closes in on a colony of mismatched people living in the wooded hills near San Francisco.
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Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
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[2018]
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"In 1880s Oklahoma, Lieutenant Jack Hennessey is stunned to run into Hattie Walker, the girl who shattered his heart. She's surprised to find him back in town. His attempts to save her from a dangerous situation go awry--putting her dreams in peril and testing his resolve to remain single"--
13) The wishing hill
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New American Library
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©2013.
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English
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When Juliet's brother asks her to come home to wintery Boston and care for their ailing mother, a flamboyant actress with a storied past, Juliet goes reluctantly. She and her self-absorbed mother have always clashed. Plus, nobody back home knows about her divorce-- or the fact that she's pregnant and her ex-husband is not the father. As she is drawn into a long-running feud between her mother and a reclusive neighbor, Juliet finds secrets about her...
14) The last nude
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Riverhead Books
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[2013]
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English
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"A stunning story of love, sexual obsession, treachery, and tragedy, about an artist and her most famous muse in Paris between the world wars. 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 American named Rafaela Fano gets into the car of a coolly dazzling stranger, the Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka....
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