Set during World War II, two cousins face family secrets and community violence aimed at a refugee from Nazi Germany, raising questions about mob mentality, creativity and survival.
Artists
- Author:Lisle, Janet TaylorSummary:
- Author:Stone, IrvingSummary:
A novel of Michelangelo who was the creator of David, painter of the Sistine ceiling, and architect of the dome of St. Peter's.
- Author:Fowler, ChristopherSummary:
A controversial artist is murdered and displayed as part of her own outrageous installation. No suspects, no motive, no evidence--it's business as usual for the Peculiar Crimes Unit's partners. Arthur Bryant and John May. But...
- Author:March, EmilySummary:
Town physician Rose Anderson hides a well of sadness after experiencing endless heartbreak. Yet she's a woman with a pulse--and when sexy, brooding artist Hunt Cicero shows up at her office, the sheer physical attraction he ignites in...
- Author:Russell, Rachel ReneeSummary:
Nikki Maxwell is determined to help out her crush Brandon save an animal shelter. So Nikki and her friends Chloe and Zoey enter an ice skating competition to help raise money for the shelter, but (big surprise) Mackenzie has to stick...
- Author:Nason, JimSummary:
Skye Rayburn, a somewhat eccentric but well-respected veterinarian, always had a troubled relationship with her daughter Moira. When Moira is killed in a car accident, Skye has no choice but to take in her two-year-old grandson Duncan...
- Author:Balogh, MarySummary:
New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh's new Wescott series continues as a young woman deals with her father's death and a reversal of fortune. With her parent's marriage declared bigamous, Camille Westcott is now illegitimate...
- Author:STEEL, DanielleSummary:
At eleven, Pip MacKenzie's life has already been touched by tragedy - a terrible accident that plunged her mother, Ophelie, into inconsolable grief. But on a foggy summer day, on a beach near San Francisco, Pip meets someone who...
- Author:Bowler, Tim.Summary:
Knowing that he is dying, Jess's grandfather insists on returning to the river he had known as a boy to finish a special painting and fulfill a life-long dream.
- Author:Krossing, KarenSummary:
With the potential for cloning already a reality, we all have to face some major ethical questions. Who has a right to determine a person's genetic makeup? And how will we treat our genetic underclass? In Pure, fifteen-year-old Lenni is...
- Author:Stewart, SallySummary:
When Anna Rasini sees a painting of a Mediterranean street scene in the window of an Oxford art gallery her curiosity is aroused, for her mother owns a very similar work, bearing the initials N.K.' Early enquiries suggest that both...
- Author:Wren, JacobSummary:
Polyamorous Love Song, a novel of intertwined narratives concerning the relationship between artists and the world. Shot through with unexpected moments of sex and violence, readers will become acquainted with a world that is at once...
- Author:Harvey, Jeanne WalkerSummary:
In Harlem, New York City, an artist follows the rhythms of blues music as he recalls his North Carolina childhood while painting, cutting, and pasting to make art.
- Author:Rice, PatriciaSummary:
Because Lady Lucinda Pembroke's paintings have a reputation for being prophetic, her picture of a handsome man laughing as a ship sinks causese widespread gossip. Londoners are sure it must be Sir Trevelyan Rochester, gloating as...
- Author:Miles, VictoriaSummary:
Artist, animal lover and would-be swimming sensation Mimi Power knows what it's like to live under the tyranny of a three-year-old sister. Things have never been the same in the Power house since "The Waby" arrived. Finding creative...
- Author:Davis, Ann, Herbert, Elizabeth, Salahub, Jennifer, Sowiak, ChristineSummary:
Marion Nicoll (1909-1985) is a widely acknowledged and important founder of Alberta art and certainly one of a dedicated few that brought abstraction into practice in the province. Her life and career is a story of determination, of...
- Author:Baldwin, NeilSummary:
Man Ray is the quintessential modernist figure - painter, sculptor, photographer, filmmaker, poet, and philosopher. One of the most fascinating of the Surrealists who transformed the Paris art world during the 1920s, Man Ray was an...
- Author:Shapiro, J. H.Summary:
A picture book biography of urban environmental artist Tyree Guyton, discussing his childhood in 1950s Detroit and the way he used art to transform his decaying, crime-ridden neighborhood into an internationally-recognized exhibit.
- Author:Tippett, MariaSummary:
Is there such a thing as British Columbia culture, and if so, is there anything special about it? The eight creative figures profiled in Made in British Columbia are not just distinguished artists who made an enduring mark on Canadian...
- Author:White, MichaelSummary:
White weaves the history of early scientific endeavor, Leonardo's colorful personal life, including his deprived childhood, homosexuality, and relationships with contemporaries such as Machiavelli and Borgia.