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21) The birdcatcher
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Set primarily on the island of Ibiza, the story is narrated by the writer Amanda Wordlaw, whose closest friend, a gifted sculptor named Catherine Shuger, is repeatedly institutionalized for trying to kill a husband who never leaves her. The three form a quirky triangle on the white-washed island"--
23) Hide away
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is back and now the stakes are higher than ever. Dramatic changes are on the horizon for Eve and Joe Quinn and their relationship may never be the same. Faced with the task of protecting Cara Delaney, a young girl with ruthless enemies who want to see her dead, Eve takes her away to the remote Scottish Highlands where they join Jane MacGuire in search of a hidden treasure. But nowhere is far enough away to protect Cara...
25) You say it first
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Sculptor Nick Mitchell grew up in a family of artists and learned from his volatile father that passion only leads to pain. As he waits on a new commission, he takes a day job as a humble carpenter at a theme wedding venue. The job has its perks--mainly the venue's captivating owner, Pallas Saunders. Although he won't let love consume him, he's all in for ecstasy with an expiration date. Pallas adores Weddings in a Box. But if she can't turn the floundering...
Author
Publisher
Tule Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Sarah Goldman loves Hanukkah, and she's thrilled to be appointed as vice chair of the Hollowville Hanukkah Festival. So when the festival is threatened with cancellation, she comes up with an idea: a new slogan and advertising campaign topped off with a metal menorah large enough to fill the center of town. But even though her heart and dreams are large, the committee's budget constraints threaten to stop her grand plans right in their tracks. Famous...
27) Memory lane
Author
Series
Sons of scandal romance volume 1
Publisher
Becky Wade
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"After surviving a trauma several years back, Remy Reed relocated to a cottage on one of Maine's most remote islands. She's arranged her life just the way she wants it, spending her time working on her wood sculptures and soaking in the beauty of nature. It's quiet and solitary-until the day she spots something bobbing in the ocean. Her binoculars reveal the "something" to be a man, and he's struggling to keep his head above water. She races out to...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Alexander Calder is one of the most beloved and widely admired artists of the twentieth century. Anybody who has ever set foot in a museum knows him as the inventor of the mobile, America's unique contribution to modern art. But only now, forty years after the artist's death, is the full story of his life being told in this biography,which is based on unprecedented access to Calder's letters and papers as well as scores of interviews. Jed Perl shows...
Author
Publisher
Literatura Random House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Un escritor maduro, preocupado por la depresión que sufre su jardinero, se adentra en los recovecos de un jardín edénico que esconde los secretos más inquietantes. Un consagrado escultor de la antigua Grecia emprende un accidentado viaje hacia un oráculo en busca de consejo para tratar a su asistente, acechado también por el monstruo de la melancolía y la desazón. Por último, un hombre corriente sumido en los achaques de la edad anhela gozar...
Author
Series
Kimani romance volume 566
Publisher
Harlequin Kimani
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"There's nothing conventional about Jordan Jace, except his membership in the exclusive San Diego chapter of the Millionaire Moguls. An acclaimed artist, he's also a rebel who resists his wealthy family's attempts to rein him in. Until, at the opening of his latest exhibit, he meets stunning Sasha Charles, a marketing consultant hired to improve his image. He may not need her expertise, but persuading the straitlaced beauty to break some rules is...
32) Eve
Author
Series
Eve Duncan novels volume 12
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When a CIA contact discovers possible information about Eve Duncan's long-missing child, the forensic sculptor struggles to piece together clues about a believed-dead person and her own early life.
33) Quicksand
Author
Series
Eve Duncan novels volume 8
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is still obsessed with finding her daughter, Bonnie. No stranger to looking for clues where there seem to be none, Eve enlists the unique skills of the mysterious Dr. Megan Blair to help bring Bonnie's elusive killer to justice. The tension and danger escalates as Eve and Joe Quinn go on a hunt that can either bring them the revenge and closure that Eve has long sought or the destruction of everything she holds dear.
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"In the pages of this book, created in collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, meet French-American artist Louise Bourgeois. Join her on her journey and learn what led her to create her fabric works, installations, paintings, and sculptures. Discover the people and places that influenced her and the objects that sparked her ideas. Then see what you can see and create your own works of art!"--
35) Shattered mirror
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a new explosive thriller featuring forensic sculptor Eve Duncan. Iris Johansen returns with a thrilling novel of action and danger where fan favorite Eve Duncan is thrown once more into a deadly game of intrigue. It begins when Eve receives a package containing a skull-and instructions for Eve to do her work reconstructing it. When she does, a beautiful woman's face emerges. But when Eve is introduced...
36) Night and day
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Iris Johansen's third book in her latest explosive trilogy starring forensic sculptor Eve Duncan takes readers on a high-energy adventure with Eve fighting to overcome the odds. Protecting Cara Delaney from the enemies who want her dead leads Eve to be their target. It will take everything she has to rescue Cara, and doing so will put that which is dearest to her at risk. Night and Day is the pulse-pounding race to a conclusion that will have readers...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cassie Simon is a struggling artist living in New York City. When she receives a call from a magistrate telling her she has inherited sixty acres of land in Sweetwater, Tennessee, from her grandfather, whom she never knew, she takes it as a sign: it's time for a change. She moves to the small Southern town where her mother, Ellen, grew up--and where she died tragically when Cassie was three. From the moment she arrives in Sweetwater, Cassie is overwhelmed...
38) When sparks fly
Author
Publisher
Bold Strokes Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Daniella Waveny is back from a medical posting in Guyana carrying more than just her suitcase. The difficult to diagnose virus that forced her return to her northern Canadian hometown could threaten much more than her livelihood. It could shatter her dreams. Luca McAffery has her own baggage. The iron sculptor and hockey coach carries the world on her shoulders, but when she runs into Daniella, her arms are -- fortunately for them both -- wide-open....
Publisher
Phaidon Press
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
This monograph looks at the work of Alexander Calder, one of the greatest sculptors of the 20th century. It contains a critical essay, a selection of colour plates, and documentation of the artist's writings, interviews, and exhibition history.
Author
Series
Eve Duncan novels volume 11
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is drawn into the mystery of a child that had been abducted eight years earlier, and must use her skills with age progression as a way to reunite mother and son. But Eve must face looming demons of her own.
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