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Series
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Leanna Ryan's hometown in coastal Oregon has been her refuge ever since a traumatic event during her teens. But over time, even the safest harbor can start to feel more like a prison. That's why Lea, a master carpenter and wood sculptor, is moving to Wyoming, a place whose rugged beauty has long captured her imagination. The scenery around Silver Creek is as stunning as she hoped, and her new employer, Logan Anderson, is generous and fair, though...
Author
Publisher
Pelican Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Internationally collected artist Woodrow Nash discusses here how he creates his African Nouveau sculptures, whom they represent, and what they mean to him. Full-color photographs of his moving subjects bring them to life in this chapter book. The end of the book is a history lesson on slavery, sculpture, and the context of his figures"-- provided by publisher.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Focusing on eight iconic works of art, this series reveals the history of visual imagination through the ages. A combination of reconstruction, photography and storytelling transport the viewer back to the intense moments when great works were conceived and born: the murderous, messianic world of Baroque Rome; opulent, parvenu Amsterdam; paranoid, revolutionary Paris; Victorian England suffocating beneath riches and righteousness; the madhouses and...
46) The sculptor
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
David Smith is giving his life for his art--literally. Thanks to a deal with Death, the young sculptor gets his childhood wish: to sculpt anything he can imagine with his bare hands. But now that he only has 200 days to live, deciding what to create is harder than he thought, and discovering the love of his life at the 11th hour isn't making it any easier! This is a story of desire taken to the edge of reason and beyond; of the frantic, clumsy dance...
Author
Publisher
Custom House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In an unnamed British city, the virus is spreading, and like everyone else, the celebrated sculptor Edith Harkness retreats inside. She isolates herself in her immense studio, Burntcoat, with Halit, the lover she barely knows. As life outside changes irreparably, inside Burntcoat, Edith and Halit find themselves changed as well: by the histories and responsibilities each carries and bears, by the fears and dangers of the world outside, and by the...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Eve Duncan is the most sought-after artist in the field of forensic sculpting. Dedicated to her work ever since her daughter Bonnie was taken and killed at the age of seven, Eve feels a sense of duty to those whose lives were lost and whose bones are now in her hands. When a sheriff in California contacts her with a request for help on the reconstruction of the skull of a nine-year-old girl whose body has been buried for eight years, his intensity...
Author
Series
Seven sisters (Lucinda Riley) volume 1
Publisher
[Distributed by] Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2015], p2014
Language
English
Description
Maia D'Aplièse and her five sisters were adopted as babies. When their father dies, each of them are given a clue to their true heritage--a clue that takes Maia across the word to a crumbling mansion in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Once there, she begins to put together the pieces of her story and its beginnings.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Archaeologist Riley Smith has been obsessed with Helen of Troy since she was a small girl, trailing her professor father all over the world in search of the tomb of the world's most beautiful woman. Professor Smith set out to prove that, instead of a myth, Helen had been a living, breathing queen who inspired Homer to write The Iliad. Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan has the unusual skills needed to recreate the face that launched a thousand ships-revealing...
53) Bonnie
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Eve Duncan gave birth to Bonnie, she experienced a love she never knew existed. Eve's entire life came into focus (delete reference to forensics--that happened later, right?--) and nothing was going to stand in the way of giving her daughter a wonderful life--the kind of life she herself never experienced. And then, the unthinkable happened. On an ordinary class trip to a local park, seven-year-old Bonnie vanished. Eve found herself in the throes...
55) Taking Eve
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Hoping for a more peaceful time after learning the tragic truth about her child's disappearance years earlier, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is entreated by desperate father Jim Doane to learn the truth about his missing son.
56) Shell: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this spellbinding and poignant historical novel--perfect for fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Flamethrowers--a Swedish glassmaker and a fiercely independent Australian journalist are thrown together amidst the turmoil of the 1960s and the dawning of a new modern era. 1965: As the United States becomes further embroiled in the Vietnam War, the ripple effects are far-reaching--even to the other side of the world. In Australia, a national...
57) The sculptress
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"May 1917: The elegant streets of Boston are thousands of miles away from the carnage of the Western Front. Yet even here, amid the clatter of horse-drawn carriages and automobiles, it is impossible to ignore the war raging across Europe. Emma Lewis Swan's husband, Tom, has gone to France, eager to do his duty as a surgeon. Emma, a sculptress, has stayed behind, pursuing her art despite being dismissed by male critics. On the bustling sidewalk she...
Author
Series
Eve Duncan novels volume 15
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan knows what it's like to be haunted by the past. For years after her daughter, Bonnie, was stolen from her, she fought for closure. When her mother, Sandra, asks Eve to find a missing friend named Beth Avery, she wants to help but is sure that Sandra is hiding something. The fact that she adamantly refuses to go to the police reinforces Eve's suspicions that something is very wrong. Eve learns that Beth has been locked...
Author
Publisher
Lyon Org
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Norma Duffield (nee Strong) Lyon became known as 'the Butter Cow Lady' after years of sculpting the Iowa State Fair's Butter Cow. Initially done in the name of dairy promotion, Duffy's sculptures gained a large following. Each year she would choose a topic or current identity that would resonate with the wider community and drew thousands of patrons through the turnstiles of the State Fair. Her appeal broadened over time, expanding to butter sculptures...
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