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61) Photo finished
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
While covering the most exclusive socialite event of the year, Liv Spyers, along with Regina, an elite events photographer, must put things into focus after a billionaire is murdered and Regina is framed for murder, forcing her to turn her lens on an overexposed world of high society to find the truth
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The McLaughlin twins were trailblazing female photographers, celebrated in their time as stars in their respective fields, but have largely been forgotten since. Here, in Double Click, author Carol Kino provides us with a fascinating window into the golden era of magazine photography and the first young women's publications, bringing these two brilliant women and their remarkable accomplishments to vivid life.
63) Tina
Author
Publisher
Debols!llo/Penguin House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Artista genuina, espíritu indomable, fervorosa militante: todo en la vida de Tina Modotti contribuyó a que se convirtiera en leyenda. Apasionada e impetuosa, la personalidad de Tina fue única. Nacida en Italia a finales del siglo XIX, y tras un breve paso por Hollywood, donde trabajó como actriz, llegó a México en plena efervescencia cultural de los años veinte. Fue compañera en las reflexiones artísticas y políticas de los intelectuales...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
At her therapist's advice, Harper Reynolds trades her job as a crime scene photographer for one documenting nature. But her hopes for serenity are dashed when she inadvertently captures a murder being committed. She flees the scene but loses her camera. Reserve deputy and former Green Beret Heath McKade has been called in to protect Harper, a childhood friend. The sheriff's department can't find any evidence of the murder, but Harper is determined...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A dazzling novel of one of America's most celebrated photographers--exploring Dorothea Lange's wild years in San Francisco that awakened her career-defining grit, compassion, and daring. In 1918 Dorothea leaves the East Coast for California, where a disaster kick-starts a new life. Her friendship with Caroline Lee, a vivacious, straight-talking woman with a complicated past, gives her entrée into Monkey Block, an artists' colony and the bohemian...
66) Boy parts
Author
Publisher
Influx Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for her, scouted from the streets of Newcastle. Placed on sabbatical from her dead-end bar job, she is offered an exhibition at a fashionable London gallery, promising to revive her career in the art world and offering an escape from her rut of drugs, alcohol, and extreme cinema. The news triggers a self-destructive tailspin, centered around Irina's relationship...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sophie Chesterton is a girl about town - she knows all the right people, goes to all the right parties, and wears all the right clothes. But deep down she suspects that her best friends are actually rather nasty, and that her lifestyle doesn't really amount to much. Her father wants her to make her own way in the world, to make him proud. But after one shocking evening her life is changed forever. Scraping a living as an assistant to a 'glamour' photographer;...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"War photographer Lynsey Addario's memoir 'It's What I Do' is the story of how the relentless pursuit of truth, in virtually every major theater of war in the twenty-first century, has shaped her life. What she does, with clarity, beauty, and candor, is to document, often in their most extreme moments, the complex lives of others. It's her work, but it's much more than that: it's her singular calling."--
Author
Series
Codebreakers (Roseanna White) volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Zivon Marin was one of Russia's top cryptographers until the October Revolution tore apart his world. Forced to flee to England after speaking out against Lenin, Zivon is driven by a growing anger and determined to offer his services to the Brits. But never far from his mind is his brother, whom Zivon fears died in the train crash that separated them. Lily Blackwell sees the world best through the lens of a camera and possesses unsurpassed skill...
71) Remember me
Author
Language
English
Description
"Haunted by heartbreak and betrayal, Addie Bryant escapes her terrible circumstances with the hope she can forever hide her past and with the belief she will never have the future she's always dreamed of. When she's reunited with her lost love, Addie must decide whether to run or to face her wounds to embrace her life, her future, and her hope in God"--
1902. Addie Bryant's beau, Isaac Hanson, left the Yukon, and she made a vow to wait for him. When...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"London, October 1890. Crime scene photographer Sarah Bain is overjoyed to marry her beloved Detective Sergeant Barrett--but the wedding takes a sinister turn when the body of a stabbing victim is discovered in the crypt of the church. Not every newlywed couple begins their marriage with a murder investigation, but Sarah and Barrett, along with their friends Lord Hugh Staunton and Mick O'Reilly, take the case."--
Author
Series
Cass Neary novels volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Fleeing for her life after she is shown photographs of ritual killings during a mysterious job in Helsinki, Cass Neary encounters a former lover and exiled musician in Iceland only to be inundated by a series of unsolved murders.
74) After the rain
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Freelance photographer Suzanne Paris has been on her own since the age of 14, and she has no intention of settling down in tiny Walton, Georgia. But to her surprise, Walton residents have a way of making even reluctant guests feel right at home. And the new connections she builds come in handy when a dark figure from her past returns, determined to ruin her life.
Author
Publisher
Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
" Fue en el año de 1996 cuando todo cambió para Maggie Dawes. A los 16 años la enviaron a vivir con una tía que apenas conocía en Ocracoke, un pueblo remoto de Carolina del Norte; en ese momento solo podía pensar en los amigos y la familia que dejaba atrás..., hasta que conoció a Bryce Trickett, uno de los pocos adolescentes en la isla. Apuesto, genuino y recién admitido en West Point, Bryce le enseñó todo lo que tenía que ver en la ciudad...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
London, November 1890. Crime scene photographer Sarah Bain Barrett faces a perfect storm of events. She and her husband Detective Sergeant Barrett are riding on a train that crashes. While rescuing other passengers, they find a woman who's been strangled to death. Their search for her identity and her killer lead them to Cremorne Gardens, a seedy riverside pleasure park that's a combination carnival, theater, freak show, and museum of oddities. It's...
Author
Series
Kimani romance volume 579
Publisher
Harlequin Kimani
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Sizzling-hot basketball star Kevin Koucky plans to end his career with a bang by posing au naturel in a magazine feature. When photographer Jasmin Hook agrees to take the assignment, she never expects the risque photo shoot to end with a sensual slam dunk. But then the handsome athlete comes with children and an ex-wife - emotional baggage that Jasmin can't handle. Little does she know that Kevin always plays to win...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A woman looks back at the events that shaped her life, especially the scandals and family secrets that stand in the way of her making peace with her past." --
"Bea Seger has spent a lifetime running from her childhood. The daughter of a famous photographer, she and her borthers were the subjects of an explosive series of images in the 1960s known as the Marx Nudes. Disturbing and provocative, the photographs left a family legacy of grief felt long...
Author
Series
Black Harbor novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A wealthy family shrouded in scandal; a detective tasked with solving an impossible cold case; and a woman with a dark past collide in Hannah Morrissey's stunning new Black Harbor mystery, The Widowmaker. Ever since business mogul Clive Reynolds disappeared twenty years ago, the name "Reynolds" has become synonymous with "murder" and "mystery." And now, lured by a cryptic note, down-on-her-luck photographer Morgan Mori returns home to Black Harbor...
80) Fool me once
Author
Language
English
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Description
Olivia Lowell always believed her father's claim that her mother died in childbirth. Then she learns that her mother has just died, leaving her a fortune, with the request that Olivia find two accomplices in a long-ago crime and persuade them to come clean. Feeling betrayed, and unsure she even wants the inheritance, Olivia must decide if she can handle the secrets of the past.
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