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141) The Man plan
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A young woman���s dreams of finding grand romance and success in the big city, and her schemes to make both come true.... What���s a girl to do when the man she���s loved her entire life thinks of her as a little sister? Worse, her own big sister was the one who broke his heart years earlier. For Ivy Grayson, the chance to get him to see her in a different light comes when she receives an unexpected invitation to move into his luxury...
142) Skinny legs and all
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An Arab and a Jew open a restaurant together across the street from the United Nations. It sounds like the beginning of an ethnic joke, but it's the axis around which spins this gutsy, fun-loving, and alarmingly provocative novel, in which a bean can philosophizes, a dessert spoon mystifies, a young waitress takes on the New York art world, and a rowdy redneck welder discovers the lost god of Palestine, while the illusions that obscure humanity's...
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"From the bestselling author of It Happened at the Fair and Fair Play comes a compelling historical novel about a progressive "New Woman"--the girl behind Tiffany's chapel--and the love that threatens it all. As preparations for the 1893 World's Fair set Chicago and the nation on fire, Louis Tiffany--heir to the exclusive Fifth Avenue jewelry empire--seizes the opportunity to unveil his state-of-the-art, stained glass, mosaic chapel, the likes of...
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"Stunning Yosemite National Park sets the stage for this late 1920s historical romance with mystery, adventure, heart, and a sense of the place John Muir described as "pervaded with divine light." Watercolorist Olivia Rutherford has shet her humble beginnings to fashion her image as an avant-garde artist to appeal to the region's wealthy art-collectors. When she lands a lucrative contract painting illustrations of Yosemite National Park for a travel...
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"Her story weaves in and out of time and place. She's Frida Kahlo, Loïs Mailou Jones and Amrita Sher-Gil en route to Mexico City, Paris or Bombay. She's Suzanne Valadon and Gwen John, craving city lights, the sea and solitude; she's Artemisia Gentileschi striding through the streets of Naples and Paula Modersohn-Becker in Worpswede. She's haunting museums in her paint-stained dress, scrutinising how El Greco or Titian or Van Dyck or Cézanne solved...
149) Call Her Applebroog
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Born in the Bronx to Orthodox Jewish emigres from Poland, Applebroog, now in her eighties, looks back at how she expressed herself through decades of drawings and paintings, as well as her private journals. With her daughter's encouragement, she investigates the stranger that is her former self, a woman who found psychological and sexual liberation through art.
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"When bohemian artist Miranda falls in love with Finn, the British ambassador to an Arab country, she finds herself thrust into a life for which she has no preparation. The couple and their toddler daughter live in a stately mansion with a staff to meet their every need, but for Miranda even this luxury comes at a price: the loss of freedom. Trailed everywhere by bodyguards to protect her from the dangers of a country wracked by civil war and forced...
154) Lily of the valley
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Lily Wilk of Massachusetts, a poor artist who makes a living by painting fire hydrants, gets her first big break with an unusual commission. A rich woman wants a group portrait of her family based not on a sitting, but on photos of its members at their best. By the author of Selling the Lite of Heaven.
155) Frida Kahlo
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Frida Kahlo (1907-54) became one of the most popular woman artists in history less than 40 years following her death. This monograph of the extraordinary Mexican painter, whose work cuts across the definitions of Surrealist and Modern art, contains over 90 color plates, including her remarkable self-portraits, plus rare color and b&w photos of her life.
158) Bending the rules
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"He could be her fantasy man, if he could just lighten up...Tall, dark, intense, Detective Jason de Sanges excites all kinds of fantasies in Poppy Calloway. But when she suggests three teens caught spray-painting a Seattle neighborhood be given art-related community service and he just wants to see them pay, all bets are off..."--p.[4] of cover.