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"An exuberant and propulsive thriller laced with sex, art, and history. Lisa Barr has created an unforgettable story that forces readers to question where the line should be drawn between the pursuit of justice and the hunt for revenge."--Alyson Richman, bestselling author of The Secret of Clouds From the author of the award-winning Fugitive Colors and The Unbreakables, a gripping tale of a young, ambitious journalist embroiled in an international...
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Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"For years, there have been whispers that, before his death, Van Gogh completed a final self-portrait. Curators and art historians have savored this rumor, hoping it could illuminate some of the troubled artist's many secrets, but even they have to concede that the missing painting is likely lost forever. But when Luke Perrone, artist and great-grandson of the man who stole the Mona Lisa, and Alexis Verde, daughter of a notorious art thief, discover...
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Gabriel Allon volume 23
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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Legendary art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon joins forces with a brilliant and beautiful master-thief to track down the world's most valuable missing painting but soon finds himself in a desperate race to prevent an unthinkable conflict between Russia and the West.
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A centuries-old bust of an evil, demonic man was stolen from a New Orleans grave. Its current owner shows up at Danni Cafferty's antiques shop, but before Danni can buy the statue, it disappears and the owner is found dead. Michael Quinn, a private investigator, believes that the right thing to do is to find and destroy this object weighted with malevolent powers. He and Danni follow it through sultry nights to hidden places in the French Quarter...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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2019.
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English
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"Based on a true story, this gorgeous new novel follows the fortunes of three Berliners caught up in an art scandal--involving newly discovered van Goghs--that rocks Germany amidst the Nazis' rise to power. Hedonistic and politically turbulent, Berlin in the 1920s is a city of seedy night clubs and sumptuous art galleries. It is home to millionaires and mobs storming bakeries for rationed bread. These disparate Berlins collide when Emmeline,a young...
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2014.
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Bostonian Maura is beginning to feel settled in her new Irish home, just in time for summer tourist season to bring fresh business to her pub. But the first traveler to arrive is thirsty for more than just a pint of Guinness. Althea Melville is hot on the trail of a long-lost Van Dyck painting. Maura agrees to help Althea meet with the residents at the local manor house, the most likely location of the missing art. But when the manor's gardener is...
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A famed Oxford historian is found dead in his study one night, all evidence pointing to his son, Stephen, who was about to be disinherited from the family fortune. When Stephen's fingerprints are found on the murder weapon, his guilt seems undeniable--but then the revelation that the deceased man was involved in a deadly hunt for a priceless relic in Northern France at the end of World War II lends credence to Stephen's innocence.
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Five Star
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2012.
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Chicago performance artist Rose Caffrey is desperate to sell her sister's nineteenth-century farmhouse in southern Illinois. She's haunted by her sister's death from a fall inside the house. But when Rose discovers three murals in an upstairs bedroom depicting strange images of Native Americans and bizarre nineteenth-century landscapes, she becomes obsessed with knowing the artist's identity and the meaning of the murals. Buried for over one hundred...
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A priceless Titian masterpiece. A sumptuous French chateau with a deadly secret. And a mystery hidden in a Bordeaux village that will change their lives forever. When elegant Anouk, a dealer in American antiques, dies unexpectedly, she leaves the Metropolitan museum an uncatalogued, multimillion dollar painting by Titian. Her son, Mischa, had no idea she had even owned it and becomes determined to discover the story behind the painting. This mystery...
11) La virgen gitana
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Books4pocket. Narrativa volume 271
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Urano
Pub. Date
2011.
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Español
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When an elegant French antiques dealer dies in her adopted hometown of New York City, her son, Misha, is astonished to learn that she owned a priceless, uncataloged Titian known as "The Gypsy Madonna." Misha wonders how she could have kept such a secret from him, bonded inseparably as they were since his childhood in German-occupied France. Now with the discovery of the Titian masterpiece and the loss of his mother, he must at last journey back to...
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Five Star, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
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2022.
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English
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"Someone found out about a painting that Albert Bierstadt left in Estes Park in the 1870s. Someone who's willing to break into summer homes looking for it, and murder anyone who gets in the way. Many of those homes lie inside Rocky Mountain National Park, which means it's up to Ranger Tim McIntyre to find out who the searcher is, why they will kill for it, and where the Bierstadt painting's hidden. Luckily the park ranger can enlist the assistance...
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Harlequin Enterprises Limited
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[2017]
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English
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"Alessandro Di Sione is renowned for being cold and unsentimental, but even he can't deny his grandfather's dream of retrieving a painting steeped in royal scandal. Yet the key to its return is the outspoken Princess Gabriella. While traveling together to Isola D'Oro to locate the mysterious painting, Gabby is drawn to the man tortured by guilt from his past. Her innocence makes her untouchable, as Alex is convinced his Di Sione blood is tainted....
14) Obra maestra
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Narrativas hispánicas volume 688
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Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2022.
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Español
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"La historia que narra esta novela es del todo inverosímil... y sin embargo sucedió. Es increíble, pero es verdad: un museo de primer nivel internacional −el Reina Sofía− encarga para su inauguración en 1986 una obra a una estrella de la escultura, el norteamericano Richard Serra. El escultor entrega una pieza creada ad hoc para la sala en la que iba a exhibirse. La escultura en cuestión −Equal-Parallel/Guernica-Bengasi− consta de cuatro...
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Witch P.I volume 36
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Implode Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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When the cat's away, his custard creams are mine. Busy as always, Jill must find a missing painting and help a man wrongly convicted of murder. And what is it that Grandma knows that Jill doesn't?
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