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"The beloved, mega bestselling first novel from Audrey Niffenegger, "a soaring celebration of the victory of love over time" (Chicago Tribune). A most untraditional love story, this is the celebrated tale of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who inadvertently travels through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate affair endures across a sea of time and captures...
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After surviving sixth grade, Rafe expects seventh grade to be a fun zone because he has been accepted to art school in the big city, but when he discovers it is more competitive than he expected, he sets out to turn his boring life into the inspiration for a work of art.
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
237 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A story of friendship, art, sex, and curly hair: an audaciously witty debut tracing the pas de deux of lust and love between two young, uncertain, conflicted art students. At their New England art school, Paulina and Fran both stand apart from the crowd. Paulina is striking and sexually adventurous-a self-proclaimed queen bee with a devastating mean-girl streak. With her gorgeous untamed head of curly hair, Fran is quirky, sweet, and sexually innocent....
4) Sisters
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English
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During an annual Fourth of July family gathering, the lives of four sisters--Candy, a supermodel; Tammy, a TV producer; Sabrina, an ambitious lawyer; and Annie, an artist--are changed by tragedy as they come together to support one another.
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Publisher
Soft Skull
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Soft Skull edition.
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"At her San Francisco art school, Joey enrolls in a film elective that requires her to complete what seems like a straightforward assignment: create a self-portrait. Joey inexplicably decides to remake Wes Anderson's Rushmore despite having never seen the movie. As Tell Me I'm An Artist unfolds over the course of the semester, the assignment hangs over her as she struggles to exist in a well-heeled world that is hugely different from any she has known....
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Who gets to leave a legacy? 1985. Anita de Monte, a rising star in the art world, is found dead in New York City; her tragic death is the talk of the town. Until it isn't. By 1998 Anita's name has been all but forgotten--certainly by the time Raquel, a third-year art history student is preparing her final thesis. On College Hill, surrounded by progeny of film producers, C-Suite executives, and international art-dealers, most of whom float through...
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Series
Lumikki-trilogia volume 2
Publisher
Skyscape
Pub. Date
©2015.
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214 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Lumikki travels to Prague to find some peace after helping to bring down a crime ring, she is approached by a strange woman who claims to be her sister.
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Publisher
7.13 Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
221 pages : 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"At Take Creek, one of the most prestigious art schools in the United States, an unnamed photography major attends to study under Salter, a famous and perhaps out-of-his-mind professor whose works rivals that of Cindy Sherman and Garry Winogrand. When Salter asks his protégé to surveil Manning, the new transfer, as his final project, what follows is a wild, unpredictable last year of college full of drugs, nudity, shifting viewpoints, and the occasional...
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Diversion Books
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
281 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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"The feud began forty years ago. On one side: one of the wealthiest families in America. On the other: an artist known as Qi, heralded as the next Andy Warhol. After an acrimonious falling out, a Cold War began between these two families, and very few people remember the artist at all. Until a piece by Qi appears in New York. Outside the Fern Gallery, a man stabs himself in the heart while staring at the last Qi, a painting of a young Chinese empress....
10) Countdown
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English
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Orphaned at an early age, Jane grew up the hard way, but she was given a new life, a loving family, and a chance to pursue her interest in one of the greatest archaeological finds ever unearthed. Now someone was trying to destroy that new life before it could even get started. The past is returning with the kind of vengeance that knows no mercy. The countdown has already begun, and it's approaching zero faster than anyone thinks. Iris Johansen sets...
11) Her every fear
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English
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"Hoping that time away will help her overcome recent traumas, Kate agrees to swap apartments with her cousin Corbin. But when she arrives in Boston, Kate discovers that a neighbor has been murdered--and the police suspect her cousin. Corbin calms her nerves, and she believes him until she comes across disturbing objects in his apartment. Jet-lagged and emotionally fragile, Kate can barely trust herself, let alone strangers she's just met. Yet the...
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
96 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
When a last-minute invitation from fellow student Emma Chapman brings her to Starvewood Hall for the holidays, Ashley Smith, an American art student in London, discovers this seemingly charming English village's grim history when a local girl is brutally murdered and Emma's brother is linked to the crime.
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English
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"A high-speed, high-stakes thriller from Ken Follett, the grand master of international action and suspense. Look out for Ken's newest book, A Column of Fire, available now. A fabulous "lost masterpiece" becomes the ultimate prize--for an art historian whose ambition consumes everyone around her, an angry young painter with a plan for revenge on the art establishment, and a desperate gallery owner who may have double-crossed his own life away. Behind...
14) As red as blood
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Series
Language
English
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In the midst of the freezing Arctic winter, seventeen-year-old Lumikki Andersson walks into her school's darkroom and finds a stash of money splattered with someone's blood. She is swept into a whirlpool of dangerous encounters with dirty cops and a notorious drug kingpin as she helps to trace the origin of the cash.
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English
Description
Matthew Bannon, a poor art student living in New York City, finds a duffel bag filled with diamonds during a chaotic attack at Grand Central Station. Plans for a worry-free life with his gorgeous girlfriend Katherine fill his thoughts--until he realizes that he is being hunted, and that whoever is after him won't stop until they have reclaimed the diamonds and exacted their revenge.
17) Never look away
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 189 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Even after German artist Kurt Barnert escaped from East Germany into West Germany, he is tormented by his childhood under the GDR-regime and the Nazis.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
275 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chip Kidd's witty and effervescent coming-of-age novel can only be described as a portrait of the designer as a young man. It's 1957, long before computers have replaced the skillful eye and hand, and our narrator at State U is determined to major in Art. After several risible false starts, he ends up by accident in a new class called "Introduction to Graphic Design," taught by the enigmatic professor/guru Winter Sorbeck—equal parts genius, seducer,...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
301 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Evie and her father say good-bye at the train station, they are both on their own for the first time since her mother's death. But Evie is not lonely for long. At art school in London, she is quickly caught up in colors and critiques, gallery visits and sketching expeditions. She finds fiercely loyal friends-Rob, pragmatic and pregnant; Bianca, dramatic and Italian; and Cecile, the sidelined ballerina-and stumbles tentatively toward a relationship...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jerome goes to art school in the hopes of having his genuine ability recognized. Instead he finds that his teachers are self-obsessed has-beens and his peers are jaded and floundering. To make matters worse, Jerome finds himself being investigated for a series of gruesome stranglings. He becomes obsessed with a lovely student named Audrey, but she is more interested in the hunky Jonah, whose crude yet acclaimed paintings of cars and tanks make Jerome...
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