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Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In a first-class lounge at JFK airport, our narrator listens as Jeff Cook, a former classmate he only vaguely remembers, shares the uncanny story of his adult life--a life that changed course years before, the moment he resuscitated a drowning man. Jeff reveals that after that traumatic, galvanizing morning on the beach, he was compelled to learn more about the man whose life he had saved, convinced that their fates were now entwined. But are we...
7) Junebug
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
When George introduces his savvy art dealer wife to his middle-class family in North Carolina, family dynamics are exposed and anxieties begin to surface.
Author
Series
Ellie Cooper novels volume 2
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2013], �2013
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Annie McMorrow, 31 and not recovered from the end of her long-term relationship, is an assistant to film producer Carlo Spinetti and then to his chilling wife Rebecca Winkleman Spinetti whose father started Winkleman Fine Art in Curzon St. Annie has spent her meager savings on a dusty painting from a junk shop to give to her new, unsuitable, boyfriend who never shows up for his birthday dinner. The painting now hers, talks, but only to us. Shrewd,...
11) Gambit
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
An art curator decides to seek revenge on his abusive boss by conning him into buying a fake Monet, but his plan requires the help of an eccentric and unpredictable Texas rodeo queen.
Author
Series
Isabel Dalhousie mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
In addition to being the nosiest and most sypathetic philosopher you are likely to meet, Isabel is now a mother. Charlies, her newborn son, presents her with a myriad wonders of a new life, and doting father Jamie presents her with an intriguing proposal: marriage. In the midst of all this, she receives a disturbing letter announcing that she has been ousted as editor of the Review of Applied Ethics by the ambitious Professor Dove. None of these things,...
14) The kill room
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A dark comedic thriller follows an art dealer who teams with a hitman and his boss for a money laundering scheme that accidentally turns the hitman into an overnight Avant-Garde sensation, forcing the dealer to play the art world against the underworld.
15) Playing the game
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
When Annette Remington's husband and mentor, the much older Marius Remington, handpicks journalist Jack Chalmers to do a profile on his beloved wife in a popular London Sunday newspaper, he never intends to put his marriage in jeopardy. How could he have known that the connection between Jack and Annette would ignite so many secrets? And how could he know that Jack would uncover a scandal that could ultimately destroy them all?
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As she approaches the milestone birthday of forty, delicate blond beauty Amanda Delanoe finds joy in running a chic contemporary art gallery in the City of Light. The only child of a French businessman and an American model, both now deceased, Amanda lives well and adores her dog, Lulu, but so far the love of her life has eluded her. Then she meets Olivier Saint Albin, a dashing publisher. At the same time, she reconnects with Tom Quinlan, an old...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
In the wake of World War II, Max Berenzon, the son of an art dealer and his pianist wife, wanders Paris in an effort to recover his family's lost masterpieces, looted by the Nazis during occupation, uncovering in the process an old family secret.
19) Brilliant
Author
Series
Kick Keswick adventures volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"... a series of letters between Max, a Jewish art dealer in San Francisco, and Martin, his friend and former business partner, who has returned to Germany in 1932, just as Hitler is coming to power."--Publisher.
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