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Sam Savage's most intimate, tender novel yet follows Harold Nivenson, a decrepit, aging man who was once a painter and arts patron. The death of Peter Meinenger, his friend turned romantic and intellectual rival, prompts him to ruminate on his own career as a minor artist and collector and make sense of a lifetime of gnawing doubt. Over time, his bitterness toward his family, his gentrifying neighborhood, and the decline of intelligent artistic discourse...
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404 pages ; 24 cm
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Protecting a river guide with ties to the art world, private information collector and reluctant bodyguard Zach Balfour realizes his charge is in more danger than previously known, a situation that pits them against the ruthless multi-million-dollar Western art circuit.
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William Warwick novels volume 1
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320 pages ; 25 cm.
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"Nothing Ventured heralds the start of a brand new series in the style of Jeffrey Archer's #1 New York Times bestselling Clifton Chronicles: introducing Detective William Warwick. But this is not a detective story, this is a story about the making of a detective . . . William Warwick has always wanted to be a detective, and decides, much to his father's dismay, that rather than become a lawyer like his father, Sir Julian Warwick QC, and his sister...
5) Domina
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309 pages ; 24 cm
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"In this riveting sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller, Maestra, femme fatale Judith Rashleigh once again leads readers into the mesmerizing and dangerous underworld of Europe's glamorous elite. Since opening her own art gallery in Venice, Judith Rashleigh -- now Elisabeth Teerlinc -- can finally stop running. She's got the paycheck, lifestyle, and wardrobe she always dreamed of, not to mention the interest of a Russian billionaire. But...
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Fair Warning is acclaimed novelist Robert Olen Butler's enthralling glimpse into a Manhattan auction house that caters to the shopping pheromones of the rich and powerful. At age forty, the company's charismatic star employee, Amy Dickerson, is capable of selling a Renoir painting of a pudgy nude for twice its value. Her customers are intoxicated by the objects they covet. And sometimes, such as when the dark and mysterious Trevor locks eyes with...
8) Dirty linen
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218 pages ; 22 cm.
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Art expert Fred Taylor investigates the origin of some paintings he bought for a song at an estate auction near Boston. Standard procedure, but in this case dangerous because if in the process certain people discover their real value--the paintings are priceless--they will kill to have them.
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On a cold morning away from home, a Muhlbach, a Manhattan insurance executive on a mundane mission of merger and acquisition, leaves his hotel room to drive to what he imagines is a picturesque artist's community in Taos, New Mexico. Once there he wanders into a shop and encounters a small statue, a Mayan figure of nebulus imperial bearing. He is mesmerized and after a short conversation with the shop owner, he buys the piece. Walking out of the...
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Rick Montoya Italian mysteries volume 7
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256 pages ; 22 cm.
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While Betta has official business in Urbino -- namely, collecting a priceless Piero drawing from a wealthy Spanish collector -- she asks Rick to join her "in case she needs an interpreter," but with other, less-official intentions in mind. When the Spaniard is found murdered and the drawing stolen, Betta must shift back into art cop mode, and Rick's official services are required after all. Will this lovers' getaway literally be to die for?
12) Peggy: a novel
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366 pages ; 22 cm
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"Venice, 1958. Peggy Guggenheim, heiress and now legendary art collector, sits in the sun at her white marble palazzo on the Grand Canal. She's in a reflective mood, thinking back on her thrilling, tragic, nearly impossible journey from her sheltered, old-fashioned family in New York to here, iconoclast and independent woman. Rebecca Godfrey's Peggy is a blazingly fresh interpretation of a woman who defies every expectation to become an original....
13) The Paris secret
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408 pages ; 21 cm
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In this glittering tale of forgotten treasures and long-held secrets, international bestseller Karen Swan explores one woman's journey to discovering the truth behind an abandoned apartment and a family whose mysteries may be better left undiscovered.
When fine art agent Flora Sykes is called in to assess objets d'art in a Paris apartment that has been abandoned since WWII, she is skeptical -- until she discovers that the treasure trove of paintings...
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xiv, 290 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Sylvie Rosenberg escaped the holocaust -- but can she escape the past? October 20, 1942. Benjamin Katz and his six-year-old daughter Sylvie stand with their frightened family at a train station in occupied Holland, unsure if the train would take them to their freedom -- or to a death camp. Hitler and his henchmen have long had their eye on the art collection of Benjamin and his brother, which includes Rembrandt's "Portrait of Raman." Now the brothers...
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341 pages ; 24 cm
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"At the end of the 1990s, with the art market finally recovered from its disastrous collapse, Miss Rebecca Farwell has made a killing at Christie's in New York City, selling a portion of her extraordinary art collection for a rumored 900 percent profit. Dressed in couture YSL, drinking the finest champagne at trendy Balthazar, Reba, as she's known, is the picture of a wealthy art collector. To some, the elusive Miss Farwell is a shark with outstanding...
17) Domina
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350 pages ; 24 cm
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Un asesinato brutal en las calles de Venecia. Un robo de una obra de arte de valor incalculable. Un oscuro secreto del que no puede escapar. Un enemigo implacable que la persigue. Judith ha vuelto. Judith Rashleigh lo ha conseguido. Ahora vive en Venecia, rodeada de lojo y esplendor, disfrutando finalmente de la vida por la que ha matado. Pero alguien sabe lo que Judith ha hecho. Judith solo podrá salvarse cuando encuentre una obra de arte de gran...
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343 pages ; 24 cm
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"It's the summer of 1922, and nineteen-year-old Paulien Mertens finds herself in Paris -- broke, disowned, and completely alone. Everyone in Belgium, including her own family, believes she stole millions in a sophisticated con game perpetrated by her then-fiance, George Everard. To protect herself from the law and the wrath of those who lost everything, she creates a new identity, a Frenchwoman named Vivienne Gregsby, and sets out to recover her father's...
19) The hypnotist
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"An FBI agent, tormented by a death he wasn't able to prevent, a crime he's never been able to solve and a love he's never forgotten, discovers that his true conflict resides not in his past, but in a ... past life"--Dust jacket.
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