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1) The outcry
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This early work by Henry James was originally published in 1911 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Henry James was born in New York City in 1843. One of thirteen children, James had an unorthodox early education, switching between schools, private tutors and private reading.. James published his first story, 'A Tragedy of Error', in the Continental Monthly in 1864, when he was twenty years old. In 1876, he emigrated...
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xii, 67 pages ; 20 cm
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"A solitary man digs a hole in the ground, near a dead horse. Amid the clutter of food and equipment stands Hobart Struther, who has ridden all the way out to the middle of nowhere on a holy mission. But one day into his "grand sojourn," things are looking bleak. His horse has choked to death, he's miles away from civilization, and there's not a person around to talk to - other than himself. As Hobart examines his rise - how he built a vast art collection...
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"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 meagre 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,...
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When his beloved younger wife and protegé is rendered a top player in the international art scene, proud Marius introduces her to a leading journalist to cover her life story, unaware that an instant connection between his wife and the journalist will ignite powerful secrets.
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284 pages ; 25 cm
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"Elm Howells has a loving family and a distinguished career at an elite Manhattan auction house. But after a tragic loss throws her into an emotional crisis, she pursues a reckless course of action that jeopardizes her personal and professional success. Meanwhile, talented artist Gabriel Connois wearies of remaining at the margins of the capricious Parisian art scene, and, desperate for recognition, embarks on a scheme that threatens his burgeoning...
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375 pages ; 24 cm
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"Iraq War vet Ellie McEnroe has a pretty good life in Beijing, representing the work of controversial dissident Chinese artist Zhang Jianli. Even though Zhang's mysterious disappearance of over a year ago has her in the sights of the Chinese authorities. Even though her Born-Again mother has come for a visit and shows no signs of leaving. But things really get complicated when Ellie's search for an Army buddy's missing brother entangles her in a conspiracy...
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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,...
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350 pages ; 24 cm
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A heart-racing tale in which a former soldier turned rancher and a beautiful designer race to stop a vicious killer--a battle for survival that threatens to explode in an intense and irresistible passion.
Sara Medina, art dealer and owner of her own design studio, Perfect Touch, travels the world to find the ideal artwork for her clients. Former soldier Jay Vermillion recently inherited Vermillion Sky, a working ranch near Wyoming's breathtaking...
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398 pages ; 24 cm
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A tale inspired by ancient Mesopotamian lore and Baghdad's infamous summer of 2003 finds Turkish-American art dealer John Madison caught between his brother's and friend's respective agendas at the same time he is compelled to decipher a sinister biblical prophecy.
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340 pages ; 25 cm.
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A curator of the National Gallery in Washington finds a lost Caravaggio and prepares an exhibition. First, though, he makes a copy of the painting, keeping the original for himself. A tale of blackmail and murder featuring sleuth Annabel Reed-Smith.
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178 pages ; 22 cm
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A novel in which a successful art dealer confesses the story of his rise to a former classmate in an airport bar -- a story that begins with his rescue and resuscitation of a drowning man with whom he becomes inextricably and disturbingly linked.
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246 pages ; 24 cm
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In Santa Fe, New Mexico, sleuth Mo Bowdre, a blind sculptor, investigates a series of murders in connection with the theft of valuable paintings. Once again he is assisted by his Indian girlfriend, Connie Barnes. By the author of The Knotted Strings.
14) Any human heart
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ix, 498 pages ; 21 cm
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William Boyd's masterful new novel tells, in a series of intimate journals, the story of Logan Mountstuart -- writer, lover, art dealer, spy -- as he makes his often precarious way through the twentieth century.
18) 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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265 pages ; 24 cm
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In his debut novel, rock legend Pete Townshend explores the anxiety of modern life and madness in a story that stretches across two generations of a London family, their lovers, collaborators, and friends. A former rock star disappears on the Cumberland moors. When his wife finds him, she discovers he has become a hermit and a painter of apocalyptic visions. An art dealer has drug-induced visions of demonic faces swirling in a bedstead and soon his...
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