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62) Ulysses
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Tells the tale of a single day in the lives of Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus--16 June 1904. Through these characters, [Joyce] paints a portrait of society in early 20th-century Dublin."--Back cover.
64) Art boss
Author
Series
Piper Perish volume 2
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Finally in New York City, working as an assistant to a famous modern artist, and planning for art school in the spring, Piper Perish is living her dream--but she is also dealing with a difficult future classmate, a challenging friendship with a fellow budding activist, and trying to figure out what it means to live as a working artist.
66) Inkling
Author
Language
English
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Description
When an inkblot, who can write, listen, learn, and draw, jumps out of Mr. Rylance's sketchbook, Ethan believes he may be the answer to their problems and names him Inkling.
67) Celebrity cat
Author
Publisher
F. Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
During Cats' Visiting Night at the art museum, cats tour the masterpieces, but Felissima, disappointed at the lack of cats in the art, remedies the situation using her unique artistic skills, in a story with reworkings of famous paintings, shown alongside the originals.
Author
Series
Dragon's guide volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Crusty dragon Miss Drake's new pet human, precocious ten-year-old Winnie, not only thinks Miss Drake is her pet, she accidentally brings to life her "sketchlings" of mysterious and fantastic creatures hidden in San Francisco, causing mayhem among its residents.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Isobel, a gifted painter, gets into trouble after she paints a portrait of Rook, the fairy autumn prince, with sorrow in his eyes, an image that threatens both of their lives as they find themselves on the wrong side of the law for their love.
70) A phở love story
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
High school seniors Bảo and Linh, whose feuding families own competing Vietnamese restaurants, conceal their budding romance, as well as Linh's desire to become an artist.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In retreat from a devastating loss and crushing injustice, Katie lives alone in a fortresslike stone house on Jacob's Ladder island. Once a rising star in the art world, she finds refuge in her painting. The neighboring island of Ringrock houses a secret: a government research facility. And now two agents have arrived on Jacob's Ladder in search of someone-or something-they refuse to identify. Although an air of menace hangs over these men, an infinitely...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A tale of self-discovery follows the experiences of a girl who is sent to live in a priory in the wake of a devastating loss, where she develops unexpected talents, reconnects with a friend, and witnesses the approach of the Great Plague.
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the national bestselling author of The River and The Dog Stars comes a "carefully composed story about one man’s downward turning life in the American West” (The Boston Globe).
After having shot a man in a Santa Fe bar, the famous artist Jim Stegner served his time and has since struggled to manage the dark impulses that sometimes overtake him. Now he lives a quiet life...
After having shot a man in a Santa Fe bar, the famous artist Jim Stegner served his time and has since struggled to manage the dark impulses that sometimes overtake him. Now he lives a quiet life...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
This is a love story, the portrait of a young artist, the portrait of the young artist's myterious girlfriend, a thriller, and a comedy, all about the color blue. Now, in this book, the author takes on the Great French Masters; it is part mystery, part history (sort of), part love story, and wholly hilarious as it follows a young baker-painter as he joins the dapper Henri Toulouse-Lautrec on a quest to unravel the mystery behind the supposed "suicide"...
77) Underworld
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A 1950s teenage hood from New York is transformed by the Jesuits into a respectable man, managing hazardous waste. A portrait of the decade from the viewpoint of the garbage industry.
78) Punching the air
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperrCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A young artist and poet's prospects at a diverse art school are threatened by a racially biased system and a tragic altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Fenna Vos has learned to focus on her own survival-even now, with the Second World War raging in faraway countries. She works on-stage as the assistant to an unruly escape artist-behind the curtain as the mastermind of their act. After all, her honed ability to control her surroundings and elude entrapments, physical or otherwise, reliably suppresses the trauma and tragedy of her youth. For all her calculations, however, Fenna neglects to foresee...
80) Purrfectly dead
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
While planning a weekend for one of billionaire Zelda Zoranksky's rescue charities, Foxtrot, along with a telepathic car and shapeshifting dog, must solve a murder, deal with the secrets of a mysterious serpentine ghost and avoid a creatively blocked rock star.
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