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Gabriel Allon volume 23
Language
English
Description
Legendary art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon joins forces with a brilliant and beautiful master-thief to track down the world's most valuable missing painting but soon finds himself in a desperate race to prevent an unthinkable conflict between Russia and the West.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Based on a true story, this gorgeous new novel follows the fortunes of three Berliners caught up in an art scandal--involving newly discovered van Goghs--that rocks Germany amidst the Nazis' rise to power. Hedonistic and politically turbulent, Berlin in the 1920s is a city of seedy night clubs and sumptuous art galleries. It is home to millionaires and mobs storming bakeries for rationed bread. These disparate Berlins collide when Emmeline,a young...
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Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
It was stolen from a New Orleans grave -- the centuries-old bust of an evil man, a demonic man. It's an object desired by collectors -- and by those with wickedness in their hearts. One day, its' current owner shows up at the antique shop on Royal Street that Danni Cafferty inherited from her father. But before Danni can buy the statue, it disappears, the owner is found dead ... and Danni discovers that she's inherited much more than she realized....
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Series
Language
English
Description
The painting Ghosts in the Mind by Henry Sebastian Hubert is reputed to come to life -- and to bring death. The artist was a friend of Lord Byron and Mary Shelley, joining them in Switzerland during 1816, "the year without a summer." That was when they all explored themes of horror and depravity in their art. Now, almost two hundred years later, the painting appears in New Orleans. Wherever it goes, death seems to follow. Danielle Cafferty and Michael...
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Language
English
Description
"An exuberant and propulsive thriller laced with sex, art, and history. Lisa Barr has created an unforgettable story that forces readers to question where the line should be drawn between the pursuit of justice and the hunt for revenge."--Alyson Richman, bestselling author of The Secret of Clouds From the author of the award-winning Fugitive Colors and The Unbreakables, a gripping tale of a young, ambitious journalist embroiled in an international...
Author
Publisher
Profile Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
These are the stories behind some of the greatest losses to artistic culture, including some works which have never even existed. Read about the 'ghost story' of Joyce's poem 'Et Tu, Healy', written when he was nine, which then disappeared without a trace, as well as how a long-lost document led a desperate forger to plant bombs, and how the most extravagant book binding ever made sank with the Titanic. All of these losses raise greater questions...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Visiting Florence to study art history and finish her thesis on the lost works of Michelangelo, American student Kate Westcott befriends Italian student Marco, with whom she discovers three missing sculptures, only to be violently targeted by a master art thief.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"For years, there have been whispers that, before his death, Van Gogh completed a final self-portrait. Curators and art historians have savored this rumor, hoping it could illuminate some of the troubled artist's many secrets, but even they have to concede that the missing painting is likely lost forever. But when Luke Perrone, artist and great-grandson of the man who stole the Mona Lisa, and Alexis Verde, daughter of a notorious art thief, discover...
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