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  Walking in this World

  by Julia Cameron

  Walking in this World presents the next step in Julia Cameron's course of discovering and recovering the creative self. The Artist's Way, a classic cherished by aspiring and working artists who have experienced its benefits, is a groundbreaking book that offered an original and astoundingly effective 12-week course in recovering inherent creativity by minimising life's 'blocks' - self sabotage, jealously, guilt,... (more)
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  Lizzie Siddal: Face of the Pre-Raphaelites

  by Lucinda Hawksley

  In the twenty-first century, even those who do not know Lizzie Siddal’s name will recognize her face: she is Millais’s doomed Ophelia and Rossetti’s beatified Beatrice in two of the nineteenth century’s most famous paintings. As Lucinda Hawksley explores in Lizzie Siddal, Face of the Pre-Raphaelites, Siddal’s fame was a remarkable phenomenon: in a time when she was the opposite of the Victorian beauty (she was... (more)
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  "Muse": Inside the Muscle Museum

  by Ben Myers

  The first and only book on Muse is now fully updated with exclusive interviews with the band themselves. By the release of their astonishing million-selling fourth album, "Black Holes & Revelations", Muse had become the biggest rock band in the UK, selling out Wembley Stadium for two nights - the first band ever to play at the new venue. "Muse: Inside The Muscle Museum" charts the band's ascension and includes... (more)
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  The Drawing Lesson: The First in the Trilogy of Remembrance

  by Mary E. Martin

  Magical light creates stunning visions in Alexander Wainwright's landscape paintings. His most recent painting, The Hay Wagon , is a marvelous, moonlit scene, with an old-fashioned hay wagon dominating the foreground, with a beautiful, unearthly glow. Yet, at the pinnacle of his career, he is about to lose his muse. Not everyone appreciates his work. Rinaldo, a conceptual artist, mocks Alexander's bourgeois... (more)
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  Corpse de Ballet: A Nine Muses Mystery: Terpsichore (A Nine Muses Mystery)

  by Ellen Pall

  To Juliet Bodine, a successful writer of historical romances, helping an old friend mount a ballet production of Great Expectations seemed to be a great way to put off writing. But behind the image of elegant perfection and effortless grace, Juliet discovers a backstage world torn by intense rivalry and competing agendas. When a series of accidents leads to the death of a dancer, Juliet begins to suspect that a... (more)
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  Mortal Love

  by Elizabeth Hand

  In the Victorian Age, a mysterious and irresistible woman becomes entwined in the lives of several artists, both as a muse and as the object of all-consuming obsession. Radborne Comstock, one of the early twentieth century's most brilliant young painters, is helpless under her dangerous spell. In modern-day London, journalist Daniel Rowlands meets a beguiling woman who holds the secret to invaluable -- and lost... (more)
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  The Little Sprout

  by Muse

  The fairy tale begins deep in the woodland, where magic dwells. The story unfolds in poetic form as The young Sprout tries to find his path in life. What will he decide to do? What will he become? What would you do ~ if you were a sprout? :) The book is in full color, featuring art from the Muse. For the young or the young at heart...this paperback, full color edition ~Sprout~ is sure to bring a smile. It is a... (more)
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  Enigmatic Evolution: Prose of Heart and Soul (Volume 1)

  by Muse

  One woman's heart is layered within these pages. Sonnets of reverence which offer motivation and inspiration, all penned from personal experience. A mysterious menagerie of fledgling poetry and intimate prose ~ from light-hearted romps to veils of darkness ~ to love's salvation...the reader will be touched by the many facets of The Muse's soul. Prepare for a journey ~ a metamorphosis of heart and soul, where... (more)
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  Mr Fox

  by Helen Oyeyemi

  From a prizewinning young writer, a brilliant and inventive story of love, lies, and inspiration. Fairy-tale romances end with a wedding, and the fairy tales don't get complicated. In this book, the celebrated writer Mr. Fox can't stop himself from killing off the heroines of his novels, and neither can his wife, Daphne. It's not until Mary, his muse, comes to life and transforms him from author into subject... (more)
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  Mercy: Book 3

  Muse

  by Rebecca Lim

  An angel searching for answers, for her destiny! In the third MERCY paranormal romance, Mercy wakes in a new unknown host, her love for Ryan and Luc burning stronger than ever. But who will she make the ultimate sacrifice for? There's something very wrong with me. When I wake up, I could be anyone! Mercy is thrust into the excessive world of fashion when she awakes in the body of a troubled Russian supermodel,... (more)
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  Blow by Blow: The Story of Isabella Blow

  by Detmar Blow

  The news of Isabella Blow's suicide in 2007 shocked the international fashion world for whom she was a legendary figure. As a true patron of couture, she is credited with having discovered and fostered the careers of famed designers Alexander McQueen and Philip Treacy, among others, and was recognized the world over as their great muse, friend and confidant. While she also discovered exquisite models Stella... (more)
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  While I Was Musing, the Fire Burned

  by Michael P. Petrillo

  Dr. Michael Petrillo met the challenge of difficult economic times with education, determination, and personal goal-setting. He achieved his objectives by becoming a pastor, a psychotherapist, a mentor, coach, hypnotherapist, and muse. Now, he offers his most powerful tools to help you achieve your own success. In While I Was Musing, the Fires Burned, Dr. Petrillo examines the healing power of meditation,... (more)
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  The Noctuary

  by Greg Chapman

  Simon Ryan is Hell's new scribe...the safety of our souls will depend on his every word. Struggling writer Simon Ryan's life has gone to Hell. Shadows are pouring into his reality and his words are not his own anymore. He has been chosen to become a scribe for some of the worst creatures of the Underworld-the ones whose sole purpose is to torment human souls-The Dark Muses. As Simon writes he falls... (more)
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  May and Amy: A True Story of Family, Forbidden Love, and the Secret Lives of May Gaskell, Her Daughter Amy, and Sir Edward Burne-Jones

  by Josceline Dimbleby

  Always intrigued by Edward Burne-Jones’s portrait of her great-aunt, Amy Gaskell, Josceline Dimbleby’s chance meeting with the painting’s current owner encouraged her to explore the mystery of her own family’s past and the life and death of her beautiful great-aunt. In her search, Dimbleby uncovered a passionate correspondence between Burne-Jones and her great-grandmother, May Gaskell, Amy’s mother, which... (more)
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  Art and Soul

  by Pam Grout

  Takes readers on a year-long journey into their creative souls, offering a map for finding and expressing the art that dwells there. It encourages readers to recapture their authentic self that many abadoned long ago with their Crayola crayons.
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  Eve Diamond Novels: Book 4

  Savage Garden

  by Denise Hamilton

  A new play by a rising Mexican playwright is premiering, and Eve and her lover, Silvio Aguilar, are there -- the writer is Silvio's friend from their barrio days. When the lead actress is a no-show, Eve quickly uncovers that Silvio has complicated past ties to the missing diva. But there is no time for hurt, betrayal, or suspicion -- not when there are signs of a struggle at the actress's bungalow. To make matters... (more)
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  The Leather Bride

  by Tilly Greene

  -Is the runway a good place for reuniting lovers? When submissive Mimi agrees to wear something old, something new, something borrowed and something leather for a charity fashion show, the last thing she expects at the "altar" is the Dominant groom of her dreams. Will she say "I do, Master?"
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  Hot Couture

  by Tilly Greene

  New York, London, Paris-Fashion and passion collide in this elegant print collection by Tilly Greene! The Leather Bride: Mimi St. John is an intelligent, successful, woman in a committed relationship, or so she thought. After dropping hints and finally getting a small taste of what she truly wanted from her lover, being bound and taken, he leaves. Rick Milston has known from the first moment he saw his lover... (more)
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  No Funny Stuff!

  by Michele Hart

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  Song of the Muses Book III

  by Alisha Paige,Michele Hart,Valerie Everhart