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  Wild Things

  by Clay Carmichael

  Eleven-year-old Zoë is a survivor. Her fiery independence has seen her through a series of adults who “don’t stick,” and she trusts no one, including Uncle Henry, who has just taken her in after the death of her neglectful mother. Henry is a renowned sculptor of what Zoë skeptically calls “wild things.” Other wild things slip through Henry’s North Carolina woods unnoticed until Zoë’s arrival catapults them into... (more)
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  Golgotham: Book 1

  Right Hand Magic

  by Nancy A. Collins

  Like most Manhattanites, aspiring artist Tate can't resist a good rental deal-even if it's in the city's strangest neighborhood, Golgotham, where for centuries werewolves, centaurs, and countless other creatures have roamed the streets. Her new landlord is a sorcerer name Hexe, who is determined to build his reputation without using dark, left-hand magic. As Tate is drawn into Hexe's fascinating world, they... (more)
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  Nerve Damage: A Novel

  by Peter Abrahams

  Renowned sculptor Roy Valois receives the worst news since learning of his adored wife Delia's death in South America fifteen years ago. His doctor tells him he's dying—and a morbid curiosity about how he'll be remembered inspires Roy, with the help of a local computer geek, to hack into a newspaper's system to read his prewritten obituary. But the death notice includes a small discrepancy about his late wife—and... (more)
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  The Gargoyle

  by Andrew Davidson

  An extraordinary debut novel of love that survives the fires of hell and transcends the boundaries of time.On a burn ward, a man lies between living and dying, so disfigured that no one from his past life would even recognize him. His only comfort comes from imagining various inventive ways to end his misery. Then a woman named Marianne Engel walks into his hospital room, a wild-haired, schizophrenic... (more)
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  Remember Ben Clayton

  by Stephen Harrigan

  A powerful new novel from the author of the best-selling The Gates of the Alamo. Francis “Gil” Gilheaney is a sculptor of boundless ambition, whose pride has driven him from New York into artistic exile in Texas just after World War I. His adult daughter, Maureen, serves as her father’s assistant, her own artistic ambitions set aside for his. When Lamar Clayton, an enigmatic, taciturn rancher, offers Gil a... (more)
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  Breathing into Stone

  by Joel Blaine Kirkpatrick

  376 Pages. Eighteenth century priest, Father Furio Novia, hates his employer, the Archbishop of Modena; almost as much as he hates Italian master sculptor, Antonio Lisi. When Novia discovers that Lisi uses his beautiful daughter's likeness in nearly every figure he carves, the priest realizes he can make accusations to the Archbishop that the sculptor has an incestuous knowledge of his daughter, Anoria. Novia... (more)
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  For the Love of Art

  by Janet Goodfriend

  Also available electronically through amazon at a reduced price. A friends’ getaway on Martha’s Vineyard, turned art heist puzzle, turned island conundrum winds readers through a tale among artists, their misplaced and rediscovered priorities. Though themes surrounding family, public education, environment, and support for the arts emerge, uniquely challenged characters often propel the story into near... (more)
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  Michelangelo.

  by Irving Stone

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  Solitary Raven

  by William Reid, Robert Bringhurst

  When Haida sculptor Bill Reid died in 1998, he was more widely and more fervently admired than any other Native American artist. Reid attained his greatest fame in the visual arts, but words were his first professional medium. He made his living as a radio announcer and script writer until he received his first large carving commission, in 1958. Indeed, one of his several Haida names was Kihlguulins, "the one with... (more)
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  Grayson Family and Friend Series: Book 2

  You and No Other

  by Francis Ray

  The protégé of a world-renowned artist, sculptress Phoenix Banister dreams of one day taking the art world by storm. Few people know that Phoenix has a secret that could ruin her career before it even starts. To protect that secret, Phoenix lives a very quiet life-and that means no scandal and no romance. But her well-ordered world is turned upside down when she meets Morgan Grayson, a powerfully handsome... (more)
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  Eve Duncan: Book 8

  Quicksand

  by Iris Johansen

  Returning from Johansen’s New York Times bestselling thriller, Stalemate, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is still reeling from the disappearance of her daughter, Bonnie.  Deciding to take matters into her own hands, she enlists the clairvoyant skills of Dr. Megan Blair to help find her. No strangers to looking for clues where there seem to be none, the two women use their highly specialized talents to... (more)
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  The Book Borrower

  by Alice Mattison

  On the first page of The Book Borrower, Toby Ruben and Deborah Laidlaw meet in 1975 in a New York City playground, where the two women are looking after their babies. Deborah lends Toby a book, Trolley Girl, --a memoir about a long ago trolley strike and three Jewish sisters, one a fiery revolutionary--that will disappear and reappear throughout the twenty-two years these women are friends. Through two decades... (more)
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  Life Mask

  by Emma Donoghue

  The bestselling author of Slammerkin vividly brings to life the Beau Monde of late eighteenth-century England, turning the private drama of three celebrated Londoners into a robust, full-bodied portrait of a world on the brink of revolution. In a time of looming war, of glittering spectacle and financial disasters, the wealthy liberals of the Whig Party work to topple a tyrannical prime minister and a lunatic... (more)
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  Gibran on Love

  by Khalil Gibran

  Kahlil Gibran was a masterful writer whose work has inspired generations to find new and enriching perspectives on life, love and companionship. Best-selling author of The Prophet, which sold more copies in the twentieth century than any other book except the Bible, Gibran's enduring words have challenged generations of men and women to see love in a new light. There should be spaces in togetherness, he says, so... (more)
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  Charles M. Russell: The Storyteller's Art

  by Raphael James Cristy

  Well known for his sketches, paintings, and sculptures of the Old West, Charles M. Russell (1864–1926) was also an accomplished author in the humorous genre known as "local color." Raphael Cristy sorts Russell’s writings into four general categories: serious Indian stories, men encountering wildlife, cattle range characters, and nineteenth-century westerners facing twentieth-century challenges. Russell’s art... (more)
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  A limitless sky: The work of Charles M. Russell in the collection of the Rockwell Museum, Corning, New York

  by Ginger K. Renner

  The Rockwell Museum is the home of a collection of some of Charles Marion Russell's most interesting work and memorabilia. In addition to oils, watercolors, drawings, bronzes and illustrated letters, the museum also houses the only-known Russell-illustrated set of Francis Parkman's book, The Oregon Trail. The art of the American West has been Ginger Renner's special love for most of her life. She married... (more)