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1) Fool me once
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Language
English
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Olivia Lowell has just learned that the mother she had been told by her father had died during childbirth, had only recently died, leaving her a fortune. The money, however, came with a caveat and a confession. Now, to carry out her mother's dying wish, she's searching for two of the woman's college friends with the help of a handsome young lawyer. Along the way she discovers who her mother really was, and who she, too, is meant to be.
Author
Series
Harry Bosch mysteries volume 16
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In a case that spans 20 years, Harry Bosch links the bullet from a recent crime to a file from 1992, the killing of a young female photographer during the L.A. riots. Harry originally investigated the murder, but it was then handed off to the Riot Crimes Task Force and never solved. Now Bosch's ballistics match indicates that her death was not random violence, but something more personal, and connected to a deeper intrigue. Like an investigator...
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Language
English
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Still Life with Bread Crumbs begins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between the two is a wry and knowing portrait of Rebecca Winter, a photographer whose work made her an unlikely heroine for many women. Her career is now descendant, her bank balance shaky, and she has fled the city for the middle of nowhere. There she discovers, in a tree stand with a roofer named Jim Bates, that what she sees through a camera lens is not all...
Author
Publisher
Back Bay Books
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
1st back bay trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 482 pages : ill. (col., b&w), 24 cm.
Language
English
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A memoir and family history from acclaimed photographer Sally Mann. Her luminous photographs have become icons of modern art, but Mann also possesses a fearlessness and clarity of vision in her writing as well. As she sets out to understand her parents, Mann unravels threads that lead to discoveries about generations past, the marks they made on the world, and how these reverberate in her life and work today.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
332 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Maggie Holloway, one of the fashion world's most successful photographers, is invited by her affluent, former stepmother to spend some time with her at her Newport, Rhode Island home. When she arrives, she finds the old woman murdered--and now it seems Maggie might be the killer's next target.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Naomi Bowes lost her innocence the night she followed her father into the woods. In freeing the girl trapped in the root cellar, Naomi revealed the horrible extent of her father's crimes and made him infamous. No matter how close she gets to happiness, she can't outrun the sins of Thomas David Bowes. Now a successful photographer living under the name Naomi Carson, she has found a place that calls to her, a rambling old house in need of repair, thousands...
7) The wish
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"1996 was the year that changed everything for Maggie Dawes. Sent away at sixteen to live with an aunt she barely knew in Ocracoke, a remote village on North Carolina's Outer Banks, she could think only of the friends and family she left behind . . . until she meets Bryce Trickett, one of the few teenagers on the island. Handsome, genuine, and newly admitted to West Point, Bryce gradually shows her how much there is to love about the wind-swept beach...
8) Sanctuary
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
438 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Successful photographer Jo Ellen Hathaway thought she had escaped the house long ago. It was where she spent her loneliest years, after her family was shattered by the sudden, unexplained disappearance of her mother. But now, the sprawling resort off the coast of Georgia haunts her dreams. Even more haunting are the pictures that someone is sending her - strange close-ups, candid shots, and finally, the most shocking and heartbreaking portrait of...
Author
Series
Bride quartet (Nora Roberts) volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Wedding photographer Mackensie "Mac" Elliot is most at home behind the camera, but her focus is shattered moments before an important wedding rehearsal when she bumps into the bride-to-be's brother...an encounter that has them both seeing stars. A stable, safe English teacher, Carter Maguire is definitely not Mac's type. But a casual fling might be just what she needs to take her mind off bridezillas. Of course, casual flings can turn into something...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
361 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"We follow Miranda, a nature photographer who travels to the Farallon Islands, an exotic and dangerous archipelago off the coast of California, for a one-year residency capturing the landscape. Her only companions are the scientists studying there, odd and quirky refugees from the mainland living in rustic conditions; they document the fish populations around the island, the bold trio of sharks called the Sisters that hunt the surrounding waters,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (1879) is a work of travel literature by British explorer Isabella Bird. Adventurous from a young age, Bird gained a reputation as a writer and photographer interested in nature and the stories and cultures of people around the world. A bestselling author and the first woman inducted into the Royal Geographical Society, Bird is recognized today as a pioneering woman whose contributions to travel writing, exploration,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Graham and Annie have been married for nearly thirty years. Their seemingly effortless devotion has long been the envy of their circle of friends and acquaintances. By all appearances, they are a golden couple.
Graham is a bookseller, a big, gregarious man with large appetites—curious, eager to please, a lover of life, and the convivial host of frequent, lively parties at his and Annie’s comfortable house in Cambridge. Annie, more reserved and...
13) Second sight
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Venetia Milton learns that Gabriel Jones, whose priceless artifacts and relics she has been photographing, has been reported dead; however, she receives quite a surprise when Jones winds up on her doorstep very much alive and afraid for his life.
14) Lavender
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (93 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Lavender is a taut psychological thriller that bends the line between memory and madness, past and present, like a splinter in the brain struggling to escape. Jane (Abbie Cornish) has always photographed old and abandoned farmhouses for as long as she can remember. It's a hobby bordering on obsession that has bloomed into a successful career. Until one day she photographs a particular house...and everything changes. A tragic car accident leaves her...
Author
Series
Lakeshore chronicles volume 8
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
There are days on Willow Lake…
Daisy Bellamy has struggled for years to choose between two men—one honorable and steady, one wild and untethered. And then, one fateful day, the decision is made for her.
When the wind is so still and the water so calm…
Now busy with a thriving business on Willow Lake, Daisy knows she should be happy with the life she's chosen for herself and her son. But she still aches for the one thing she can't have....
Author
Series
Haven Point volume 8
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
383 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Years after betraying her, bestselling writer Elliot Bailey is back in Haven Point...and ready to learn the truth. Megan Hamilton will rent him a cottage, but that's where it ends--no matter how gorgeous Elliot has become. But seeing Meghan again has Elliot longing for much more."--
17) Map of the heart
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
351 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Widowed by an unspeakable tragedy, Camille Palmer has made her peace with the past and settled into the quiet safety of life with her teenage daughter, Julie, in a sleepy coastal town. Then the arrival of a mysterious package breaks open the door to her family's secret past. In uncovering a hidden history, Camille has no idea that she's embarking on an adventure that will utterly transform her. Camille, Julie, and Camille's father return to the...
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Harriet Hatley is the most in-demand wedding photographer in town, but she doesn't believe in romance, loathes the idea of marriage, and thinks chocolate fountains are an abomination. Which is why, when her long-time partner proposes, she panics. Suddenly Harriet is single... and living down the hall from her ex. She needs a new apartment, like, yesterday. Enter Cal Clarke, a hopeless romantic who just experienced his own wedding-related disaster....
Author
Language
English
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In 1947, photographer and war correspondent Janey Everett arrives at a remote surfing village on the Hawaiian island of Kauai to research a planned biography of forgotten aviation pioneer Sam Mallory, who joined the loyalist forces in the Spanish Civil War and never returned. Obsessed with Sam's fate, Janey has tracked down Irene Lindquist, the owner of a local island-hopping airline, whom she believes might actually be the legendary Irene Foster,...
Author
Series
Elena Standish volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the start of an all-new mystery series set in pre-World War II Europe, an intrepid young photographer carries her imperiled lover's final, urgent message into the heart of Berlin as Hitler ascends to power. On vacation from London on the beautiful Italian coast, twenty-eight-year-old Elena Standish and her older sister Margot have finally been able to forget some of the lasting trauma of the Great War. Touring with her camera in hand, Elena has...
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