Art Genre

The store Avery Maier purchased is more than a disaster, it's dangerous. When Liam Gunnerson offers to untangle its finances, she has to accept. He's everything that Avery is not, and he keeps digging into the dark corners of her life. So why does she turn to him again and again? And what right does she have to hope if her future was set in stone the night she lost her fiancé? Liam never wanted to come back to Moose Hollow. But now, even Montana may not be far enough away from the trouble that's following him.

John Phillip Santos won immense acclaim for his book Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation, a finalist for the National Book Award. In this beautifully written new book, Santos tells of how a family—his mother’s—erased and forgot over time their ancient origins in Spain. Blending genres brilliantly, Santos raises profound questions about whether we can ever find our true homeland and what we can learn from our treasured, shared cultural legacies.

She must return to the place that twice brought her shame. She’ll have one final chance to save someone else. Tennessee, 1982. Wildflower McAllister thought she’d put the past behind her. But when she learns her mother is dying, she digs deep and returns to the small mountain town that stole her innocence and cast her out. And she has no choice but to pull her thirteen-year-old granddaughter Daisy right back into the ghosts of her painful history.

Washington Irving's Old Christmas tells of an American's travels through England during the Christmas season. Through a chance meeting with an old friend, he is able to experience Christmas in a stately manor house. Through his eyes as a houseguest, he glimpses the uniquely British customs and celebrations of Christmas as it would have been experienced during the Middle Ages, rather than in the early 19th century.

In book one of The Art of Heart Christmas trilogy, Spencer Cook sets out to discover the meaning of life, and gets a lot more than he bargained for as he learns what happens when you exercise the courage to try for what you want most. Watch what happens when you obey your inner knowing and break through old barriers, despite all the risks. Sometimes you win; sometimes you pay a steep price. Enjoy vivid detail, engaging relationships, exciting adventure, deep insights, and pause-resisting plot twists right up to the last sentence.

En las siguientes líneas encontrarás historias verídicas, mucho dolor y un trauma generacional trabajado. Lo que leerás aquí obedece a una realidad histórica y geográfica, una realidad matizada por la imaginación, porque nací al otro lado del río Arauca, en el corazón del Amazonas venezolano, muy cerca del punto geográfico donde la realidad se recrea en la fantasía.

Coldly dismissed from her relationship and her home in Arizona, Poppy Marsh leaves her past behind and finds a remote ranch house for rent. All she wants to do is finish her thesis and pull the pieces of her broken life back together. After Colton Gunnerson's search for rodeo fame crashes to the ground, saving his family ranch is the only future he has left. If he fails, he could lose more than his home and his family. He could lose the only woman he's ever cared for.

Jane Eyre is a Bildungsroman that follows the experiences of its eponymous heroine, including her growth to adulthood and her love for Mr. Rochester, the brooding master of Thornfield Hall. The novel revolutionized prose fiction by being the first to focus on its protagonist's moral and spiritual development through an intimate first-person narrative, where actions and events are colored by a psychological intensity.

Photojournalist Carli Tanner thrives anywhere. On assignment deep in the jungles of South America, she’s shocked to receive a telegram that her father has died. And when the free-spirit globetrotter immediately jets home to the sprawling hunting preserve, she finds a handsome FBI investigator hungry to track down his killer. As Carli digs through frustrating clues to search for suspects, she fears the threat looming over her family could strike at any time. Can they serve justice and capture love, or will their feelings fall prey to another tragic death?

Il 27 marzo 1995 Maurizio Gucci, erede della favolosa dinastia dell'alta moda, mentre sta per raggiungere il suo ufficio di Milano viene assassinato a colpi di pistola da uno sconosciuto. Nel 1998, l'ex moglie Patrizia Reggiani Martinelli - soprannominata la "Vedova nera" dalla stampa - viene condannata a 29 anni di prigione come mandante dell'omicidio.

Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920 and then published in its entirety in Paris by Sylvia Beach on February 2, 1922, on Joyce's 40th birthday. It is considered one of the most important works of modernist literature and has been called "a demonstration and summation of the entire movement."

For two first-class years, Joan Freeley had it all: the perfect family, the best art dealer in Manhattan, and the admiration of famous friends. Her adoring husband and two handsome sons attended her first gallery show in matching khakis and blue blazers. "An Interesting Talent Makes Its Debut," declared the New York Times. Then, as if her success were nothing more than a booking error, Joan's life got downgraded. A brutal divorce led to paintings too bitter to sell and a career stuck firmly in coach.

A heartbreaking affair, an unsolved murder, an explosive romance: Welcome to summer on the Cape in this powerful debut. Seven summers ago, Marcella Atkinson fell in love with Cecil McClatchey, a married father of two. But on the same night their romance abruptly ended, Cecil's wife was found murdered - and their lives changed forever. The case was never solved, and Cecil died soon after, an uncharged suspect. Now divorced and estranged from her only daughter, Marcella lives alone, mired in grief and guilt.

Vom St. Petersburg der Zarenzeit über das Deutschland des Zweiten Weltkriegs bis in ein Norwegen der nahen Zukunft erzählt Maja Lunde von drei Familien, dem Schicksal einer seltenen Pferderasse und vom Kampf gegen das Aussterben der Arten. Wie verändert sich das Ganze, wenn ein Teil verschwindet? Ein bewegender, großer Roman über Freiheit und Verantwortung, die große Gemeinschaft der Lebewesen und die alles entscheidende Frage: Reicht ein Menschenleben, um die Welt für alle zu verändern?

This year, it's Ski's turn for a miracle. But when the miracle comes, will he accept it? Can he grasp the truth while there's still time? And what about Spencer? When the truth comes knocking, will he pay attention? If he doesn't, will it leave him alone? Many dreams came true for him over the past year, but that doesn't mean they can't fall apart.

About a Boy stars a guy called Will, who doesn't really want any children. He wonders why it bothers people that he lives so happily alone in his fashionable, Lego-free flat, with massive speakers, and an expensive cream-colored rug that no kid has ever thrown up on. Then Will meets Angie. He has never been out with a mom before. And it has to be said that Angie's long blond hair and big blue eyes are not irrelevant to his sudden reassessment of his attitude toward children. She is truly beautiful.

Art isn’t about beauty, in the dictionary, art is literally “producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power”. If you want other people to give you their money, you have to do something that they are willing to pay you for. What is art? Who says a piece of anything is considered art? Why are some paintings so expensive and not accessible to everyone? Wealthy buyers will shell out hundreds of millions of dollars for a work of art. So, what makes some art so valuable?

Charles Dickens created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognized him as a literary genius. After the success of A Christmas Carol in 1843 Dickens continued the series throughout the 1840s, maintaining what he called "the Carol philosophy" to "strike a sledgehammer blow" for the poor, uneducated, and repressed.

We’ll ‘INK’ To That International Anthology, by Author Reneé Drummond-Brown and masterful poets from across the globe who are sho-nuff drunk on philosophical INK, affected by pens and paper-cuts to the extent of losing self-control of our talents, staggering with writer’s block on fine chalk lines and (get this) under poetic arrest. Somebody, anybody, please, please, please, call 911! We need comprehensive help “DrINKing Us-sum INK” (DUI)!! Burp.

Casey Banks is a devoutly anorexic man who discovers he can see the future by binge-eating. His new plan? Perform visions for cash while staying thin by any means necessary. Reading futures proves to be lucrative, but when he ignores a vision of his girlfriend committing a grisly murder, it sets Casey on a dangerous path toward a destiny he'll do anything to avoid.