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Book Portrait of the Blue Lady

Download or read book Portrait of the Blue Lady written by Lyn Cowan and published by Spring Journal. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Redeems melancholy and restores it to its rightful place in the human psyche, as a Muse of creative force, a characteristic of greatness, and a bittersweet comfort to the sensitive soul.

Book The Blue Lady of Coffin Hall

Download or read book The Blue Lady of Coffin Hall written by Carolyn Keene and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ned and Nancy track down a ghostly saboteur in the twenty-third book in the Nancy Drew Diaries series, a fresh approach to a classic series. Nancy and Ned are visiting Coffin Hall, an estate turned rare books library, doing research on the library’s rumored ghost for an episode of the NedTalks podcast when a fire breaks out in the records room. One of the library’s security guards accuses Ned of arson—after all, he was the only one in the room when the fire started—but Ned swears it wasn’t him. He was trying to stop the fire. He tells Nancy he saw a lady in blue right before the incident, and thinks it was Henrietta Coffin, the ghost of Coffin Hall! Nancy is confident her boyfriend is innocent, and she’s determined to identify the real culprit, though she’s pretty sure it wasn’t of the paranormal sort. When she investigates further, she learns that the fire was just the latest in a string of recent strange and inexplicable incidents plaguing Coffin Hall. It’s increasingly apparent that someone has more than a passing interest in shutting down the library. But who—or what—is responsible? And why?

Book The Blue Lady of Coffin Hall

Download or read book The Blue Lady of Coffin Hall written by Carolyn Keene and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nancy and her boyfriend Ned visit Coffin Hall to research the library's rumored ghost, but when a fire breaks out and Ned is blamed, it is up to Nancy to find the true culprit.

Book Mrs  Osmond

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Banville
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2018-10-09
  • ISBN : 1101972890
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book Mrs Osmond written by John Banville and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea continues the story of Isabel Archer, the young protagonist of Henry James’s beloved The Portrait of a Lady—in this masterful novel of betrayal, corruption, and moral ambiguity. Eager but naïve, in James’s novel Isabel comes into a large, unforeseen inheritance and marries the charming, penniless, and—as Isabel finds out too late—cruel and deceitful Gilbert Osmond. Here Banville imagines Isabel’s second chapter telling the story of a woman reawakened by grief and the knowledge that she has been grievously wronged, and determined to resume her quest for freedom and independence.

Book The Blue Lady

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eleanor Hawken
  • Publisher : Hot Key Books
  • Release : 2013-06-06
  • ISBN : 1471400913
  • Pages : 206 pages

Download or read book The Blue Lady written by Eleanor Hawken and published by Hot Key Books. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chilling boarding school ghost story that will keep you up all night... Fourteen-year-old Frankie Ward is used to being the new girl at school, but even she is unprepared for life at St Mark's College. Finding herself isolated from the rest of the girls, Frankie is drawn to flamboyant and dramatic Suzy, who captivates her with stories of 'The Blue Lady' - the ghost of an ex-St Mark's pupil who died in mysterious and tragic circumstances. One night Suzy persuades Frankie to help her contact The Blue Lady via an Ouija Board - and the girls unleash a terrifying spirit who seems set on destroying not only their friendship but Suzy's sanity. Determined to rescue her friend, Frankie enlists the help of Seb, a mysterious and alluring boy from sister-school St Hilda's. Seb is as interested in St Mark's past as Frankie - but does he have as many dark secrets as the school?

Book Portrait of an Unknown Lady

Download or read book Portrait of an Unknown Lady written by Maria Gainza and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice New York Times Notable author María Gainza, who dazzled critics with Optic Nerve, returns with the captivating story of an auction house employee on the trail of an enigmatic master forger In the Buenos Aires art world, a master forger has achieved legendary status. Rumored to be a woman, she specializes in canvases by the painter Mariette Lydis, a portraitist of Argentinean high society. But who is this absurdly gifted creator of counterfeits? What motivates her? And what is her link to the community of artists who congregate, night after night, in a strange establishment called the Hotel Melancólico? On the trail of this mysterious forger is our narrator, an art critic and auction house employee through whose hands counterfeit works have passed. As she begins to take on the role of art-world detective, adopting her own methods of deception and manipulation, she warns us “not to proceed in expectation of names, numbers or dates . . . My techniques are those of the impressionist.” Driven by obsession and full of subtle surprise, Portrait of an Unknown Lady is a highly seductive and enveloping meditation on what we mean by "authenticity" in art, and a captivating exploration of the gap between what is lived and what is told.

Book The Lady in Blue

    Book Details:
  • Author : Javier Sierra
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2007-06-19
  • ISBN : 1416558373
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book The Lady in Blue written by Javier Sierra and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-06-19 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An elaborately woven novel of intrigue about one of America's most curious and enduring legends -- the enigma of the Lady in Blue In Los Angeles, Jennifer Narody has been having a series of disturbing dreams involving eerie images of a lady dressed in blue. What she doesn't know is that this same spirit appeared to leaders of the Jumano Native American tribe in New Mexico 362 years earlier, and was linked to a Spanish nun capable of powers of "bilocation," or the ability to be in two places simultaneously. Meanwhile, young journalist Carlos Albert is driven by a blinding snowstorm to the little Spanish town of Ágreda, where he stumbles upon a nearly forgotten seventeenth-century convent founded by this same legendary woman. Intrigued by her rumored powers, he delves into finding out more. These threads, linked by an apparent suicide, eventually lead Carlos to Cardinal Baldi, to an American spy, and ultimately to Los Angeles, where Jennifer Narody unwittingly holds the key to the mystery that the Catholic Church, the U.S. Defense Department, and the journalist are each determined to decipher -- the Lady in Blue.

Book The Lady in Gold

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anne-Marie O'Connor
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2015-03-31
  • ISBN : 1101873124
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book The Lady in Gold written by Anne-Marie O'Connor and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Bestseller The true story that inspired the movie Woman in Gold starring Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds. Contributor to the Washington Post Anne-Marie O’Connor brilliantly regales us with the galvanizing story of Gustav Klimt’s 1907 masterpiece—the breathtaking portrait of a Viennese Jewish socialite, Adele Bloch-Bauer. The celebrated painting, stolen by Nazis during World War II, subsequently became the subject of a decade-long dispute between her heirs and the Austrian government. When the U.S. Supreme Court became involved in the case, its decision had profound ramifications in the art world. Expertly researched, masterfully told, The Lady in Gold is at once a stunning depiction of fin-de siècle Vienna, a riveting tale of Nazi war crimes, and a fascinating glimpse into the high-stakes workings of the contemporary art world. One of the Best Books of the Year: The Huffington Post, The Christian Science Monitor. Winner of the Marfield National Award for Arts Writing. Winner of a California Book Award.

Book Miss Rumphius

    Book Details:
  • Author : Barbara Cooney
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 1985-11-06
  • ISBN : 1101654929
  • Pages : 36 pages

Download or read book Miss Rumphius written by Barbara Cooney and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1985-11-06 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beloved classic—written by a beloved Caldecott winner—is lovelier than ever! Barbara Cooney's story of Alice Rumphius, who longed to travel the world, live in a house by the sea, and do something to make the world more beautiful, has a timeless quality that resonates with each new generation. The countless lupines that bloom along the coast of Maine are the legacy of the real Miss Rumphius, the Lupine Lady, who scattered lupine seeds everywhere she went. Miss Rumphius received the American Book Award in the year of publication. To celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of two-time Caldecott winner Barbara Cooney's best-loved book, the illustrations have been reoriginated, going back to the original art to ensure state-of-the-art reproduction of Cooney's exquisite artwork. The art for Miss Rumphius has a permanent home in the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

Book Portrait of a Novel  Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece

Download or read book Portrait of a Novel Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece written by Michael Gorra and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-08-27 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award (Biography) One of the Best Books of 2012: The New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, Guardian, The Millions, Kirkus Reviews, Boston Phoenix A revelatory biography of the American master as told through the lens of his greatest novel. Henry James (1843–1916) has had many biographers, but Michael Gorra has taken an original approach to this great American progenitor of the modern novel, combining elements of biography, criticism, and travelogue in re-creating the dramatic backstory of James’s masterpiece, Portrait of a Lady (1881). Gorra, an eminent literary critic, shows how this novel—the scandalous story of the expatriate American heiress Isabel Archer—came to be written in the first place. Traveling to Florence, Rome, Paris, and England, Gorra sheds new light on James’s family, the European literary circles—George Eliot, Flaubert, Turgenev—in which James made his name, and the psychological forces that enabled him to create this most memorable of female protagonists. Appealing to readers of Menand’s The Metaphysical Club and McCullough’s The Greater Journey, Portrait of a Novel provides a brilliant account of the greatest American novel of expatriate life ever written. It becomes a piercing detective story on its own.

Book American Portraits  1620 1825

Download or read book American Portraits 1620 1825 written by Historical Records Survey (Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Salons Colonial and Republican

Download or read book Salons Colonial and Republican written by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sir Joshua Reynolds  with Nine Illustrations from Pictures by the Master

Download or read book Sir Joshua Reynolds with Nine Illustrations from Pictures by the Master written by Claude Philipps and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book AN1MAGINE

Download or read book AN1MAGINE written by and published by An1mage. This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN1MAGINE Volume 7 Number 3 July-September 2023 Contents Democracy in blockchain system Pilgrimage Playing on The Edge of The Apocalypse Among the flowers Chromatic Mathscape Rooftop Dreams What you see Collateral Damage Metropolis Sisters of Fate Cosmic Beauty Luminous Nexus The Dance of Emotions Journey of Souls Beyond the Empty Void White Moon. Black Moon Depressed Devil Lonely Street The Place Where Dreams Are Born Your Lost Face Multiplexing Optimistic Cityscape in Glass Electric Dawn Green Guardians Rejection Esperanza Sunny Italy Nicole Keep on Moving Hime's Room Timeless Odyssey Inner Conflict From me in reality to me The genealogical tree of life Planets Have Eyes BioTech BuzzBee Crunk No Devices In Heaven Ignition By Sabet & Friends Beauty BinoculArt Tapestry of Silence Floral escapism You Fight We Cry The Fountain Vulgar Vixen Nio Walkers OSRT - Open Sea Rescue Team FarWestDigital Shiba Crypto NFT Xylocats Eclipse The Bone Lightning Bunch Horo-sha Message Au Parasite Surreal Fiction Mantra Morning in the forest Happiness Impasto Mundial Reconstruction Dreamworld: You are like a Flower Fantastic Mysteries Urban Dreams Liquid cracks The Girls +++ An1magine invites individuals and organizations passionate about blockchain, decentralization, and freedom of speech to collaborate and contribute to An1magine magazine. By sharing your thoughts and ideas with our readers, you will educate and inform people about these crucial topics. Every name published in this literary NFT magazine that is whitelisted will be entitled to claim 25 editions on Ethereum blockchain network. You will also contribute to a more decentralized and equitable future. Send your articles, and NFT now! [email protected] Visits https://an1mage.nft for An1magine Literary NFT version.

Book The International Studio

Download or read book The International Studio written by Charles Holme and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Privileged Son

Download or read book Privileged Son written by Dennis Mcdougal and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-08-05 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Boston Globe hailed Privileged Son as "a well-researched, tough-minded, superbly composed story" by an author "adept at mixing scandal and gossip with art and business." It's the riveting tale of how a second-rate newspaper rose to greatness only to become a casualty of war—a civil war within the family that owned it. The story, never before told in such hard-edged style, spans the American Century, from 1884, when the Chandler family gained control of the just-born daily, through April 2000, when they sold it to the Tribune Company. With a capriciousness that is seldom seen even in the most dysfunctional media dynasties, the Chandlers, who helped make the national careers of Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and other major political figures, controlled Los Angeles and the Times Mirror Corporation—and Privileged Son captures it all.

Book Haunted Henry County

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charlene Z. Perry
  • Publisher : AuthorHouse
  • Release : 2008-10
  • ISBN : 1438900902
  • Pages : 138 pages

Download or read book Haunted Henry County written by Charlene Z. Perry and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes fourty-eight ghost stories, mysteries and legends from Henry County and the nearby counties of Brown, Delaware, Grant, Jay, Hancock, Madison, Marion, Morgan, Shelby, Randolph and Wayne.