The Collector's Apprentice

The Collector's Apprentice
Title The Collector's Apprentice PDF eBook
Author B. A. Shapiro
Publisher Algonquin Books
Total Pages 369
Release 2019-06-11
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1616209801

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The bestselling author of The Art Forger and The Muralist delivers a page-turning historical thriller of art and revenge, of history and love, that will transport readers to 1920s Paris and America. It’s the summer of 1922, and nineteen-year-old Paulien Mertens finds herself in Paris—broke, disowned, and completely alone. Everyone in Belgium, including her own family, believes she stole millions in a sophisticated con game perpetrated by her then-fiancé, George Everard. To protect herself from the law and the wrath of those who lost everything, she creates a new identity, a Frenchwoman named Vivienne Gregsby, and sets out to recover her father’s art collection, prove her innocence—and exact revenge on George. When the eccentric and wealthy American art collector Edwin Bradley offers Vivienne the perfect job, she is soon caught up in the Parisian world of post-Impressionists and expatriates—including Gertrude Stein and Henri Matisse, with whom Vivienne becomes romantically entwined. As she travels between Paris and Philadelphia, where Bradley is building an art museum, her life becomes even more complicated: George returns with unclear motives . . . and then Vivienne is arrested for Bradley’s murder. B. A. Shapiro has made the historical art thriller her own. In The Collector’s Apprentice, she gives us an unforgettable tale about the lengths to which people will go for their obsession, whether it be art, money, love, or vengeance.

The Shadow Collector's Apprentice

The Shadow Collector's Apprentice
Title The Shadow Collector's Apprentice PDF eBook
Author Amy Gordon
Publisher
Total Pages 0
Release 2012
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 9780823423590

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In the summer of 1963, after his father has inexplicably disappeared, leaving Cully with his three eccentric aunts on their barely profitable apple farm, Cully goes to work for a mysterious antiques dealer who has the strange hobby of collecting shadows.

The Art Forger

The Art Forger
Title The Art Forger PDF eBook
Author B. A. Shapiro
Publisher Algonquin Books
Total Pages 322
Release 2013-05-21
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1616203188

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Don't miss B. A. Shapiro's new novel, Metropolis, available now! “[A] highly entertaining literary thriller about fine art and foolish choices.” —Parade “[A] nimble mystery.” —The New York Times Book Review “Gripping.” —O, The Oprah Magazine Almost twenty-five years after the infamous art heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum—still the largest unsolved art theft in history—one of the stolen Degas paintings is delivered to the Boston studio of a young artist. Claire Roth has entered into a Faustian bargain with a powerful gallery owner by agreeing to forge the Degas in exchange for a one-woman show in his renowned gallery. But as she begins her work, she starts to suspect that this long-missing masterpiece—the very one that had been hanging at the Gardner for one hundred years—may itself be a forgery. The Art Forger is a thrilling novel about seeing—and not seeing—the secrets that lie beneath the canvas.

The Muralist

The Muralist
Title The Muralist PDF eBook
Author B. A. Shapiro
Publisher Algonquin Books
Total Pages 369
Release 2016-10-11
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1616206438

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Don't miss B. A. Shapiro's new novel, The Collector's Apprentice, available now! “Vibrant and suspenseful . . . Like The Art Forger, this new story takes us into the heart of what it means to be an artist.” —The Washington Post “B. A. Shapiro captivated us in 2012 with her ‘addictive’ novel The Art Forger. Now, she’s back with another thrilling tale from the art world.” —Entertainment Weekly When Alizée Benoit, an American painter working for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), vanishes in New York City in 1940, no one knows what happened to her. Not her Jewish family living in German-occupied France. Not her artistic patron and political compatriot, Eleanor Roosevelt. Not her close-knit group of friends, including Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, and Lee Krasner. And, some seventy years later, not her great-niece, Danielle Abrams, who while working at Christie’s auction house uncovers enigmatic paintings hidden behind works by those now-famous Abstract Expressionist artists. Do they hold answers to the questions surrounding her missing aunt?

The Accidental Apprentice

The Accidental Apprentice
Title The Accidental Apprentice PDF eBook
Author Amanda Foody
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Total Pages 320
Release 2022-02
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 1534477578

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Eleven-year-old Barclay Thorne yearns for the quiet life of a mushroom farmer, but after unwittingly bonding with a beast in the forbidden Woods, he must seek Lore Keepers to break the bond and return home.

The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Disney Classic)

The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Disney Classic)
Title The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Disney Classic) PDF eBook
Author Don Ferguson
Publisher Golden/Disney
Total Pages 24
Release 2018-09-04
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 0736438696

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A Little Golden Book starring Mickey Mouse as the sorcerer's apprentice from the classic 1940 film Walt Disney's Fantasia! Mickey Mouse causes all sorts of problems when he puts on a sorcerer's hat and uses magic to get his chores done. Before long, an army of walking brooms have caused a giant flood! Can Mickey make everything right again? "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" is the most-beloved segment from Walt Disney's animated classic Fantasia, released in 1940. This Little Golden Book, retelling the magical tale, was originally published in 1995. Children ages 2 to 5, as well as collectors of ages, will love this newly published version!

Hunters & Collectors

Hunters & Collectors
Title Hunters & Collectors PDF eBook
Author M. Suddain
Publisher Random House
Total Pages 514
Release 2016-07-07
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1448130913

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John Tamberlain is The Tomahawk, the universe’s most feared food critic – though he himself prefers the term ‘forensic gastronomer’. He’s on a quest, in search of the much-storied Hotel Grand Skies, a secretive and exclusive haven where the rich and famous retreat to bask in perfect seclusion. A place where the waiters know their fish knife from their butter knife, their carotid from their subclavian artery, and are trained to enforce the house rules with brutal efficiency. Blurring the lines between detective story, horror and sci-fi, Hunters & Collectors is a mesmeric trip into the singular imagination of M. Suddain – a freewheeling talent whose poise, invention and sensational sentences have already earned him comparisons to Vonnegut, Pynchon and Douglas Adams.