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Published Jan 2018
Read ReviewsFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the smash hit Orphan Train, a stunning and atmospheric novel of friendship, passion, and art, inspired by Andrew Wyeth's mysterious and iconic painting Christina's World.
by Paul Staiti
Published Sep 2017
Read ReviewsA fascinating look at how the art world viewed the American Revolution, and how their work still effects the way we view those events today.
The Most Beautiful Woman in Florence
by Alyssa Palombo
Published Apr 2017
Read ReviewsAlyssa Palombo's The Most Beautiful Woman in Florence vividly captures the dangerous allure of the artist and muse bond with candor and unforgettable passion.
by Miles J. Unger
Published Jul 2015
Read ReviewsThe life of one of the most revolutionary artists in history, told through the story of six of his greatest masterpieces.
by B. A. Shapiro
Published May 2013
Read ReviewsOn March 18, 1990, thirteen works of art worth today over $500 million were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. It remains the largest unsolved art heist in history, and Claire Roth, a struggling young artist, is about to discover that there's more to this crime than meets the eye.
by Carson Morton
Published Oct 2012
Read ReviewsWhat happens when you mix a Parisian street orphan, a hot-tempered Spanish forger, a beautiful American pickpocket, an unloved wife, and one priceless painting?
by Anne Fortier
Published Jul 2011
Read ReviewsJuliet, an ambitious, utterly engaging historical novel on the scale of The Thirteenth Tale and The Birth of Venus, follows a young woman who discovers that her familys origins reach all the way back to literatures greatest star-crossed lovers.
The Confessions of Catherine de Medici
by C.W. Gortner
Published May 2011
Read ReviewsFrom the fairy-tale châteaux of the Loire Valley to the battlefields of the wars of religion to the mob-filled streets of Paris, The Confessions of Catherine de Medici is the extraordinary untold journey of one of the most maligned and misunderstood women ever to be queen.
by Elizabeth Kostova
Published Nov 2010
Read ReviewsKostova's masterful new novel travels from American cities to the coast of Normandy, from the late 19th century to the late 20th, from young love to last love. The Swan Thieves is a story of obsession, history's losses, and the power of art to preserve human hope.
by Hilary Mantel
Published Sep 2010
Read ReviewsIn the ruthless arena of King Henry VIII's court, only one man dares to gamble his life to win the king's favor and ascend to the heights of political power.
by Vanora Bennett
Published Apr 2008
Read ReviewsThe year is 1527. The great portraitist Hans Holbein, who has fled the reformation in Europe, is making his first trip to England under commission to Sir Thomas More. In the course of six years, Holbein will become a close friend to the More family and paint two nearly identical family portraits. But closer examination of the paintings reveals that...
by Philippa Gregory
Published Aug 2007
Read ReviewsGregory vividly brings Henry VIII's court, with its intense intrigues, politics, and passions, to life though the lives, and deaths, of his fourth, fifth and sixth wives.
by Karen Essex
Published Jan 2007
Read ReviewsA haunting novel of rivalry, love, and betrayal that transports readers back to Renaissance Italy, Leonardo's Swans will have you dashing to the works of the great painternot for clues to a mystery but to contemplate the secrets of the human heart.
by John Shors
Published Jun 2006
Read ReviewsShors recreates an historical Hindustan brimming with breathtaking intrigue and containing the secret truth of the Taj Mahal for a world still in awe of its enduring majesty.
by Susann Cokal
Published May 2006
Read ReviewsA romp through the late 19th century chronicling the adventures - sexual and otherwise - of its beautiful heroine, Famke, from her childhood in a Copenhagen orphanage to her strange adventures in the American Wild West.
by Tracy Chevalier
Published Jan 2005
Read ReviewsChevalier weaves history and fiction into a beautiful, timeless, and intriguing literary tapestry - an extraordinary story exquisitely told.
by Tracy Chevalier
Published Dec 2000
Read ReviewsA vivid portrait of colorful seventeenth-century Delft, as well as the hauntingly poignant story of one young girl's rite of passage.
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