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Author
Publisher
Dutton, Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue, returns with a tantalizing novel about the secrets, betrayal, and murder within one of New York City's most impressive Gilded Age mansions. Eight months since losing her mother in the Spanish flu outbreak of 1919, twenty-one-year-old Lillian Carter's life has completely fallen apart. For the past six years, under the moniker Angelica, Lillian was one of the most sought-after...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
To Christina Olson, the entire world was her family's remote farm in the small coastal town of Cushing, Maine. Born in the home her family had lived in for generations, and increasingly incapacitated by illness, Christina seemed destined for a small life. Instead, for more than twenty years, she was host and inspiration for the artist Andrew Wyeth, and became the subject of one of the best known American paintings of the twentieth century.
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books, Atria
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In 1850s London, the Great Exhibition is being erected in Hyde Park and, among the crowd watching the dazzling spectacle, two people meet by happenstance. For Iris, an arrestingly attractive aspiring artist, it is a brief and forgettable moment but for Silas, a curiosity collector enchanted by all things strange and beautiful, the meeting marks a new beginning. When Iris is asked to model for Pre-Raphaelite artist Louis Frost, she agrees on the condition...
6) JUST LISTEN
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Isolated from friends who believe the worst because she has not been truthful with them, sixteen-year-old Annabel finds an ally in classmate Owen, whose honesty and passion for music help her to face and share what really happened at the end-of-the-year party that changed her life.
Author
Series
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Mix six teenage girls and one 60's fashion icon (retired, of course) in an old Victorian-era boarding-home. Add boys and dating, a little high-school angst, and throw in a Kate Spade bag or two…and you've got The Carter House Girls, Melody Carlson's new chick lit series for young adults! New York Debut. The New Year promises to be lively for the Carter House girls. No sooner does the calendar page turn and the girls are forced to confront a whole...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Willow Bradford is content taking a break from modeling to run her family's inn. Then she comes face-to-face with NFL quarterback Corbin Stewart, the man who broke her heart-- and wants to win her back. When a decades-old missing-persons case brings them together, they're forced to decide whether they can risk falling for one another all over again. -- adapted from jacket
9) Swimsuit
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Syd, a breathtakingly beautiful supermodel on a photo shoot in Hawaii, disappears and LA Times reporter Ben Hawkins, hoping to help the victim and get an idea for his next bestseller, gets a shocking visit that pushes him into an impossible-to-resist deal with the devil in this heart-pounding story of beauty and murder.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A restless golden boy and a girl with a troubled past navigate a love story that may be doomed before it even begins, in this irresistible new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of All We Ever Wanted and The Lies That Bind. The Kingsley family is American royalty, beloved for their military heroics, political service, and unmatched elegance. In 1968, after Joseph S. Kingsley, Jr. is killed in a tragic accident, his charismatic son...
12) Airhead
Author
Series
Publisher
Point
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Emerson Watts, an advanced placement student with a disdain for fashion, is the recipient of a "whole body transplant" and finds herself transformed into one of the world's most famous teen supermodels.
13) Beautiful
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Veronique Vincent graces the covers of magazines and walks the runways of haute couture shows across the globe, yet she prefers spending time at home or with her boyfriend. An explosion at Zaventem Airport in Brussels changes her life forever: Veronique finds herself hospitalized and alone after the blast kills both of the people she loved most. Severely injured, she plunges into seclusion and struggles to discover what truly matters in life. When...
14) Being Nikki
Author
Series
Publisher
Point
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Studious, socially conscious Emerson Watts learns startling news about the family of Nikki Howard, the teen supermodel into whose body Emerson's brain was transplanted by the nefarious Stark corporation.
15) Runaway
Author
Series
Publisher
Point
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Emerson Watts learns the truth about Nikki, the teen supermodel into whose body Emerson's brain was transplanted, she finds that there is only one person to turn to for help--especially since her loved ones seem to be furious with her.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
She went to Paris to start over, to make art instead of being made into it. A captivating debut novel by Whitney Scharer, The Age of Light tells the story of Vogue model turned renowned photographer Lee Miller, and her search to forge a new identity as an artist after a life spent as a muse. "I'd rather take a photograph than be one," she declares after she arrives in Paris in 1929, where she soon catches the eye of the famous Surrealist Man Ray....
17) The Paris orphan
Author
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"New York City/Paris, 1942: When American model Jessica May arrives in Europe to cover the war as a photojournalist for Vogue, most of the soldiers are determined to make her life as difficult as possible. But three friendships change that. Journalist Martha Gellhorn encourages Jess to bend the rules. Captain Dan Hallworth keeps her safe in dangerous places so she can capture the stories that truly matter. And most important of all, the love of a...
18) The lost city
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Reclusive author Loretta Sage writes about exotic places in her popular adventure novels that feature a handsome cover model named Alan. While on tour promoting her new book with Alan, Loretta gets kidnapped by an eccentric billionaire who hopes she can lead him to an ancient city's lost treasure from her latest story. Determined to prove he can be a hero in real life and not just on the pages of her books, Alan sets off to rescue her.
19) Zoolander 2
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Beloved model Derek Zoolander and his rival-turned-partner Hansel are facing a threat to their continued success.