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1) Fool me once
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Language
English
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When her mother, who supposedly died in childbirth, leaves her a vast fortune with a caveat regarding a crime committed years ago, Olivia Lowell turns to a handsome young lawyer for help in understanding who her mother really was. She had always believed her father's claim that her mother died in childbirth, until the shocking day a lawyer informs her that her mother has just passed away, leaving her a fortune. The money comes with a caveat and a...
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English
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Wedding photographer Mackensie "Mac" Elliot is most at home behind the camera, but her focus is shattered moments before an important wedding rehearsal when she bumps into the bride-to-be's brother...an encounter that has them both seeing stars. A stable, safe English teacher, Carter Maguire is definitely not Mac's type. But a casual fling might be just what she needs to take her mind off bridezillas. Of course, casual flings can turn into something...
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The novel begins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between the two is a wry and knowing portrait of Rebecca Winter, a photographer whose work made her an unlikely heroine for many women. Her career is now descendent, her bank balance shaky, and she has fled the city for the middle of nowhere. There she discovers, in a tree stand with a roofer named Jim Bates, that what she sees through a camera lens is not all there is to life....
4) Monogamy
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Language
English
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Derailed by the sudden passing of her husband of thirty years, an artist on the brink of a gallery opening struggles to pick up the pieces of her life before discovering harrowing evidence of her husband's affair.
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English
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Naomi Bowes lost her innocence the night she followed her father into the woods. In freeing the girl trapped in the root cellar, Naomi revealed the horrible extent of her father's crimes and made him infamous. No matter how close she gets to happiness, she can't outrun the sins of Thomas David Bowes. Now a successful photographer living under the name Naomi Carson, she has found a place that calls to her, a rambling old house in need of repair, thousands...
6) The wish
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
A successful travel photographer, Maggie Dawes, struggling to come to terms with a sobering medical diagnosis, is unexpectedly grounded over Christmas with her young assistant and begins to tell him the story of the love that set her on a course she never could have imagined.
In 1996 everything changed Maggie Dawes. Living with an aunt she barely knew in Ocracoke, a remote village on North Carolina's Outer Banks, she could think only of the friends...
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English
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In this spellbinding blend of suspense and human drama, top photographer Hope Dunne fights to escape a mesmerizing sociopath who holds her in his thrall after she accepts a last-minute assignment to fly to London at Christmas and photograph one of the world's most celebrated writers--an Irish-American author known for novels of thrilling literary darkness.
8) Sanctuary
Author
Series
Nora Roberts novel volume 64
Language
English
Description
Successful photographer Jo Ellen Hathaway thought she had put the disappearance of her mother behind her years ago, but when she receives a shocking portrait of her dead mother, she is compelled to return to her childhood home of Sanctuary and learn the truth about her family's past.
9) Second sight
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Series
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English
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Venetia Milton's memories of a romantic night with Gabriel Jones - an alchemist's descendent - are shattered soon thereafter by news of his death. Adopting the guise of his respectable widow, she embarks on a new career as a fashionable photographer in London, where her unique ability to 'see' beyond her subjects makes her photographs highly prized. But Venetia's romantic whim causes unexpected trouble. For one thing, Mr. Jones is about to stride,...
10) From a distance
Author
Series
Timber Ridge reflections volume 1
Language
English
Description
For Elizabeth Westbrook, establishing her career as a premier photojournalist is of utmost concern, as is finding a cure for her mysterious illness. But when one of her photographs becomes key evidence in a murder charge, her life is in peril.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
A tale inspired by the lives of famous twentieth-century female photographers traces the progression of feminism and photography in various world regions as each woman explores private and public goals while balancing the demands of family and creativity.
12) Map of the heart
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Widowed by an unspeakable tragedy, Camille Palmer has made her peace with the past and settled into the quiet safety of life with her teenage daughter, Julie, in a sleepy coastal town. Then the arrival of a mysterious package breaks open the door to her family's secret past. In uncovering a hidden history, Camille has no idea that she's embarking on an adventure that will utterly transform her. Camille, Julie, and Camille's father return to the French...
13) After the rain
Author
Publisher
NAL Accent
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In this follow-up to "Falling Home, " White returns to the magical small town of Walton, Georgia. When photographer Suzanne Paris arrives and meets Mayor Joe Warner, he's nothing like any man she's ever known. Yet, both their lives are transformed by an unexpected love.
14) Waltzing the cat
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
This book contains a collection of interrelated stories on a woman who is lucky in adventure, but unlucky in love. Photographer Lucy O'Rourke risks her life in a variety of dangerous sports and emerges a winner, but in love she always falls for the wrong man.
15) Dead aim
Author
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
During an assignment photographing a disaster, photojournalist Alex Graham begins to suspect that the "natural" catastrophe had really been a case of premeditated mass murder.
16) Dead sleep
Author
Series
Mississippi volume 3
Language
English
Description
A mysterious series of paintings in a Hong Kong art museum, including one featuring a woman who bears a striking resemblance to her, draws photojournalist Jordan Glass into a painful search for the murderer of her twin sister.
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English
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"Years after betraying her, he's back in Haven Point ... and ready to learn the truth. Megan Hamilton never really liked Elliot Bailey. He turned his back on her family when they needed him the most and it almost tore them all apart. So she's shocked when Elliot arrives at her family's inn, needing a place to stay and asking questions that dredge up the past. Megan will rent him a cottage, but that's where it ends--no matter how gorgeous Elliot has...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Kate Darling's enigmatic mother-- a once famous ballerina-- has passed away, leaving Kate bereft. When her grandmother falls ill and bequeaths to Kate a small portrait of a woman who bears a striking resemblance to Kate's mother, Kate uncovers a mystery that may upend everything she thought she knew"--Publisher description.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
Old people in retirement homes are dying off at an alarming rate in a murderous scam to make money from their apartments. When photographer Maggie Holloway's stepmother dies, she investigates.
At a party in Manhattan, Maggie Holloway - one of the fashion world's most successful photographers - is thrilled to be reunited with her beloved former stepmother. A widow now, Nuala Moore is equally delighted to see her long-lost stepdaughter, and invites...