Author: Elizabeth Fritz
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1440167567
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Zima Crenshaw, a junior curator at the University Museum, is challenged to find a valuable work of art from the Renaissance era. The painting has acquired a name, Giovane (pronounced Joe-Von), and has escaped from its owner's possession under unusual circumstances. When Zima sees a photograph of it, she is captivated by the painted image. Hunting Giovane becomes an obsession. In her search she encounters intriguing personalities, mysterious relationships, violence and murder, and a risk of great personal harm. Besides a hefty finder's fee, hunting Giovane earns her unexpected rewards reconciliation with family and a romance:
Hunting Giovane
Author: Elizabeth Fritz
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1440167567
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Zima Crenshaw, a junior curator at the University Museum, is challenged to find a valuable work of art from the Renaissance era. The painting has acquired a name, Giovane (pronounced Joe-Von), and has escaped from its owner's possession under unusual circumstances. When Zima sees a photograph of it, she is captivated by the painted image. Hunting Giovane becomes an obsession. In her search she encounters intriguing personalities, mysterious relationships, violence and murder, and a risk of great personal harm. Besides a hefty finder's fee, hunting Giovane earns her unexpected rewards reconciliation with family and a romance:
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1440167567
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Zima Crenshaw, a junior curator at the University Museum, is challenged to find a valuable work of art from the Renaissance era. The painting has acquired a name, Giovane (pronounced Joe-Von), and has escaped from its owner's possession under unusual circumstances. When Zima sees a photograph of it, she is captivated by the painted image. Hunting Giovane becomes an obsession. In her search she encounters intriguing personalities, mysterious relationships, violence and murder, and a risk of great personal harm. Besides a hefty finder's fee, hunting Giovane earns her unexpected rewards reconciliation with family and a romance:
Prosperity
Author: Elizabeth Fritz
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1462023789
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
When Katharine Culhane, a successful writer of fiction and historical works, died leaving behind an unpublished memoir, her literary executor, Elizabeth Fritz, discovered the memoir and undertook to publish it. It tells a story of a young reporter in Prosperity, Indiana, in the post World War II years, and a special friendship between Katharine and a Russian migr, Madam Anna Suvorov. Fifty years later Katharine finds a letter from Madam Anna that suggests her death may have been due to foul play. Returning to Prosperity, reconnecting with old acquaintances, and asking questions about Madam Annas death, Katharine finds the truth and visits her own form of justice on the perpetrators.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1462023789
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
When Katharine Culhane, a successful writer of fiction and historical works, died leaving behind an unpublished memoir, her literary executor, Elizabeth Fritz, discovered the memoir and undertook to publish it. It tells a story of a young reporter in Prosperity, Indiana, in the post World War II years, and a special friendship between Katharine and a Russian migr, Madam Anna Suvorov. Fifty years later Katharine finds a letter from Madam Anna that suggests her death may have been due to foul play. Returning to Prosperity, reconnecting with old acquaintances, and asking questions about Madam Annas death, Katharine finds the truth and visits her own form of justice on the perpetrators.
Magnolias and Murder
Author: Elizabeth Fritz
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781469738826
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Marcia Iverson is newly wed but newly widowed by a terrorist act. Grieving but still aglow with the memories of a deliriously happy honeymoon, she decides to continue the plan she and Michael shared to return to his boyhood home in a semi-rural Louisiana backwater. Having cut her ties to her apartment and brokerage job in New York City for marriage, she has nowhere else to go, nowhere to practice her profession, and no one but herself to depend on. When she finds that Michaels death has made her heir to Magnolia Manor, a rundown, nearly bankrupt motel, she applies her abilities to restoring the motel to a paying proposition, building a new family, and making new friends. Just as her plans for the Manor begin to succeed, murders on the premises complicate them. Adding the clues that she gathers to those that an attractive local lieutenant of police shares with her, she runs the risk of herself becoming a victim.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781469738826
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Marcia Iverson is newly wed but newly widowed by a terrorist act. Grieving but still aglow with the memories of a deliriously happy honeymoon, she decides to continue the plan she and Michael shared to return to his boyhood home in a semi-rural Louisiana backwater. Having cut her ties to her apartment and brokerage job in New York City for marriage, she has nowhere else to go, nowhere to practice her profession, and no one but herself to depend on. When she finds that Michaels death has made her heir to Magnolia Manor, a rundown, nearly bankrupt motel, she applies her abilities to restoring the motel to a paying proposition, building a new family, and making new friends. Just as her plans for the Manor begin to succeed, murders on the premises complicate them. Adding the clues that she gathers to those that an attractive local lieutenant of police shares with her, she runs the risk of herself becoming a victim.
Handbook of Painting: the Italian Schools
Author: Franz Kugler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painting, Italian
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painting, Italian
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Handbook of Painting
Author: Franz Kugler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
The Italian Schools of Painting
Author: Franz Kugler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painting, Italian
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painting, Italian
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Still Hunting
Author: Martin Hunter
Publisher: ECW Press
ISBN: 1770904034
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Biography.
Publisher: ECW Press
ISBN: 1770904034
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Biography.
Patrons and Adversaries
Author: Caroline Castiglione
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780195173871
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Four generations of the aristocratic Barberini family and its "vassals", clashed over how the early modern Roman countryside should be governed. Villagers sometimes cultivated noble interference, but they frequently resisted it through the strategies of adversarial literacy, political ways of reading and writing that challenged noble hegemony in the village.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780195173871
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Four generations of the aristocratic Barberini family and its "vassals", clashed over how the early modern Roman countryside should be governed. Villagers sometimes cultivated noble interference, but they frequently resisted it through the strategies of adversarial literacy, political ways of reading and writing that challenged noble hegemony in the village.
Kugler's Hand-book of Painting
Author: Franz Kugler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Handbook of painting
Author: Charles Lock Eastlake
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description