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1) White heat
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Never have the stakes been higher. Never have two people faced greater risks or grappled with deeper desire. Never has Cherry Adair–award-winning author of Hot Ice–burned the pages with so much blazing action and blistering passion.
Professional art restorer Emily Greene is in no mood to see the devil-may-care Max Aries. She hasn’t forgotten–or forgiven–the way Max dropped into her life a year ago, stole her heart,...
Professional art restorer Emily Greene is in no mood to see the devil-may-care Max Aries. She hasn’t forgotten–or forgiven–the way Max dropped into her life a year ago, stole her heart,...
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"London, 2017: When Aurelia Leclaire inherits an opulent Paris apartment, she is shocked to discover her grandmother's hidden secrets--including a treasure trove of famous art and couture gowns. One obscure painting leads her to Gabriel Seymour, a highly respected art restorer with his own mysterious past. Together they attempt to uncover the truths concealed within the apartment's walls. Paris, 1942: The Germans may occupy the City of Lights, but...
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"Emily Price, art restorer and would-be artist, finds herself in Atlanta, restoring objects recovered from a house fire. As she strives to make all the pieces of her life fit, secure a gallery opening for her own art, and care for her sister and mother, she finds herself enthralled by Chef Benito Hillam, who is in town from Italy visiting his brother Joseph, Emily's boss. Ben spends all his time cooking and repeatedly proposing marriage to Emily....
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"In the magical and historically rich city of Siena, Italy, old paintings are as common as cobblestones. But what if some of those paintings are forgeries? And what if your employers at a respected firm of art conservators might be smuggling antiquities? After colleague and roommate Ernst Mann is found dead in the street below their apartment balcony, Flora Garibaldi suspects her bosses are crooks and that her new job is disintegrating into desiccated...
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"In 1866, maverick French artist Gustave Courbet painted one of the most daring images in the history of art: a sexually explicit portrait of a woman's exposed genitals. Audaciously titled L'Origine du monde (The Origin of the World), the scandalous painting was kept hidden for a century and a half. Today, it hangs in the world-renowned Orsay Museum in Paris, viewed by millions of visitors a year. As the first artist authorized by the Orsay Museum...
6) El atraco
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El legendario espia y restaurador de arte Gabriel Allon se encuentra en Venecia reparando un retablo de Veronese cuando recibe un llamado urgente de la policia italiana. Julian Isherwood, el excentrico comerciante de arte de Londres, se ha topado con una escalofriante escena de asesinato en el Lago Como, y ha sido detenido como sospechoso. Para salvar a su amigo, Gabriel debe localizar a los verdaderos asesinos y realizar una simple tarea: encontrar...
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"A man murdered during Katrina in a hotel room two blocks from her art-restoration studio was closely tied to a part of Johanna's past that she would like kept secret. But missing from the crime scene is a valuable artwork painted in 1926 by a renowned Belgian artist that might bring it all back. An aquaintance, Clay Fontenot, who has enabled a wide variety of personal violations in his life, some of which he has enjoyed, is the scion of a powerful...
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Gargoyles volume 2
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Art restorer Felicity "Fil" Shaltis can read the magic in auras, but her fascination with a valuable statue her friend Ella Harrow asks her to locate is purely artistic. At least until the fierce stone gargoyle comes to life as a powerful, and powerfully hot, immortal warrior, who promptly saves her life from a cultist set on destroying them both. Suddenly "chiseled good looks" takes on a whole new meaning...
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Art conservator Callie Burke's new assignment is restoring a masterpiece owned by ruthless, wealthy, and sexy politico Jack Walker. When she's persuaded to move into Jack's sprawling estate to finish the job, a mere business proposition turns into something far more complicated.
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This should be the cushiest job Alix London's ever had. The second Alix London mystery finds the art restorer in a world brimming with idle luxury, spectacular locations, and deadly intrigue. Surrounded by art and wealth and the sun-drenched Greek isles, she's aboard a sumptuous mega-yacht with no responsibilities save the occasional lecture to the guests of her temporary employer, Panos Papadakis, one of the world's richest men. But, there's a catch.........
13) Upadły anioł
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Gabriel Allon, as izraelskiego wywiadu, który ledwo uszedł z życiem z ostatniej operacji, a także konserwator dzieł sztuki, znajduje chwile wytchnienia w murach Watykanu, gdzie zajmuje się restauracją jednego z największych arcydzieł Caravaggia. Jednak pewnego ranka wzywa go do Bazyliki św. Piotra Monsinior Luigi Donati, wpływowy osobisty sekretarz Jego Świątobliwości papieża Pawła VII. Pod wspaniałą kopułą Michała Anioła leży...
18) La luz invisible
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Mientras trabaja en una iglesia antigua en Donostia, la restauradora de arte, Marta Arbide encuentra un manuscrito oculto tras un falso muro durante siglos. Se trata del diario de Jean de la Croix, un monje medieval a quien, mil años atrás, le fue encomendada una misión: llevar una misteriosa reliquia hasta un escondite seguro y huir de los sicarios que, por orden del papa Inocencio III, le perseguían para arrebatársela. Intrigada por el contenido...
20) Wielki skok
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Legendary spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon is at work in Venice repairing an altarpiece when he receives an urgent summons from the Italian police. The art dealer Julian Isherwood has stumbled upon a murder scene in Lake Como, and is being held as a suspect. To save his friend, Gabriel must perform one simple task: Find the most famous missing painting in the world.Sometimes the best way to find a stolen masterpiece is to steal another one.....