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1) Sharp edges
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On an island off Seattle, old glass museum director Eugenia Swift and PI Cyrus Colfax pretend to be lovers on holiday as they investigate murder and the theft of a stolen glass object. The play-acting leads to the real thing.
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"Journalist Janny Scott describes the world that shaped her father, Robert Montgomery Scott (whose mother, Helen Hope Scott, was said to have inspired Katherine Hepburn's character in the play and the film The Philadelphia Story), and provides a look at the weight of inheritance, the tenacity of addiction, and the power of buried secrets"--
Land, houses, and money tumbled from one generation to the next on the eight-hundred-acre estate built by Scott's...
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When Maggie Concannon meets Rogan Sweeney, she falls in love but her scarred heart needs time to heal.
El mismo día que Maggie Concannon, una joven e independiente artista del vidrio soplado, vende sus primeras piezas, un duro golpe sacude a su familia. Pensando que refugiarse en el trabajo es la mejor forma de superar su dolor, Maggie se centra en su delicada y magnética obra, que entonces llama la atención de Rogan Sweeney, un elegante galerista...
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"No museum in the world is like the Metropolitan Museum of Art - and no man has ever run it, or revolutionized it, quite like Thomas Hoving. In a decade, Hoving changed almost everything people had grown accustomed to from the Met, shaking the institution out of royal repose and transforming it into the most vital cultural presence in the country. Now, the irrepressible former director delivers a fearless account of his life at the pinnacle of the...
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"Memoir by former Director of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore reveals what goes on behind the scenes. Shocking and comical backstories include tales of failed exhibitions, looted antiquities, fakes, and inside jobs of theft and bribery among a cast of crooked dealers, deluded collectors, and duplicitous public officials"--
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