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1) Dead aim
Author
Language
English
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Description
The #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen returns with an electrifying and all-too-plausible thriller that pushes the level of suspense to the maximum and never lets up. From the tense opening scene to the final explosive page, Johansen delivers a knockout novel, as an unlikely pair of allies must expose a team of killers hiding behind an unspeakable act of terror—and risk ending up their next target.
She witnesses death...
She witnesses death...
2) Fool me once
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Olivia Lowell always believed her father's claim that her mother died in childbirth. Then she learns that her mother has just died, leaving her a fortune, with the request that Olivia find two accomplices in a long-ago crime and persuade them to come clean. Feeling betrayed, and unsure she even wants the inheritance, Olivia must decide if she can handle the secrets of the past.
7) Dazzle
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c1990
Language
English
Description
Jazz Kilkullen "juggles a demanding career as the world's foremost photographer of celebrities with a complicated love life, involving three all-but-irresistible men."--Jacket.
8) Sanctuary
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1997
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.
Author
Language
English
Description
Years after discovering her father's predatory double life, successful photographer Naomi Bowes struggles to hide her painful past from her fellow residents in a community thousands of miles away, a situation that introduces her to a new relationship and forces her to confront her demons.
In freeing the woman trapped in the root cellar, Naomi Bowes revealed the horrible extent of her father's crimes, made him infamous... and discovered she can't...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
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.
11) Second sight
Author
Language
English
Description
Venetia Milton earns big bucks photographing the artifacts owned by the brooding Gabriel Jones, whom she also manages to seduce, but after hearing that he is dead, she is stunned when he winds up on her doorstep very much alive and afraid for his life.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A British army captain whose artistic pioneer grandmother lived an illusory life to cope with hardships begins transforming his own sense of reality in the aftermath of a mission gone wrong before confronting a mystery from his family's past.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2012
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.
14) Mary Coin
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
In 1936, a young mother resting by the side of a road in central California is spontaneously photographed by a woman documenting the migrant laborers who have taken to America's farms in search of work. Little personal information is exchanged, and neither woman has any way of knowing that they have produced what will become the most iconic image of the Great Depression. - from cover p.[2]
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When a spunky photographer wrangles her way onto an 1872 survey crew of the Grand Canyon she thinks nothing can stand in her way. But her mind changes when she finds out she'll be working alongside the one man she doesn't want to fall in love with.
16) Waltzing the cat
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A collection of interrelated stories on a woman who is lucky in adventure, but unlucky in love. 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.
17) Dead sleep
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2001
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.
19) From a distance
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
Determined to establish herself as a photojournalist, Elizabeth Westbrook travels from Washington, D.C., to Timber Ridge, Colorado. But when one of her pictures is used as evidence in a murder trial, she finds her life in peril. Meeting Confederate sharpshooter Daniel Ranslett teaches Elizabeth something surprising about herself---but what she learns about Daniel is life changing!
Author
Publisher
Arte Público Press
Pub. Date
©2001
Language
English
Description
"Adriana Mora, a Latina photojournalist born and raised in Los Angeles, haunted by childhood memories of her parents death, abuse and displacement, journeys south to Chiapas, Mexico, in search of images to record on film. Initially, Mora finds a place in a small village where her path also crosses that of Chan Kin, the aged Lacandon shaman and interpreter of his people's mysticism."--Back cover.
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