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OverDrive Audiobooks December 2019
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"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding." -- Leonardo Da Vinci
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December is Art and Architecture Month
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Leonardo Da Vinci
by Walter Isaacson
Drawing on Da Vinci's notebooks and new discoveries about his life, the author connects the Renaissance man's art and science and argues that everyone should improve in themselves the attributes that made Da Vinci a genius.
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The Hare With Amber Eyes : a Hidden Inheritance
by Edmund De Waal
Traces the parallel stories of nineteenth-century art patron Charles Ephrussi and his unique collection of 264 miniature netsuke Japanese ivory carvings, documenting Ephrussi's relationship with Marcel Proust and the impact of the Holocaust on his cosmopolitan family.
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Art & Fear : Observations on the Perils and Rewards of Artmaking
by David Bayles
What is your art really about? Where is it going? What stands in the way of getting it there?These are questions that matter, questions that recur at each stage of artistic development-and they are the source for this volume of wonderfully incisive commentary.
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The Christmas Pearl
by Dorothea Benton Frank
The matriarch of a family of belligerent idiots, Theodora finds her efforts at bringing them together for a South Carolina Christmas reunion have gone badly awry, with the get-together being nothing like her special times with her grandmother's beloved housekeeper, Pearl, until a very special someone uses Gullah magic and common sense to bring about a miracle.
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The Christmas Wedding
by James Patterson
A widow's imminent marriage to a mystery groom reunites her four grown children, who share a first Christmas together since the death of their father four years earlier and who receive a surprise gift from their mother. Co-written by the Edgar Award-winning author of the Alex Cross series.
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Winter Storms : a Novel
by Elin Hilderbrand
A conclusion to the best-selling trilogy finds the Quinn family's efforts to reunite and prepare for a long-anticipated wedding during the Christmas season overshadowed by a health scare, addiction problems and commitment issues. By the author of Here's to Us.
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Catching Christmas
by Terri Blackstock
Relegated to work as a cabdriver after losing his restaurant to an economic downturn, a once-acclaimed chef unexpectedly bonds with an elderly passenger and her beleaguered attorney granddaughter during a transformative holiday season.
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