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2) Lavender
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Lavender is a taut psychological thriller that bends the line between memory and madness, past and present, like a splinter in the brain struggling to escape. Jane (Abbie Cornish) has always photographed old and abandoned farmhouses for as long as she can remember. It's a hobby bordering on obsession that has bloomed into a successful career. Until one day she photographs a particular house...and everything changes. A tragic car accident leaves her...
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Portraits of the heart volume 2
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Jessie Ann Gaebele pursues her dream of owning her own photographic studio as she tries to put the shadow of a forbidden love behind her.
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In this landmark volume, Rosenblum (A World History of Photography) examines sympathetically the achievements of women in photography since its invention in 1839, and highlights society's failure to give them appropriate recognition. One research obstacle the author encountered was the 19th-century practice of men taking credit for work done by women. Here is work from 250 female camera artists, from Julia Margaret Cameron (b. 1815) to Annie Leibovitz...
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Trouble follows Lucy wherever she goes. So does a vision of second chances... and love. She dreams of working as a photographer at the Rocky Creek, Texas, newspaper, and thinks a photograph of reclusive David will help. Two things happen that forever change the course of her life-- but will they draw her closer to God, or push her further away?
8) Sanctuary
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Successful photographer Jo Ellen Hathaway thought she had placed her painful family memories behind her. Nearly twenty years have passed since her mother's disappearance when she receives shocking photographs of her unclothed and dead. To find the answers she seeks, Jo must return to the island home run by the family from which she is estranged.
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"In The Lightkeepers, we follow Miranda, a nature photographer who travels to the Farallon Islands, an exotic and dangerous archipelago off the coast of California, for a one-year residency capturing the landscape. Her only companions are the scientists studying there, odd and quirky refugees from the mainland living in rustic conditions; they document the fish populations around the island, the bold trio of sharks called the Sisters that hunt the...
10) After the rain
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When photographer Suzanne Paris, on the run from her ex-fiancae, lands in Walton, Georgia, she's pretty sure she's never seen a town so small. It's a far cry from the life she left behind, and Joe Warner is nothing like any man she's ever known. He's the mayor of Walton, a teacher, and the widowed dad of six children. But something about Joe's slow Southern warmth lights Suzanne up in places that have been cold for far too long, and tempts her to...
11) From a distance
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Timber Ridge reflections volume 1
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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!
12) Colorado dawn
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Runaway brides novels volume 2
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"The next in Kaki Warner's sweeping new series about unlikely brides who make their way west--discovering newfound freedom and rediscovering love... After only three letters and one visit during her six-year marriage to a Scottish cavalry officer, Maddie Wallace decides to build a life without him. Accepting an assignment from a London periodical to photograph the West from a female perspective, she sails from England, determined to build a new life...
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Wealthy archaeologist Lawrence Haslett has located an important site for artifacts of an ancient tribe of Indians in the Lost River Valley. Haslett hires talented photographer Sidra Givens to accompany and record the expedition. But what Sidra encounters as they enter Lost River Valley is a climate of ceaseless and unrelenting violence, terror, and greed which makes her very survival an incredible challenge.
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Photographer Cat Cochran has been to exotic places most people only dream about--but all she wants to do is settle down and get her life in order. One last assignment and she can put her past behind her--forgetting about her heart's disastrous misadventures as she loses herself in the natural beauty she has so far only glimpsed through a camera's lens. But first she must photograph the mysterious and elusive ship designer T. H. Danvers and his awesome...