Barnaby Brown, a wannabe artist, has had enough of freezing winters, debts, a dead-end job, and his lonely life with his parrot in Waterbury, Connecticut. He promises himself he will start anew,-move to California, and find inspiration to paint-but he has more than a few obstacles to overcome first, including debts and a drinking habit.
A dramatic and terrifying memoir of a `catfish' scenario - when a woman meets a man online but nothing is what it seems.
From 1872 to '73, renowned artist Edgar Degas called New Orleans home. Here, the narratives of two women-Estelle, his Creole cousin and sister-in-law, and Anne Gautier, who in 1970 finds a journal written by a relative who knew Degas-intersect . . . and a painting by Degas of Estelle spells trouble.
With the threat of invasion and bombing by Germany hanging heavily over England at the start of World War II, twenty-year-old Kate is devastated when she’s forced to postpone her dream of a singing career to help out at home. When she finds herself responsible for the well-being of a young Jewish girl—her priorities change in ways she never imagined.