artsy thieves...

here are some books about the fine art of stealing art...

The Rescue Artist by Edward Dolnick

The World to Come by Dara Horn

Vanished Smile: The mysterious theft of Mona Lisa by R. A. Scotti

 

Buy Back by Brian M. Wiprud

moms in fiction...

want to continue celebrating mother's day?  here's some fiction about moms...

· Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout

· Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

· The Bad Mother’s Handbook by Kate Long

· Blue Shoe by Anne Lamott 

· The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan 

· Cane River by Lalita Tademy 

· The Diary by Ellen Goudge

· The Good Mother by Sue Miller

· I Don’t Know How She Does It by Allison Pearson

· Joy Luck Club by Amy Tam

· Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

· Mrs. Dalloway by Virgina Woolf

· Pieces of the Heart by Karen White 

· The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka 

· The Secret Life of Bess by Sue Monk Kidd

· The Seduction of Water by Carol Goodman 

· Shopaholic and Baby by Sophie Kinsella

· Summer Light by Luanne Rice 

· Unless by Carol Shields

· White Oleander : A Novel by Janet Fitch