The Objects of Her Affection

The Objects of Her Affection
Author: Sonya Cobb
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2014-08-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1402294255

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"'Similarly thrilling' to Gone Girl...Smart social commentary meets taut heist when mom Sophie dips her toe into the black market art world, just so her family can have a nice home." — Better Homes & Garden Her Heists Paid the Bills. Her Family Paid the Price. Sophie Porter is the last person in the world you'd expect to be stealing Renaissance masterpieces—and that's exactly why she's so good at it. Slipping objects out of her husband's office at the Philadelphia Museum of Art satisfies something deep inside, during a time in her life when satisfactions are few and far between. Selling the treasures also happens to keep their house out of foreclosure — a house that means everything to Sophie. But the FBI is sniffing around, and Sophie is close to destroying the very life she's working so hard to build. She knows she should give up her thieving ways. But she may no longer be in control. The Objects of Her Affection is a riveting story about the realities of motherhood, the perils of secrecy, and the art of appraising the real treasures in our lives. "Sonya Cobb combines the rarified atmosphere of museum scholarship, illegal art trafficking, and the sticky desperation of young motherhood to craft a superbly written thriller."—Karen Engelmann, author of The Stockholm Octavo

Objects of My Affection

Objects of My Affection
Author: Jill Smolinski
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2012-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1451660758

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Struggling to start over after a failed relationship and her son's entry into drug rehab, a struggling Lucy Bloom tackles an unexpectedly challenging job clearing the cluttered home of a reclusive artist and hoarder who hides an astonishing secret.

Objects of Affection

Objects of Affection
Author: Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Polish Americans
ISBN: 9780998966755

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Literary Nonfiction. Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough arrived in the United States from Poland in 1984, bringing memories of life under a totalitarian regime, where the personal was always political. In essay after essay in OBJECTS OF AFFECTION, her remarkable debut, Hryniewicz-Yarbrough shows the immigrant's double perspective, exploring a "bi-polar" world of displacement and rootlessness, geography and memory, individual and family history, always with an acute awareness of losses and gains that accompany adaptation to a new language and culture and the creation of a new identity.

Object of My Affection

Object of My Affection
Author: Stephen McCauley
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2012-08-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1439122091

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George and Nina seem like the perfect couple. They share a cozy, cluttered Brooklyn apartment, a taste for impromptu tuna casserole dinners, and a devotion to ballroom dancing lessons at Arthur Murray. They love each other. There's only one hitch: George is gay. And when Nina announces she's pregnant, things get especially complicated. Howard -- Nina's overbearing boyfriend and the baby's father -- wants marriage. Nina wants independence. George will do anything for a little unqualified affection, but is he ready to become an unwed surrogate dad? A touching and hilarious novel about love, friendship, and the many ways of making a family.

The Objects of My Affection

The Objects of My Affection
Author: Sarah Lugg
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2000-10
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780740712487

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Shaping everyday, ordinary objects such as dried flowers, shells, and buttons into fascinating collages, English artist Sarah Lugg creates what she likes to call "visual diaries." In her first major gift book, The Objects of My Affection, Sarah's "visual diaries" take a turn toward the romantic. Sarah marries her collections of feathers, stamps, stones, and flowers with the romantic poetry of classic writers such as Burns, Shakespeare, Keats, Shelley, and Longfellow to give readers and collectors a message of love and romance. This beautiful gift collection of Sarah's artwork features love, hearts, and romantic creations that are sure to capture readers' emotions.

Objects of Our Affection

Objects of Our Affection
Author: Lisa Tracy
Publisher: Bantam Dell Publishing Group
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2010
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 0553807269

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Recounts how the author and her sisters inherited furniture and other artifacts collected over the course of centuries by ancestors including several who served in the military, describing the stories behind various pieces of interest and what they revealed about past family members.

Objects of Desire

Objects of Desire
Author: Clare Sestanovich
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2021-06-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0593318102

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“A debut story collection of the rarest kind ... you wish that every single entry could be an entire novel." —Entertainment Weekly Fresh, intimate stories of women’s lives from an extraordinary new literary voice, laying bare the unexpected beauty and irony in contemporary life A college freshman, traveling home, strikesup an odd, ephemeral friendship with the couple next to her on the plane. A mother prepares for her son’s wedding, her own life unraveling as his comes together. A long-lost stepbrother’s visit to New York prompts a family’s reckoning with its old taboos. A wife considers the secrets her marriage once contained. An office worker, exhausted by the ambitions of the men around her, emerges into a gridlocked city one afternoon to make a decision. In these eleven powerful stories, thrilling desire and melancholic yearning animate women’s lives, from the brink of adulthood to the labyrinthine path between twenty and thirty, to middle age, when certain possibilities quietly elapse. Tender, lucid, and piercingly funny, Objects of Desire is a collection pulsing with subtle drama, rich with unforgettable scenes, and alive with moments of recognition each more startling than the last—a spellbinding debut that announces a major talent.

Objects of Her Affection

Objects of Her Affection
Author: Sonya Cobb
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2014-08-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1402294263

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"Sonya Cobb combines the rarified atmosphere of museum scholarship, illegal art trafficking, and the sticky desperation of young motherhood to craft a superbly written thriller."-Karen Engelmann, author of The Stockholm Octavo Her Heists Paid the Bills. Her Family Paid the Price. Sophie Porter is the last person in the world you'd expect to be stealing Renaissance masterpieces-and that's exactly why she's so good at it. Slipping objects out of her husband's office at the Philadelphia Museum of Art satisfies something deep inside, during a time in her life when satisfactions are few and far between. Selling the treasures also happens to keep their house out of foreclosure - a house that means everything to Sophie. But the FBI is sniffing around, and Sophie is close to destroying the very life she's working so hard to build. She knows she should give up her thieving ways. But she may no longer be in control. The Objects of Her Affection is a riveting story about the realities of motherhood, the perils of secrecy, and the art of appraising the real treasures in our lives. "This thrilling, emotional, and tautly paced novel will appeal to fans of The Book Thief...[Cobb's] brilliant first novel is the story of a woman with nothing and everything to lose."-Booklist, starred review

Love Objects

Love Objects
Author: Emily Maguire
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2021-03-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1761061399

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A stunning novel of great compassion and insight, from the author of the Stella Prize-shortlisted An Isolated Incident. 'Bold, furious, unapologetic and deeply insightful.' Sofie Laguna, author of Infinite Splendours 'A stunning, immersive novel that will change the conversation about class and about what possessions mean. It's important and funny and sad and beautiful and I absolutely adored it.' Kathryn Heyman, author of Storm and Grace and Fury 'One of the most big-hearted novels I've ever read. Each person fully formed, each scene and new catastrophe rooted in truth.' Bri Lee, author of Eggshell Skull Nic is a forty-three-year-old trivia buff, amateur nail artist and fairy godmother to the neighbourhood's stray cats. She's also the owner of a decade's worth of daily newspapers, enough clothes and shoes to fill Big W three times over and a pen collection which, if laid end-to-end, would probably circle her house twice. The person she's closest to in the world is her beloved niece Lena, who she meets for lunch every Sunday. One day Nic fails to show up. When Lena travels to her aunt's house to see if Nic's all right, she gets the shock of her life, and sets in train a series of events that will prove cataclysmic for them both. By the acclaimed author of An Isolated Incident, Love Objects is a clear-eyed, heart-wrenching and deeply compassionate novel about love and family, betrayal and forgiveness, and the things we do to fill our empty spaces.

The Expulsive Power of a New Affection

The Expulsive Power of a New Affection
Author: Thomas Chalmers
Publisher: Gideon House Books
Total Pages: 25
Release: 2015-06-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1943133085

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“Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.” — 1 John 2:15 Those who struggle with habitual sin are keenly aware of the despair and fatigue that comes from trying harder and harder to control the desire to do what is wrong in the eyes of God. For this person, there be times of limited success in overcoming sin, but eventually he/she falls back again into unhealthy patterns. In "The Expulsive Power of a New Affection", Thomas Chalmers argues that no matter how hard we may try, we’ll never overcome habitual sin in our lives unless we switch our affections from the world to Jesus Christ. Thankfully Christ loved us first and is more than willing to set us free if we’d only realize the true Gospel power that we can all have in our lives today.