Picture Palace: A Novel.

Picture Palace: A Novel."Never a dull moment . . . Vivid and deft." New York Review of Books Maude Pratt is a legend, a photographer famous for her cutting edge techniques and uncanny ability to strip away the masks of the world's most recognizable celebrities and luminaries. Now in her seventies, Maude has been in the public eye since the 1920s, and her unparalleled portfolio includes intimate portraits of Gertrude Stein, Hemingway, and Picasso. While Maude possesses a

Bible exploration

a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into a nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving

No longer a lonely spinster

When the truth finally reveals itself

Paddington Bear and the Browns have front-row seats

Their words conjure a reality that few people have ever encountered - from sleeping on beds literally carved out of the jungle to escaping Colombian military air strikes under the cover of darkness to being bound with steel chains by their captors

previously intertwined

A place where every bitter thing is sweet

Here is a sweeping story of five women at once intimately relatable and yet entirely new

led by mounted officers

lovesick dogcatcher

" -- Booklist