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3) The Heist
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Gabriel Allon novels volume 14
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"Legendary spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon is in Venice repairing an altarpiece by Veronese when he receives an urgent summons from the Italian police. The eccentric London art dealer Julian Isherwood has stumbled upon a chilling murder scene in Lake Como, and is being held as a suspect. To save his friend, Gabriel must track down the real killers and then perform one simple task: find the most famous missing painting in the world. Sometimes the...
4) The dot
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Creatrilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Vashti believes that she cannot draw, but her art teacher's encouragement leads her to change her mind.
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Gabriel Allon novels volume 23
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Legendary art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon joins forces with a brilliant and beautiful master-thief to track down the world's most valuable missing painting but soon finds himself in a desperate race to prevent an unthinkable conflict between Russia and the West.
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Gabriel Allon novels volume 2
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"A sometime Israeli spy by trade and an art restorer by preference, Gabriel Allon arrives in Zurich to clean the work of an Old Master for a millionaire banker--only to find himself standing in his client's blood and framed for the murder. Without warning, Allon is drawn into a spiraling chain of events involving Nazi art theft, a decades-old suicide, and a bloody trail of killings--some of them his own. The spy world Allon thought he had put aside...
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Chasing Vermeer volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
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When strange and seemingly unrelated events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, eleven-year-olds Petra and Calder combine their talents to solve an international art scandal.
10) Horse
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 1
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A photo essay introducing members of the horse family, their evolution, behavior, importance, history, breeding, and training. Includes major international breeds of domestic horses.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Uncover the Earth's inner secrets as you explore the world's most magnificent volcanoes and earthquakes like never before. Become an eyewitness to the world's most explosive volcanoes and powerful earthquakes with this picture-led guide that will take you on a visual tour of the hotspots of the world. Explore everything you need to know about the Earth's most extraordinary natural forces - from active volcanoes, including Kilanea in Hawaii and Etna...
13) The chroniclers
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Discusses the painters, photographers, journalists, and other writers who recorded their observations of life in the old West.
14) Mythical beasts
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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"Information accompanies step-by-step instructions on how to draw mythical beasts. The text level and subject matter are intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--
15) Nothing ventured
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"Nothing Ventured heralds the start of a brand new series in the style of Jeffrey Archer's #1 New York Times bestselling Clifton Chronicles: introducing Detective William Warwick. But this is not a detective story, this is a story about the making of a detective . . . William Warwick has always wanted to be a detective, and decides, much to his father's dismay, that rather than become a lawyer like his father, Sir Julian Warwick QC, and his sister...
16) Once a thief
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While preparing for the showing of the Bannister collection, exhibit director Morgan West has a late-night run-in with international cat burgler Quinn, and also experiences strong premonitions of danger as the display opening draws closer.
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Questioneers volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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When Miss Greer asks each child in the class to write a story, second-grader Aaron, who loves to draw but struggles with reading, creates a story using pictures.
18) Quick and dirty
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"When a slam-bang of a crime brings a beautiful new client into Stone Barringtons office, little does he know his association with her will pull him into a far more serpentine mystery in the exclusive world of art. Its a business where a rare find could make a career-and a collection-and mistakes in judgment are costly. And under its genteel and high-minded veneer lurks an assortment of grifters and malfeasants eager to cash in on the game. In the...
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"First published in 1974, when it was awarded the Western Heritage Wrangler Award from the Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center, this remains the only extensive survey of Hispanic building and art on the late Colorado frontier. Because most of the villages where the author found his subjects are now either abandoned or transformed by developers, the book is likely to stand as the only full visual record of what Spanish Americans along the...