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Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"Robert Langdon, professor of religious symbology at Harvard, is in Paris to give a lecture. At the reception that follows, he is scheduled to meet with a revered curator from the world-famous Louvre museum. But the curator never shows up, and later that night Langdon is awakened by authorities and told that the curator has been found dead. He is then taken to the Louvre—the scene of the crime—where he finds out that baffling clues have been left...
5842) The Muse (CD)
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Description
England, 1967. Odelle Bastien is a Caribbean émigré trying to make her way in London. When she starts working at the prestigious Skelton Institute of Art, she discovers a painting rumored to be the work of Isaac Robles, a young artist of immense talent and vision whose mysterious death has confounded the art world for decades.
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
A biography of the Revolutionary War general, Baron von Steuben--Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin von Steuben--that focuses on his military career, and describes his efforts to create West Point and his contributions to the "Blue Book," which detailed army regulations.
Author
Pub. Date
FEB. 2021
Description
In this first installment of the Super Turbo graphic novel series, the classroom pets of Sunnyview Elementary band together to form a Superpet Superhero League to fight the crime that is all around them! Can they defeat the evil rat pack threatening their school?
Author
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
"Native American cultures have flourished in the Four Corners region for thousands of years, from the early shamans, to the Anasazi, to historic tribes of today. Rock art images created by these cultures are diverse, mysterious, and haunting. Utah may contain more world-class, prehistoric rock art than any other region in North America. Rock overhangs with ghostly, painted, shamanistic figures have become synonymous with Utah." "Dennis Slifer has...
Author
Series
Pup Detectives volume 7
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Rora and the other Pup Detectives work to stop an art heist and prevent Rider from being framed for the theft.
Author
Description
Honest illusions: As the daughter of a world-renown magician who is equally accomplished as a jewel thief, Roxy Nouvelle inherits her father's genius. Dashing escape artist Luke Callahan also possesses a gift for relieving the wealthy of their valuables. Brought up together, Roxy and Luke are partners first in illusion, then in crime.
Montana sky: When Jack Mercy died, he left behind a lot of enemies and a ranch worth nearly twenty million dollars....
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
In 2017, Leonardo da Vincis small oil painting the Salvator Mundi was sold at auction. In the words of its discoverer, the image of Christ as savior of the world is zthe rarest thing on the planet.y Its $450 million sale price also makes it the worlds most expensive painting. For two centuries, art dealers had searched in vain for the Holy Grail of art history: a portrait of Christ as the Salvator Mundi by Leonardo da Vinci. Many similar paintings...
5851) Mister Orange
Author
Pub. Date
c2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"When Linus Muller takes over making deliveries for his family's Manhattan grocery store in 1943, including bringing a crate of oranges every other week to an artist from Europe, the two become friends as they discuss war, the future, freedom, and imagination."
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
The secret life of the sensational woman behind the Morgan masterpieces, who lit up New York society. What would you give up to achieve your dream? When J. P. Morgan hired Belle da Costa Greene in 1905 to organize his rare book and manuscript collection, she had only her personality and a few years of experience to recommend her. Ten years later, she had shaped the famous Pierpont Morgan Library collection and was a celebrity in New York and the art...
5853) RASL
Author
Series
RASL volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
When Rasl, a thief and ex-military engineer, discovers the lost journals of Nikola Tesla, he bridges the gap between modern physics and history's most notorious scientist. But his breakthrough comes at a price. In this twisting tale of violence, intrigue, and betrayal, Rasl finds himself in possession of humankind's greatest and most dangerous secret.
5854) Shine pack
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"STEAM Academy offers an interdisciplinary approach that weaves together the science, technology, engineering, art, and math skills learned in the classroom and connects them to things kids see every day. The goal of the Creation & Sound Module is to teach kids how creativity and self-expression apply to identifying and solving problems. Topics in this module include art, sound, color, tempo, rhyming, and literature"--
A game to encourage basic manipulation...
5855) Titanfall
Pub. Date
c2014
Description
"Crafted by key developers behind the Call of Duty franchise, Titanfall is the first next-gen shooter that combines pure adrenaline, wall-running, double-jumping action with powerful, fast-paced titan warfare to set the new bar for online multiplayer gameplay."--Container
5856) Forge your dragon world
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
An official "Wings of Fire" journal and drawing guide provides examples by a professional graphic artist while inviting creative fans to design original characters, imagine new storylines, and create roleplaying fantasy worlds of their own.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Appears on list
Description
'Grunt' tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries -- panic, exhaustion, heat, noise -- and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them. Mary Roach dodges hostile fire with the U.S. Marine Corps Paintball Team as part of a study on hearing loss and survivability in combat. She visits the fashion design studio of U.S. Army Natick Labs and learns why a zipper is a problem for a sniper. She visits a repurposed...
Author
Series
Charlie Mortdecai mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"Charlie Mortdecai: degenerate aristocrat, amoral art dealer, seasoned epicurean, unwilling assassin, and acknowledged coward. With his thuggish manservant--the incomparably named Jock Strapp--Mortdecai endures all manner of nastiness involving stolen paintings, a vintage Rolls Royce, secret police, a whirlwind trip to the United States, a dead client, and a ravishing young wealthy widow...all just to make a dishonest living. He's not one to pass...