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Author
Series
Gabriel Allon volume 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A gripping story of deception in the world of international fine art. Restorer and spy Gabriel Allon embarks on a dangerous hunt across Europe for the secret behind the forgery of a seventeenth-century masterpiece that has fooled experts and exchanged hands for millions"--
5) Pearl paints
Author
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
Using her new set of watercolors, Pearl paints a masterpiece.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Marvin the beetle is going collecting with his family. All is good and well until Uncle Albert gets hurt. Marvin needs his human friend James's help to save Uncle Albert before it's too late"--
Author
Series
The masterpiece adventures volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Marvin the beetle tries to reassure his human boy, James, who is worried about his father's upcoming wedding and the changes it will bring.
Author
Series
Masterpiece adventures volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When his best friend, a human boy named James, goes away on vacation, Marvin the beetle worries that their friendship may end.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The foundational text of Daoism, the Daodejing, speaks of the Way (Dao), a transcendent order underlying all phenomena. In excerpts from the text, contemplate the Daodejing's compelling expression of harmonious duality and its conception of effortless, spontaneous human action. Also sample the Zhuangzi, a related masterpiece of literature and philosophy.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Begin at the beautiful Ponte Santa Trinita bridge, dating from the 16th century, and grasp its political and civic symbolism. Then walk the fashionable Via Tornabuoni to the vast Dominican complex of Santa Maria Novella. Explore the complex's great preaching church, with artistic treasures including the Tornabuoni Chapel, one of Florence's great masterpieces.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Sixty miles southwest of Chicago is one of the great houses of the world, the Farnsworth House, built by Mies van der Rohe for a Chicago physician, Edith Farnsworth. Lord Peter Palumbo, second owner of the house, tells of his passion for this masterpiece, built in 1951. The 21 minute documentary reveals the history of the commission, the achievement of the design, the problems of the site, including flooding, and the involvement of the client, Dr....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The internationally bestselling novel by the author of A Kiss Before Dying, The Boys from Brazil, and Rosemary's Baby
With an Introduction by Peter Straub
For Joanna, her husband, Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost too good to be true. It is. For behind the town's idyllic facade lies a terrible secret -- a secret so shattering
...Author
Series
InvestiGators volume 6
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"When rare paintings go missing, the InvestiGators are called on the scene...the ART SCENE! Mango and Brash go undercover and under canvas as internationally renowned painters to expose a crook who has truly mastered the art of CRIME! Can they recover the missing masterpieces and save the city art museum's fundraising gala before it's too late...and they run out of appetizers? Find out in this latest pièce de résistance of action-packed illustrated...
16) The Iliad
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Homer's classical account of the war between the Greeks and the Trojans from Agamemnon's visit by the priest Chryses to the burial of Hektor.
17) Episode 8
Publisher
DogWoof
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
20 HOME: Refuge, shelter, or prison? Sharmila Tagore narrates the story of home on screen in the great films of Edith Carlmar, Lynne Ramsay, Mai Zetterling, Liu Jiay-in, Forough Farrokhzad, Antonia Bird and others. 21 RELIGION: Narrator Sharmila Tagore takes us on a global tourof great films about religion. We start in America in the 1910s, go to Sri Lanka in the 70s, and dip into thework of Lucretia Martel, Jessica Hausner and Marjane Satrapi. 22...
Publisher
IRB
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Get the Summary of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the classic American novel about the importance and futility of dreams. It tells the story of Jay Gatsby, whose ability to make his dreams a reality through sheer force of will initially seems boundless. However,...
19) The good earth
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of a Chinese peasant and his passionate, dogged accumulation of land during famine, drought, and revolution.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 33
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young woman finds herself the victim of fate and of forces beyond her control in nineteenth-century England.
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