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82) Music Lessons
Author
Publisher
Ecw Pr
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Bob Wiseman believes most things in life are universal, or, as his friend Joe once said, everything is everything. Bearing in mind this fortune cookie advice, Wiseman writes about finding the link between music and daily tasks, like teaching a five-year-old "Twinkle, Twinkle" and doing the dishes each night. Bob writes daily, the way someone else might practice scales; although his sense of the instrument and the musician has changed over the years,...
Author
Publisher
Independently Published
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"It's impossible to ignore Vince Novak. He's all anyone can talk about--speculating on the reason for his transfer to our school, celebrating his future career as a soccer star, or gushing over how tall, dark, and handsome he is. Even my parents mention him in hushed, angry whispers, fearful he's going to shatter my brother's records and destroy the legacy left behind when he died. However, I avoid Vince Novak at all costs, hiding from him and the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
©2018.
Language
English
Description
"Despite Harper McDaniel’s best efforts, the man responsible for the murder of her husband and son was exonerated thanks to some slick legal wrangling. This blatant injustice has only made Harper more determined than ever to bring down the culprit. Her ammunition? Incriminating information about his olive oil operations in Italy. But the clues that she follows are leading her into the depths of a corrupt plot that is more poisonous and far-reaching...
86) Close up
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to Burning Cove, California, where 1930s Hollywood glamour conceals a ruthless killer.... Vivian Brazier never thought life as an art photographer would include shooting headshots for aspiring male actors or nightly wake-up calls to snap photos of grisly crime scenes. Although she is set on making a career of transforming her photography into a new art form, she knows her current work is what's paying the bills. After shooting crime scene...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
p2013.
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
In 1936, a young mother resting by the side of a road in central California is spontaneously photographed by a woman documenting the migrant laborers who have taken to America's farms in search of work. Little personal information is exchanged, and neither woman has any way of knowing that they have produced what will become the most iconic image of the Great Depression. - from cover p.[2].
90) Spill zone: [1]
Author
Series
Spill zone volume 1
Publisher
First Second Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Three years ago an event destroyed the small city of Poughkeepsie, forever changing reality within its borders. Uncanny manifestations and lethal dangers now await anyone who enters the Spill Zone. The Spill claimed Addison's parents and scarred her little sister, Lexa, who hasn't spoken since. Addison provides for her sister by photographing the Zone's twisted attractions on illicit midnight rides. Art collectors pay top dollar for these bizarre...
Author
Series
Kate O'Donnell mystery volume 7
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The death of a young girl leads Detective Sergeant Harry Barnard and Kate O'Donnell into a hotbed of simmering tensions, violence and threats in sixties' Soho. London, 1964. At three a.m. on a chilly autumn morning, Detective Sergeant Harry Barnard is called to a club in Greek Street where a young girl has fallen to her death from a top-floor window. A new breed of fans is flocking to Soho's rock and roll haunts. But was it a tragic accident, or something...
92) Tracks
Publisher
Starz Media
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
It tells the remarkable true story of Robyn Davidson, a young woman who leaves her life in the city to make a solo trek through almost 2,000 miles of sprawling Australian desert. Accompanied by only her dog and four unpredictable camels, she sets off on a life-changing journey of self-discovery. Along the way, she meets National Geographic photographer Rick Smolan who begins to photograph her voyage.
Author
Series
Lunch Lady volume 8
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When eccentric photographer Stefani DePino comes to Thompson Brook to take school pictures in the midst of an acne epidemic, Lunch Lady, Betty, and the Breakfast Bunch learn that Stefani is using them to break into the world of high fashion.
Author
Publisher
Reycraft Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
Español
Description
"Desde el arte popular hasta la fotogra̕fa, desde la arquitectura hasta la pintura, desde la escultura hasta la msica, las artistas cubanas han pasado desapercibidas a escala mundial durante mucho tiempo. Esta colecc̤in de poe̕sa destaca las vidas y legados de ocho mujeres cubanas que han redefinido el arte en sus comunidades."--Translated.
From folk art to photography, architecture to painting, sculpture to music, female Cuban artists have long...
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
"He was history's most creative genius. What secrets can he teach us? The author of the acclaimed bestsellers Steve Jobs, Einstein, and Benjamin Franklin brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography. Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo's astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo's genius was based on skills...
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
Walter Pater (1839-1894) attained a B.A. degree in Classics from Queen's College, Oxford, followed soon after by a M.A. degree from Brasenose College, Oxford, where he was made a Fellow in 1865. That same year Pater toured Italy, where he discovered what would become a lifelong passion for masters of the Italian Renaissance like Leonardo da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli, Michelangelo, among many others. In 1877 he published "The Renaissance: Studies in...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A unique joint memoir by a U.S. Marine and a conflict photographer, whose unlikely friendship helped both heal their war-wounded bodies and souls War tears people apart, but it can also bring them together. Through the unpredictability of war and its aftermath, a decorated Marine sergeant and a world-trotting war photographer became friends, their bond forged as they patrolled together through the dusty alleyways of Helmand province and camped side...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First Pegasus Books trade paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
It is said that the greatest art forger in the world is the one who has never been caught. “Caveat Emptor” reveals the astonishing story of America's most accomplished art forger.
Ten years ago, an FBI investigation in conjunction with the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Southern District of New York was about to expose a scandal in the art world that would have been front-page news in New York and London. After a trail of fake paintings of astonishing...
99) The rain watcher
Author
Language
English
Description
"The first new novel in four years from the beloved superstar author of Sarah's Key, a heartbreaking and uplifting story of family secrets and devastating disaster, in the tradition of THE NEST. "Hypnotic, passionate, ominous and tender--unforgettable." --Jenna Blum, New York Times and internationally bestselling author of Those Who Save Us The Rain Watcher is a powerful family drama set in Paris as the Malegarde family gathers to celebrate the father's...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
In her brilliant debut, Storey brings early 16th-century Florence alive, entering with extraordinary empathy into the minds and souls of two Renaissance masters, creating a stunning art history thriller. From 1501 to 1505, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti both lived and worked in Florence. Leonardo was a charming, handsome fifty year-old at the peak of his career. Michelangelo was a temperamental sculptor in his mid-twenties, desperate...
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