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21) Leonardo's swans
Author
Language
English
Description
Isabella d'Este, daughter of the Duke of Ferrara, born into privilege and the political and artistic turbulence of Renaissance Italy, is a stunning black-eyed blonde and a precocious lover and collector of art. Worldly and ambitious, she has never envied her less attractive sister, the spirited but naive Beatrice, until, by a quirk of fate, Beatrice is betrothed to the future Duke of Milan. Although he is more than twice their age, openly lives with...
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Language
English
Description
Manhattan artist turned waitress in a small Salt Lake City diner, Lia Carswel receives an offer to create a series of commissioned paintings. Lia knows it would ensure financial security for her family, but she doesn't know if she wants that life anymore.
25) Josefina
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace & Company
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A counting book inspired by Mexican folk artist Josefina Aguilar who makes painted clay figures.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Flattered at first that all the other fairies and sparrow men want her to paint their portraits, Bess soon begins to feel overwhelmed and tries to find a way to return to the kind of painting she really wants to do.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Français
Description
France, 1760. Marianne is commissioned to paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has just left the convent. Because she is a reluctant bride-to-be, Marianne arrives under the guise of companionship, observing Héloïse by day and secretly painting her by firelight at night. As the two women orbit one another, intimacy and attraction grow as they share Héloïse first moments of freedom. Héloïse portrait soon becomes a collaborative...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners. Imprisoned for more than two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and barbarism--but also incredible acts of bravery and compassion....
31) Safe harbour
Author
Language
English
Description
In her fifty-ninth bestselling novel, Danielle Steel tells an unforgettable story of survival...of how two people who lost everything find hope...and of the extraordinary acts of faith and courage that bring —and keep— families together...
On a windswept summer day, as the fog rolls across the San Francisco coastline, a solitary figure walks down the beach, a dog at her side. At eleven, Pip Mackenzie's young life has already been touched...
On a windswept summer day, as the fog rolls across the San Francisco coastline, a solitary figure walks down the beach, a dog at her side. At eleven, Pip Mackenzie's young life has already been touched...
32) The Englisher
Author
Series
Annie's people volume 2
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Annie Zook, the preacher's daughter, struggles to keep her promise to her father--to abandon her art for a full six months. Will Annie's intention to join the Amish church be derailed by the attention of a handsome Englisher?"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
During Parents Week at Robin Hill School, the students are all impressed with what one another's parents do for a living, especially Ayanna, who realizes that the artwork her father does at home makes him very special.
34) Salvador Dali
Author
Publisher
Franklin Watts
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discusses the life, art, and legacy of the artist Salvador Dali. Includes a timeline linking the events in his life with world events.
35) A rush of wings
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Abandoning her wealthy life, a young woman flees to a remote ranch. But is her impenetrable shell protecting her from imagined fears or true danger?
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Chloe Brown is a chronically ill computer geek with a goal, a plan, and a list. After almost--but not quite--dying, she's come up with seven directives to help her 'Get a life', and she's already completed the first: finally moving out of her glamorous family's mansion. The next items? Enjoy a drunken night out; ride a motorcycle; go camping; have meaningless but thoroughly enjoyable sex; travel the world with nothing but hand luggage; and do something...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A #1 New York Times Bestseller, Louise Penny's The Long Way Home is an intriguing Chief Inspector Gamache Novel.
Happily retired in the village of Three Pines, Armand Gamache, former Chief Inspector of Homicide with the Sûreté du Québec, has found a peace he'd only imagined possible. On warm summer mornings he sits on a bench holding a small book, The Balm in Gilead, in his large hands. "There is a balm in Gilead,"
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Frankie Budge--aspiring writer, indifferent student, offbeat loner--is determined to make it through yet another summer in Coalfield, Tennessee, when she meets Zeke, a talented artist who has just moved into his grandmother's house and who is as awkward as Frankie is. Romantic and creative sparks begin to fly, and when the two jointly make an unsigned poster, shot through with an enigmatic phrase, it becomes unforgettable to anyone...
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Nikki Maxwell writes in her diary of her struggle to be popular at her exclusive new private school, then of finding her place after she gives up on being part of the elite group.
40) Michelangelo
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
This book describes the background and artistic career of the well-known Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, and architect, Michelangelo Buonarroti.
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