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Book cover for "The art of vanishing".
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Publisher:
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
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"Jean's life is the same day in and day out. Frozen in time by his painter father, the legendary Henri Matisse, Jean observes the ebb and flow of museum guests as they take in the works of his father and other masters like Renoir, Picasso, and Modigliani. But his world takes a mesmerizing turn when Claire, a new museum employee, enters his life. Night after night, Claire moves through the gallery where Jean's painting hangs, mopping the floors, talking...
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Publisher:
Viking
Pub. Date:
[2018]
Language:
English
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"At twenty-five, as her wedding date approached, [the author] began to feel trapped ... by the unsettling idea that it was hard to be at once married and free. [She] wanted her life to be different. She wanted her marriage to be different. And she found in the strangely captivating story of another restless young woman determined to live without constraints both an enticement and a challenge, Barbara Newhall Follett ... [who] in December 1939, when...
Book cover for "The Vanishing Art of Letter Writing".
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Publisher:
True Perspective Publishing House
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
Description:
On a snowy day in Michigan, Taylor Gibbs decides to finish clearing out a storage closet, and comes upon a large cache of old love letters. When she begins to read them, she is taken back forty years, to the days when she was twenty-one and dating Bromley Carder. He at Harvard, she at Stanford, his letters are a one-sided view of how it was - to be intelligent, highly literate, deeply in love, 3000 miles away, unschooled in the art of patience, chained...
Book cover for "The Mona Lisa vanishes".
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English
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"A narrative nonfiction about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how the robbery made the portrait the most famous artwork in the world-and how the painting by Leonardo da Vinci should never have existed at all"--
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Publisher:
Batsford
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
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In this richly illustrated landmark book, author and journalist Will Ellsworth-Jones documents the sold, stolen and destroyed works of Banksy, one of the most renowned and controversial artists of our time. This is a book about what you can't see: the works that have disappeared entirely, whether destroyed by authorities or whisked into people's private art collections to languish on walls or in collector's vaults. These remarkable works are as elusive...
Book cover for "The art teacher's vanishing masterpiece".
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Publisher:
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date:
2007
Language:
English
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When a valuable painting is stolen from a local art museum, fourth-grade super-sleuth Joe Sherlock investigates, aided by his sister, Hailey.
Book cover for "Art Teacher's Vanishing Masterpiece".
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date:
2009
Language:
English
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How does a valuable painting vanish from a museum wall without a trace? Can you trust a goofball kid detective to recover priceless artwork? Why does Joe Sherlock's shirt stink worse than a dirty diaper? Ride along as Sherlock uncovers shocking secrets that not only will echo down the halls of Baskerville Elementary School but just might bring City Hall crashing down in a scandal of snot-blowing proportions.
Book cover for "Vanishing American needle arts".
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Publisher:
Putnam
Pub. Date:
1983
Language:
English
Book cover for "The Day the Mona Lisa Vanished".
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Publisher:
SL Editions
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
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Step into the world of art, intrigue, and daring heists with this captivating tale of the Mona Lisa. This thrilling story for kids explores the theft that shook the world and turned a masterpiece into a legend. Discover how a seemingly ordinary museum worker pulled off the "crime of the century" and sparked a worldwide search for the most famous painting in history. Packed with fascinating details about Leonardo da Vinci, the Louvre, and the people...
Book cover for "The commissar vanishes".
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Publisher:
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date:
[1997]
Language:
English
Book cover for "The mystery of the vanishing potatoes".
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Publisher:
Peter Pauper Press, Inc
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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Gabriel Allon volume 13
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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The wayward son of Israeli intelligence, Gabriel Allon is plunged into a high stakes game of murder, espionage, and corruption after a beautiful young British woman vanishes on the island of Corsica, which threatens to destroy a prime minister's career.
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English
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5 stars
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Head maid Molly Gray's discovery of a priceless artifact sparks a media frenzy, a daring heist, and revelations from her grandmother's hidden diary, intertwining a present-day mystery with a long-lost tale of forbidden love and family secrets.
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Publisher:
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date:
[2006]
Language:
English
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Flying at 40,000 feet in a cavernous, state-of-the-art 474 aircraft that she designed, Kyle Pratt faces every mothers worst nightmare when her six year-old daughter, Julia, vanishes without a trace mid-flight from Berline to New York. Already emotionally devastasted by the unexpected death of her husband, Kyle desperately struggles to prove her sanity to the disbelieving flight crew, pilot, and passengers while facing the very real possiblity that...
Book cover for "The secret garden".
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Lexile measure:
760L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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Classics. This is an exquisite leatherbound edition of a much-loved children's classic that will be cherished by all ages. It is suitable for children aged 10 to 13 years old. On the grounds of Misselthwaite, her Uncle's estate near the Yorkshire moors, nine-year-old Mary Lennox finds a walled-in garden that has been locked securely for years. She cultivates the garden, an experience that both improves her health and raises her spirits. And it proves...
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Pub. Date:
2015
Lexile measure:
830L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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When Alizée Benoit, a young American painter working for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), vanishes in New York City in 1940, no one knows what happened to her. Not her Jewish family living in German-occupied France. Not her arts patron and political compatriot, Eleanor Roosevelt. Not her close-knit group of friends and fellow WPA painters, including Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, and Lee Krasner. And, some seventy years later, not her great-niece,...
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
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A new bind-up with three exciting thrillers featuring NYPD Detective Luc Moncrief, a Paris detective who's about to learn that NYC is a whole other ballgame in the world of crime. French Twist: Gorgeous women are dropping dead at upscale department stores in New York City. Detective Luc Moncrief and Detective Katherine Burke are close to solving the mystery, but looks can be deceiving. French Kiss: Very handsome and charming French detective Luc Moncrief...
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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A seemingly innocuous photograph turns Grace Lawson's peaceful life upside down when her husband, Jack, mysteriously vanishes with the photograph and unanswered questions threaten her marriage and everything she knows.
Book cover for "Alice's adventures in wonderland & Through the looking-glass".
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Lexile measure:
950L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
"Commemorating the 150th anniversary of one of the most beloved classics of children's literature, this illustrated edition presents Alice like you've never seen her before. In 1865, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, an Oxford mathematician and Anglican deacon, published a story about a little girl who tumbles down a rabbit hole. Thus was the world first introduced to Alice and her pseudonymous creator, Lewis Carroll. This beautiful new edition of Alice's...
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Language:
English
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In the heart of the holiday season, priceless paintings have vanished from a Park Avenue murder scene. Now, dashing French detective Luc Moncrief must become a quick study in the art of the steal - before a cold-blooded killer paints the town red. Merry Christmas, detective.