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Author
Publisher
[Hadley House]
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
"In this handsome volume Terry Redlin shares with us a lifetime of beautiful memories. His warm and romantic images are quiet testimony to his Tom Sawyer-type boyhood and the colorful stories he heard from his uncles and older friends. Terry Redlin's imagination thrives on such recollections. His mind, he admits, is always in reverse. He dreams of, and artfully turns into paintings, a more distant time and place in America's rural past. It was an...
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"One of the most viewed paintings in American history, Custer's Last Fight, copied and distributed by Anheuser-Busch at a rate of over two million copies a year, was destroyed in a fire at the 7th Cavalry Headquarters in Fort Bliss, Texas, in 1946. Or was it? When Charley Lee Stillwater dies of an apparent heart attack at the Wyoming Home for Soldiers & Sailors, Walt Longmire is called in to try and make sense of a piece of a painting and a Florsheim...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
#1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva delivers another stunning thriller in his action-packed tale of high stakes international intrigue.
A brutal murder, a missing masterpiece, a mystery only Gabriel Allon can solve . . .
Art restorer and legendary spy Gabriel Allon has slipped quietly into London to attend a reception at the Courtauld Gallery celebrating the return of a stolen self-portrait
...Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
From bestselling author Diane Chamberlain comes an irresistible new novel. North Carolina, 2018: Morgan Christopher's life has been derailed. Taking the fall for a crime she did not commit, she finds herself serving a three-year stint in the North Carolina Women's Correctional Center. Her dream of a career in art is put on hold-until a mysterious visitor makes her an offer that will see her released immediately. Her assignment: restore an old post...
6) The heist
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Gabriel Allon, art restorer and occasional spy, searches for a stolen masterpiece by Caravaggio. Sometimes the best way to find a stolen masterpiece is to steal another one.
7) The Mona Lisa vanishes: a legendary painter, a shocking heist, and the birth of a global celebrity
Author
Publisher
Random House Studio
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon volume 22
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A book about looking at and thinking about Art, based on an unfinished manuscript and sketches by Dr. Seuss that was discovered twenty-one years after his death"-- Provided by publisher.
14) The dot
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[c2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Vashti believes that she cannot draw, but her art teacher's encouragement leads her to change her mind.
15) Heist society
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A group of teenagers uses their combined talents to re-steal several priceless paintings and save fifteen-year-old Kat Bishop's father, himself an international art thief, from a vengeful collector.
18) The raven
Author
Series
Publisher
KCP Poetry
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The Raven Edgar Allan Poe - In Gustave Doré, one of the most prolific and successful book illustrators of the late 19h century, Edgar Allan Poe's renowned poem The Raven found perhaps its most perfect artistic interpreter. Doré's dreamlike, otherworldly style, tinged with melancholy, seems ideally matched to the bleak despair of Poe's celebrated work, among the most popular American poems ever written.This volume reprints all 26 of Doré's detailed,...
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