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Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A presentation of the collection of the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, including Greek and Roman sculptures, jewelry,the works of Raphael, Da Vinci, Titian, Giorgione, Velasquez, Van Dyke, Rembrandt, other Dutch masters, French Impressionists, Matisse and Picasso. The narration is accompanied by music performed by the State Hermitage Orchestra, the Millennium Chamber Choir, and the St Petersburg Neva-Klassika string quartet.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In January 2010, a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, killing hundreds of thousands of people and paralyzing the country. Catherine Porter, a newly minted international reporter, was one of the first journalists on the ground in the earthquake's aftermath. Moments after she arrived in Haiti, Catherine found her first story. A ragtag group of volunteers told her about a "miracle child"--A three-year-old girl who had survived six days under the rubble...
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Series
Dickens of a crime volume 3
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Witnessing the fatal defenestration of neighbor Jacob Harley while caroling in 1835 London, young Charles Dickens and his fiancée, Kate, disagree about the case's chief suspect, Emmanuel Screws, an unpleasant counting-house codger with a rather colorful imagination.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Join Catherine the Great on a fun-filled ride as she schemes to invent the roller coaster in this inventive, STEM-based nonfiction picture book! Empress Catherine the Great, Queen of Russia loved her country, especially the snowy winters. Giant ice slides meant daring drops and thrilling rides for all! But every spring, warm weather melted the snow and the slides. What could Catherine the Great do to ensure fun all year round?-
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English
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"From bestselling author and historical consultant to the award-winning Netflix series The Crown, an unparalleled insider account of tumult, secrecy and schism in the Royal family. The world has watched Prince William and Prince Harry since they were born. Raised by Princess Diana to be the closest of brothers, how have the boy princes grown into very different, now distanced men? From royal insider, biographer and historian Robert Lacey, this book...
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Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Close-Up on War tells the story of French-born Catherine Leroy, one of the Vietnam War's few woman photographers, who documented some of the fiercest fighting in the 20-year conflict. Despite being told that women didn't belong in a "man's world," she was cool under fire, gravitated toward the thickest battles, went along on the soldiers' slogs through the heat and mud of the jungle, crawled through rice paddies, and became the only official photojournalist...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Amid the turbulent, faction-ridden late reign of the fearsome Henry, eager high-spirited Catherine Howard caught the king's eye-- but not before she had been the sensual plaything of at least three other men. Ignorant of her past, seeing only her youthful exuberance and believing that she could make him happy, he married her-- only to discover, too late, that her heart belonged to his gentleman usher Tom Culpeper. As the net of court intrigue tightens...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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This keepsake will capture all the pomp and pageantry of the historic occasion like no other memento. Includes Kate's arrival at Westminster Abbey, the full ceremony, the carriage procession, and the traditional balcony appearance at Buckingham Palace, plus highlights from the official BBC pre- and post-wedding coverage.
51) Kate Middleton
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Series
Publisher
ABDO Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An illustrated exploration of the life of Kate Middleton, discussing her family, childhood, relationship with Prince William, wedding, royal duties, and more.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A riveting history and maritime adventure about priceless masterpieces originally destined for Catherine the Great. On October 1771, a merchant ship out of Amsterdam, Vrouw Maria, crashed off the stormy Finnish coast, taking her historic cargo to the depths of the Baltic Sea. The vessel was delivering a dozen Dutch masterpiece paintings to Europe's most voracious collector: Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia. Among the lost treasures was The...
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A mesmerizing novel set in the French royal court of Catherine de’ Medici during the Renaissance, which recreates the touching and surprising true story behind the Beauty and the Beast legend, from the acclaimed author of The Clergyman’s Wife and The Heiress. 1547: Pedro Gonzales, a young boy living on the island of Tenerife, understands that he is different from the other children in his village. He is mercilessly ridiculed for the hair covering...
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Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Traces the family histories and controversies that have marked the lives of Queen Elizabeth, the Duchess of Cornwall, and the Duchess of Cambridge to illuminate their stark differences, their remarkable similarities, and their roles in an evolving monarchy.
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English
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Catherine Ling: raised in Hong Kong, she has been a CIA Operative since she was fourteen years old. Now, years later, Catherine is as lethal as she is beautiful. Her mentor, Hu Chang, brilliant and deadly, taught Catherine everything she knows. Now, he is calling her to rescue an imprisoned journalist - a woman who has been subjected to unspeakable horrors. Catherine will be fighting a man so evil, his crimes stretch back 40 years. Can she save a...
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
What do you do when you love your farm . . . but it doesn't love you? After fifteen years of farming, Catherine Friend is tired. After all, while shepherding is one of the oldest professions, it's not getting any easier. The number of sheep in America has fallen by 90 percent in the last ninety years. But just as Catherine thinks it's time to hang up her shepherd's crook, she discovers that sheep might be too valuable to give up. What ensues is a...
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Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Catherine Flowers grew up in Lowndes County, Alabama, a place that's been called "Bloody Lowndes" because of its violent, racist history. Once the epicenter of the voting rights struggle, today it's Ground Zero for a new movement that is Flowers's life's work. It's a fight to ensure human dignity through a right most Americans take for granted: basic sanitation. Too many people, especially the rural poor, lack an affordable means of disposing cleanly...
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