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182) The Middle Ages
Author
Series
Publisher
World Book in association with Two-Can
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
While telling about his life in Medieval England, eight-year-old Robin includes information about families and homes, food and clothes, castles, markets, tournaments, and beliefs of the people.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The true story of Victorian artist Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, who built life-sized models of dinosaurs in the hope of educating the world about these awe-inspiring ancient animals and what they were like.
184) The last nude
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
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Description
"A stunning story of love, sexual obsession, treachery, and tragedy, about an artist and her most famous muse in Paris between the world wars. Paris, 1927. In the heady years before the crash, financiers drape their mistresses in Chanel, while expatriates flock to the avant-garde bookshop Shakespeare and Company. One day in July, a young American named Rafaela Fano gets into the car of a coolly dazzling stranger, the Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka....
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A rising star on the bridal design scene, Felicity Grant must come to terms that she will never walk down the aisle herself, while Nell, the top model headlining her show, deals with her own wedding drama, prompting them to team up in hopes of finding a Christmas miracle.
186) Paris red: a novel
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Description
"At seventeen, Victorine Meurent abandons her old life to become immersed in the Parisian society of dance halls and cafés, meeting writers and artists like Baudelaire and Alfred Stevens. As Manet's model, Victorine explores a world of new possibilities and stirs the artist to push the boundaries of painting in his infamous portrait Olympia, which scandalizes even the most cosmopolitan city"--Dust jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"A genius immortalized her. A French king paid a fortune for her. An emperor coveted her. No face has ever captivated so many for so long. Every year more than nine million visitors trek to her portrait in the Louvre. Yet while everyone recognizes her smile, hardly anyone knows her story. This book rests on the premise that the woman in the Mona Lisa is indeed the person identified in its earliest description: Lisa Gherardini (1479-1542), wife of...
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe--here is the first book to bring these two all-American icons together. Their friendship and on-and-off intimate relationship, kept secret because of powerful others in their lives, spanned seven tumultuous years. At onepoint, he even proposed marriage"--
"Frank Sinatra! Marilyn Monroe! Never before teamed in a book, yet theirs was a seven-year friendship and on-and-off intimate relationship shrouded in secrecy and...
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
After the loss of both his father and grandfather, sixteen-year-old Matthew moves from Queens to Manhattan with his mother. There he learns to navigate a new school, a new neighborhood and a neighbor upstairs, Lou Reed.
191) Spring collection
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
Frankie Severino travels to Paris with her three models after winning a competition to represent a couture house. Her boss, Justine, stays in New York, where she comes to acknowledge her billionaire father who had deserted he mother before she was born.
193) Geek girl
Author
Series
Geek girl (Holly Smale) volume 1
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When she is accidentally discovered by a modeling agent, fifteen-year-old Harriet jumps at the chance to transform herself from a geek to a fashion model.
Author
Publisher
Abrams
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
''Fashion and creative director Sunita Kumar Nair presents Carolyn Bessette Kennedy: A Life in Fashion, which pays homage to the style icon's timeless, distinguished beauty, and legacy in the first book of its kind. Foreword by Gabriela Hearst, award-winning designer to First Lady Jill Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris Preface by Edward Enninful, OBE, Editor-in-Chief of British Vogue Long blonde hair, an iconic red lip, and effortless style—all...
196) Welcome to Marwencol
Author
Publisher
Princeton Architectural Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
After being brutally attacked outside a bar and recovering from a coma and extensive physical injuries, Mark Hogancamp suffered brain damage and nearly total memory loss. Unable to afford therapy he spent the next few years building a scale model, World War II-era town, Marwencol, populated with dolls, where he lived out his fantasy life, and which he documented in photographs. When his photographs were discovered by an art magazine, a New York gallery...
Author
Publisher
Three Rivers Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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Description
Seeking refuge in a convent following the untimely death of her lover, master painter Raphael, a penniless Margherita Luti is forced to surrender her ruby engagement ring, a gift from the artist, to a representative of the Pope, in a sensuous historical novel, set during the Italian Renaissance, that chronicles the passionate love affair between the artist and his muse.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
"A girl as beautiful as Simonetta Cattaneo never wants for marriage proposals in 15th Century Italy, but she jumps at the chance to marry Marco Vespucci. Marco is young, handsome and well-educated. Not to mention he is one of the powerful Medici family's favored circle. Even before her marriage with Marco is set, Simonetta is swept up into Lorenzo and Giuliano de' Medici's glittering circle of politicians, poets, artists, and philosophers. The men...
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