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61) My faire lady
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
After breaking up with her boyfriend, seventeen-year-old Rowena takes an out-of-town summer job at a Renaissance fair, but romantic entanglements soon follow.
62) Michelangelo
Author
Publisher
New Forest Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Explores the world, art, and life of the great Italian artist.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Examines how the Inquisition's sentiments are thriving in today's world, tracing the history of its legacy through stories that lead to modern incarnations like Vatican edicts, the Third Reich, and Guantanamo's detention camps.
The acclaimed author of "Are We Rome?" brings his highly praised blend of deep research, colorful travelogue, and insightful political analysis to a new history of the Inquisition. Exploring the Inquisition from its establishment...
64) The Renaissance
Author
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Presents an overview of the history of European society during the time known as the Renaissance, from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century.
Author
Language
English
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Michaelangelo's career is traced from his promising boyhood apprenticeships to the painter Ghilandajo and the sculptor Bertoldo through all the years of his genius.
Irving Stones classic biographical novel of Michelangelo. the #1 New York Times bestseller in which both the artist and the man are brought to vivid, captivating life. His timethe turbulent Renaissance, the years of poisoning princes, warring Popes, and the all-powerful de'Medici family......
Author
Series
Publisher
P. Bedrick Books
Pub. Date
[1986]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Presents, in text and illustrations, a range of people whose way of life reveals various aspects of the society developing in Europe and America from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Jeremy Irons stars in The Borgias, the saga of history's most infamous crime family. Conspiring with his ruthless sons and poisonously seductive daughter, the charismatic Rodrigo Borgia will let nothing and no one stand in the way of his relentless quest for wealth and power. Mercilessly cruel and defiantly decadent, intimidation and murder are his weapons of choice in his scandalous ascension to the papacy in Renaissance-era Italy.
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Art historian Simonetta Carr draws on recent scholarship that challenges the traditional view of Michelangelo as a recluse. Readers will also learn about the complex and fluid era of the Italian Renaissance and how the times affected his life and work. Lavish photos, informative sidebars, a time line, glossary, and suggestions for further readings add value, while 21 hands-on activities help young readers identify with the artist and his work. Kids...
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
At the art museum, while her grandmother dozes, Katie steps into the painting of the Mona Lisa and together they have adventures with the characters from four other well-known Renaissance paintings. Includes informationabout the artists.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A story of desire, black magic and love interweaves the Rapunzel fairy tale with the true-life story of French novelist Charlotte-Rose de la Force, who was banished from the court of Versailles by Louis XIV after a series of scandalous love affairs.
Author
Publisher
Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The epic battle over a mathematical concept that shook the old order and shaped the world as we know it. On August 10, 1632, five leaders of the Society of Jesus convened in a somber Roman palazzo to pass judgment on a simple idea: that a continuous line is composed of distinct and limitlessly tiny parts. The doctrine would become the foundation of calculus, but on that fateful day the judges ruled that it was forbidden. With the stroke of a pen...
Author
Series
Stravaganza volume 5
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Feeling inferior to her talented twin brother, teenaged Isabel is transported to a parallel world that resembles the Italian Renaissance city-state of Ravenna, where she tries to save the city from attack by the fierce Gate people.
79) The Renaissance
Author
Publisher
Raintree
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
80) Dead dead girls
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"The start of an exciting new historical mystery series set during the Harlem Renaissance from debut author Nekesa Afia. Harlem, 1926. Young black women like Louise Lloyd are ending up dead. Following a harrowing kidnapping ordeal when she was in her teens, Louise is doing everything she can to maintain a normal life. She's succeeding, too. She spends her days working at Maggie's Café and her nights at the Zodiac, Harlem's hottest speakeasy. Louise's...
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