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Featuring a diverse range of modern artists and their works, Modern Art Explorer takes young readers on an undercover adventure to discover the stories behind famous works. Witty and brilliantly illustrated, Modern Art Explorer is an approachable introduction to modern art for ch...
It's the long hot summer of 1959 and wedding season is in full swing in the Cambridgeshire village of Grantchester. As the Reverend Will Davenport unites happy couples in holy matrimony, Detective Inspector Geordie Keating finds himself trying to repair his own marriage to estran...
Ophélie rêve d'adopter Jackson, le petit chien blanc attaché dans le jardin du voisin. Mais un jour, celui-ci disparaît. Ophélie essaie de le retrouver, sans succès. Elle trace une marelle et fait le voeu de l'attendre toute sa vie. Malheureusement, ses parents lui annoncen...
The story of two widows and their troubled daughters. In the search for success as an actress, Lora neglects her daughter. Lora's black housekeeper's daughter repudiates her mother by trying to pass for white. As the years pass, each of the four women realizes that she has been l...
"The Other Side follows Will Byers after he has been pulled into a mysterious nightmare realm. Isolated, disoriented, and scared, he quickly realizes he isn't alone--monsters lurk around every corner, and they are hunting him. In Science Camp, Dustin Henderson arrives at Camp Kno...
"Time is collapsing in on itself. The villainous Extant has ushered in a series of black holes that are swallowing the universe--past, present and future! Superman, like everyone else in the DC Universe, has seen time loops affect his life. The result? Krypton never exploded. The...
A collection of stories from Little Golden Books featuring the illustrations of Eloise Wilkin; includes a biographical sketch and a remembrance of the well-known illustrator.
A girl recollects childhood experiences on her grandparents' farm.
In her fearless memoir, My Story-the basis of the Lifetime Original movie I Am Elizabeth Smart-Elizabeth detailed, for the first time, the horror behind the headlines of her abduction by religious fanatic Brian David Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee. Since then, she's married,...
"An anthology of short stories has been designed specifically as an instructional text for first-year university students. To explore the many dimensions of short narrative fiction, the collection includes traditional classics from European culture, from Chaucer to Gogol and Che...
It's summer and holidaymakers are flocking to the idyllic Brittany coast. But when first an old traveller woman dies in suspicious circumstances, and then a campaign of hate seemingly drives another victim to take his own life, events take a very dark turn. Mila Shepherd has come...
Invites the reader to take a closer look at works of art while pointing out tiny details hidden in famous works, providing information about a work or an artist, or explaining the techniques used to create the piece.
The Short Story of Modern Art explains the how, why and when of modern art - who introduced certain things, what they were, where they were produced, and why they matter. Simply constructed, the book explores 50 key works - from the realist painting of Courbet to a contemporary i...
An introduction to the artworks collected in the National Gallery of Art, featuring updated, revised, and expanded articles from Inside scoop, the Gallery's quarterly children's publication. Includes brief biographies and selective insights into the lives and works of over 50 art...
On arrival at the airport at the end of her holiday in Bali, Sandra Dale discovers that there has been a mistake with her booking and the flight is already full. Instead of waiting for the next plane home, she decides to accept the offer of a lift in an old, private aircraft. But...
"He didnt know it at the time, but Tim Ghiannis love affair with Nashville and its musical artists began on a steamy night in 1972, when the twenty-year-old author had unsolicited help from honky-tonkin legends Bobby Bare and Shel Silverstein during an after-midnight "salvation" ...