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Dante Club novels (Matthew Pearl) volume 1
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Set in Boston in the year 1865, the Dante Club, a small group of literary genuises, prepares the final work on America's first translation of the Divine Comedy. Their plans come to an abrupt halt, however, when a series of murders occur in a form adopted from Dante's Inferno and its unique account of punishment in Hell. With lives endangered and Dante's literary future at stake, the Dante Club must shed its reclusive existence so the killer may be...
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2022.
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Judy Moody is freaky for Nancy Drew, the famous girl detective from the book series. When Judy bumps into Mighty Fantaskey, she's excited to make a new friend who is also a Nancy Drew fan. Excited, that is, until she visits Mighty's house: it's big and old and creaky and spooky. It even swallows up Judy's mood ring! Can Judy muster up the courage to go back and reclaim it?
46) Can you find it?
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Pub. Date
2002
Description
Presents a diverse collection of well-known paintings which show how, through the centuries, artists have hidden small details to be discovered by curious eyes.
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Understanding Islam (preface to the original edition) -- Spiritual adventures : dream and pilgrimage -- Allah's divine song : inside the Qur'an -- Reality -- Revelation -- A way of living -- The qur'anic vision : worldview of Islam -- Meditations on the Holy Qur'an in their traditional order.
55) Van Gogh
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This Eyewitness Art--Van Gogh, interweaves biography with artistic analysis to provide a complete understanding of van Gogh's character and work.
58) Drawing
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[2005]
Description
Presents projects on line, light and shade, interpretation, and personal expression; describes how to present and store your work; and includes reproductions of famous drawings.
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[2014]
Description
Photographs from around the world celebrate the universal joy that kids get from making music, whether they're playing instruments, clapping their hands, stomping their feet, or singing. Music can help express one child's feelings--or it can bring a whole community together.
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Like a song that feels written just for you, Larissa Pham's debut work of nonfiction captures the imagination and refuses to let go. Pop Song is a book about love and about falling in love--with a place, or a painting, or a person--and the joy and terror inherent in the experience of that love. Plumbing the well of culture for clues and patterns about love and loss--from Agnes Martin's abstract paintings to James Turrell's transcendent light works,...