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Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Jill Breck was just doing her job as a river guide when she saved the life of Lane Faroe, son of two of St. Kilda Consulting's premier operators. But when a string of ominous events-including a mysterious fire that kills her great-aunt and a furor in the Western art world raised by a dozen Breck family paintings-culminates in a threat to her life, Jill reluctantly calls in a favor.
Zach Balfour works part-time as a consultant for St. Kilda. His expertise...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"The Aspern Papers" is the story of an unnamed narrator who travels to Venice in search of some letters by Jeffrey Aspern, a famous and now dead American poet. Inspired by a true story about a fan of the poet Shelley who sought out similar papers, The Aspern Papers is one of Henry James's more popular novellas. It is included in this volume with the following three shorter works by Henry James: "The Private Life," "The Middle Years," and "The Death...
Author
Publisher
Scout Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Welcome to SoHo at the onset of the eighties: a gritty, not-yet-gentrified playground for artists and writers looking to make it in the big city. Among them: James Bennett, a synesthetic art critic for the New York Times whose unlikely condition enables him to describe art in profound, magical ways, and Raul Engales, an exiled Argentinian painter running from his past and the Dirty War that has enveloped his country. As the two men ascend in the downtown...
Author
Publisher
Custom House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"At the end of the 1990s, with the art market finally recovered from its disastrous collapse, Miss Rebecca Farwell has made a killing at Christie's in New York City, selling a portion of her extraordinary art collection for a rumored 900 percent profit. Dressed in couture YSL, drinking the finest champagne at trendy Balthazar, Reba, as she's known, is the picture of a wealthy art collector. To some, the elusive Miss Farwell is a shark with outstanding...
Author
Publisher
Taylor Trade Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When this book first appeared in 1996, it was "Pottery 101," a basic introduction to the subject. It served as an art book, a history book, and a reference book, but also fun to read, beautiful to look at, and filled with good humor and good sense. After twenty years of faithful service, it's been expanded and brought up-to-date with photographs of more than 1,600 pots from more than 1,600 years. It shows every pottery-producing group in the Southwest,...
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This book contains facts about collecting coins that will inspire the reader to start his or her own collection. Readers will gain a working knowledge of this hobby which includes background history of coins, metal used to make coins, Lydian & Ancient coins, the elements of a coin, the steps to making coins, types of collections and types of coins like uncirculated, proof, commemorative & bullion coins, the best places to research, find, buy or trade...
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Goldy Schulz is thrilled to be catering a holiday breakfast feast for the staff of the Aspen Meadow Library. But little does she know that on the menu, alongside the Great Expectations Grapefruit, Chuzzlewit Cheese Pie, and Bleak House Bars, is a large helping of murder.
While setting up at the library, Goldy spots a woman lurking in the stacks who bears a striking resemblance to Sandee Brisbane-the Sandee Brisbane who killed Goldy's ex-husband,...
9) In a jar
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Llewellyn, a little rabbit who collects ordinary things in jars, meets a young girl named Evelyn, he joins with her to capture the extraordinary.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When Jumbeelia, an eight-year-old giant, climbs down a beanstalk and collects some "iggly plops," the little people of children's stories, she treats them like toys, unaware that she is endangering their lives.
Author
Series
The masterpiece adventures volume 2
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Marvin the beetle is going collecting with his family. All is good and well until Uncle Albert gets hurt. Marvin needs his human friend James's help to save Uncle Albert before it's too late"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"In 'Mint Condition' is a captivating history of this cherished hobby, as well as a look into the current state, where cards are largely the rarefied preserve of fanatical adult collectors and shrewd businessmen."--Dust jacket.
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Callie Reed makes a long overdue visit to her aunt Melodie in quaint Keepsake Cove, home to a bevy of unique collectible shops on Maryland's Eastern Shore. When Callie discovers her aunt's body on the floor of her music box shop, she can't accept Melodie's death being called accidental. And why was she there in the middle of the night? Signs seem to come from her late aunt through a favorite music box, urging Callie on. Or are they warnings?
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"London, 1703. In a time when the old approaches to science coexist with the new, one elite community attempts to understand the world by collecting its wonders. Sir Barnaby Mayne, the most formidable of these collectors, has devoted his life to filling his cabinets. While the curious-minded vie for invitations to study the rare stones, bones, books, and artifacts he has amassed, some visitors come with a darker purpose. For Cecily Kay, it is a passion...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
The time is December 1999. Millennial fever holds the world in its grip - stirring ancient and terrible fears that the apocalypse is at hand. In the Sinai desert, archeologist Catherine Alexander just unearthed a cache of six ancient papyrus scrolls that point to the millennium's most transforming secret. Discovered inside the legendary Well of Miriam, a site named after the ancient prophetess who was the sister of Moses, the scrolls reveal a hidden...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
With all the endless, creative fun a child can have with a rock, the best thing one can do with one is to share it with a friend. Includes facts about rocks and rock collecting.
18) The weaver
Author
Publisher
Andersen Press USA
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Stanley the spider must make a new start after rain comes and collapses the home he has spun and filled with his collection of seeds, twigs, leaves, and other precious items.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Annie McMorrow, 31 and not recovered from the end of her long-term relationship, is an assistant to film producer Carlo Spinetti and then to his chilling wife Rebecca Winkleman Spinetti whose father started Winkleman Fine Art in Curzon St. Annie has spent her meagre savings on a dusty painting from a junk shop to give to her new, unsuitable, boyfriend who never shows up for his birthday dinner. The painting now hers, talks, but only to us. Shrewd,...
20) Arrowheads & stone artifacts: a practical guide for the surface collector and amateur archaeologist
Author
Publisher
Pruett Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c1986
Language
English

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