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201) The Harlem charade
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
297 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Seventh-graders Jin, Alexandra, and Elvin come from very different backgrounds and circumstances, but they all live in Harlem, and when Elvin's grandfather is attacked they band together to find out who is responsible--and the search leads them to an enigmatic artist whose missing masterpieces are worth a fortune, and into conflict with an ambitious politician who wants to turn Harlem into an historic amusement park.
Author
Publisher
The Museum of Modern Art
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
28 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations ; 28 cm.
Description
Recounts how the young Jacob Lawrence, as a boy recently arrived in Harlem, reacted to the world around him and translated his responses into art at an after-school arts center.
203) The last Vermeer
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Formats
Description
A captivating dramatic thriller set just after WWII, an all but forgotten true story about a soldier, Joseph Piller, investigating renowned Dutch artist Han van Meegeren who is accused of conspiring with the Nazis. Despite increasing evidence, Piller becomes more and more convinced of Han's innocence and finds himself in the improbable position of fighting to save the life of the colorful man with a mysterious past.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, plans ; 24 cm
Description
El galardonado artista John Parra nos trae un conmovedor y engañosamente simple cuento infantil ilustrado inspirado por su propia niñez, sobre el lazo entre padre e hijo, el valor de trabajar duro y los vínculos que existen entre la naturaleza, el arte y la creatividad.Hoy es el gran día: ¡la primera vez que su papá lleva a Juanito a ayudarlo en su trabajo de contratista de jardinería! A lo largo del día, Juanito dibuja todo lo que le llama...
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
334 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
"As a teenager, Mallory O’Meara was thrilled to discover that one of her favorite movies, Creature from the Black Lagoon, featured a monster designed by a woman, Milicent Patrick. But for someone who should have been hailed as a pioneer in the genre, there was little information available. For, as O’Meara soon discovered, Patrick’s contribution had been claimed by a jealous male colleague, her career had been cut short and she soon after had...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 436 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"A spellbinding story of love amid the devastation of the Spanish Civil War Madrid, 1936. In a city blasted by a civil war that many fear will cross borders and engulf Europe--a conflict one writer will call "the decisive thing of the century"--six people meet and find their lives changed forever. Ernest Hemingway, his career stalled, his marriage sour, hopes that this war will give him fresh material and new romance; Martha Gellhorn, an ambitious...
Publisher
Portland Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 4 hours) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Features an exhibition of the artist's works at the Garfield Park Conservatory, Chicago, at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and at the Tower of David in Jerusalem, Israel. Also features a collaboration with Venetian glassblowers Lino Talgliapietra and Pino Signoretto.
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (426 min.) : sd., b&w or col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
[Human desire] A Korean War veteran comes back to his job as a railroad engineer, and becomes entangled with a violent co-worker and the man's alluring wife in a web of deception, suspicion, and murder .
[Pushover] A cop, staking out the apartment of a bank robber's girlfriend, makes a move on her to get information. But he makes the mistake of really falling for her, testing his loyalties with deadly results.
[The brothers Rico] A businessman and...
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