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"Kim Lord is an avant-garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur in the L.A. art scene. Her groundbreaking new exhibition Still Lives is comprised of self-portraits depicting herself as famous, murdered women--the Black Dahlia, Chandra Levy, Nicole Brown Simpson, among many others--and the works are as compelling as they are disturbing, implicating a culture that is too accustomed to violence against women. As the city's richest art patrons...
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English
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When her dream job turns into a living nightmare, causing her to become the prime suspect in a murder investigation, art gallery manager Alice Humphrey must prove that she has been set up, a deadly mission that plunges her into a high-tech criminal conspiracy that is shockingly linked to her own family. She arrives at the gallery one morning to meet her boss, Drew Campbell, only to find the place cleaned out, save for Drew's corpse. She is bewildered...
4) Asunder
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2013.
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English
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Marie's job as a guard at the National Gallery in London offers her the life she always wanted, one of invisibility and quiet contemplation. But amid the hushed corridors of the Gallery surge currents of history and violence, paintings whose power belies their own fragility. There also lingers the legacy of her great-grandfather Ted, the museum guard who slipped and fell moments before reaching the suffragette Mary Richardson as she took a blade to...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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"When a diamond goes missing from the Louvre, it is up to nine-year-old Julieta to identify the thief, exonerate her father, and return home to Boston before her baby brother is born. Includes glossary of French and Spanish words and notes about the Regent Diamond, Athena, and works of art mentioned in the book"--Title verso page.
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Nancy Drew and the clue crew volume 39
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
790L
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English
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A night at the museum and a broken sculpture lead to artistic injustice-unless Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew can find the true culprit!
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[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
660L
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English
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When a priceless sculpture disappears from the Capitol City Art Museum, thirteen-year-old Clementine Wim, daughter of an assistant curator, and her three friends set out to solve the mystery and recover the Statue of Gudea.
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Salvo Montalbano mysteries volume 19
Inspector Montalbano volume 19
Inspector Montalbano mystery volume 20
Inspector Montalbano volume 19
Inspector Montalbano mystery volume 20
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English
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When Inspector Montalbano falls under the charms of beautiful gallery owner, Marian, his longtime relationship with Livia comes under threat. Meanwhile, he is also troubled by a strange dream as three crimes demand his attention: the assault and robbery of a wealthy merchant's young wife, shady art deals, and a search for arms traffickers that leads him deep into the countryside, where the investigation takes a tragic turn.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
640L
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English
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While searching for her friends at the Dino Festival, Clementine Wim runs into two people carrying what she thinks is the Tiled Lunch Counter (a famous painting) away from the Capitol City Art Museum, but when she checks the painting is still hanging in place--and before she can track down the thieves, and prove that the painting now in the museum is a forgery, she has to convince her friends that she was not imagining things.
11) Generous death
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As director of the Port Frederick Civic Foundation, Jenny Cain is privy to the charitable intentions of the town's wealthiest citizens. There's eccentric old Arnie Culverson, who's promised millions to the local art museum. Who's found there one bright winter morning, neatly tucked into a priceless antique Chinese bed. With pillow and blanket. Dead. Then another dearly beloved donor dies in the night. And the killer leaves behind a nasty rhyme suggesting...
12) Seaside summer
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2011.
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English
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Meet four different friends who are mysteriously drawn together by events too amazing to be coincidence. Follow their miraculous adventures as they face life's challenges, hold each other up in faith, and experience God's amazing grace.
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1983.
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English
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Elena Oliverez is a young California art museum curator who doesn't like her boss and when he is killed by a gaudy piece of art, she is the prme suspect. So, Elena goes to work to clear her name and uncovers a ring that is using the museum as a front for illicity art dealing.
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[2011]
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English
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Artist Waverly Brennan is excited about making a fresh start in Martha's Vineyard---but then she realizes that her mother's "gallery" isn't quite what she envisioned. Now stuck on the island for the summer, she attempts to make the best of it. But will she give the charming town---and handsome Blake---a fair chance?
17) Beyond the grave
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Carpenter and Quincannon novels volume 2
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
19) Mousterpiece
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Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Janson the mouse, who lives in a museum, becomes an acclaimed artist by copying the styles of paintings she sees there. Includes notes about the artists and works featured.
20) Mystery
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Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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During a visit to the art museum, a little piglet and her grandfather investigate the disappearance of several paintings, providing clues in the illustrations giving readers a chance to solve the mystery along with the heroine.
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