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1) The museum
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A young girl tours and twirls through museum galleries experiencing different emotions evoked by different styles of art, and then expresses her energy and inspiration when she finds an empty canvas.
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2018.
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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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2023 Summer Reading Challenge: Read A Book With A Museum In It
Books By And About Asian Americans And Pacific Islanders
If You Like Percy Jackson
Books By And About Asian Americans And Pacific Islanders
If You Like Percy Jackson
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Twelve-year-old Aru stretches the truth to fit in at her private school, but when she is dared to prove an ancient lamp is cursed, she inadvertently frees an ancient demon.
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Sassy and Waldo love trips!
When they put on their trench coat, everyone thinks they're a human kid named Salty.
They can go to all the places that don't let dogs in. Like school. And the museum.
Stewart says the museum is all facts and learning. He is not excited to go there.
But Sassy and Waldo have a permission slip that says lunch on it.
How can a trip to a place with lunch be bad?
Sassy and Waldo are very excited for their class...
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"A major new history of how, between 1965 and 1985, African nations sought the restitution of works of art stolen during the colonial period, written by the most important and influential figure in the field"--Provided by publisher.
For decades, African nations have fought for the return of countless works of art stolen during the colonial era and placed in Western museums. In 'Africa's Struggle for Its Art', Bénédicte Savoy brings to light this...
13) Peppa in space
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English
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Peppa Pig goes to a museum with her family where she takes a pretend trip to outer space and the moon.
14) Egypt's fire
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2023 Summer Reading Challenge: Read A Book With A Museum In It
Children's Mystery Books
New Children's Books September 2022
Children's Mystery Books
New Children's Books September 2022
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After twelve-year-old John Boarhog's mom dies, the last thing he wants is to be schlepped off to the Jersey Home for Boys, where kids are forced to make skinny jeans for hipsters and are fed nothing but kale. Instead, he makes himself a snug home in the ceiling of the New York Museum of Natural History, where he reads anything he get his hands on and explores the artifacts afterhours. But when a rare Egyptian ruby--the highlight of the museum's new...
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This audio book has been designed to be listened to on the spot, in front of Strasbourg' monuments or sites of interest. This will enrich your visit experience. They can also be listened to again after your visit, or at any other time, to better know the monuments you like.
Each chapter of this book tells the story and architecture of a site, in a short format of a few minutes. Refer to the title of the chapter for the name of the monument.
Desticity...
18) Desticity Paris
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This audio book has been designed to be listened to on the spot, in front of Paris' monuments or sites of interest. This will enrich your visit experience. They can also be listened to again after your visit, or at any other time, to better know the monuments you like.
Each chapter of this book tells the story and architecture of a site, in a short format of a few minutes. Refer to the title of the chapter for the name of the monument.
Desticity will...
19) Desticity Paris
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Français
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Ce livre audio a été conçu pour être écouté sur place, devant les monuments ou sites d'intérêts de Paris. Votre expérience de visite sera ainsi enrichie. Ils peut aussi être réécouté après votre visite, ou à n'importe quel autre moment, pour mieux connaitre les monuments que vous aimez.
Chacun des chapitres de ce livre raconte l'histoire et l'architecture d'un site, dans un format court de quelques minutes. Référez-vous au titre...
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Oliver Le Carrer brings us a fascinating history and armchair journey to the world's most dangerous and frightful places, complete with vintage maps and period illustrations in a handsome volume. This alluring read includes 40 locations that are rife with disaster, chaos, paranormal activity, and death. The locations gathered here include the dangerous Strait of Messina, home of the mythical sea monsters Scylla and Charybdis; the coal town of Jharia,...
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