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Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010

Paul, Joel R.

Summary: Documents the machinations of three individuals in their efforts to win the American Revolution, tracing their applications of espionage to smuggle weapons and supplies while spinning a web of international political intrigue.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.385 PAU

Kates, Gary

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 1995

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.034 KAT

Summary: The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HIS

Summary: This series of lectures introduces the greatest of universal museums. Its aim is not comprehensive. The focus is narrowed to the Department of Paintings, which is responsible for European paintings from the Middle Ages until the mid-19th century. These works of art form an encyclopedic summary of the achievements of painters that can be called the single most important such collection in the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2006

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 708.4 MUS
Call number: DVD 708.4 MUS

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great 708.4 Museum

Weintraub, Aileen

Summary: "Meet 50 super-inspiring kids! It's never too early--and you're never too young-- to make a difference in the world! The amazing musicians, writers, scientists, athletes, activists, and other fascinating kids in this book accomplished great feats by the age of eighteen. They impacted people's lives by coming up with new inventions, making art and music, competing in sports, and speaking out...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2018

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Scott, Michael

Summary: Nicholas Flamel and teenaged twins Josh and Sophie Newman return to San Francisco where a weakened Flamel reunites with his wife, Perenelle, hoping to use his remaining power to prevent the monsters on Alcatraz Island from escaping. Meanwhile, Dr. John Dee and Machiavelli continue to seek power and the twins desperately try to determine who they can trust as they search for Scatty and an...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ember 2011

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SCO

Scott, Michael

Summary: Fifteen-year-old Josh has chosen to side neither with his twin sister Sophie nor with the Alchemyst, Nicholas Flamel, but rather to fight alongside Dr. John Dee and the mysterious Virginia Dare, while the immortal Machiavelli and Billy the Kid follow the Elders' plans to set loose the monsters of Alcatraz on San Francisco and trigger the end of the humani race.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2011

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SCO

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SCO

Scott, Michael

Summary: Fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman continue their magical training in Paris with Nicholas Flamel, Scatty, and the Comte de Sant Germaine, pursued by Doctor Dee and the immortal Niccolo Machiavelli.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2008

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SCO

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC Sco

Scott, Michael

Summary: Back in London, fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman must determine whom they can and cannot trust as they search for both Scatty and an immortal who can teach Josh the magic of fire, while Doctor Dee and Machiavelli continue to seek power.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2010

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1 available in Stacks, Call number: J FIC SCO

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SCO

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SCO

Scott, Michael.

Summary: Fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman continue their magical training in Paris with Nicholas Flamel, Scatty, and the Comte de Sant Germaine, pursued by Doctor Dee and the immortal Niccolo Machiavelli.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC SCO

Quinn, Julia

Summary: "In 1761, on a sunny day in September, a King and Queen met for the very first time. They were married within hours. Born a German Princess, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was beautiful, headstrong, and fiercely intelligent--not precisely the attributes the British Court had been seeking in a spouse for the young King George III. But her fire and independence were exactly what she needed...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUI

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Quinn

Gulland, Sandra.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster 2008

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUL

Summary: Part 5 continues to explore the meaning of the scientific revolution and to examine the many problems that it raises. It is in this period that the West becomes keenly aware of the social and psychological origins and purposes of its activities. This is a period of spiritual turmoil as well as of material advance.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GRE

Jager, Eric

Summary: In a true story of crime and detection in fifteenth century Paris, Guillaume de Tignonville, the Provost of Paris and one of history's first detectives, uncovers a conspiracy while investigating the murder of Louis of Orleans, brother to King Charles.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little Brown & Co 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.026 JAG

Crichton, Michael

Summary: A tale set in the Wild West during the golden age of fossil hunting follows the exploits of two ambitious paleontologists who sabotage each others' careers in a rivalry that came to be known as the Bone Wars.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2017

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CRI

Gulland, Sandra.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GUL

Roberts, Jason

Summary: "In the 18th century, two men dedicated their lives to the same daunting task: identifying and describing all life on Earth. Their approaches could not have been more different. Carl Linnaeus, a pious Swedish doctor with a huckster's flair, believed that life belonged in tidy, static categories. Georges-Louis de Buffon, an aristocratic polymath and keeper of France's royal garden, viewed life...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 578.01 ROB

Dumas, Alexandre

Summary: In 1844, Alexandre Dumas published The Three Musketeers, a novel so famous and still so popular today that it scarcely needs introduction. Shortly thereafter he wrote a sequel, Twenty Years After, that resumed the adventures of his swashbuckling heroes. Later, toward the end of his career, Dumas wrote The Red Sphinx, another direct sequel to The Three Musketeers that begins, not twenty years...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUM

Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 1999

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YAR

Eckert, Allan W.

Summary: Recreates events which actually occurred in the opening up of the Northwest Territory in the period 1700 to 1900 based on written documents.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Jesse Stuart Foundation 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.8 ECK

Scott, Michael

Summary: While armies of the Shadowrealms gather and Machiavelli goes to Alcatraz to kill Perenelle Flamel, fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman accompany the Alchemist to England to seek Gilgamesh.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2009

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC SCO

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SCO

Crichton, Michael

Summary: The year is 1876. Among the warring Indian tribes and lawless gold-rush towns of America's western territories, two paleontologists pillage the Wild West. They are hunting for dinosaur fossils, while surveilling, deceiving and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars. Into this treacherous territory plunges the arrogant and entitled Yale student William...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2017

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CRI

Crichton, Michael

Summary: The year is 1876. Among the warring Indian tribes and lawless gold-rush towns of America's western territories, two paleontologists pillage the Wild West. They are hunting for dinosaur fossils, while surveilling, deceiving and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars. Into this treacherous territory plunges the arrogant and entitled Yale student William...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRI

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRI

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CRI

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FICTION CRI

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