Gaynor, Hazel
Summary: From The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home comes a historical novel inspired by true events, and the extraordinary female lighthouse keepers of the past two hundred years. "They call me a heroine, but I am not deserving of such accolades. I am just an ordinary young woman who did her duty." 1838: Northumberland, England. Longstone Lighthouse on the Farne Islands has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION GAYMorhain, Jorge Claudio
Summary: In this graphic novel adaptation of Oscar Wilde's classic story, Dorian Gray hides a monstrous secret in his attic--a portrait that ages and shows the results of his hedonistic and selfish lifestyle while he remains ever-youthful and handsome.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MORCurry, Parker
Summary: When Parker visits the museum with her mom and friend she is captivated by the portrait of First Lady Michelle Obama, a picture that inspires self-assurance and hope within herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CURHawkes, Kevin.
Summary: A down-on-his-luck painter with poor eyesight teams up with a dog with a knack for painting portraits.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2014
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Summary: Emma worries that her family portrait won't be able to match the beauty of her friends' portraits, until her family wriggles and squeezes into a pose that only a worm family could do.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anne Schwartz Books 2021
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Summary: A painting of masked revelers at the Venice carnival has a secret: to stare into the painting is to play dangerously with the unseen demons it hides, and become the victim of its macabre beauty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILOlson, Neil
Summary: An old-money East Coast family faces the suspicious death of its patriarch and the unsolved theft of a Goya painting rumored to be cursed. There are four cousins in the Morse family: perfect Kenny, the preppy West Coast lawyer; James, the shy but brilliant medical student; his seductive, hard-drinking sister Audrey; and Teresa, youngest and most fragile, haunted by the fear that she has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OLSMoyes, Jojo
Summary: France 1916. Sophie Lefevre must keep her family safe whilst her adored husband Edouard fights at the front. When she is ordered to serve the German officers who descend on her hotel each evening, her home becomes riven by fierce tensions. And from the moment the new Kommandant sets eyes on Sophie's portrait, painted by Edouard, a dangerous obsession is born, which will lead Sophie to make a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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Summary: The reader is invited to find Waldo in each group of detailed illustrations of crowds in a picture gallery, at a sporting event, and in other settings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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Summary: "Browsing an antiques shop in Wiltshire, Alison Bannister stumbles across a delicate old portrait--identified as the doomed Tudor queen, Anne Boleyn. Except Alison knows better. The subject is Mary Seymour, the daughter of Katherine Parr, who was taken to Wolf Hall in 1557 and presumed dead after going missing as a child. And Alison knows this because she, too, lived at Wolf Hall and knew...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CORWilde, Oscar
Summary: An exquisitely beautiful young man in Victorian England retains his youthful and innocent appearance over the years while his portrait reflects both his age and evil soul as he pursues a life of decadence and corruption. Illustrated sidebar notes provide historical background to the text.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Popular Pub. Co. LLC. 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WILWilde, Oscar
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Wilde 2010Chabert, Jack
Summary: Sam is working on making a clay dinosaur for the school art show and sale when the clay suddenly comes to life and attacks him, a sure sign that once again Orson Eerie, whose spirit inhabits the school, is up to something--and it is up to Sam, Antonio, and Lucy, to discover how a self-portrait of Orson figures into his evil plan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Branches/Scholastic Inc. 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED CHAPiven, Ḥanokh
Summary: A young girl draws a family portrait, then makes it more accurate by adding common objects to show aspects of each member's personality, such as her father's playfulness, her mother's sweetness, and her brother's strength.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC PivMerberg, Julie.
Summary: Set against the backdrop of well-known works by the artist, Pablo Picasso, rhyming text explores the expressions and activities of various people, from a young girl catching a dove to a serious boy steering a donkey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2006
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Summary: 1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Krakow Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother are forced to seek refuge in the perilous sewers beneath the city. One day Sadie looks up through a grate and sees a girl about her own age buying flowers. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC JENSummary: Click, clack, moo: A bunch of literate cows go on strike after Farmer Brown refuses to give in to their typed demands of electric blankets when the barn gets too cold. The day Jimmy's boa ate the wash: Jimmy's boa constrictor wreaks havoc on the class trip to a farm. The Pigs' wedding: all the pigs must get cleaned up for the big wedding. Hendrika, a Dutch cow, wants to visit the city. Charlie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2002