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Vreeland, Susan.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2004

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Vreeland, Susan.

Summary: Eight linked stories tracing the history of a painting by the 17th century Dutch artist, Vermeer. In one, he paints his daughter to pay off debts, a second story describes the loss of the ownership papers, a third takes place on the eve of its theft by the Nazis. By the author of What Love Sees.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: MacMurray & Beck 1999

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Vreeland, Susan.

Contents: Mimi with a watering can -- Winter of abandon -- Cradle song -- Olympia's look -- Yellow jacket -- Of these stones -- Flower for Ginette -- In the absence of memory -- Adventures of Bernardo and Salvatore, or, The Cure,: A tale -- Things he did't know -- Uncommon clay -- Respond -- Crayon, 1955 -- At least five hundred words, with sincerity and honesty -- Gifts -- Their Lady Tristeza --...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2005

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Vreeland, Susan.

Summary: Renoir is inspired to paint "Luncheon of the boating party" when his other work is criticized by Emile Zola, and while doing so is drawn into lives of the thirteen people featured in it as they enjoy a Parisian summer during the late 1800s.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2008

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Duane, Diane.

Summary: While Nita grieves over her mother's death, Kit tackles a challenge as dangerous as it is strange: Rescue a young wizard who has vanished on his first assignment. This new wizard is unlike any other—he's autistic and he's a magical prodigy. His power is enormous. Now Kit and his dog, Ponch, must track down the missing boy before the Lone Power finds him.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2003

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Duane, Diane.

Summary: While Nita's sister and her dad host three young alien wizards, teenage wizards Nita and Kit travel halfway across the galaxy as part of an exchange program and find themselves again caught up in the dark doings of their nemesis, the Lone Power.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2003

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Burke, James Lee

Summary: In the fall of 1863, the Union army is in control of the Mississippi river. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate army is retreating toward Texas, and being replaced by Red Legs, irregulars commanded by a maniacal figure, and enslaved men and women are beginning to glimpse freedom. When Hannah Laveau, an enslaved woman working on the Lufkin...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2023

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Vreeland, Susan.

Summary: Against the unforgettable backdrop of New York near the turn of the twentieth century, from the Gilded Age world of formal balls and opera to the immigrant poverty of the Lower East Side, bestselling author Susan Vreeland again breathes life into a work of art in this extraordinary novel, which brings a woman once lost in the shadows into vivid color. It's 1893, and at the Chicago World's Fair,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2011

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Vreeland, Susan.

Summary: Louis Comfort Tiffany staffs his studio with female artisans--a decision that protects him from strikes by the all-male union--but refuses to employ women who are married. Lucky for him, Clara Driscoll's romantic misfortunes insure that she can continue to craft the jewel-toned glass windows and lamps that catch both her eye and her imagination.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2011

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Vreeland, Susan.

Summary: Louis Comfort Tiffany staffs his studio with female artisans--a decision that protects him from strikes by the all-male union--but refuses to employ women who are married. Lucky for him, Clara Driscoll's romantic misfortunes insure that she can continue to craft the jewel-toned glass windows and lamps that catch both her eye and her imagination.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 0000

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Vreeland, Susan.

Summary: Renoir is inspired to paint "Luncheon of the boating party" when his other work is criticized by Emile Zola, and while doing so is drawn into lives of the thirteen people featured in it as they enjoy a Parisian summer during the late 1800s.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007

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

Summary: "A gripping noir crime thriller set in late 1930s Bay City centers around a brooding, down-on-his-luck detective; Philip Marlowe, played by Liam Neeson, who is hired to find the ex-lover of a glamorous heiress, daughter of a well-known movie star. The disappearance is the first twist in a series of bewildering events, and soon Marlowe is embroiled in a deadly investigation and web of lies that...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MAR

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MAR

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Vreeland, Susan.

Summary: Eight linked stories tracing the history of a painting by the 17th century Dutch artist, Vermeer. In one, he paints his daughter to pay off debts, a second story describes the loss of the ownership papers, a third takes place on the eve of its theft by the Nazis. By the author of What Love Sees.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: MacMurray & Beck 1999

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VRE

Vreeland, Susan.

Summary: In 1937, young Lisette Roux and her husband, Andre, move from Paris to a village in Provence to care for Andre's grandfather Pascal. Lisette regrets having to give up her dream of becoming a gallery apprentice and longs for the comforts and sophistication of Paris.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House, Inc. 2014

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Vreeland 2014

Vreeland, Susan.

Summary: "A young Parisian woman is exiled to Provence to take care of her husband's ailing grandfather during the Vichy regime, but discovers that despite the horrors of war, the paintings of Cezanne, Pisarro, Chagall, and Picasso bring to life the landscape around her and allow her once again to experience love"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Duane, Diane.

Summary: When her younger sister uses the family computer with its special wizard software to travel to worlds light years away, Nita uses her wizardry to try to find her.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Carpet Books Harcourt, Inc. 2001

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Duane, Diane.

Summary: Young wizards Nita and Kit face their most terrifying challenge yet: Nita's little sister, Dairine. Not only is Dairine far too smart for a ten-year-old, she also has recenlty become a wizard, and worse yet, a wizard with almost limitless power. When Dairine's computerized wizard's manual glibly sends her off on her novice adventure—her Ordeal—Kit and Nita end up chasing her across the galaxy,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2003

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Duane, Diane.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Byron Preiss Multimedia Co. 1995

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Duane, Diane.

Summary: Nita and Kit return from their wizardly holiday looking forward to getting back to their everyday routine. But there's trouble brewing. A strange darkness of the mind and heart is about to befall the older wizards of the world, stealing away their power. Soon, the young wizards find themselves forced to defend wizards and nonwizards alike against an invasion of a kind they've never imagined....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2007

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Mills, DiAnn.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2008

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Duane, Diane.

Summary: While Nita mourns her mother's death, teenage wizard Kit and his dog Ponch set out to find a young autistic boy who vanished in the middle of his Ordeal, pursued by the Lone Power.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2002

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

Duane, Diane.

Summary: Young wizards Kit Rodriguez and Nita Callahan manage to wrangle their way onto an elite team sent to investigate the mysterious, long-sought "message in a bottle" that holds the first clues to the secrets of the ancient Martian race.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2010

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Duane, Diane.

Summary: "How do you fix what can't be fixed? Only the Transcendent Pig knows, and it's not telling. . . But Nita Callahan needs to find out—and soon . Her wizardly partnership with Kit has fallen apart. Much worse, her mother has gotten sick . . . so sick she may never leave the hospital. Only one person can help Nita—the One she's devoted her life to fighting.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2002

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Duane, Diane.

Summary: Nita and Kit rejoin forces when a strange darkness of the mind overcomes the older wizards, stealing away their power, and forcing the younger wizards to go to war to save the world. Nita and Kit come home from their "vacation" to find that all of Earth's higher-up wizards have vanished--and worse, they've disappeared at a time when very strange events are taking place in every corner of the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2005

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

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