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Inspector Pekkala 4Pye, Michael
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PYEHoughteling, Sara.
Summary: In the wake of World War II, Max Berenzon, the son of an art dealer and his pianist wife, wanders Paris in an effort to recover his family's lost masterpieces, looted by the Nazis during occupation, uncovering in the process an old family secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOUDean, Debra
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC Dean,Eastland, Sam.
Summary: As Hitler's forces smash into Soviet territory, annihilating the Red Army divisions in its path, a lone German scout plane is forced down. Contained within the briefcase of its passenger is the seemingly inconsequential painting of a hyalophoria cecropia, otherwise known as a red moth.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Faber and Faber 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EASTerrell, Heather.
Summary: Mara Coyne represents an auction house to prove the Crystalis, a 16th century masterpiece, wasn't stolen by the Nazis. She discovers that documents from the auction house have been forged and goes to London to discover the truth.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TEREdsel, Robert M.
Summary: "As the most destructive war in history ravaged Europe, many of the world's most cherished cultural objects were in harm's way. The Greatest Treasure Hunt in History recounts the astonishing true story of eleven men and one woman who risked their lives amidst the bloodshed of World War II to preserve churches, libraries, monuments, and works of art that for centuries defined the heritage of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.53 EDSEdsel, Robert M.
Summary: "The previously untold story of a little-known WWII Allied division whose mission was to track down European art and treasures that had been looted by the Nazis at Hitler's command"--Provided by the publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.531 EDSCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.531 EDSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wars EdselEdsel, Robert M.
Summary: Describes two Americans in Italy--one an artist, the other a scholar--who tracked down and protected historic artwork worth billions by Michelangelo, Donatello, Titian, Caravaggio, and Botticelli in advance of the approaching Nazi army in 1943.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5345 EDSKirkpatrick, Sidney.
Summary: Tells the riveting true story of how an American college professor turned Army sleuth recovered cherished symbols of Hitler's Thousand-Year Reich before they could become a rallying point in the creation of a Fourth and equally unholy Reich.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.531 KIREdsel, Robert M.
Summary: Edsel provides an astonishing account of a little known American effort to save Italy's vast store of priceless monuments and art during World War II. While American warriors were fighting the length of the country, other Americans were courageously working alongside to preserve the irreplaceable best of Italy's culture.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013