Chiaverini, Jennifer.
Summary: In 1930, when Sylvia Bergstrom Compson was only a child, her mother passed away. Decades later, when several of her mother's hand-stitched heirloom quilts vanish, Sylvia resolves to find them. Traveling far and wide, she uncovers the surprising truth about her mother's romantic and ultimately tragic life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CHIJames, Tania
Summary: "Abbas is just seventeen years old when he leaves his family to serve in the court of Tipu Sultan, a volatile and unpredictable ruler. An inspired woodcarver, Abbas is apprenticed to a master toy maker in order to build a massive tiger automaton, a gift to celebrate the return of the Sultan's sons from British captivity. Working alongside the legendary French clockmaker Monsieur du Leze, Abbas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMKnapp, Ruthie.
Summary: Tells the story of the famous Leonardo Da Vinci portrait known as the Mona Lisa, including its 1911 theft from the Louvre in Paris, from the point of view of the subject of the painting. Includes an author's note with facts about the painting.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KNASpencer, Octavia
Summary: On a trip to New York City to visit Randi's aunt, the ninja detective trio explores Randi's old neighborhood in Brooklyn, where they uncover an art heist involving Fabergé eggs. Except no one will believe them. So they'll just have to catch the criminals in the act...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION SPEBunn, T. Davis
Summary: "Four years after his wife's death, art history teacher Derek Gaines has finally made a kind of peace with himself. He tries his best to stave off memories. His days are ones of familiar routine. Guarded against further pain, he keeps relationships at a safe distance. It's all part of his necessary transition to surviving alone. If anything is truly responsible for Derek making it back from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction BunnRoberts, Nora.
Summary: When a family heirloom is stolen - a small silver statue belonging to the only survivor of the Lusitania - Malachi, Gideon and Rebecca Sullivan are determined to recover the treasure. Their quest takes them from their home in Ireland to Helsinki, Prague and New York and introduce them to a formidable female professor whose knowledge of Greek mythology will aid them in their quest.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2002
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ROBBalliett, Blue
Summary: When thirteen high-value pieces of art are stolen from a secret museum, Calder, Petra, and Tommy are grouped with two new companions to solve puzzles that are complicated by the clever Mrs. Sharpe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BALLi, Grace D.
Summary: "Ocean's Eleven" meets "The Farewell" in this lush, lyrical heist novel inspired by the true story of Chinese art vanishing from Western museums, about diaspora, the colonization of art, and the complexity of the Chinese American identity. History is told by the conquerors. Across the Western world, museums display the spoils of war, of conquest, of colonialism: priceless pieces of art looted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiny Reparations Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIChiaverini, Jennifer.
Summary: Colored illustrations on endpapers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS ChiavBradford, Barbara Taylor
Summary: New York art dealer Laura Valiant flies to Paris to investigate artwork stolen by the Nazis and meets up with Claire Benson, editor of an art magazine and an old childhood friend. The women have marital problems-- Valiant's husband turns out to be bisexual--and the novel describes the way they support each other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRAPatterson, James
Summary: Everything is going right for lifeguard Ned Kelley. He is involved with Tess, the most beautiful woman he has ever seen and what's more, a million dollars is within touching distance; his share of the score for the robbery of some world-class art. All he has to do is trigger alarms to throw the cops off the scent. But when Tess is brutally murdered and the others involved in the robbery are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PATStark, Richard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STAArcher, Jeffrey
Summary: In the aftermath of an aristocrat's murder on September 10, 2001, for her priceless Van Gogh painting, Anna, a World Trade Center survivor, takes advantage of her "presumed dead" status and travels throughout the world to avenge the woman's death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ARCArcher, Jeffrey
Summary: When an aristocratic old lady is brutally murdered in her English country home on the night before September 11, 2001, it will take all the resources of the FBI and Interpol to work out the connection between her death and a priceless Van Gogh, which is stolen that night. But in the end, it is a courageous young woman who escapes from North Tower of the World Trade Center after the first plane...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaissance 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ARCFerris, Monica.
Summary: As owner of the Crewel World needlework shop and part-time sleuth, Betsy Devonshire has become skilled at weaving suspicious threads together. But when one of her regulars unwittingly becomes involved in a deadly delivery of exotic antiquities, Betsy fears something is seriously warped. On a trip to Thailand, Doris Valentine agreed to deliver a small statue to an antiques shop in St. Paul. Then...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M FERLittle, Eddie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LITArcher, Jeffrey
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M ARCBerry, Steve
Summary: "The Ghent Altarpiece is the most violated work of art in the world. Thirteen times it has been vandalized, dismantled, or stolen. Why? What secrets does it hold? Enter UNESCO investigator, Nicholas Lee, who works for the United Nations' Cultural Liaison and Investigative Office (CLIO). Nick's job is to protect the world's cultural artifacts-including countless lesser-known objects and national...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BERBunn, T. Davis
Summary: Still mourning his wife four years after her death, art history teacher and auction house consultant Derek Gaines teams up with Kelly Reid, the head of gallery operations at Christie's Los Angeles, to track down a stolen painting.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUNEwan, Chris
Summary: Charlie Howard travels the globe writing suspense novels for a living. To supplement his income--and keep his hand in--Charlie has a small side business: stealing for a very discreet clientele on commission. When a mysterious American offers Charlie 20,000 euros to steal two small monkey figurines to match the one he already has, Charlie is suspicious; the job seems too good to be true, and of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EWAMina, Denise
Summary: When Lisa Lee, a vulnerable young woman, vanishes from a pretty Scottish seaside town Anna and Fin find themselves at the centre of an internet frenzy to find her. But Lisa may not be the hapless victim her father thinks. She had an unsuccessful YouTube channel and her last film showed her breaking into an abandoned French Chateau with other UrbExers and stumbling across a priceless Roman...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MINFrazier, Charles
Summary: "Hurtling past the downtrodden communities of Depression-era America, painter Val Welch travels westward to the rural town of Dawes, Wyoming. Through a stroke of luck, he's landed a New Deal assignment to create a mural representing the region for their new Post Office. A wealthy art lover named John Long and his wife Eve have agreed to host Val at their sprawling ranch. Rumors and intrigue...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRACopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction FrazierSilva, Daniel
Summary: "A gripping story of deception in the world of international fine art. Restorer and spy Gabriel Allon embarks on a dangerous hunt across Europe for the secret behind the forgery of a seventeenth-century masterpiece that has fooled experts and exchanged hands for millions"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC SILMartin, Nancy
Summary: Roxy Abruzzo is working in the architectural-salvage business, salvaging items from the burned out remains of Julius Hyde's home when she spies a statue in the yard. Roxy removes the statue from the property without anyone's knowledge or consent. It probably wouldn't have become a huge issue except for the fact that Julius Hyde ends up murdered and suddenly everyone's on the trail of Hyde's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010