Summary: Lee Israel who made her living in the '70s and '80s profiling the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead, Estee Lauder and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen. When Lee is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception, abetted by her loyal friend Jack. An adaptation of the memoir, the true story of best-selling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2019
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3 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY CANCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Can 2019Tetro, Tony
Summary: A world-renowned art forger who has been duping the art world for forty-five years and served time after a widely-publicized trial, describes the secrets and corruption of that universe while giving an art history lesson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TETRO, TONY TETCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B TETRO TETSummary: It follows the story of Mark Landis, one of the most prolific art forgers in U.S. history. His impressive body of work spans thirty years, covering a wide range of painting styles and periods. While the copies could fetch impressive sums on the open market, Landis isn't in it for money. Posing as a philanthropic donor, Landis has given away hundreds of works over the years to a staggering list...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ARTGreen, Jocelyn
Summary: "With a notorious forger preying on New York's high society, Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Lauren Westlake is just the expert needed to track down the criminal. As she and Detective Joe Caravello search for the truth, the closer they get to discovering the forger's identity, the more entangled they become in a web of deception and crime"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GREChild, Deborah M.
Summary: "In this richly illustrated biography, the author follows in the footsteps of Richard Brunton, a British grenadier who fought in the American Revolution before deserting in 1779. A trained engraver and diesinker, his primitive but charming works include some of the earliest pre-printed family registers in America. Despite his many talents and efforts, he was never able to make an honest living...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.374 ChildShapiro, Barbara A.
Summary: Young artist Clair Roth, who reproduces famous works of art for an online retailer, is drawn in to the world of art forgery when she is persuaded to forge a Degas masterpiece for the Gardner Museum to replace a stolen painting.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M SHAShapiro, Barbara A.
Summary: Almost 25 years after the infamous art heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, still the largest unsolved art theft in history, one of the stolen Degas paintings is delivered to the Boston studio of a young artist. Claire Roth has entered into a Faustian bargain with a powerful gallery owner, Aiden Markel by agreeing to forge the Degas in exchange for a one-woman show in his renowned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Shapiro 2012Tigay, Chanan
Summary: One man’s quest to find the oldest Bible scrolls in the world and uncover the story of the brilliant, doomed antiquarian accused of forging them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910 TIGTigay, Chanan
Summary: In the summer of 1883, Moses Wilhelm Shapira-archaeological treasure hunter and denizen of Jerusalem's bustling marketplace-arrived unannounced in London claiming to have discovered the world's oldest Bible scroll. When news of the discovery leaked to the excited English press, Shapira became a household name. But before the British Museum could acquire them, Shapira's nemesis, French...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2016
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Summary: Trickery. Deceit. Magic. In this free-form documentary, the legendary filmmaker gleefully engages the central preoccupation of his career: the tenuous line between truth and illusion, art and lies.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion collection 2005
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE FGruber, Michael
Summary: Having inherited his father's considerable artistic talents but unable to find buyers for his works, Chaz Wimont accepts a commission to restore an antique fresco in a European castle, a job that brings unexpected success and a sinister offer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS GRUWatkins, Paul
Summary: At the turn of World War II, David Halifax is a young American painter who receives a scholarship to come to Paris and work under the tutelage of the mysterious and brilliant Russian painter, Alexander Pankratov. Getting more than he bargained for, Halifax is quickly subjected to Pankratov's rigid will, and beguiled by the quiet, nude model who poses before them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador USA 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WATParker, Barbara.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PARSummary: "A mesmerizing, thought-provoking yet surprisingly amusing documentary on the life and times of Wolfgang Beltracchi, who tricked the international art world for nearly 40 years by forging and selling paintings of early 20th-century masters. A larger-than-life personality who was responsible for the biggest art forgery scandal of the postwar era." -- back of container
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BELSummary: Beltracchi: The Art of Forgery - A mesmerizing, thought-provoking yet surprisingly amusing documentary on the life and times of Wolfgang Beltracchi, who tricked the international art world for nearly 40 years by forging and selling paintings of early 20th-century masters. A larger-than-life personality who was responsible for the biggest art forgery scandal of the postwar era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: KimStim 2015
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McDermid, Val
Summary: "The UK's "Queen of Crime" Val McDermid returns to her propulsive series featuring cold case detective Karen Pirie, who finds herself investigating the shadowy world of forgery, where things are never what they seem. Still Life is intensely gripping from the first page and further proof that McDermid is writing at the top of her game. When a lobster fisherman on an early morning run pulls in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DavieMoorhouse, Roger
Summary: "In The Forgers, Roger Moorhouse unfolds this never-before-told history Holocaust resistance, illuminating the remarkable story of Polish diplomats, Jewish activists, Japanese bureaucrats, and ordinary people the world over who systematically forged as many as 10,000 passports and saved hundreds, potentially thousands, of Jewish lives. Drawing upon first-hand accounts and survivor testimony...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2023
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Summary: "In 2012, Dr. Karen King, a star professor at the Harvard Divinity School, announced a blockbuster discovery at a scholarly conference just steps from the Vatican: She had found an ancient fragment of papyrus in which Jesus calls Mary Magdalene "my wife." The discovery made front-page news around the world - if early Christians believed that Jesus was married, it would threaten not just the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 229 SABStewart, Rory.
Summary: Explores the landscape of the author's home on the borderland between England and Scotland, known as the Marches, and the history, people, and conflicts that have shaped it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.37 STEWorrall, Simon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 WORKreiner, Jamie
Summary: "A revelatory account of how Christian monks identified distraction as a fundamental challenge, and how their efforts to defeat it can inform ours, more than a millennium later"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 206 KRESummary: Berlin, 1940. Cioma Schönhaus is a young Jewish man who won't let anyone take away his zest for life, especially not the Nazis. Since the best hiding spots are in plain sight, Cioma audaciously adopts the identity of a marine officer to escape being deported like his family before him. Drawing on his art school background, he joins a network of underground rescuers and becomes infamous for his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FORFiechter, Jean-Jacques.
Summary: Shares stories about convincing Egyptian art forgeries that were considered authentic for decades before being withdrawn from major collections, including those in the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum, and the British Museum.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flammarion 2009