King, Ross
Summary: Claude Monet is perhaps the world's most beloved artist, and among all his creations, the paintings of the water lilies in his garden at Giverny are most famous. Seeing them in museums around the world, viewers are transported by the power of Monet's brush into a peaceful world of harmonious nature. Monet himself intended them to provide "an asylum of peaceful meditation." Yet, as Ross King...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MONET, CLAUDE KINEglin, Anthony.
Summary: Searching for a missing botanist friend, Lawrence Kingston discovers that the missing man had been experimenting with aquatic plants and had been on the verge of announcing a horticultural breakthrough that could generate billions of dollars in revenue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EGLSmith, Mark
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 1988
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 635.9343 SMISummary: Follows the life of Lilias Trotter, from her work as a woman artist in Victorian England to her missionary work with women and children in French Algeria in the late 1800s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MANLebeuf, Darren
Summary: "A young girl explores her city with her father, taking in all its sensory details. Her city speaks to her in so many ways: "sometimes it echoes," and "sometimes it trills." It "buzzes and tweets and flocks." It's both "busy" and "relaxed," and "smelly" and "sweet." In the end, we discover that the city doesn't just speak to this inquisitive young girl - it also listens ... Author Darren...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2021
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Summary: In the Beauty of the Lilies (1996) opens in 1910, when Clarence Wilmot, a Presbyterian minister in Paterson, NJ, experiences a devastating loss of faith. This moment of crisis sets in motion an eighty-year, multigenerational saga whose subject is nothing less than the American Century and modernity itself, seen through the fluctuating fortunes of a single representative family. In Gertrude and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC UPDWest, Tracey
Summary: Violet and her fairy friend Sprite hatch a plan to catch Fixit, a toy-making elf whose lack of appreciation drives him to mess with all the toys in town, but pixies Rusella and Spoiler are determined to thwart Violet and Sprite's plans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Branches/Scholastic Inc. 2022
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Summary: ""An uplifting, bittersweet story with a page-turning mystery at its heart. Emily Critchley writes about aging and memory with huge warmth and compassion. A beautifully atmospheric and endearing book.'' --Freya Sampson, author of The Last Chance Library. For readers of Elizabeth is Missing with notes of The Maid comes a dual-timeline novel that balances heartfelt tenderness with a suspenseful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Prentice is searching for his long lost uncle who disappeared without a trace. When he discovers clues on a computer disc containing some of his uncle's notes to a novel, he embarks on a complex journey through his family's secretive past. No matter how shocking or dangerous his quest becomes, he is determined to find the answers and solve what turns out to be a ghastly mystery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Video 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CROKimble, Megan
Summary: "Every major American city has a highway tearing through its center. Seventy years ago, planners sold these highways as progress, essential to our future prosperity. The automobile promised freedom, and highways were going to take us there. Instead, they divided cities, displaced people from their homes, chained us to our cars, and locked us into a high-emissions future. And the more highways...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 388.1 KIMGriffin, Anne
Summary: "Jeanie Masterson has a gift: she can hear the recently dead and give voice to their final wishes and revelations. Inherited from her father, this gift has enabled the family undertakers to flourish in their small Irish town. Yet she has always been uneasy about censoring some of the dead's last messages to the living. Unsure, too, about the choice she made when she left school seventeen years...
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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 Griffin 2022Thayne, RaeAnne
Summary: "Growing up at the Shelter Inn hotel, Natalie Shepherd envied guests who could come and go as they pleased. So when it was time to finally leave for college and put the lush green mountains around Shelter Springs-along with the cloud of loss that seemed to follow her family-behind her, she swore she'd never come back. But now her sister McKenna needs a favor. On pregnancy bed rest at doctor's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC THALoney Dear.
Contents: Pun -- Humbug -- Hulls -- Sum -- Lilies -- Little jacket -- Isn't it you? -- Dark light -- Harbours/Harbors -- There are several Alberts here.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Real World Records 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LONMigge, Thomas
Summary: Bursting with gorgeous photographs and abundant travel information, this book is a showcase of 60 of Italy's off-the-beaten-path towns and villages--some of which are only a short drive from the more popular tourist spots. Ranging in size and brimming with charm, these destinations feature historic town centers, quaint stores, villages atop rocky cliffs, castles, and streets bustling with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schiffer 2023
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Summary: Introduces thirteen paintings from the Renaissance to the present, including the "Mona Lisa," "Water Lilies," and "Nighthawks," and discuses the subjects, symbolism, and painting techniques of each piece.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prestel 2010
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Summary: "Christi Reece is desperate. The one-time golden girl's life has tarnished, and a cascade of setbacks has left her reeling. She needs help, and she's certain Jack Colby is in a position to provide it. When she shows up in Hope Harbor, however, Jack wants nothing to do with the woman who betrayed him. He's built a new life on the Oregon coast--and there's no room in it for Christi, even after...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HANBat for Lashes
Contents: Lilies -- All your gold -- Horses of the sun -- Oh yeah -- Laura -- Winter fields -- Haunted man -- Marilyn -- Wall -- Rest your head -- Deep sea diver.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Capitol 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BATIo Echo (Musical group)
Contents: Shanghai girls -- When the lilies die -- Ministry of love -- Stalemate -- Outsiders -- Tiananmen Square -- Ecstasy ghost -- Drag love -- Addicted -- Berlin, it's all a mess -- Forget me not -- Eye father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: IAMSOUND Records 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK IOShipman, Viola
Summary: "Once the hottest mergers and acquisitions executive in the company, Henrietta Wegner can see the ambitious and impossibly young up-and-comers gunning for her job. When Henri's boss makes it clear she'll be starting the New Year unemployed unless she can close a big deal before the holidays, Henri impulsively tells him that she can convince her aging parents to sell Wegner's -- their iconic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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Summary: "When her mother's death leaves Charlotte Simpson bereft, she hopes the Robinson clan will accept her as one of their own and help fill the void. But a startling discovery dashes her hopes and leaves her wondering if she will ever know the father she's always longed for. Horse trainer Gunner Dawson has experienced profound loss and intends to avoid it. So he lives on the move without forming...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "Biracial sixth-grader Stephen questions the limitations society puts on him after he notices the way strangers treat him when he hangs out with his white friends and learns about the Black Lives Matter movement." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2020