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Faith Fairchild mysteries volume 17
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Secretly assisting her museum president friend in a case involving a stolen piece of fine art, Faith Fairchild stumbles upon a murder scene near a controversial exhibit and becomes increasingly exasperated by the police's inability to recognize important clues.
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When Alice Humphrey lands her dream job managing a new art gallery, it turns into a nightmare. She arrives at the gallery one morning to meet her boss, Drew Campbell, only to find the place cleaned out, save for Drew's corpse. She is bewildered when Drew's ID doesn't check out, nor does the background of the gallery or the primary artist it represents. But when the police show up with a photograph of her doppelganger that suggests she and Drew had...
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Kim Lord is an avant-garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur in the L.A. art scene. Her groundbreaking new exhibition Still Lives is comprised of self-portraits depicting herself as famous, murdered women--the Black Dahlia, Chandra Levy, Nicole Brown Simpson, among many others--and the works are as compelling as they are disturbing, implicating a culture that is too accustomed to violence against women. As the city's richest art patrons...
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Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
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When a diamond goes missing from the Louvre, it is up to nine-year-old Julieta to identify the thief, exonerate her father, and return home to Boston before her baby brother is born. Includes glossary of French and Spanish words and notes about the Regent Diamond, Athena, and works of art mentioned in the book.
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Happily Inc volume 3
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"Natalie Kaleta will do anything for the artists at her gallery, including risk life, limb and the effect of humidity on her naturally curly hair. Braving a downpour to check on reclusive Ronan Mitchell, Natalie gets stranded by a mudslide at his mountain home, where the brooding glass artist reveals his playful side, sending her inconvenient crush from under-the-radar to over-the-top. After a secret tore apart his family and made him question his...
7) The museum
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Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
A young girl tours and twirls through museum galleries experiencing different emotions evoked by different styles of art, and then expresses her energy and inspiration when she finds an empty canvas.
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Dark Harvest
Pub. Date
1992, c1984
Description
A Jenny Cain mystery by award-winning author Nancy Pickard.
As director of the Port Frederick Civic Foundation, Jenny Cain is privy to the charitable intentions of the town's wealthiest citizens. There's eccentric old Arnie Culverson, who's promised millions to the local art museum. Who's found there one bright winter morning, neatly tucked into a priceless antique Chinese bed. With pillow and blanket. Dead. Then another dearly beloved donor dies...
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Nancy Drew and the clue crew volume 39
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
When a statue is broken during her class' overnight trip to the museum, Nancy, Bess, and George try to get to the bottom of the mystery and find those responsible.
10) Imagine!
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"When a boy visits an art museum and one of the paintings comes to life, he has an afternoon of adventure and discovery [that] changes how he sees the world ever after."--
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Babar (Brunhoff) volume 65
Publisher
Harry N. Abrams
Pub. Date
2003
Description
Babar and Celeste convert Celesteville's old railroad station into an art museum containing famous masterworks featuring elephants.
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Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Brenae Brazil is a rising star at Los Angeles Art College, the most prestigious art school in the country, and a pupil of the institution's equally famous and influential director, Hal Giroux. Brenae's path to art world stardom is all but assured, so why did she kill herself shortly after completing a provocative documentary about female bodies, violence, and self-defence? Maggie Richter's return to LA and her old job at the Rocque Museum was supposed...
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Amelia Bedelia series volume 23
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Housekeeper Amelia Bedelia visits an art museum, where her confusion leads to surprising results.
14) Mousterpiece
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Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Janson the mouse, who lives in a museum, becomes an acclaimed artist by copying the styles of paintings she sees there. Includes notes about the artists and works featured.
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Avalon Books
Pub. Date
2010
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Danielle "Dani" O'Rourke's gala evening at the Devor Museum ends in catastrophe when the body of a young artist plummets from her office window. The police label it murder and suspect Dani, the museum's chief fund-raiser. Self-preservation and an insider's understanding of how money moves the art world drive her to investigate who might have a motive for murder. Dani's playboy ex-husband and a green-eyed cop complicate matters as her search moves...
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Whodunit Detective Agency volume 5
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
When a night watchman claims that he saw the mummy at the art museum walking around on the same night a valuable painting was stolen, Jerry and Maya are summoned by the chief of police to get to the bottom of the spooky mystery.