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Arts and entertainment, European history, Law and crime
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&“The tale of a stunning art heist with a contagious love of stranger-than-fiction true stories!&”—Steve Sheinkin, Newbery Honor–winning author of…
BombThe true story of how Leonardo da Vinci&’s masterpiece became the most famous painting in the world after being stolen from the Louvre, written as a &“witty thriller&” (The New York Times) and featuring black-and-white illustrations throughout.SIBERT MEDAL WINNER • BOSTON GLOBE—HORN BOOK AWARD WINNER • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, NPR, The New York Public Library, The Chicago Public Library, The Bulletin of the Center for Children's BooksOn a hot August day in Paris, just over a century ago, a desperate guard burst into the office of the director of the Louvre and shouted, La Joconde, c&’est partie! The Mona Lisa, she&’s gone!No one knew who was behind the heist. Was it an international gang of thieves? Was it an art-hungry American millionaire? Was it the young Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, who was about to remake the very art of painting?Travel back to an extraordinary period of revolutionary change: turn-of-the-century Paris. Walk its backstreets. Meet the infamous thieves—and detectives—of the era. And then slip back further in time and follow Leonardo da Vinci, painter of the Mona Lisa, through his dazzling, wondrously weird life. Discover the secret at the heart of the Mona Lisa—the most famous painting in the world should never have existed at all.
The Bee Mother (Mothers of Xsan)
By Hetxw’ms Gyetxw Huson. 2024
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Animals and wildlife, General non-fiction, Indigenous peoples in Canada, Nature
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
Learn about the life cycles of different kinds of bees in this enlightening picture book. As flowers and trees begin…
to bud and bloom, Nox Ap, the bee mother, emerges from her winter sleep. To the Gitxsan, she is nature&’s gardener. Without her hard work as a pollinator, we could not enjoy the fruits of strawberries and huckleberries. Follow her life from the first thaw of spring to the end of autumn. In the seventh book of Hetxw'ms Gyetxw (Brett D. Huson)&’s Mothers of Xsan series, readers will discover the important role of the bumblebee, the honeybee, and the yellow jacket wasp in the Xsan ecosystem.