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By Jane Langton. 2001
Young Edward Hall receives from his uncle Prince Krishna a set of five stereoscope cards labeled Temples of the World.…
When Eddy grabs the tasseled rope in the picture, he finds himself inside the stereoscope world, and his sister Eleanor follows quickly after him. For grades 4-7. 1971By Steve Perry, Michael Reaves. 2007
With Palpatine in control of the Empire, construction begins on the Death Star, a moon-sized battle station capable of instantaneously…
obliterating entire planets. Wilhuff Tarkin, its power-hungry would-be commander, oversees the project, which is fraught with political intrigues, hidden agendas, and the ever-present threat of rebellion. 2007By Doris Pilkington, Doris Pilkington Garimara. 1996
Australia, 1931. Novelization of the trip on foot across Australia by three part-Aboriginal girls, who run away from their inhumane…
government resettlement school to return home. Molly, Daisy, and Gracie trek through the wilderness to be reunited with their families. 1996By Daniel Wallace. 2002
Biographies of the galaxy's key heroes and villains that play major roles in the midst of the apocalyptic Yuuzhan Vong…
invasion. Includes personalities from the films The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones. For junior and senior high and older readers. Bestseller. 2002By Alexander Key. 2009
"Two children with supernatural powers come to earth from another world and find themselves on the run from men who…
want to use their special powers for evil purposes." -- Provided by NLSBy Ronald Kidd. 2009
Best friends Paul, Oz, Arnie, and Crank enjoy horror movies but when a couple of movie extras, Laura and Darryl,…
working on the Invasion of the Body Snatchers in 1955 try to involve them in a Communist conspiracy in real life, things get too dangerous and they decide to curtail the friendship. For grades 6-9By Kirsten Mayer, Lucy Rosen, J. E Bright, Donald B Lemke, Laurie Sutton. 2014
Collection of five books, written in 2012 and 2013, featuring the adventures of Batman, Superman, and characters of the Justice…
League such as the Flash, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, and the Green Lantern. Includes Batman versus Man-Bat, Superman versus the Silver Banshee, and more. For grades K-3. 2013By Maureen Johnson. 2005
Timid seventeen-year-old Ginny receives a packet of mysterious envelopes from her recently deceased favorite aunt that send Ginny from New…
Jersey on a scavenger hunt across Europe. Along the way Ginny meets new people, finds love, and has adventures that transform her life. For senior high readers. 2005By Alex Connor. 2012
Could a single scandalous painting rock two British monarchies, centuries apart... and threaten the lives of everyone who knows of…
its existence? It could--if the painting contains proof of a liaison between a prostitute and a prince.The evidence, a painting by William Hogarth done in 1732, was supposedly destroyed. But hundreds of years later, on a private jet, Sir Oliver Peters learns that it still exists. Dying of cancer, and desperate to secure his family's well-being, Sir Oliver resolves to find the missing work. But when a fellow passenger who also knows the secret is murdered, he realizes he's battling more than time.By Alex Connor. 2014
A centuries-old conspiracy is about to explode into the present and shake the art world to its core as a…
relentless serial killer strikes in both London and New York. The first victim was forced to swallow stones. The second was whipped to death. The third was stabbed in the heart. What did they know? Why were they in the killer's sights? Only Marshall Ziegler, the son of one the victims, can discover the dark secret of one of the world's most famous artists before the killer can strike again.By Alex Connor. 2014
In the dark winter of 1555 the flayed bodies of young women are washing up on the banks of the…
Venice's canals. When Angelico Vespucci, whose portrait was painted by the Italian master Titian, is discovered to be the monster responsible for these horrific crimes, he inexplicably vanishes along with the painting. All that remains was the chilling warning that when the portrait emerges, so will the man. Now, the lost Titian masterpiece has surfaced in modern-day London, and skinless corpses are amassing all around the world. And it will fall to Nino Bergstrom, the adopted son of a retired art dealer, to unravel half a millennium of myth, mystery, and murder.By Maria Jolas, Nathalie Sarraute. 1963
Nathalie Sarraute's stunning debut--vignettes of "inner movements"--foreshadowed the rise of the nouveau roman. Hailed as a masterpiece by Jean Genet,…
Marguerite Duras, and Jean-Paul Sartre, Tropisms is considered one of the defining texts of the nouveau roman movement. Nathalie Sarraute has defined her work as the "movements that are hidden under the commonplace, harmless instances of our everyday lives." Like figures in a grainy photograph, Sarraute's characters are blurred and shadowy, while her narrative never develops beyond a stressed moment. Instead, Sarraute brilliantly finds and elaborates subtle details--when a relationship changes, when we fall slightly deeper into love, or when something innocent tilts to the smallest degree toward suspicion.By Patrick Conrad, Jonathan Lynn. 2007
For Victor Cox, a professor of film history, the Hollywood films noirs of the 1940s and 1950s are more real…
than his daily life. When his wife is found drowned, Cox is the first murder suspect. He falls in love with a student who looks like the 1920s film star Louise Brooks, but she disappears at a Belgian seaside resort. Smeared in lipstick in their hotel room are the words "No Sale," the same words Elizabeth Taylor wrote on a mirror in Butterfield 8. Subsequently, a series of gruesome killings of young women, all modeled on violent deaths in films that he knows and loves, lead the police back to Cox, who starts to doubt his own sanity and innocence.With its stylish writing, pointed references to cinema classics, and blend of horror and humor, this is a powerful psychological thriller. It won the Diamond Bullet Award, the Edgar Award for Belgium.'We all know about life imitating art, but what about novels imitating film-film noir in particular? Patrick Conrad's No Sale (the words written in lipstick on a mirror by Gloria Wandrous, the Elizabeth Taylor character in Butterfield 8) is only the latest in a short list of crime fiction that draws on film noir for both plot and mood. It makes a peculiar kind of fictional sense that characters obsessed with film noir would find the worlds of the films they adore superimposed upon their personal lives. Make sure your subscription to Netflix is up-to-date before sampling this hypnotic novel.' Booklist'Imagine a metafiction serial-killer thriller written by Paul Auster on speed.When even the investigating cop sees himself as Dirty Harry, this amusing, teasing, film-crazy novel keeps you guessing through every reel.' Crime Time'Surprisingly zippy read which moves at a fair clip, the pace maintained by cinematic scene shifts and splashes of black humour. Who was it said that crime fiction in translation was never fun?That was probably me.' ShotsmagPatrick Conrad, born in 1945 in Antwerp, is a Flemish poet, screenwriter, film director, and novelist. He lives in Provence, in the south of France. Limousine, a previous novel, is being made into a film with Kelsey Grammar, to be released in 2012.By The Editors of Life. 2016
By incorporating and transforming foreign influences, film noir became a uniquely American art form. Though it was overlooked at first,…
this powerful genre would give Humphrey Bogart and Robert Mitchum career-defining roles, fuel Joan Crawford's middle-age comeback, and set the stage for the work of Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino. Noir illuminated the dark side of the American dream, but despite its characteristic bleakness, these films are somehow always fun.Film Noir: 75 Years of the Greatest Crime Films revisits 20 of the genre's best, from the first noir The Maltese Falcon to L.A. Confidential. We commence by delving into "Classic Noir," films released between 1941 and 1958 with their angular chiaroscuro and Teutonic angst combined with the influence of pup and hard-boiled crime fiction. Stunning photography walks us through Shadow of a Doubt, Double Indemnity, Laura, Mildred Pierce, Out of the Past, The Third Man, In a Lonely Place, Niagara, The Night of the Hunter, Touch of Evil and more. Next in our "Neo Noir" section, you will see the transformation of noir from 1967 onward with films like Bonnie and Clyde, Dirty Harry, Chinatown, Taxi Driver, Body Heat, Blood Simple, Blue Velvet, Pulp Fiction and more. Articles about how the genre was born, tabloids and film noir, offscreen noir, and what factors lead film back to black punctuate these spreads. Enter the cinematic world of "doom, fate, fear, and betrayal," as beloved film critic Roger Ebert said, with Film Noir: 75 Years of the Greatest Crime Films.By Cherie Bennett, Jeff Gottesfeld. 2002
This third adventure based on the WB's hit TV series is by two noted authors who have written screenplays for…
the show, and follows a young, legendary Clark Kent, Lana Lang, and Lex Luthor, complete with all the thrills and strange happenings that fans of "Smallville" expect.By Alex Connor. 2014
When the bodies of twin brothers, both successful art dealers, are found stripped naked, necks bound with wire and legs…
obscenely contorted, their brutal murders are linked to the mysterious disappearance of two paintings by the master Caravaggio. Investigators are confounded and it falls to art expert Gil Eckhart to find the killer before he slays again. As the search for clues takes him from the glamorous skyline of New York to the fetid catacombs of Palermo, Sicily, Eckhart traces the horrific truth behind Caravaggio's dark and bloody secrets, bringing them to life in the present, and finds that in the high-stakes world of art, good and evil are often tarred with the same, blood-soaked, brush.By Varios Autores. 2014
En esta divertida historia te contamos lo que pasó cuando Papá Pig perdió sus gafas. ¡Descubre cómo logramos encontrarlas! Papá…
Pig está leyendo el periódico y no encuentra sus gafas. Peppa y George se ofrecen para ayudarle a buscarlas. Descubre dónde encuentra Peppa las gafas. ¡Para que los más peques se diviertan leyendo esta historia con pictogramas y aprendiendo el vocabulario!By Varios Autores. 2014
Peppa y George tienen muchas ganas de salir a jugar al jardín. Así que desayunan tan rápido que a George…
le entra hipo. Descubre cómo Peppa consigue que se le pase.By Varios Autores. 2014
La Pepa i en Jordi tenen tantes ganes de sortir a jugar al jardí que esmorzen massa de pressa i…
a en Jordi li agafa singlot. Descobreix el remei de la Pepa per fer-l'hi passar.By Varios Autores. 2014