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"This gorgeous, haunting saga tells the story of modern Turkey and its diverse communities through the life of a gravestone maker. In the city of Mardin, near Turkey's border with Syria, the orphaned Avdo finds purpose when an old mason takes him on as an apprentice. From Master Josef, he learns the importance of their art, which looks after the dead and bears witness to their lives. Avdo then travels the country and meets a woman he loves wholeheartedly,...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Random House, LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Primera edición Vintage Español.
Physical Desc
862 pages ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
Soy un canalla y no me arrepiento de serlo. He mentido, engañado y manipulado a mi antojo sin que me importaran las consecuencias. He destruido sueños y reputaciones, he traicionado a los que me han sido leales, he provocado dolor a aquellos que quisieron ayudarme. He jugado con las esperanzas de quienes pensaron que podrían cambiar lo que soy. Esta es la historia de un canalla. La mía.
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English
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Drawing on a trove of confidential museum records and frank interviews, Felch and Frammolino give a fly-on-the-wall account of the inner workings of a world-class museum and tell the story of the Getty's dealings in the illegal antiquities trade. Fast-paced and compelling, "Chasing Aphrodite" exposes the layer of dirt beneath the polished facade of the museum business.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
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English
Description
With the rising number of missing Indigenous women, her family's involvement in a murder investigation, and grave robbers profiting off her Anishinaabe tribe, Perry takes matters into her own hands to solve the mystery and reclaim her people's inheritance.
"Perry Firekeeper-Birch was ready for her Summer of Slack but instead, after a fender bender that was entirely not her fault, she's stuck working to pay back her Auntie Daunis for repairs to the...
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English
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In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a government library, Abdel Kader Haidara, journeyed across the Sahara Desert and along the Niger River, tracking down and salvaging tens of thousands of ancient Islamic and secular manuscripts that had fallen into obscurity. The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu tells the story of how Haidara, a mild-mannered archivist and historian from the legendary city of Timbuktu, later became one of the world's...
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Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
247 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
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"A field guide to the memorials, museums, and practices that commemorate white supremacy in the United States nd how to reimagine a more deeply shared cultural infrastructure for the future"--
Monuments, museums, and everyday patriotic practices have made headlines for most of the twenty-first century, yet they are seldom look at together or understood explicitly as tools used by particular people in particular times and places to shape the culture...
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English
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"Ocean's Eleven meets The Farewell in this lush, lyrical heist novel inspired by the true story of Chinese art vanishing from Western museums, about diaspora, the colonization of art, and the complexity of the Chinese American identity. History is told by the conquerors. Across the Western world, museums display the spoils of war, of conquest, of colonialism: priceless pieces of art looted from other countries, kept even now. Will Chen plans to steal...
10) Saving Venice
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PBS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Rising sea levels and sinking land threaten to destroy Venice. Leading scientists and engineers are racing against the clock and battling the forces of nature to try to save this historic city for future generations.
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Publisher
Malpaso
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
1® ed.
Physical Desc
286 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
Español
Description
La historia comienza en Tombuctú en la década de los ochenta, cuando el librero, historiador y bibliotecario Abdel Kader Haidara recibe el encargo de buscar y rescatar decenas de miles de manuscritos antiguos que han caído en el olvido. La maravillosa tarea emprendida por nuestro joven protagonista se ve seriamente amenazada cuando, en 2012, miles de militantes de Al Qaeda toman el control de la mayor parte de Mali. Tras la ocupación se impone...
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W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxii, 454 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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When Hitler's armies occupied Italy in 1943, they also seized control of mankind's greatest cultural treasures. As they had done throughout Europe, the Nazis could now plunder the masterpieces of the Renaissance, the treasures of the Vatican, and the antiquities of the Roman Empire. In May 1944 two unlikely American heroes--artist Deane Keller and scholar Fred Hartt--embarked from Naples on the tresure hunt of a lifetime, tracking billions of dollars...
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Publisher
LB Little Brown
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Little Brown mass market edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 25
Physical Desc
xxviiii, 8 unnumbered pages, 598 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In a race against time, a group of American and British museum directors, curators, art historians, and others--called the Monuments Men--risked their lives to prevent destruction ... Focusing on the period between D-Day and V-E Day, ... follws six Monumetns Men on thweir impossible mision to save the world's great art fom the Nazis"-
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
370 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The gripping true story of the bold and determined museum curators who saved the priceless treasures of China's Forbidden City in the years leading up to World War II and beyond"--
Spring, 1933. Peking's Forbidden City is tense with fear and expectation. Japan's aircraft drone overhead, its troops and tanks are only hours away. How will the curators protect the vast imperial art collections in their charge? A million pieces of art-- objects that...
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Océano
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Primera edición en Océano.
Physical Desc
502 pages : maps, portraits, photographs ; 23 cm
Language
Español
Description
At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe. The Fuehrer had begun cataloguing the art he planned to collect as well as the art he would destroy: "degenerate" works he despised. In a race against time, behind enemy lines, often unarmed, a special force of American and British museum directors, curators, art historians, and others,...
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 118 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inches.
Language
English
Description
An unlikely World War II platoon has been tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. With the art trapped behind enemy lines, and with the German army under orders to destroy everything as the Reich fell, how could they possibly succeed? But as the Monuments Men, as they were called, found themselves in a race against time, they would risk their lives to protect...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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"As the most destructive war in history ravaged Europe, many of the world's most cherished cultural objects were in harm's way. The Greatest Treasure Hunt in History recounts the astonishing true story of eleven men and one woman who risked their lives amidst the bloodshed of World War II to preserve churches, libraries, monuments, and works of art that for centuries defined the heritage of Western civilization. As the war raged, these American and...
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