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"An informative picture book about the origins and present day uses of -- and obsession with -- glitter"--

A poor art student in New York City discovers a duffel bag full of diamonds in the chaos during an attack at Grand Central Station and is pursued by the Ghost, an assassin who had murdered the bag's owner.

Gabriel Allon has slipped quietly into Venice for a much needed holiday with his wife and two young children. But when Pope Paul VII dies suddenly, Gabriel is summoned to Rome by the Holy Father's loyal private secretary, Archbishop Luigi Donati. A billion Catholic faithful have been told that the pope died of a heart attack. Donati, however, has two good reasons to suspect his master was murdered. The Swiss Guard who was standing watch outside the...

Colored illustrations on endpapers. Sylvia Bergstrom Compson and her fiance Andre embark on a difficult journey to find her mother's missing heirloom quilts, all the while discovering secrets regarding her mother's life and ultimately death.

The Bobbsey Twins in the Country by Laura Lee Hope is a children's novel published in 1907, and it is the fourth book in the Bobbsey Twins series. The book follows the adventures of the Bobbsey family, which consists of two sets of fraternal twins - Bert and Nan, and Flossie and Freddie - and their parents, as they move from the city to a farm in the countryside. The Bobbseys settle into their new life in the country, where they meet their new neighbors...

Nearing thirty and trapped in a dead-end secretarial job, Julie Powell resolved to reclaim her life by cooking, in a single year, every one of the 524 recipes in Julia Child's 1961 classic, Mastering the art of French cooking. Her unexpected reward, a new life lived with gusto.

Gerald the elephant tells his best friend Piggie a long, crazy story about how he broke his trunk.

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...

Contains all the techniques and projects--more than one hundred--from the Art Ideas series, and includes information on such topics as brushes, paper, media, wax resist, punched holes, and paper sculpture.

Three easy steps show you how to put the shapes together to make a drawing of animal favorites.