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Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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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...
Author
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
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This novel combines a deft comedy of manners with a classic mystery set in London's most refined institution--the museum. When the glittering treasure of the ancient golden child is delivered to the museum, a web of intrigue tightens around its personnel.
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
[1959]
Language
English
Description
Norman is a mouse who by day acts as doorman of the mousehole in the basement storeroom of the Majestic Museum of Art and at night creates sculpture. He enters and wins the Museum's sculpture contest with a mouse on a trapese made from a mousetrap and picture-hanging wire.
Author
Series
Birdie volume 5
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Birdie loves autumn, but mostly she can not stop thinking about Halloween and what costume to wear, so when she visits her local museum she is inspired by everything she sees when she sees the pictures of many famous people of history.
Author
Series
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In this seventh sports-themed mystery, eight-year-old twins Zach and Zoe go on a school field trip to a pop-up museum, put on by the National Baseball Hall of Fame. On their tour, they discover one of the display items is missing from its case, and with the help of their classmates, they work together to figure out what happened --from Amazon.
6) Indelicacy
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In "a strangely ageless world somewhere between Emily Dickinson and David Lynch" (Blake Butler), a cleaning woman at a museum of art nurtures aspirations to do more than simply dust the paintings around her. She dreams of having the liberty to explore them in writing, and so must find a way to win herself the time and security to use her mind. She escapes her lot by marrying a rich man, but having gained a husband, a house, high society, and a maid,...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In Edison, New Jersey, in a museum devoted to the inventor Thomas Edison, a bitter, self-loathing sixteen-year-old girl with a deformed hand and the seemingly coolest boy in school spend the night during a snowstorm, growing close until a shameful secret threatens everything.
At school, Tegan Everly is known simply as the girl with the hand. She's usually only her outspoken self with her friend Neel, and right now they're not exactly talking. When...
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