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Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
When the Museum of Natural History is closed for renovations, the museum pieces are moved into federal storage at the famous Smithsonian Institution. It houses the world's largest museum complex with more than 136 million items in its collections. These range from the plane Amelia Earhart flew on her non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic and Al Capone's rap sheet and mug shot to Dorothy's ruby slippers. From Fonzie's leather jacket to Archie Bunker's...
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Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The Polar Express meets The Night at the Museum in this fantastical picture-book adventure about the magic of books and libraries, perfect for book lovers of all ages! After a young boy goes to sleep upset that he's getting a book for his birthday, he's visited in the night by Patience and Fortitude, the two stone lions who guard the New York Public Library. Soon, he's magically whisked away from his cozy home in the Bronx, and the two mighty lions...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Rez is a riveting debut collection about what it means to be Penobscot in the twenty-first century and what it means to live, to survive, and to persevere after tragedy. In twelve striking, luminescent stories, author Morgan Talty--with searing humor, abiding compassion, and deep insight--breathes life into tales of family and a community as they struggle with a painful past and an uncertain...
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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...
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Series
Language
English
Description
After their father's "research experiment at the British Museum unleashes the Egyptian god Set, Carter and Sadie Kane embark on a dangerous journey across the globe--a quest which brings them ever closer to the truth about their family, and their links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs.
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
Katie and her family are joining their friends for a special sleepover at the museum. As they wander through dark displays of dinosaurs and huge animals, JoJo is sure the musuem is haunted at night. Katie, on the other hand, brags about not being scared--until she realizes everyone gets scared sometimes! -- from Amazon.
Author
Series
Notebook of doom volume 6
Publisher
Branches, Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Alexander's class is going on a sleepover at the Stermont Museum, but something is stealing bright, shiny objects from all over town, including the museum's treasured Ruby Scorpion, and on the night of the visit the young monster hunters finally confront the town's newest monster--a warrior covered entirely by bubble-wrap.
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
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Mason Brady loves comics! He knows every hero, villain, and sidekick. He even draws his own characters. On a trip to his favorite place, the Comic Book Characters Hall of Fame Museum, Mason explores every exhibit. He even comes across the very real Night Howler. But when villains start terrorizing the town, Mason realizes that his whole life is about to change. Will Mason be a superhero or will he just be a superzero?
Author
Series
Vicky Bliss mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Mysterious press
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
Offered a luxury Nile cruise if she will solve a murder and stop a heist of Egyptian antiquities, assistant curator Vicky Bliss jumps at the chance and is horrified when her investigations also unveil her lover's infidelities--Publisher.
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...
13) The last Templar
Author
Series
Sean Reilly thrillers volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a hail of fire and flashing sword, as the burning city of Acre falls from the hands of the West in 1291, a young Templar knight, his mentor, and a handful of others escape to the sea carrying a mysterious chest entrusted to them by the Order's dying Grand Master. The ship vanishes without a trace ... In present day Manhattan, four masked horsemen dressed as Templar Knights emerge from Central Park and ride up the Fifth Avenue steps of the Metropolitan...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"While men have long been credited with producing the first abstract paintings, the true creator was actually a woman - Swedish artist Hilma af Klint, who was inspired by her mystic visions. Acclaimed authors Sofia Lundberg, Alyson Richman, and M.J. Rose bring her story to life in this groundbreaking novel. Early 1900s: The world belongs to men, and the art world in Stockholm, Sweden, is no different, until Hilma af Klint brings together a mysterious...
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A fascinating account of both the historical and current struggle of Native Americans to recover sacred objects that have been plundered and sold to museums. Museum curator and anthropologist Chip Colwell asks the all-important question: Who owns the past? Museums that care for the objects of history or the communities whose ancestors made them?"--Provided by the publisher.
Author
Series
Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
A night watchman is found dead in the Mummy Room of the British Museum, a look of horror frozen on his face. Before Amelia can respond, a pair of dissolute aristocrats with shady pasts appear in her life, together with supernatural curses.
18) Peppa Pig: Stars
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The Stars in the night sky are far away and seem so tiny until Daddy Pig helps Peppa and George spy them through a telescope. Then, bedtime at Cousin Chloé's turns into The noisy night when baby Alexander's crying keeps everyone awake! Peppa's family takes A trip to the moon when they visit the museum's out of this world exhibition. Watch all twelve Peppasodes for lots of giggles with Peppa, her little brother George, Mummy Pig, Daddy Pig, and friends!...
19) Lost lake
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Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
On a bright Saturday in early spring, Detective Gemma Monroe responds to a missing person call at Lost Lake, near the small town of Cedar Valley, Colorado. With its sapphire waters and abundance of wildflowers, the lake is a popular camping destination in the summer. But for now, ice still grips the lake and snow buries the flowers. When Gemma arrives at the shore, she meets three friends who have been camping there: the fourth of their group, Sari...
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