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Rembrandt and 17th Century Holland : The Dutch nation and its painters

Claudio Pescio · Peter Bedrick
Pages: 64
Format: Hardcover

Rembrandt van Rihn defines an entire era of remarkable painting both for his innovation in interpretation and his adventurous technique. His many portraits, self-portraits, landscapes, and historical pieces demonstrate his singular talent as a painter and engraver, and reveal much about...
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Colombia (Enchantment of the World, Second)

Marion Morrison · Children's Press
Pages: 144
Format: Book

Describes the geography history culture industry and people of Colombia
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Digestive and Reproductive Systems

Steve Parker · New Forest Press
Format: Print book

Introduces the digestive and reproductive systems of the body, including the importance of nutrition, the responsibilities of the liver and kidneys, and stages of human development from conception to adult.
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Empress of a Thousand Skies

Rhoda Belleza · Razorbill
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

For fans of Pierce Brown and Firefly comes an epic sci-fi fantasy that Kiersten White, author of And I Darken, calls "dazzling--an adventure as sweeping in scope as the galaxies it spans!"Empress Rhee, also known as Crown Princess Rhiannon Ta'an, is the sole surviving heir to a powerful...
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Decorating Projects for a Lazy Crafternoon

Stella Fields
Format: Print book

This how-to book shows readers how to create fashion accessories (alone or with friends) using basic craft supplies.
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Die for You

Amy Fellner Dominy · Delacorte Press
Pages: 292
Format: Print book

Not everything is as perfect as it seems in this dark romance by A Matter of Heart author, Amy Dominy. Theirs was the perfect love story. After Emma Lorde's parents' divorce forces her to move halfway across the state of Arizona to live with her father, Emma must face her senior year...
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Pottery Barn Bedrooms (Pottery Barn Design Library)

Sarah Lynch · Oxmoor House
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

Pottery Barn Bedrooms guides readers through all the decorating possibilities for the most personal room in the house. Encouraging a warm, inviting refuge the book provides detailed tips and techniques that still allow for personal style and individual needs. Pottery Barn Bedrooms inspires...
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Gathering Blue

Lois Lowry · HMH Books for Young Readers; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Lois Lowry once again creates a mysterious but plausible future world. It is a society ruled by savagery and deceit that shuns and discards the weak. Left orphaned and physically flawed, young Kira faces a frightening, uncertain future. Blessed with an almost magical talent that keeps her alive,...
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Lifeblood

Gena Showalter · Harlequin Teen
Pages: 440
Format: Hardcover

"My Firstlife is over, but my Everlife is only now beginning." With her last living breath, Tenley "Ten" Lockwood made her choice and picked her realm in the Everlife. Now, as the war between Troika and Myriad rages, she must face the consequences. Because Ten possesses...
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Messenger

Lois Lowry · HMH Books for Young Readers; Reprint edition
Format: eBook

Strange changes are taking place in Village. Once a utopian community that prided itself on its welcome to new strangers, Village will soon be closed to all outsiders. As one of the few people able to travel through the dangerous Forest, Matty must deliver the message of Village’s...
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You're Welcome, Universe

Whitney Gardner · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A vibrant, edgy, fresh new YA voice for fans of More Happy Than Not and Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, packed with interior graffiti. When Julia finds a slur about her best friend scrawled across the back of the Kingston School for the Deaf, she covers it up with a beautiful (albeit...
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Antigoddess

Kendare Blake · Doherty Associates
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

The Goddess War begins in Antigoddess, the first installment of the new series by acclaimed author of Anna Dressed in Blood, Kendare Blake.Old Gods never die ... Or so Athena thought. But then the feathers started sprouting beneath her skin, invading her lungs like a strange cancer, and Hermes...
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Echo - Audio

Pam Munoz Ryan
Format: Audiobook

Music, magic, and a real-life miracle meld in this virtuosic, genre-defying tour de force from storytelling maestro Pam Munoz Ryan.Lost and alone in the forbidden Black Forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and suddenly finds himself entwined in a puzzling quest involving a prophecy,...
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The Librarian of Auschwitz

Antonio Iturbe · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust.Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother...
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