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Michelangelo

Tim McNeese

Profiles the life and works of Italian Renaissance painter and sculptor Michelangelo, and describes some of his greatest masterpieces including the "Pieta," "Moses," and the statue of David, as well a

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Inkheart

Cornelia Caroline Funke

Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father Mo, a bookbinder, can "read" fictional characters to life when an evil ruler named Capricorn, freed from the novel "Inkheart" years earlier, tries to forc

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Mirror Mirror

Gregory Maguire

Presents a retelling of the Snow White fairy tale, set in early sixteenth-century Italy, in which the life of innocent, young Bianca de Nevada is disrupted when her beloved father is sent on an errand

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Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissance in World History

Allison Lassieur

Traces the life and times of Leonardo da Vinci showing his effect on the world of art and on the history of the Italian Renaissance.

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Enrico Fermi

Dan Cooper

A biography of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose work led to the discovery of nuclear fission, the basis of nuclear power and the atom bomb.

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Leonardo Da Vinci

Sherwin B. Nuland

A biography of fifteenth-century artist and thinker Leonardo da Vinci, based on an investigation of his art, relationships, scientific studies, and manuscripts.

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Antonio Vivaldi

Karl Heller

A biography of Antonio Vivaldi, a Venetian composer from the eighteenth century, whose work was largely forgotten until after World War Two.

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