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Girl at sea

Maureen Johnson

High-school junior Clio Ford reluctantly gives up her dream job and a potential first kiss to take a working vacation with her estranged father on a yacht in Italy

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JOH

Artists

G. Aimée Ergas

Offers biographies of sixty-two North American and European artists from the Renaissance to the present, discussing each artist's life, technique, and historical or cultural background

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920
ERG

The World of Matisse, 1869-1954

John Russell, Time-Life Books

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MATISSE

Running Fence

Documents the Bulgarian-born artist's efforts to build a 24-1/2 mile long, 18-foot high fence of white fabric across the hills of California.

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700.92
RUN

Portrait of Jennie

Robert Nathan

Struggling artist Eben Adams meets Jennie, a mysterious little girl in New York's Central Park, whose beauty and devotion inspires him to new levels of accomplishment.

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NAT

A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man

James Joyce

An autobiographical novel depicting the childhood, adolescence, and early manhood of Stephen Dedalus.

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JOY

Norman Rockwell

Thomas S Buechner

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750
ROC

Nonsense and Wonder

Thomas Byrom, Edward Lear

760
Byrom,
Thomas

A New England Love Story

LouAnn Bigge Gaeddert

Relates the love story of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody based on their letters and journals.

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HAWTHORNE

Islands

Christo's fight for permission to surround eleven Biscayne Bay Islands with 6.5 million square feet of bright pink fabric, interwoven with his struggle to wrap the Pont-Neuf in Paris and the Reichstag

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700.92
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