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An ingenious code hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci. A desperate race through the cathedrals and castles of Europe. An astonishing truth concealed for centuries . . . unveiled at last. As millions of readers around the globe have already discovered, The Da Vinci Code is a reading experience unlike any other. Simultaneously lightning-paced, intelligent, and intricately layered with remarkable... (more)

Girl with a Pearl Earring

by Tracy Chevalier, Tracy(Author) Chevalier, Tracy(Author) Chevalier, Tracy(Author) Chevalier, Tracy Chevlier

The runaway New York Times bestseller with over one million copies sold Now a major motion picture from Lions Gate Films opening November 2003 History and fiction merge seamlessly in Tracy Chevalier's luminous novel about artistic vision and sensual awakening. Through the eyes of sixteen-year-old Griet, the world of 1660s Holland comes dazzlingly alive in this richly imagined portrait of the young... (more)

Robert Langdon: Book 1

Angels & Demons

by Dan Brown

An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction. An unthinkable target. World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centuries-old underground organization -- the Illuminati.... (more)

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Chasing Vermeer

by Blue Balliett

When a book of unexplainable occurences brings Petra and Calder together, strange things start to happen: Seemingly unrelated events connect; an eccentric old woman seeks their company; an invaluable Vermeer painting disappears. Before they know it, the two find themselves at the center of an international art scandal, where no one is spared from suspicion. As Petra and Calder are drawn clue by clue into a... (more)

Speak

by Laurie Halse Anderson

Melinda Sordino busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops. Now her old friends won't talk to her, and people she doesn't even know hate her from a distance. The safest place to be is alone, inside her own head. But even that's not safe. Because there's something she's trying not to think about, something about the night of the party that, if she let it in, would blow her carefully constructed disguise to... (more)

Girl with a Pearl Earring

by Tracy Chevalier

A Deluxe Edition of the National Bestseller with Over 2 Million Copies Sold: • Eight Pages of Full-Color Plates Include Every Vermeer Painting Discussed in the Book • French Flaps • Rough Front • Larger Trim Size • Premium Stock • With a New Foreword Celebrate Tracy Chevalier’s modern classic Girl With A Pearl Earring , featuring a gorgeous new edition illustrated with eight pages of... (more)

The Da Vinci Code

by Dan Brown

While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci -- clues visible for all to see -- yet ingeniously... (more)

Griffin and Sabine Trilogy: Book 1

Griffin and Sabine

by Nick Bantock

Griffin: It's good to get in touch with you at last. Could I have one of your fish postcards? I think you were right -- the wine glass has more impact than the cup. --Sabine But Griffin had never met a woman named Sabine. How did she know him? How did she know his artwork? Who is she? Thus begins the strange and intriguing correspondence of Griffin and Sabine. And since each letter must be pulled from its own... (more)

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

by E. L. Konigsburg

Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away...so she decided not to run FROM somewhere, but TO somewhere. And so, after some careful planning, she and her younger brother, Jamie, escaped -- right into a mystery that made headlines!

The Birth of Venus

by Sarah Dunant

Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family’s Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind and a talent for drawing, Alessandra is intoxicated by the painter’s abilities. But their burgeoning relationship is interrupted when Alessandra’s parents arrange her... (more)

PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives

PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives

by Frank Warren

The project that captured a nation's imagination. The instructions were simple, but the results were extraordinary. "You are invited to anonymously contribute a secret to a group art project. Your secret can be a regret, fear, betrayal, desire, confession, or childhood humiliation. Reveal anything -- as long as it is true and you have never shared it with anyone before. Be brief. Be legible. Be creative." ... (more)

Griffin and Sabine Trilogy: Book 2

Sabine's Notebook

In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin and Sabine Continues

by Nick Bantock

Created by Griffin to ease his loneliness, his imaginary lover Sabine takes on a haunting independent existence, leaving him beautifully strange postcards, letters, and a sketchbook diary, all of which are included in this sequel to Griffin & Sabine . 100,000 first printing.

The Lady and the Unicorn (Unabridged)

by Tracy Chevalier

A tour de force of history and imagination, The Lady and the Unicorn is Tracy Chevalier’s answer to the mystery behind one of the art world’s great masterpieces—a set of bewitching medieval tapestries that hangs today in the Cluny Museum in Paris. They appear to portray the seduction of a unicorn, but the story behind their making is unknown—until now. Paris, 1490. A shrewd French nobleman commissions... (more)

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain : A Course in Enhancing Creativity and Artistic Confidence

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain : A Course in Enhancing Creativity and Artistic Confidence

by Ph.D. Edwards, Betty, Betty Edwards

Edwards uses the latest in brain research to explain how anyone can learn to draw more accurately and creatively. This edition contains a new illustrated section in color, several fully revised chapters, new sample drawings, and a new section on handwriting.

Girl in Hyacinth Blue

by Susan Vreeland

This luminous story begins in the present day, when a professor invites a colleague to his home to see a painting that he has kept secret for decades. The professor swears it is a Vermeer--but why has he hidden this important work for so long? The reasons unfold in a series of events that trace the ownership of the painting back to World War II and Amsterdam, and still further back to the moment of the work's... (more)

The Artist's Way

by Julia Cameron, Mark Bryan

NOW AVAILABLE _ Digitally remastered, and on CD for the first time Read by the author

Griffin and Sabine Trilogy: Book 3

The Golden Mean

In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin and Sabine Concludes

by Nick Bantock

Lovers Griffin and Sabine find their passion tested by new obstacles, including a mysterious intruder, in the conclusion of the best-selling trilogy that began with Griffin & Sabine. and Sabine's Notebook. 300,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo.

The Art Book

by Adam Butler, Susan Stirling, Claire Van Cleave

Winner of the Illustrated Book of the Year award in 1994, The Art Book has become a publishing phenomenon and a well-known event in the art book world. Reduced in size, making it light and highly portable, this new mini edition presents the same easy-to-use alphabetical guide to 500 of the world's greatest painters and sculptors. 500 color illustrations.

My Name Is Red (Vintage International)

by Orhan Pamuk, Erdag? M. Go?knar

At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art, My Name Is Red is a transporting tale set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of sixteenth-century Istanbul, from one of the most prominent contemporary Turkish writers. The Sultan has commissioned a cadre of the most acclaimed artists in the land to create a great book celebrating the glories of... (more)

The Agony and the Ecstasy

by Irving Stone

Fictional depiction of Michelangelo. Includes bibliography, glossary and a list of the artist's works.

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by Frank Warren

In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin and Sabine Continues

by Nick Bantock

by Tracy Chevalier

by Ph.D. Edwards, Betty, Betty Edwards

by Susan Vreeland

by Julia Cameron, Mark Bryan

In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin and Sabine Concludes

by Nick Bantock

by Adam Butler, Susan Stirling, Claire Van Cleave

by Orhan Pamuk, Erdag? M. Go?knar

by Irving Stone