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Raiders Of The Lost Art volume 1
Language
English
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One of the world's most-famous works of art has been stolen on numerous occasions. Thieves in 1994 left a message saying only 'thanks for the poor security.'
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Raiders Of The Lost Art volume 2
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English
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Painted during Vienna's cultural heyday, Gustav Klimt's "Portrait of Adele" was confiscated by the Nazis during WWII.
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Raiders Of The Lost Art volume 7
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English
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Painted for the arrival of Paul Gaugin in Arles, this set of paintings by Vincent Van Gogh has gone on an astonishing journey ever since.
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Raiders Of The Lost Art volume 6
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English
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Jan van Eyck left behind a remarkable legacy of works, including the spectacular Ghent altarpiece, but very little evidence of who he exactly was. van Eyck was a key figure in the early northern renaissance that would produce further great masters such as Hans Holbein and Albrecht Durer. After he died, his reputation would only grow and grow, and his paintings would become highly sought after by buyers and thieves alike and, in the process, the mysterious...
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Raiders Of The Lost Art volume 5
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English
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Leonardo da Vinci is believed by many to have been the most talented individual who ever lived. But, while his greatest legacy remains in his art, we're still unearthing the secrets of how he worked.
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Raiders Of The Lost Art volume 2
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English
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Each year Carl Fabergé made a, one of a kind Easter egg for the Tsar's family. But Carl was forced to flee Russia during the revolution and 8 of these priceless Imperial Eggs went missing. With one of the elusive 8 recently uncovered could the others seven survived the chaos of 1917.
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Raiders Of The Lost Art volume 4
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English
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It took nearly three centuries for el Greco's paintings to be truly appreciated. No artist has ever been more ahead of his time.
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Raiders Of The Lost Art volume 9
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English
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Johannes Vermeer was all but forgotten for centuries and this iconic work lay dormant, overlooked before it was rediscovered.
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Raiders Of The Lost Art volume 3
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English
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These works that span Rembrandt's entire adult life have been scattered across the globe and had a life and history all their own.
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Raiders Of The Lost Art volume 5
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English
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The story of the theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911 from the Louvre and how Pablo Picasso was accused if the crime. Plus the incredible tales of how many other of da Vinci's works were lost to history and had to be reclaimed.
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Heathcliff volume 63
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English
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A trip to the museum with Iggy and Marcy to see the ancient Catenkoman exhibit provides Heathcliff with the perfect party place to celebrate Sonja's birthday later that night. Little does he know that his intimate plans will soon be shattered when first, his pals decide to crash the scene and second, two mysterious men appear and attempt to drag Heathcliff away to their foreign country where they believe he should reign as their Pharaoh king! / Hector...
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English
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Renowned scholar William C. Chittick explores the worldview of Islam in a series of essays written over thirty-six years.
In Search of the Lost Heart brings together twenty-six essays by William C. Chittick, renowned scholar of Sufism and Islamic philosophy. Written between 1975 and 2011, most of these essays are not readily available in Chittick's own books. Although this is a collection, its editors have crafted it to be a book "sufficient unto...
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Complete adventures of Indiana Jones volume chapter 24
Publisher
Paramount [Home Video]
Pub. Date
1999, c1981
Language
English
Description
Indiana Jones is a bullwhip-cracking archeologist assigned by the U.S. Government to find the mystically empowered Ark of the Convenant before the Nazis can obtain it for their own evil use. Includes an interview with George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Harrison Ford following the feature film.
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English
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Lilly And The Angel: A Journey's End
"GIANT FLYING TURTLES! KILLER SOCK PIRANHAS! MAGICAL GIFT BOXES! SAVAGE TREE WARRIORS! SCRAP METAL MERCENARIES! PENCILED STRINGED ASSASSINS!--as if we haven't seen it all!"
The conclusion to this epic three-part journey has finally arrived, and it seems as if Manacle Lillian Faithe Christians and Aegis Corinthian Angel Creation Of God are finally putting their differences aside and warming up to one another....
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Raiders of the Arcana volume Book I
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English
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"Nice Victorian ladies don't run off to find legendary lost cities. One trifling little arrest shouldn't have cost Ellie Mallory her job, but it's only the latest in a line of injustices facing any educated woman with archaeological ambitions. When Ellie stumbles across the map to a mysterious ancient city, she knows she's holding her chance to revolutionize Pre-Colombian history. There's just one teensy complication. A ruthless villain wants it,...
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Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Indiana Jones, an archeologist, embarks on a thrilling quest to locate the mystical Ark of the Covenant. Accompanied by his fiesty ex-flame Marion Ravenwood, Indy must discover the Ark before the Nazis do, and he has to survive poison, traps, snakes and treachery to do so.
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Sixteen years ago, notorious science-brigand Janni Nemo journeyed into the frozen reaches of Antarctica to resolve her father's weighty legacy in a storm of madness and loss, barely escaping with her Nautilus and her life. Now it is 1941, and with her daughter strategically married into the family of aerial warlord Jean Robur, Janni's raiders have only limited contact with the military might of the clownish German-Tomanian dictator Adenoid Hynkel....
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