Search Results: Returned 13 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 13
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2002, c2001., Plume Call No: 813 .54 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In a novel of manners and social divisions set against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century England, two girls from different classes become friends, and their families' lives become intertwined in the process.
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2005, c1999., Plume Call No: HISTORICAL FICTION Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Holland comes to dazzling life in this richly imagined portrait of Griet, a sixteen year old of the 1660s who inspired one of Vermeer's most celebrated paintings.
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1999., Penguin Group Call No: Historical fiction FIC CHEVALIER Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A maid becomes a model for the 17th century Dutch painter, Vermeer. The woman, an artisan's daughter with a strong power of observation, describes his manner of work, his household and life of the day, including the rigid class system and religious bigotry.
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[2001], c1999., Plume Call No: 813 .54 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Imagines the young woman in Johannes Vermeer's mysterious painting "The Girl With a Pearl Earring" as a sixteen-year-old Dutch girl named Griet who sparks the interest of the artist when she becomes a maid in his turbulent household.
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c1999., Plume Book Call No: Historical FIC Chevalier Genre: Historical Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The life of sixteen-year-old Griet is transformed forever when she goes to work as a maid in the home of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, and catches the eye of the famous artist.
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Ã2014, Pre-adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A collection of short stories inspired by objects connected with World War I in remembrance of the sixteen million people who died in the war.
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-- Stories inspired by items from the First World War2015., Juvenile, Candlewick Press Call No: HISTORICAL F GRE Edition: First U.S. edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Writers of this collection of short stories were inspired to write about the First World War by physical objects associated with the war.
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c2004., Dutton Call No: 813 .54 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A historical novel that imagines the lives and intrigues of the men and women involved in the creation of the fifteenth-century "Lady and the Unicorn" tapestries.
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2013., Penguin Books Call No: Historical Fic Chevalier Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Forced to leave England and struggling with illness in the wake of a family tragedy, Quaker Honor Bright is forced to rely on strangers in the harsh landscape of 1850 Ohio and is compelled to join the Underground Railroad network to help runaway slaves escape to freedom.
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2013., Penguin Books Call No: Historical Fic Chevalier Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Forced to leave England and struggling with illness in the wake of a family tragedy, Quaker Honor Bright is forced to rely on strangers in the harsh landscape of 1850 Ohio and is compelled to join the Underground Railroad network to help runaway slaves escape to freedom.
