Mona Lisas Ghost

Download or read book Mona Lisa's Ghost written by Nancy Kunhardt Lodge and published by . This book was released on 2017-11 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MONA LISAS GHOST, a thrilling mystery, is the sequel to The Crystal Navigator in the Lucy Nightingale adventure series. During a class video about the Mona Lisa, Lucy and her best friend, Sam Winter notice that the painting seems to be melting. The painting is mysteriously stolen and Lucy must find it before it is destroyed. In an adventure that takes Lucy through the ghost-infested Catacombs of Paris, down underground rivers, and back to sixteenth-century France, she solves a mystery that would shock the world if it were ever made public.

Download or read book Mona Lisa Overdrive written by William Gibson and published by Spectra. This book was released on 2012-11-07 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date . . .The Mona Lisa Overdrive. Enter Gibson's unique world—lyric and mechanical, sensual and violent, sobering and exciting—where multinational corporations and high tech outlaws vie for power, traveling into the computer-generated universe known as cyberspace. Into this world comes Mona, a young girl with a murky past and an uncertain future whose life is on a collision course with internationally famous Sense/Net star Angie Mitchell. Since childhood, Angie has been able to tap into cyberspace without a computer. Now, from inside cyberspace, a kidnapping plot is masterminded by a phantom entity who has plans for Mona, Angie, and all humanity, plans that cannot be controlled . . . or even known. And behind the intrigue lurks the shadowy Yazuka, the powerful Japanese underworld, whose leaders ruthlessly manipulate people and events to suit their own purposes . . . or so they think.

Download or read book Mona Lisa's Moustache written by Mary Settegast and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2002-04-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback -- a groundbreaking effort to find meaning in the disintegration of Western culture by looking through the lenses of economics, philosophy, art, physics, ecology, and spirituality.

Download or read book Mona Lisa written by Dianne Hales and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book rests on the premise that the woman in the painting "Mona Lisa" is indeed the person identified in its earliest description: Lisa Gherardini (1479-1542), wife of the Florence merchant Francesco del Giocondo. Dianne Hales has followed facts from the Florence State Archives, to the squalid street where Mona Lisa was born, to the ruins of the convent where she died

Download or read book The Ghost of Caura written by Lance Baptiste and published by . This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1945, the colonial government in Trinidad and Tobago dynamited a church in Caura and displaced an entire village to build a dam. 75 years later, a son discovers the journals of his father who lived in the village. In 2021, the son, sitting at a window, writes: Sitting at a window that looks out on the church in Lopinot, I'm beginning to understand how much I did not appreciate my father. Most people begin to truly appreciate their parents when it's too late. I imagine this is the reason I've spent months deciphering his handwriting and trying to reproduce his story as faithfully as possible. Trinidad and Tobago, I feel, deserves the truth, about men like Eusebio, Mr Roberts, my own father and grandfather-Raymond and Popo-and the British's role in destroying a prosperous village.

Download or read book The Gravity Thief written by Nancy Kunhardt Lodge and published by . This book was released on 2020-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Jackie and the Mona Lisa written by Debbie Rovin Murphy and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jackie Kennedy loved the arts. And America loved Jackie Kennedy. The first lady knew she had the country's attention--what would she do with it? Encourage Americans to appreciate art, of course! She turned the White House into a historical site filled with some of America's most treasured artifacts and pieces of art. She brought Shakespearean theater to the White House and ballerinas to the South Lawn. And most epically, she brought the Mona Lisa to the states (much to the chagrin of many Parisians) to encourage Americans to visit museums--and it worked! An inspiring story about one of the nation's most influential first ladies.