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Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
In this exuberant celebration of creativity, Barb Rosenstock and Mary GrandPré tell the fascinating story of Vasily Kandinsky, one of the very first painters of abstract art. Throughout his life, Kandinsky experienced colors as sounds, and sounds as colors--and bold, groundbreaking works burst forth from his noisy paint box.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The world is big.
Anna is small.
The snow is
everywhere
and all around.
But one night...
One night, her mother takes her to the ballet, and everything is changed. Anna finds a beauty inside herself that she cannot contain.
So begins the journey of a girl who will one day grow up to be the most famous prima ballerina of all time, inspiring legions of dancers after her: the brave, the generous, the transcendently gifted Anna Pavlova. Beautiful,...
Author
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Spymaster, defector, double agent-the remarkable true story of the man who ran Russia's post–cold war spy program in America.In 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed, the cold war ended, and a new world order began. We thought everything had changed. But one thing never changed: the spies.From 1995 to 2000, a man known as "Comrade J" was the highest-ranking operative in the SVR-the successor agency to the KGB-in the United States. He directed all Russian...
6) Marc Chagall
Author
Pub. Date
1968
Description
A brief biography of this twentieth-century artist and an explanation of his philosophy of art are followed by analyses of twelve of his paintings. Includes color reproductions of the paintings.
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
"The Bureau and the Mole takes you into the shadowy world of Robert Philip Hanssen, a twenty-five-year veteran of the FBI who was a devout Catholic and a devoted family man, who attended the same church and sent his children to the same school as his boss, Bureau Director Louis J. Freeh. But as he emerged from a troubled childhood in Chicago to rise to the highest ranks of America's counterintelligence experts, Hanssen was also leading another life...
12) Chagall
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Series
Pub. Date
1997.
Description
Chronicles the life of Marc Chagall from a rural artist influenced by Jewish mysticism and Russian folklore to becoming an influential and popular artist around the world. Also includes reproductions of some of his works.
14) Marc Chagall
Author
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
A look at the life and career of the Russian-born painter famous for his dream-like painting and use of brilliant colors.
17) Marc Chagall
Author
Pub. Date
[1990]
Description
Examines the life and work of the painter whose Russian Jewish background did not prevent him from making an international search for his own ways of expression.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
A chilling and revelatory expose of the KGB's renaissance, Putin's rise to power, and how Russian black cash is subverting the world. In Putin's People, former Moscow correspondent and investigative journalist Catherine Belton reveals the untold story of how Vladimir Putin and his entourage of KGB men seized power in Russia and built a new league of oligarchs. Through exclusive interviews with key inside players, Belton tells how Putin's people conducted...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"After two and a half years as NPR's Moscow bureau chief, David Greene travels across the country--a 6,000-mile journey by rail, from Moscow to the Pacific port of Vladivostok--to speak with ordinary Russians about how their lives have changed in the post-Soviet years. Reaching beyond the headline-grabbing protests in Moscow, Greene speaks with a group of singing babushkas from Buranovo, a teenager hawking 'space rocks' from last spring's meteor shower...
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