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Emmi Castor thought she escaped the dangers of dealing with the fae when she sacrificed her magic to build a new witch bottle, one designed to both protect magical beings and witches like her. She struck a bargain with an ancient fae king to get her grandfather back and hopefully return to normal life, but she forgot....

Capitol City's Natural History Museum is haunted—or at least that's what someone wants people to think. But Wilson Kipper, son of the museum's head paleontologist, knows better. When the mysterious occurrences go from spooky to dangerous, the museum is forced to close its doors. Can Wilson and his friends get to the bottom of things, or will the Natural History Museum be closed for good?

When the plans for the prototype of a failed flying machine go missing from the Air and Space Museum's archives, Amal's father, the assistant archivist, is blamed. No one suspects a crime has been committed - except Amal and her friends. With her father's job on the line, it's up to them to track down the missing plans and get to the bottom of the museum mystery.

Detective John Coffin must find out who killed the man belonging to the severed human head found in an urn on the church steps.

Emmi Castor grew up in a small town near Salem. Her home is centuries old, originally built by an ancestor renowned for witchcraft. Her grandfather converted the house into the Museum of Magic, collecting the arcane and putting it on display for all to see. But Emmi knows one thing for absolute certain....

It is a perfect spring day in Istanbul. Kemal, a wealthy heir, is about to become engaged to the aristocratic Sibel when he encounters Füsun, a beautiful shop girl. He falls in love and finds his established world of Westernized families, opulent parties, society gossip and dining room rituals is shattered.

Where can you find Ancient Greek and Roman artefacts sitting with twentieth century French impressionist masterpieces? Where can shining suits of armour be compared with traditional Korean dresses? One of the world’s largest and most encyclopaedic collections of art lies in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Affectionately known as The ‘Met’, it is the largest art museum in the Western Hemisphere, housing over 2 million artefacts.

A shipment of dinosaur bones meant for a new exhibit has been stolen from the Capitol City Natural History Museum! But even worse, the group of paleontologists working on the shipment has disappeared, too - and among them is Wilson Kipper’s mother. Wilson and his friends are determined to get to the bottom of the mystery, but can they do it in time to save his missing mom?

On an afternoon in January 1865, a roaring fire swept through the Smithsonian Institution. Dazed soldiers and worried citizens could only watch as the flames engulfed the museum's castle. Rare objects and valuable paintings were destroyed. The flames at the Smithsonian were not the first—and certainly would not be the last—disaster to upend a museum in the United States. The Museum explores the concepts of "crisis" as it relates to museums, and how these historic institutions have dealt with challenges ranging from depression and war to pandemic and philosophical uncertainty.

Der Roman "Das Galaktische Museum" hinterfragt in drei Büchern humorvoll den Zustand der Bildenden Kunst im Jahr 2000. Im Zusammenspiel von Inhalt und äußerer Erscheinung entsteht eine hohe gestalterische Qualität. Diese Qualität umfasst Text (Ghimel Lehmig), Illustration (Gernot Pock und Jakob Pock), Layout (Kata Buschek) und ist auch als gedruckte Buchausgaben erhältlich. Die nunmehr vorhandenen Hörbücher, wunderbar vorgetragen von Antje Hochholdinger, runden das Gesamtwerk vollendet ab.

Meet thirteen-year-old Agatha Oddly – a bold, determined heroine, and the star of this stylish new detective series. THE SECRET KEY Agatha Oddlow has been a detective for as long as she can remember – she’s just been waiting for her first big case. And nothing gets bigger than saving the...

Until Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney opened her studio on Eight Street in Manhattan in 1914 - which evolved into the Whitney Museum almost two decades later - there were few art museums in the United States, let alone galleries for contemporary artists to exhibit their work. When the mansions of the wealthy cried out for art they sought it from Europe, then the art capital of the world. It was in her tiny sculptor’s studio in Greenwich Village that Whitney began holding exhibitions of contemporary American Artists. This remarkable effort by a scion of America’s wealthiest family helped to change the way art was cultivated in America.

American Libraries editor in chief Leonard Kniffel offers a compelling collection of interviews with prominent figures--all of whom have special connections to libraries. From President Barack Obama to actress Julie Andrews; from basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to former First Lady and librarian Laura Bush and many others, stars of literature, politics, entertainment, and the public arena speak with Kniffel about the ways libraries have been critical in their lives.

കണ്ടമ്പററി ന്യൂസ് എന്ന ഇംഗ്ലിഷ് പത്രത്തിലെ എന്റര്‍ടെയ്ന്‍മെന്റ് ഡസ്‌കില്‍ സാഹിത്യവിഭാഗം എഡിറ്റോറിയല്‍ ഹെഡ് ആയ സിദ്ധാര്‍ത്ഥന്‍ യാദൃച്ഛികമായി എക്‌സ് എന്നൊരാള്‍ നടത്തുന്ന എക്‌സ്‌കവേഷന്‍സ് എന്നൊരു ബ്ലോഗ് കാണാനിടയാകുന്നു. അതില്‍ എക്‌സിന് തെരുവില്‍നിന്നു ലഭിച്ച ഡിടിപി ചെയ്ത ചിലനോവല്‍ഭാഗങ്ങള്‍ പ്രസിദ്ധീകരിച്ചിരിക്കുന്നു.ആ ഡിടിപി കോപ്പിയില്‍ ചോരപ്പാടുകളുണ്ടായിരുന്നത്രേ. അത് ഗബ്രിയേല്‍ ജോസഫ് കട്ടക്കാരന്‍ എന്ന ആംഗ്ലോഇന്ത്യന്‍ എഴുത്തുകാരന്റെ ദേശത്തെപ്പറ്റി പറഞ്ഞ ആയിരം നുണകള്‍ എന്ന ഇംഗ്ലിഷ് നോവലിന്റെ മലയാളവിവര്‍ത്തനഭാഗങ്ങളാണെന്ന് സിദ്ധാര്‍ത്ഥന്‍ കണ്ടെത്തുന്നു.

A crotchety nightwatchman in a whaling museum contemplates Neptune the stuffed sea lion, originally owned by P.T. Barnum. In his admiration for the kingly animal, he studies ventriloquism to give Neptune a voice. When a field trip comes through the museum, he has an unexpectedly meaningful exchange with a precocious, like-minded child...and Neptune.

J.C. can't wait for his class field trip to the Famous Black Americans Museum. Even better, Dad is coming too—as a chaperone. But then J.C.’s group gets separated from the rest of the class. Can J.C. help save the day and find his classmates?

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In 2003, television journalist Daryna Goshchynska unearths a worn photograph of Olena Dovgan, a member of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army killed in 1947 by Stalin’s secret police. Intrigued by Olena’s story, Daryna sets out to make a documentary of the woman’s extraordinary life and death - and unwittingly opens a door to the past that will change the course of the future.

1895. Former Scotland Yard detective Daniel Wilson, made famous from his days working the Jack the Ripper case, and his archaeologist sidekick Abigail Fenton are summoned to investigate the murder of a young woman at the Manchester Museum. Though staff remember the woman as a recent and regular visitor, no one appears to know who she is, and she has no possessions which identify her. Seeking help from a local journalist, Daniel hopes to unravel this mystery, but the journey to the truth is fraught with obstacles.

17th May 1899. Queen Victoria lays the foundation stone on the site of a new museum being built in South Kensington, which she names as The Victoria and Albert Museum. Shortly after, Daniel Wilson and Abigail Fenton are called to the site because the dead body of a man, Andrew Page, has been found in one of the trenches. The more Wilson and Fenton dig, the more they discover other potential motives for Page's murder, some with potentially explosive implications for the royals and the government.