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Publisher
Seventh Art Productions
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A beautifully filmed documentary that goes in pursuit of answers to the unresolved riddles surrounding this extraordinary piece of art. Holland's distinguished Mauritshuis, is home to the painting and is a stunning jewel of a gallery. Enjoying exclusive access, the film's main focus are the key works housed here. Interpretation of these major treasures offer insights into Vermeer and his most famous work and are interwoven with Vermeer's life story...
Author
Language
English
Description
Using a new technology, recently discovered documents, and sophisticated investigative techniques, a retired FBI agent and a cold case team painstakingly pieced together the months leading to the infamous arrest of Anne Frank and her family--and came to a shocking conclusion.
Who betrayed Anne Frank and her family? And why? Despite the many works devoted to Anne's story, none has ever conclusively explained how these eight people managed to live...
63) Boxes for Katje
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After a young Dutch girl writes to her new American friend in thanks for the care package sent after World War II, she begins to receive increasingly larger boxes.
64) Anne Frank
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Anne Frank's diary is read by children and adults worldwide. It tells two stories: one of an extraordinary young girl living in hiding during one of the most fearsome times in history, and one of a relatable young girl facing the same questions and troubles that kids come up against today. Learn how both sides of this puzzle made up the person who is Anne Frank. In this biography for kids ages 8-12, meet Anne's family and friends, explore "The Annex"...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A poignant and suspenseful drama that untangles the complicated ties binding three women--two sisters and their mother--in one Chinese immigrant family and explores what happens when the eldest daughter disappears, and a series of family secrets emerge. Sylvie, the beautiful, brilliant, successful older daughter of the Lee family, flies to the Netherlands for one final visit with her dying grandmother-- and vanishes. Amy is too young to remember...
66) Anne Frank
Author
Publisher
Mitchell Lane Publishers
Pub. Date
©2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Profiles the young Jewish teenager who hid with her family for two years in a secret attic before being captured by the Germans and sent to a concentration camp.
67) Ana Frank
Author
Publisher
Lectorum
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
Español
Description
Traces the life of a Jewish girl who chronicled her day-to-day life in a diary as she hid in an attic in Nazi-occupied Holland for two years.
Este libro ilustrado para niños y jóvenes es una biografía de la joven judía Ana Frank y la historia de su famoso diario íntimo.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"The only graphic biography of Anne Frank's diary that has been authorized by the Anne Frank Foundation and that uses text from the diary--it will introduce a new generation of young readers to this classic of Holocaust literature. This adaptation of Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl into a graphic version for a young readership, maintains the integrity and power of the original work. With stunning, expressive illustrations and ample direct quotation...
70) The miniaturist
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A woman moves to live with her new husband and his sister in seventeenth century Amsterdam, but soon discovers that not everything is what it seems.
Author
Publisher
North Light Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A guide to brioche stitch, a knitting technique that creates a double-sided fabric. Includes detailed instructions and step-by-step photos, a stitch dictionary including 60 beautiful stitch patterns with many multicolor options, and 25 patterns for garments and accessories, all made with brioche stitches, some combined with other design elements including cables, lace, intarsia and more!
Author
Publisher
Amsterdam Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Deep in the Veluwe woods lies Berkenhout, a purpose-built village of huts sheltering dozens of persecuted people. But the Germans can find no proof of its existence. The whole community pulls together to help the Berkenhout inhabitants adjust to a difficult new life and, above all, stay safe. Young tearaway Jan likes to help, but he also enjoys roaming the woods looking for adventure and fallen pilots. His dream comes true until he is found out. Henk...
74) The diary keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as written by the people who lived through it
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A riveting look at the story of World War II and the Holocaust through the diaries of Dutch citizens, firsthand accounts of ordinary people living through extraordinary times. Based on select writings from a collection of more than two thousand Dutch diaries written during World War II in order to record this unparalleled time, and maintained by devoted archivists, The Diary Keepers illuminates a part of history we haven't seen in quite this way...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
No one has ever accused Sage Cunningham of being easily distracted. She has a plan, and she won't be swayed. She'll spend the summer interning in her mentor's lab in Amsterdam, and then she'll be ready for college. All she needs to do to pay for the summer abroad is agree to serve as the au pair for Dr. Reese's three-year-old. Sage has it all down to a science, but she doesn't anticipate the surprise arrival of Dr. Reese's teenage son. Ryland is spontaneous,...
77) Tulip fever
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Wealthy young merchant Cornelis Sandvoort hopes to produce an heir with his beautiful young wife, but when he commissions portraits to be painted by a young painter, Jan van Loos, his household becomes entangled in ambitions, desires, dreams, and deceptions.
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