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Author
Publisher
Fig Tree Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
It's 1994 and Adam, a drug addict from New York City, arrives at a kibbutz in Israel with a medieval sapphire brooch. To make up for a past crime, he needs to get the priceless heirloom to a woman his grandfather loved when he was a Holocaust refugee on the kibbutz fifty years earlier. There Adam joins other troubled people trying to turn their lives around: Ulya, the ambitious and beautiful Soviet emigre ; Farid, the lovelorn Palestinian farmhand...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Both a history of fine jewelry coming out of Paris in the Golden Age and a tour through the secretive world of high-end, privately-sold jewelry, Diving for Starfish is a stylish detective story with a glittering piece of jewelry at its heart." --
Author
Series
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Lt
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"From medieval pilgrim badges and Renaissance hat decorations to jewelled brooches and twentieth-century political pins, brooches and badges are often more than practical or decorative dress fasteners; they are expressions of identity. Focusing on the V&A's world-famous collection, 'Brooches & Badges' explores the evolution of these intricate and versatile works of art, and the way in which changes in dress have dictated their use"--From V&A website....
Author
Series
Publisher
AmericanGirl
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"When Margaret finds a gold pin and rubs the dirt off, she suddenly is whisked away to Camp Gowonagin in 1945! She meets Molly, and together they take a nature hike, sleep out under the stars, and rescue a dog in distress. Or do they? You get to plot the story in this "You choose the ending!" book." --
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