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"When thrift-store aficionado Julie discovers a series of antique paintings with hidden glowing images that are only visible in the dark, she wants to learn more about the artist. In her search, she uncovers a century-old romance and the haunting true story of the Radium Girls, young women who used radioactive paint to make the world's first glow-in-the-dark products--and ultimately became radioactive themselves. As Julie's obsession with the paintings mounts, truths about the Radium Girls--and her own complicated relationships--are revealed"--Provided by publisher.

"Annie McMorrow, 31 and not recovered from the end of her long-term relationship, is an assistant to film producer Carlo Spinetti and then to his chilling wife Rebecca Winkleman Spinetti whose father started Winkleman Fine Art in Curzon St. Annie has spent her meagre savings on a dusty painting from a junk shop to give to her new, unsuitable, boyfriend who never shows up for his birthday dinner. The painting now hers, talks, but only to us. Shrewd, spoiled, charming, world weary and cynical, he comments perceptively on Annie, and the modern world and tells tales about his previous owners: Louis XV, Voltaire, Catherine the Great among others. The story unfolds through this voice and many others--unexpected, entertaining, and strangely authentic. Annie will have her apartment ransacked and be pursued by dealers, buyers and an auctioneer in an attempt to get back the painting. With The Improbability of Love, Rothschild has spun a dazzling tale--both irreverant and entertainng--of a many-layered, devious world where, in the end, love triumphs"--.

An imaginative fish dreams about what is beyond his bowl and uses watercolors to paint what he imagines.

Contains critical commentary on the life and art of seventeenth-century Dutch painter Jan Vermeer, and features forty color plates, as well as black-and-white photographs, that document his work.

Kat, who loves to make maps of all sorts of places and things, gives a special map to Jack.

Zee is torn between making a statement with graffiti and making art.

Tiger and his friend Luna are sucked into a picture of a tiger and have to find a way out before they are eaten by the big cat.

Simple text and photograph introduce young readers to the work and art of a painter.