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The museum of failures : a novel / by Umrigar, Thrity N.,author.;
"Remy Wadia left India for the United States long ago, carrying his resentment of his mother with him. He has now returned to Bombay to adopt a baby--and to see his elderly mother for the first time in several years. Discovering that she is in the hospital, has stopped talking, and seems to have given up on life, he is struck with guilt for not realizing just how sick she has become. His unexpected appearance and assiduous attention revives her and enables her to return to her home. But when Remy finds an old photograph from his adoring late father, shocking long-held family secrets surface"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Family secrets; Guilt; Mothers and sons; Redemption;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Meet me at the museum [text (large print)] / by Youngson, Anne,author.;
"In Denmark, Professor Anders Larsen has lost his wife and his hopes for the future. On an isolated English farm, Tina Hopgood is trapped in a life she doesn't remember choosing. Brought together by a shared fascination with the Tollund Man, subject of Seamus Heaney's famous poem, they begin writing letters to one another. From their vastly different worlds, they find they have more in common than they could have imagined, and an unexpected friendship blooms. When Tina's letters stop coming, Anders is thrown into despair. How far are they willing to go to write a new story for themselves?"-- Adapted from page [4] of cover.
Subjects: Large type books.; Epistolary fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Historical fiction.; Widowers; Letters; Self-actualization (Psychology); Friendship; Man-woman relationships;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The museum's secret / by Chancellor, Henry,1968-;
When Tom is sent to live at the Scatterhorn Museum, a dingy cold place crammed full of tatty stuffed animals and junk, he discovers he can go back to the time of their making, a hundred years earlier.LSC
Subjects: Adventure fiction.; Fantasy fiction.; Scatterhorn, Tom (Fictitious character); Museums; Time travel; Magic;
© 2010, c2008., Doubleday Canada,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Science Education and Museums
Mode of access: Internet.
Subjects: History & Science;
© , China International Book Trade
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The museum of Lost Quilts / by Chiaverini, Jennifer,author.;
PREVIOUS BOOK IN SERIES: THE CHRISTMAS BOUTIQUE, ISBN 9780062841131. In this 22nd entry of the 'Elm Creek Quilts', Summer Sullivan organizes an exhibit of antique quilts as a fundraiser to renovate Union Hall, the 1863 Greek Revival headquarters of the Waterford Historical Society. But a controversy threatens the exhibits success, and Summer's only hope is to rally the quilting community to her cause.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Compson, Sylvia (Fictitious character); Exhibitions; Female friendship; Quilting; Quiltmakers; Small cities; Women graduate students; Women;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The museum of Lost Quilts [text (large print)] / by Chiaverini, Jennifer,author.;
PREVIOUS BOOK IN SERIES: THE CHRISTMAS BOUTIQUE, ISBN 9780062944276. In this 22nd entry of the 'Elm Creek Quilts', Summer Sullivan organizes an exhibit of antique quilts as a fundraiser to renovate Union Hall, the 1863 Greek Revival headquarters of the Waterford Historical Society. But a controversy threatens the exhibits success, and Summer's only hope is to rally the quilting community to her cause.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Large print books.; Novels.; Compson, Sylvia (Fictitious character); Exhibitions; Female friendship; Quilting; Quiltmakers; Small cities; Women graduate students; Women;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Friends of the Museum : A Novel. by McGowan, Heather.;
Coworkers at a legendary but troubled New York City museum struggle with issues large and small over the course of one day in this extraordinary novel from Heather McGowan.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION / City Life; FICTION / Literary; FICTION / Women;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Now museum, now you don't / by Miedoso, Andres.; Rivas, Victor.;
Ages 5-9.LSC
Subjects: Ghost stories.; Adventure fiction.; African Americans; Hispanic Americans; Museums; Mummies; Friendship;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Canada's National Aviation Museum : its history and collections / by Molson, K. M.(Kenneth M.); Bradford, Robert W.; Hartman, P. A.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 274) and index.
Subjects: National Aviation Museum (Canada); National Aviation Museum (Canada); Aeronautics;
© 1988., National Aviation Museum,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Cornbread & Poppy at the museum / by Cordell, Matthew,1975-;
"Best friends Cornbread and Poppy visit the Moonville Museum for a special celebration"--
Subjects: Animal fiction.; Mice; Best friends; Friendship; Museums;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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