{"product_id":"the-mona-lisa-vanishes-a-legendary-painter-a-shocking-heist-and-the-birth-of-a-global-celebrity","title":"The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"The tale of a stunning art heist with a contagious love of stranger-than-fiction true stories!\"--Steve Sheinkin, Newbery Honor-winning author of \u003ci\u003eBomb\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe true story of how Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece became the most famous painting in the world after being stolen from the Louvre, written as a \"witty thriller\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) and featuring black-and-white illustrations throughout. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSIBERT MEDAL WINNER - BOSTON GLOBE--HORN BOOK AWARD WINNER - ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBooklist, Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, NPR, The New York Public Library, The Chicago Public Library, The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn a hot August day in Paris, just over a century ago, a desperate guard burst into the office of the director of the Louvre and shouted, \u003ci\u003eLa Joconde, c'est partie\u003c\/i\u003e! The \u003ci\u003eMona Lisa, \u003c\/i\u003e she's gone! \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNo one knew who was behind the heist. Was it an international gang of thieves? Was it an art-hungry American millionaire? Was it the young Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, who was about to remake the very art of painting? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTravel back to an extraordinary period of revolutionary change: turn-of-the-century Paris. Walk its backstreets. Meet the infamous thieves--and detectives--of the era. And then slip back further in time and follow Leonardo da Vinci, painter of the \u003ci\u003eMona Lisa, \u003c\/i\u003e through his dazzling, wondrously weird life. Discover the secret at the heart of the \u003ci\u003eMona Lisa\u003c\/i\u003e--the most famous painting in the world should never have existed at all.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0593643844\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780593643846\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Day, Nicholas, Helquist, Brett\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Random House Studio\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Random House Studio","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover (Sep 2023)","offer_id":46356539769029,"sku":"9780593643846","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback (Sep 2025)","offer_id":46356539801797,"sku":"9780593904213","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780593643846.jpg?v=1781309280","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/the-mona-lisa-vanishes-a-legendary-painter-a-shocking-heist-and-the-birth-of-a-global-celebrity","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}