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Gabriel Allon volume 2
Language
English
Description
Sent to Zurich, Switzerland, to restore a painting owned by a reclusive millionaire banker, art expert and sometime Israeli agent Gabriel Allon discovers his would-be employer murdered and finds himself back in the espionage game.
2) Heidi
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Series
Language
English
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Heidi, a Swiss orphan, is heartbroken when she must leave her home and grandfather to go to school and care for a sick girl named Clara in the city.
Author
Series
Scot Harvath volume 1
Language
English
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Description
On the snow-covered slopes of Utah, the President of the United States has been kidnapped and his Secret Service detail massacred. Only one agent has survived--ex-Navy SEAL Scot Harvath. He doesn't buy the official line that Middle Eastern terrorists are behind the attack and begins his own campaign to find the truth and exact revenge. But now, framed for murder by a sinister cabal, Harvath takes his fight to the towering mountains of Switzerland--and...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"A visionary scientist creates a revolutionary form of artificial intelligence that predicts movements in the financial markets with uncanny accuracy. His hedge fund, based in Geneva, makes billions. But after an intruder breaks into his home, he has to try to discover who is trying to destroy him"
Author
Series
Location scout mystery volume 1
Pub. Date
2000, c1992
Language
English
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Description
While striving to rebuild his career and reputation in Hollywood, John Pelham heads to Cleary, New York, to scout out a location for a new film and instead encounters deadly resistance from small-town folk.
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Series
Language
English
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Conrad reputedly wrote Under Western Eyes (1911) in response to Crime and Punishment, which he detested. The action takes place in Russia and Switzerland and shows Conrad's cynicism of revolutionary movements and ideals. It also condemns the impact on the poor and innocent by the actions of the powerful.
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Half-hidden by forest and overshadowed by threatening peaks, Le Sommet has always been a sinister place. Once a sanatorium treating tuberculosis patients, it was abandoned years ago and had fallen into disrepair. Long plagued by troubling rumors, it has recently been renovated into a lavish hotel. And an imposing, isolated hotel, high up in the Swiss Alps, is the last place detective Elin Warner wants to be. But having received an invitation out of...
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Language
English
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When a paragliding trip in Switzerland results in the brutal murder of the former head of Israeli intelligence, Mosad brings in terrorist hunters Aaron and Shoshana to investigate. Taskforce operators Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill have been trapped in Charleston, South Carolina, during the COVID-19 quarantine, and jump at a chance to assist their friends. The group stumbles upon the trail of a serial killer loose in the street of Rome connected to...
Author
Publisher
Joanna Cotler Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In a tiny village in the Swiss Alps, an angel meets an American girl named Zola who has come with her father to open a school, and together Zola and the angel rescue a group of homeless orphans, who gradually change everything.
Author
Series
Blood wine sequence volume 4
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
In 1920s Switzerland, vampire lovers Charlotte and Karl are drawn into turmoil as Godric Reiniger, a local filmmaker and activist with sinister ambitions, begins his rise to power. --Provided by publisher.
15) A price to pay
Author
Publisher
Haus Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Traces three people's lives from the one moment they are all in the same place, Zurich Station, a pacifist who ends up working on the Manhattan Project, an aspiring singer turned Allied spy, and an art forger.
16) Heidi
Author
Publisher
Random House Childrens Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.
Author
Series
Magic bone volume 4
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
With a bite of his magic bone, Sparky heads off to adventures in Switzerland.
18) The runaway wife
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Three beautiful French sisters entrust an American hiker with the mission of rescuing their mother, Calliope, who is hiding high in the Alps. The mountains are filled with beauty and danger, not the least of which is Calliope's desire to stay hidden. And all the while, the hiker finds himself haunted by the memory of her daughters and conflicted in his desire for them.
19) Heidi
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling Pub
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of Johanna Spyri's classic story of a Swiss orphan who is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.
20) Frankenstein
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
A monster created by scientist Victor Frankenstein from parts of corpses and brought to life develops loathing for himself and hatred for his creator as he learns to think for himself.
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