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1) Heidi
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Contains the complete text of the story of a young girl from the Swiss Alps whose life takes a dramatic turn when she must go to live in the city, leaving behind the people and the mountains she loves, with annotations providing background information on the history, geography, social customs, and the arts of the era.
2) Bloomability
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
When her aunt and uncle take her from New Mexico to Lugano, Switzerland, to attend an international school, thirteen-year-old Dinnie discovers an expanding world and her place within it.
Author
Series
Scot Harvath thrillers volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
419 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When terrorists massacre dozens of Secret Service agents and kidnap the president during a ski trip, former Navy SEAL Scot Harvath -- the only agent to survive the attack -- sets out on a one-man rescue mission.
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
When art restorer and occasional Israeli agent Gabriel Allon is sent to Zurich, Switzerland, to restore the painting of a reclusive millionaire banker, he arrives to find his would-be employer murdered at the foot of his Raphael. A secret collection of priceless, illicitly gained Impressionist masterpieces is missing. Gabriel's handlers step out of the shadows to admit the truth-the collector had been silenced-and Gabriel is put back in the high-stakes...
Author
Series
Alex Van Helsing volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
At a boarding school in Switzerland, fourteen-year-old Alex Van Helsing learns that vampires are real, that he has a natural ability to sense them, and that an agency called the Polidorium has been helping his family fight them since 1821.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
333 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
One spring night in 1998, the beautiful Cressida Strauss plunges from a fourth-floor balcony at the Lycée Internationale Suisse with catastrophic consequences. Loath to draw negative publicity to the school, a bastion of European wealth and glamor, officials quickly dismiss the incident as an accident, but questions remain: Was it a suicide attempt? Or was Cressida pushed? It was no secret that she had a selfish streak and had earned as many enemies...
Author
Series
Jonathan Ransom novels volume 1
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Dr. Jonathan Ransom, world-class mountaineer and surgeon for Doctors Without Borders, is climbing in the Swiss Alps with his beautiful wife, Emma, when a blizzard sets in. In their bid to escape the storm, Emma is killed when she falls into a hidden crevasse.
Twenty-four hours later, Jonathan receives an envelope addressed to his wife containing two baggage-claim tickets. Puzzled, he journeys to a remote railway station only to find himself in...
Twenty-four hours later, Jonathan receives an envelope addressed to his wife containing two baggage-claim tickets. Puzzled, he journeys to a remote railway station only to find himself in...
8) Frankenstein
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The original, 1818 text of the classic novel.
Young scientist Victor Frankenstein, grief-stricken over the death of his mother, sets out in a series of laboratory experiments testing the ability to create life from non-living matter. Soon, his experiments progress further until he creates a humanoid creature eight feet tall. But as Frankenstein soon discovers, a successful experiment does not always equal a positive outcome.
The idea of a reanimated...
9) Hotel du Lac
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Edith Hope, a successful mature novelist, has made a fool of herself over love and is sent by her friends to a Swiss hotel to come to her senses. Instead of writing a new romance novel, she finds herself preoccupied with her fellow guests.
10) The sanatorium
Author
Series
Detective Elin Warner novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"A chilling debut in which a detective must uncover the dark history of a luxury hotel in the Alps if she has any hope of stopping the deaths that won't let up. . . 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 rumours, it has recently been renovated into a...
11) Geneva: A Novel
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
281 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A bold and unpredictable debut thriller set in the biotech world (and deceptive beauty) of Switzerland, by acclaimed actor Richard Armitage.
Nobel Prize-winning scientist Sarah Collier has taken a step back from work to spend more time with her family. Movie nights with her husband Daniel and their daughter Maddie are a welcome respite from the scrutiny of the world's press. As much as it hurts, it's good to be able to see her father more too. He's...
Author
Series
Pike Logan thrillers volume 16
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
438 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Pike Logan must stop a deranged fanatic bent on igniting an international conflagration in this explosive, action-packed thriller from New York Times bestselling author and former special forces officer, Brad Taylor"--
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
Anna Benz, an American woman in her thirties, lives in comfort and affluence with her Swiss banker husband and their three young children in a picture-perfect suburb of Zurich. Despite the tranquility and order of her domestic existence, Anna is falling apart. In an effort to restart her life, she turns to Jungian analysis, German language classes, and a series of extramarital affairs, whose consequences she cannot foretell.
Author
Series
Agnes Luthi novels volume 1
Publisher
ST MARTIN'S PRESS
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
354 pages 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Inspector Agnes Luthi, a Swiss-American police officer in Lausanne, Switzerland, has just transferred to the Violent Crimes unit from Financial Crimes to try to shed all reminders of her old life following her husband's death. Now, on the eve of the worst blizzard Lausanne has seen in centuries, Agnes has been called to investigate her very first homicide case. On the lawn of the grand Chateau Vallotton, at the edge of Lac Leman, a young woman has...
15) Echo
Author
Publisher
Nightfire, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"After a terrible accident high in the Alps, travel journalist Nick Grevers wakes from a coma to find that his climbing buddy, Augustin, is missing and presumed dead. But Nick claims to not remember anything-even whatever horrible event that led to his maimed face and the plastic surgery that leaves him still in bandages and feeling like a B-movie monster. Sam, Nick's long-suffering boyfriend, wants to be glad that Nick is alive and coming home. But...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
When The Unbearable Lightness of Being was first published in English, it was hailed as "a work of the boldest mastery, originality, and richness" by critic Elizabeth Hardwick and named one of the best books of 1984 by the New York Times Book Review. It went on to win the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction and quickly became an international bestseller. Twenty years later, the novel has established itself as a modern classic. To commemorate...
18) Iced
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
326 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
'Felix Francis' novels gallop along splendidly' Jilly Cooper 'From winning post to top of the bestseller lists' Sunday Times Miles Pussett is a former steeplechase jockey. Now he gets his adrenalin rush from riding down the Cresta Run, a three-quarter-mile Swiss ice chute, head first, reaching speeds of up to eighty miles per hour. Finding himself in St Moritz during the same weekend as White Turf, when high-class horseracing takes place on the frozen...
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