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Author
Series
STORM volume 3
Publisher
Dial
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
The teenaged geniuses of STORM, a secret organization dedicated to eliminating the world's misery through science and technology, head to the Swiss Alps seeking the last of six scientists whose Project FIREball is of interest to MI6, the CIA, and an unknown assassin.
Author
Publisher
[CreateSpace]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Growing up in the Swiss Alps, Margrit always knew she was supposed to be a doctor. When she enters medical school at the outbreak of World War II, Margrit is faced with prejudice and political upheaval--obstacles as large as her beloved Alps. Will she be able to fulfill the calling God has placed in her heart? Death is part of giving life, but Margrit yearns for answers about what happens after death. As she practices healing bodies, Margrit must...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A sanitorium in the Swiss Alps reflects the societal ills of pre-twentieth-century Europe, and a young marine engineer rises from his life of anonymity to become a pivotal character in a story about how a human's environment affects self identity. In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devoted exclusively to sickness, as a microcosm for Europe, which in the years before 1914 was already exhibiting...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
One night in December, a corpse is found in Room 622 of the Hotel Verbier, a luxury hotel in the Swiss Alps. A police investigation begins without definite end, and public interest wanes with the passage of time. Years later, the writer Joel Dicker, Switzerland's most famous literary ingenue, arrives at that same hotel to recover from a bad breakup, mourn the death of his longtime publisher, and begin his next novel. Little does Joel know that his...
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