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1) Heidi
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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.
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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
Gabriel Allon volume 2
Language
English
Description
The Unlikely Spy, Daniel Silva's extraordinary debut novel, was applauded by critics as it rocketed onto national bestseller lists. Now Silva has outdone himself, with a taut, lightning-paced thriller rooted assuredly in fact: Switzerland's shameful WWII record of profiteering and collaboration with Nazi Germany. When art restorer and occasional Israeli agent Gabriel Allon is sent to Zurich, Switzerland, to restore the painting of a reclusive millionaire...
5) Bloomability
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
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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 in it.
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Series
Scot Harvath volume 1
Language
English
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"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...
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English
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At this challenge, Mary Shelley began work on the 'ghost story' that was to evolve into the most celebrated horror novel in literary history. Frankenstein was published the next year and become the rage of London. In the generations since, the story of Victor Frankenstein and the monster he created has been read by millions all over the world. It has inspired hundreds of imitations, but it has never been equaled for its masterful manipulation of the...
8) Caught
Author
Series
Missing volume 5
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When Jonah and Katherine travel to early 1900s Switzerland and Serbia to return Albert Einstein's daughter, Lieserl, to history, her mother Mileva grasps entirely too much about time travel and has no intention of letting her daughter go.
Author
Language
English
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.
12) The black sphere
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.
14) Heidi
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1996.
Language
English
Description
A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to care for an invalid girl in the city.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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...
16) Angel on skis
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...
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Series
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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In the aftermath of Operation Thunderball, Ernst Stavro Blofelds trail has gone cold-and so has 007s love for his job. The only thing that can rekindle his passion is Contessa Teresa Tracy di Vicenzo, a troubled young woman who shares his taste for fast cars and danger. Shes the daughter of a powerful crime boss, and he thinks Bonds hand in marriage may be the solution to all her problems. Bonds...
19) Barry
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Series
Dog diaries volume 3
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
Barry der Menschenretter, a Saint Bernard dog, reflects back on his life in the early 1800s at the Hospice of the Great Saint Bernard in the Swiss Alps, where he rescued some forty people from avalanches. Includes facts about the breed and the hospice.
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Language
English
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Growing up sheltered from the echoes of World War II, Gustav forges an intense relationship with a mercurial Jewish boy, Anton, a talented pianist who introduces him to the harsh realities of racism, tolerance, and cruelty during a friendship spanning half a century.
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