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1) Heidi
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
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"When Heidi, an orphan, goes to live with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps, no one can imagine the solitary old man caring for a child. But the two grow to love each other, and Heidi blossoms in her new home. Johanna Spyri's charming story-and spirited heroine-have won hearts for more than a century." -Provided by Publisher
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Language
English
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When she catches the eye of a wealthy businessman, Jordan Hadlock's future is all planned out . . . until a hunky photographer ignites a new passion in her one stormy night.Jordan Hadlock seems to have it all: a great job and Helmut Eckherdt, a rich industrialist intent on marrying her — even though she hasn't said yes. What more could she want? A clap of thunder and a pounding on her door soon give her an answer. Reeves Grant appears...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.4 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
1170L
Language
English
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Stepping far afield from his medical studies, Victor Frankenstein brings to life a human form he has fashioned from scavenged organs and body parts. Horrified by his achievement, he turns his back on his creation, only to learn the danger of such neglect. As the creature educates itself and learns how cruel mankind can be to something that they deem monstrous, he demands that Victor make him a companion, an Eve to his Adam. When Victor refuses, his...
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Language
English
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"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"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...
Author
Publisher
HarperVia
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
577 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A burnt-out writer’s retreat at a fancy Swiss hotel is interrupted by a murder mystery in this metafictional, meticulously crafted whodunit from the New York Times bestselling author of The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair.
A writer named Joël, Switzerland’s most prominent novelist, flees to the Hôtel de Verbier, a luxury resort in the Swiss Alps. Disheartened over a recent breakup and his longtime publisher’s death, Joël hopes to rest....
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English
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Now comes The Sigma Protocol, a new breakneck novel of intrigue, conspiracy, and terrifying deception.
American investment banker Ben Hartman arrives in Zurich for a ski holiday, the first time he's been back to Switzerland since his twin brother died there in a tragic accident four years earlier. But his arrival in Zurich triggers something far more sinister than his brother's fate. When Ben chances upon Jimmy Cavanaugh, an old college friend, Cavanaugh...
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Series
Jonathan Ransom novels volume 1
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, he is the subject of an international manhunt and the target of a master assassin. His only chance at survival lies in uncovering the devastating truth behind the secret...
10) Frankenstein
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
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The epic battle between man and monster reaches its greatest pitch in the famous story of FRANKENSTEIN. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor himself to the very brink. How he tries to destroy his creation, as it destroys everything Victor loves, is a powerful unforgettable story of love, friendship... and horror....
11) Eleven minutes
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Language
English
Description
Eleven Minutes tells the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that “love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer.” A chance meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva, where she dreams of finding fame and fortune, yet ends up working as a prostitute.
In Geneva, Maria’s despairing...
12) Bloomability
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
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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.
13) The watchers
Author
Series
Angelus trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
Lausanne Cathedral, Switzerland. A man who lives in a world of shadows, in the belfry of the cathedral. A call girl who is about to discover that her real-life fairy tale is too good to be true. A private detective who wakes up with no memory, offered a job he has no choice but to accept. Three lives, one purpose: save what's left of paradise before all hell breaks loose...
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Series
Gourmet Detective mysteries volume 5
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
While relaxing at a Swiss health spa, the detective finds the treatment can be deadly The gourmet detective realizes that the Alpine Springs health resort is not a typical spa somewhere in the middle of his first cocktail. Where other retreats promote abstinence, exercise, and bland food, this quiet little Swiss chalet preaches indulgence. Guests are allowed to eat, drink, and smoke as much as they want, and exercise is strictly optional. For this...
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Series
Gabriel Allon novels volume 2
Language
English
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Description
A sometime Israeli spy by trade and an art restorer by preference, Gabriel Allon arrives in Zurich to clean the work of an Old Master for a millionaire banker -- only to find himself standing in his client's blood and framed for the murder. Without warning, Allon is drawn into a spiraling chain of events involving Nazi art theft, a decades-old suicide, and a bloody trail of killings -- some of them his own. The spy world Allon thought he had put aside...
Author
Publisher
Rayo
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
Una novela cautivadora y audaz del autor de El Alquimista, bestseller con mas de un millón de ejemplares vendidos. En este nuevo relato, el novelista explora con gran sensibilidad la naturaleza sagrada del sexo y del amor y nos invita a enfrentar nuestros propios prejuicios y demonios. Once Minutos relata la historia de María, una joven proveniente de una villa brasileña, cuyos primeros roces inocentes con el amor le dejan con el corazón destrozado....
Author
Publisher
Archipelago Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Archipelago books edition.
Physical Desc
238 pages ; 16 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Feed is running low in a rural village in Switzerland. The town council meets to decide whether or not to ascend a chimerical mountain in order to access the open pastures that have enough grass to "feed seventy animals all summer long." The elders of the town protest, warning of the dangers and the dreadful lore that enfolds the mountain passageways like thick fog. They've seen it all before, reckoning with the loss of animals and men who have tried...
18) The file
Author
Publisher
Addison & Highsmith
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Sara West is a beautiful 28-year-old graduate student on a scientific expedition in Africa – who stumbles upon a cache of WWII Nazi files in the wreck of a German bomber hidden in the jungle. The files reveal the location of a multi-billion-dollar war-chest, secretly deposited by the Nazis in numbered Swiss bank accounts at the end of WWII. The story that follows is a nail-biting thriller, with a captivating heroine who is pursued across Africa,...
19) Until tomorrow
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Series
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Christy Miller is now an independent nineteen-year-old college student living in Switzerland, where she's been attending an international university. After being on her own for nearly a year, Christy is surprised and delighted when her two closest friends, Todd and Katie, come to Switzerland to spend the summer break traveling around Europe. The three of them have very different expectations for the trip that threaten to make the time together much...
Author
Series
Max and Maddy Twist mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Asked by a Swiss banker to investigate a series of bank robberies committed by dogs, young detectives Max and Maddy Twist travel to Switzerland, where they discover that the man behind the robberies is none other than Professor Sardine.
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