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Summary: Hero Gabriel Allon is a restorer of paintings and frescoes and also a reluctant member of Israeli intelligence. Action and suspense abound in this serious fiction with a serious purpose.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SilvaSummary: The acclaimed illusionist Eisenheim has not only captured the imaginations of all of Vienna, but also the interest of the ambitious Crown Prince Leopold. When Leopold's new fiancée rekindles a childhood fascination with Eisenheim, the Prince's interest evolves into obsession. Suddenly the city's Chief Inspector finds himself investigating a shocking crime. But even as the Inspector engages him...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA ILLAndrews, Julie
Summary: A young novice, uncertain about becoming a nun, becomes governess to seven children of an autocratic ex-naval captain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Home Entertainment 2015
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Summary: "The rogue archaeologist returns - with a new crew and a new mission! With the Rebel Alliance on the run after their defeat at the Battle of Hoth, it's never been a more dangerous time for outlaws and scoundrels. But after a string of bad luck and near escapes, Doctor Aphra is back on the job - hunting the score of a lifetime that's too good to pass up. To find the cursed Rings of Vaale, Aphra...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC STAPanowich, Brian
Summary: "In McFalls County, local crime boss Gareth Burroughs runs everything on the mountain. And Nelson "Nails" McKenna has been his enforcer since he was a teenager, though his heart's not really in the dirty work. Then one night in a local roadhouse, Nails goes too far, defending a woman, and even Burroughs's reach can't get him out of this one. With a dead body and countless witnesses, Nails and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2024
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Summary: Torn apart by the historical events leading up to World War II, three friends from 1936 Vienna are scattered to different countries as darkness spreads throughout Europe, impacting their families and their bonds with each other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KESDe Waal, Elisabeth
Summary: "Vienna is demolished by war, the city an alien landscape of ruined castles, a fractured ruling class, and people picking up the pieces. Elisabeth de Waal's mesmerizing The Exiles Return is a stunningly vivid postwar story of Austria's fallen aristocrats, unrepentant Nazis, and a culture degraded by violence. The novel follows a number of exiles, each returning under very different...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEWBiggins, John
Summary: "In the spring of 1915, a young Austro-Czech naval lieutenant Ottokar Prohaska finds himself posted to the minuscule Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Submarine Service in the Adriatic port of Pola. In some trepidation at first, because he has no experience whatever of submarines, his fears are soon set at rest when he discovers that nobody else has either: least of all his superiors. There...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BIGBiggins, John.
Summary: The continuing adventures--military and romantic--of Otto Prohaska, a lieutenant in the Austro-Hungarian navy during World War I. Here he is given a junk and sent on a mission to Asia. The tale is narrated by the hero, now an old man in a Welsh retirement home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIGBiggins, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIGHelfer, Monika
Summary: "The multigenerational family saga set in a fractured rural village in WWI Austria. Maria and Josef live with their children in a valley in westernmost Austria. When the First World War breaks out and Josef is drafted into the army, Maria is left to provide for her family alone. Every day is a struggle against starvation, the harsh alpine climate and the hostile nearby villagers who see Maria...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HELSem-Sandberg, Steve
Summary: "The Am Spiegelgrund clinic, in glittering Vienna, masqueraded as a well-intentioned reform school for wayward boys and girls and a home for chronically ill children. The reality, however, was very different: in the wake of Germany's annexation of Austria on the eve of World War II, its doctors, nurses, and teachers created a monstrous parody of the institution's benign-sounding brief. The Nazi...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SEMKendall, Jane F.
Summary: Maestoso Petra, a Lipizzaner stallion, trains to perform in the Spanish Riding School and is hidden away during the German occupation of Austria in World War II. Includes facts about Lipizzaner horses and the world-famous Spanish Riding School.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2010
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED HORSummary: Based on real events, this is the story of an unsung hero, Franz Jägerstätter, who refused to fight for the Nazis in World War II. When the Austrian peasant farmer is faced with the threat of execution for treason, it is his unwavering faith and his love for his wife Fani and children that keep his spirit alive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HIDSummary: "Since his beloved violin was broken, Nasser-Ali Khan, one of the most renowned musicians of his day, has lost all taste for life. Finding no instrument worthy of replacing it, he decides to confine himself to bed and await death"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CHILeicht, Stina
Summary: "On the backwater planet of Brynner, at Persephone Station, a community of android refugees, all female, are hiding since they were able to awaken their AI and escape servitude. But the Serrao-Orlov Corporation is nothing if not tenacious, especially about its proprietary AIs, and it wants their property back. However, Persephone is run by Rosie, and they are in charge of an organized group of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEIBentley, Don
Summary: "A brotherhood born in battle is endangered by a deadly secret in the latest astonishing thriller from the New York times bestselling author of Tom Clancy Zero Hour and Hostile Intent. As a team, Matt Drake and his partner, Frodo, have watched each other's backs through some very dark days. But one thing they've never doubted was their commitment to each other...until now. Frodo has been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENFinn, A. J.
Summary: Invited by a reclusive mystery novelist to help draft his life story, a longtime correspondent and detective fiction expert finds herself in a real whodunnit when she learns the writer's first wife and son mysteriously vanished.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: It tells the remarkable true story of Robyn Davidson, a young woman who leaves her life in the city to make a solo trek through almost 2,000 miles of sprawling Australian desert. Accompanied by only her dog and four unpredictable camels, she sets off on a life-changing journey of self-discovery. Along the way, she meets National Geographic photographer Rick Smolan who begins to photograph her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Starz Media 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TRABiggins, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIGCantor, Jillian
Summary: Austria, 1938. Kristoff is a young apprentice to a master Jewish stamp engraver. When his teacher disappears during Kristallnacht, Kristoff is forced to engrave stamps for the Germans, and simultaneously works alongside Elena, his beloved teacher's fiery daughter, and with the Austrian resistance to send underground messages and forge papers. As he falls for Elena amidst the brutal chaos of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CANCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CANMüller, Holly
Summary: It is 1944, and war has taken the men in Nazi-controlled Austria to the front line. For thirteen-year-old Ursula Hildesheim, life in the village of Felddorf remains almost as it was: bullied by her schoolmates, enlisted in endless chores by her mother and sister, thieving, and running wild with her adored older brother, Anton. But then Russian prisoners escape from the local concentration camp,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MULSummary: Zane Malik is a young detective at the Major Crime Squad in Sydney, Australia. He's also a Muslim, in a post - 9/11 world where such an identity automatically arouses suspicion and fear. He's a good husband and father and a dedicated cop with one main problem on the job: Detective Sergeant Ray Crowley. Crowley's an old school policeman for whom rules and regulations play a poor second to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018