Helfer, 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 SEMSilva, Daniel
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 SilvaKendall, 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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Summary: Her own identity was safely disguised. But what about those she loved most. They would soon disappear with all the others unless... .
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 1989
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC THOENEKessler, Liz
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 KESWeyr, Garret
Summary: Grisha the dragon is born in the Black Forest in 1803, the last year any dragon was born, and while young he was trapped by the emperor's sorcerer, and turned into a teapot, which was frustrating but kept him alive while magic and other dragons were disappearing--until one day he meets Maggie, a poet's daughter, and the two of them set out to discover what happened to all the other dragons.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2018
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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 DEWDiller, Janelle.
Summary: Nine-year-old Brooke Mason has lived all her life on a ranch in the Colorado Rockies. Now she's headed to Austria with her mom. They get to stay in Schloss Mueller, an ancient Austrian castle. Even better? There's a girl Brooke's age to play with! Eva, the girl who lives in Schloss Mueller, is thrilled to meet Brooke. Unfortunately, the castle's ghost isn't quite so happy!
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Publisher / Publication Date: WorldTrek Pub. 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J Fiction Series Diller 2013Tallis, Frank
Summary: When the body of a badly mutilated victim is discovered in an abandoned piano factory in 1904 Vienna, psychiatrist Max Lieberman assists Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt in an investigation that draws them into the shadowy and sexually unconventional world of fringe political activism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC TALStewart, Mary
Summary: After seeing a newsreel which proves her husband is in Austria, Vanessa embarks on a series of dangerous adventures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTorch 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEDiller, Janelle
Summary: "What could be more perfect than Christmas in Kitzbuhel? Brookes family arrives just in time for some great Austrian skiing during the day and the magical Christmas market in the evening. And it would be perfect except for the two mysterious strangers who have a dangerous plan for Brooke and Eva"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Summary: A mystery on a photographer in today's Britain who leaves his wife for another woman, only to have the woman disappear. He searches for her and finds her grave, the dates indicating she lived in the 19th century. A reincarnation or an impostor?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GODMaetis, J. C.
Summary: "Spring, 1938: Café Mozart in the heart of Vienna is beloved by its clientele, including cousins Mathias Kraemer and Johannes Namal. The two writers are as close as brothers. They are also members of Freud's Circle--a unique group of the famed psychiatrist's friends and acquaintances who once gathered regularly at the bright and airy café to talk about books and ideas over coffee and pastries....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAEOsborne, Mary Pope.
Summary: Jack and Annie travel to Vienna, Austria, in 1762 where they meet the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his sister and help save the budding genius' life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: JS Magic OsborneShotwell, Vivien.
Summary: "Vienna Nocturne tells the story of the turbulent life and brilliantly successful career of young British opera singer Anna Storace, a child prodigy who is taken by her parents to Italy at age thirteen to advance her career. In love with life and wildly ambitious, Anna wants everything--to be famous, to be loved--and this leads her to make some fatal choices. We watch her turn from a carefree...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHOTallis, Frank.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TALJones, J. Sydney.
Summary: After a singer is killed during rehearsals of a new production, the evidence suggest that someone is trying to murder the famed conductor and composer Gustav Mahler. His mistress ask Karl Werhem to help stop the attacks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JONTallis, Frank.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Trade Paperbacks 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TALDenenberg, Barry.
Summary: During the Nazi persecution of the Jews in Austria, twelve-year-old Julie escapes to America to live with her relatives in New York City.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC DENCantor, 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 CANAppelfeld, Aron
Summary: "A high school honor student bound for university and a career as a mathematician, Blanca lives with her parents in a small town in Austria in the early years of the twentieth century. At school one day she meets Adolf, who comes from a family of peasant laborers. Tall and sturdy, plainspoken and uncomplicated, Adolf is unlike anyone Blanca has ever met. And Adolf is awestruck by beautiful,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC APPRambaud, Patrick.
Summary: "Captures the brutality and heroism of one of the great conflicts of the nineteenth century: the Battle of Essling, Napoleon's first major defeat on land." -- Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAMMusil, Robert
Contents: v. I. A sort of introduction and Pseudoreality prevails -- v. II. Into the millenium.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage International 1996
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