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Grandfathers Juvenile fiction International finance Fiction Mountain life Switzerland Juvenile fiction Orphans Fiction Orphans Juvenile fiction Switzerland Switzerland Fiction Switzerland History 1789-1815 Juvenile fiction Switzerland History 19th century Fiction Switzerland Juvenile fictionOsborne, Mary Pope
Summary: Jack and Annie travel to a monastery in the Swiss Alps where, with the help of St. Bernard dogs and magic, they seek the second of four special objects necessary to break the spell on the wizard Merlin's beloved penguin, Penny.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED OSBLee, Mackenzi.
Summary: "When a talented mechanic in 1818 Geneva brings his brother back from the dead using clockwork parts, the citizens of Geneva think they may have inspired the recently published novel Frankenstein"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC LEEJameson, Hanna
Summary: An American academic is stranded at a Swiss hotel as the world descends into nuclear war, along with twenty other survivors, who become obsessed with identifying a murderer in their midst after the body of a young girl is discovered in one of the hotel's water tanks.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JAMOsborne, Mary Pope.
Summary: Jack and Annie travel to a monastery in the Swiss Alps where, with the help of St. Bernard dogs and magic, they seek the second of four special objects necessary to break the spell on the wizard Merlin's beloved penguin, Penny.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2011
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED MTH 46Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED OSBSummary: A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains togo to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: GoodTimes Home Video Corp. 2002
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Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2013
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Summary: Former U.S. marine and Harvard Business School graduate Nicholas Neumann leaves behind everything he holds dear in order to take a job at the United Swiss Bank in Zurich, an institution that he believes is somehow connected to his father's murder seventeen years earlier.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1998
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC REITitus, Eve.
Summary: Basil leads an expedition up a towering Swiss mountain in search of a colony of mice who have been missing for centuries, but before he can solve the mystery he must confront a mysterious snow mouse and evil Professor Ratigan.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Oasis Audio 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD TITSpyri, Johanna
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SPYCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SPYBrookner, Anita.
Summary: Edith Hope, a successful mature novelist, has made a fool of herself over love and is sent by her friends to a Swiss hotel to come to her senses. Instead of writing a new romance novel, she finds herself preoccupied with her fellow guests.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1984
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROJenoff, Pam
Summary: 1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Krakow Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother are forced to seek refuge in the perilous sewers beneath the city. One day Sadie looks up through a grate and sees a girl about her own age buying flowers. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC JENSummary: Click, clack, moo: A bunch of literate cows go on strike after Farmer Brown refuses to give in to their typed demands of electric blankets when the barn gets too cold. The day Jimmy's boa ate the wash: Jimmy's boa constrictor wreaks havoc on the class trip to a farm. The Pigs' wedding: all the pigs must get cleaned up for the big wedding. Hendrika, a Dutch cow, wants to visit the city. Charlie...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CLITaylor, Brad
Summary: When a paragliding trip over the picturesque mountains of Switzerland results in the brutal murder of the former head of Israeli intelligence, Mossad brings in terrorist hunters Aaron and Shoshana to investigate. But they'll need help to find out who was behind the attack and what they're planning next. Taskforce operators Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill have been trapped in Charleston, South...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TAYChurch, Lisa R.
Summary: An abridged version of Johanna Spyri's classic story of a Swiss orphan who 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. 2007
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SPYCreech, Sharon.
Summary: In a tiny village in the Swiss Alps, an angel meets an American girl named Zola who has come with her father to open a school, and together Zola and the angel rescue a group of homeless orphans, who gradually change everything.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Joanna Cotler Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CREBinder, Hannes
Summary: "Hunting hat, smoking pipe, coat collar turned up-- that's how we know Sherlock Holmes, the most famous detective of all time. He usually investigates from London's Baker Street. But Holmes' most spectacular case leads him in a fast-paced chase from the metropolis of London across the continent to the Swiss Alps. At the roaring Reichenbach Falls there is a showdown between Holmes and his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: NorthSouth Books, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 BINLudlum, Robert
Summary: 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUDSpyri, Johanna
Summary: An orphan sent to live with her grandfather learns to love both the old man and the Swiss Alps. Includes reading guide at the end of the book.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. 2006
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC SPYSpyri, Johanna
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Classics 1998
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Summary: "Pike Logan must stop a deranged fanatic bent on igniting an international conflagration in this explosive, action-packed thriller from New York Times bestselling author and former special forces officer, Brad Taylor"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC TAYShelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Summary: Victor Frankenstein discovers the secret of creating life and fashions an eight-foot monster, only to bring danger and destruction to the lives of those he loves.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SHEPye, Michael
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PYESpyri, Johanna
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset and Dunlap 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SPYCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SPYReich, Christopher.
Summary: Set in the secret, labyrinthine world of Swiss banking, the story of a young man willing to risk everything--his career, his integrity, and even his life--to hunt down his father's killer.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1998