Jameson, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED OSBPye, Michael
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PYECreech, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Joanna Cotler Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CRETitus, 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 TITReich, Christopher
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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1998
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC REIBrookner, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1984
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROReich, 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
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC REIReich, Christopher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REILudlum, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUDChurch, 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 SPYTaylor, 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 TAYSpyri, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Classics 1998
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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, Call number: JFIC SPYSpyri, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. 2006
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC SPYShelley, 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 SHESpyri, 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 SPYHarris, Robert
Summary: "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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARLee, 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"--
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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 LEEFinn, Melanie
Summary: Pilgrim Jones' husband has just left her for another woman, stranding her in a small Swiss town where she is one day involved in a tragic accident. Overcome with guilt, she alights for Africa, befriending a series of locals, each with their own tragic past and each isolated in their own way. Mysteriously, one day a witch doctor's curse is carried into town, setting everyone in the remote...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Dollar Radio 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FINTaylor, Brad
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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC TAYElkins, Aaron J.
Summary: Even on an Italian holiday, anthropologist Gideon Oliver and his wife can't seem to find any R. & R. They are guests of Mrs. Oliver's colleague on an idyllic island. But the breathtaking view and sumptuous food come at a price. The padrone's only child, Archille, has been kidnapped, bones have been found and Gideon must mix business with pleasure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELKTaylor, Brad
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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC TAYUllman, James Ramsey
Summary: A young boy feels compelled to conquer the mountain that caused his father's death.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperKeypoint 1988