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1) Heidi
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English
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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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English
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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 seeking shelter from a sudden downpour, but the real storm is inside Jordan and the passion they share. He disappears the next morning and then Jordan receives two more shocks. Helmut...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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College Sunrise is a vaguely disreputable finishing school in Switzerland. Rowland Mahler and his wife, Nina, run the school as a way to support themselves while he writes, somewhat falteringly, a novel. Enter seventeen-year-old Chris Wiley, a literary prodigy whose novel-in-progress already has publishers interested. The result is a mix of keen envy and a game of cat and mouse not free of sexual jealousy and attraction. Here Muriel Spark displays...
11) Hotel du Lac
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Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c1984
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Second chance at love volume 4
Publisher
Open Road Distribution
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Eileen Connor hopes that a demanding bilingual job at an ad agency in Geneva will help her forget the man who broke her heart in New York. Instead, she falls in love with architect Matt Edwards-all too likely to be another disastrous choice.
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Doctors Without Borders surgeon and mountaineer Jonathan Ransom, arriving at a Swiss train station to claim two bags belonging to his recently deceased wife, finds himself becoming the target of law enforcement personnel and holding the key to a deadly conspiracy which he races to uncover.
14) Heidi
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
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
New Vessel Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When a $30 million diamond disappears, the gentleman P.I. embarks on an adventure across Europe in this "delightfully quirky and original" mystery (Peter James, author of Dead Simple ). A rare pink diamond recently sold at auction has gone missing, and gentleman thief turned private detective Johann Freidrich von Allmen cannot resist the case -- even if his butler and business partner Carlos de Leon has his reservations. With suspicion falling on...
16) The sanatorium
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Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"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...
17) Bloomability
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
My second life began when I was kidnapped by two complete strangers . . . That the kidnappers are actually Aunt Sandy and Uncle Max makes no difference to thirteen-year-old Domenica Santolina Doone, better known as Dinnie--she just doesn't want to go. Dinnie's accustomed to change, with her family constantly moving for "opportunity"--but when her aunt and uncle whisk her far away to an international school in Switzerland, she's not sure she's ready...
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Series
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A circus-performer-turned-PI matches wits with an international assassin in another of Chesbro's "wild roller-coaster rides" ( Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine ). With a genius IQ, a past career as a circus acrobat, and a black belt in karate, criminology professor Dr. Robert Frederickson -- better known as "Mongo the Magnificent" -- has a decidedly unusual background for a private investigator. He also just so happens to be a dwarf. Hired to investigate...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
For fans of high-concept thrillers such as Annihilation and The Girl with All the Gifts , this breathtaking dystopian psychological thriller follows an American academic stranded at a Swiss hotel as the world descends into nuclear war--along with twenty other survivors--who becomes 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. Jon thought he had all the time in the...
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