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101) Sons and brothers
Author
Series
Publisher
Seventh Street Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Walking his dog along Bern's Aare river on an icy November night, a surgeon in his seventies is hit in the face and thrown into the river to drown. When his bruised corpse is found, his watch is missing. A mugging gone wrong? The more Swiss police detective Giuliana Linder and her assistant Renzo Donatelli learn about Johann Karl Gurtner, the more convinced they are that his death was not random. Talking to Gurtner's family raises as many questions...
102) Island of time
Author
Series
Island of time volume 1
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The Geneva branch of Interpol - the international agency tasked with policing magic and the arcane arts - is where careers go to die. Action is rare as Switzerland banned magic seven hundred years ago. That's how Agent Jackson Burnett likes it. But then reports of an explosion lead Jackson to the home of businessman Bernard Bouchon. What's there is unfathomable: The family and their possessions have vanished into ash. Jackson's enigmatic new partner...
103) The mountain
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
1953.
Language
English
Description
Story of two Alpine-climbing brothers and their trip to a wrecked plane.
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Clare Newton, a journalist, travels to Switzerland to bring home the body of her grandfather, which has appeared from the bottom of a glacier 74 years after a climbing accident. Or was it an accident? Clare finds more about her family's past than she expected and reaches decisions about her personal and professional life.
106) Roman wall: a novel
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[1954]
Language
English
Description
The story takes place seventeen hundred years ago around Aventicum and Orba, a lonely Swiss outpost of the Roman Empire. Valerius wonders if the storm will break before he can marry and retire, Demetrius, an old Greek farmer hurries on the last journey home to Italy and Vinodius squanders resources on a public holiday all the while as an empire around them collapses.
107) Open secrets
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Alice, Michel, and their daughter, Pamela, live a charmed life with a beautiful house on the French Riviera, elegant vacations, and boarding school in Switzerland for Pamela. But when Michel discovers Alice's betrayal in the midst of dealing with a crisis at the bank that he works for, he makes a sudden decision that unravels their family, sending Alice to Amagansett to stay with her artist sister while repercussions of Michel's illicit deals move...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Clásicos
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by Mary Shelley about a creature produced by an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was nineteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty-one. The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818. Shelley's name appears on the second edition, published in France in 1823.
Author
Series
Pocket volume 18582
Publisher
XO Editions
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Français
Description
"« Tu n'es pas seule à chercher »... Ce mot anonyme laissé sur son paillasson est plus qu'un appel : un électrochoc. Cette fois, l'inspectrice Grace Campbell le sait : elle n'a pas le choix. Elle doit ouvrir la porte blindée du cabinet situé au fond de son appartement. Et accepter de se confronter au secret qui la hante depuis tant d'années... Des confins de la campagne écossaise aux profondeurs de la Forêt-Noire où prend vie le conte le...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"It's the day after Christmas, and Felicity Grant is at a gorgeous ski chalet in St. Moritz for the biggest fashion show of her career. Felicity is a rising star on the bridal design scene, and this is her best collection yet. But when her boyfriend gives her a spa day instead of a diamond ring for Christmas, she has to face the possibility that she may never walk down the aisle in one of her own stunning designs. And then there's Nell, the top model...
111) Bella del señor
Author
Series
Otra vuelta de tuerca volume 53
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
"Una de las cumbres novelisticas del siglo XX, obra de un autor inclasificable comparado con Shakespeare, Proust, Musil, Celine y Chaplin Situada en Ginebra y en Francia en 1936, cuando el antisemitismo alcanzo su paroxismo en Alemania, Bella del Senor relata, con lirismo romantico e ironia feroz, la relacion entre Solal, judio, alto funcionario de la Sociedad de las Naciones, y Ariane, la aristocrata aria casada con un subordinado de Solal, desde...
112) Damnation
Author
Series
Tom Winter novels volume 1
Publisher
Point Blank, an imprint of Oneworld Publications
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Dead clients are bad for business, something Tom Winter, head of security for a discrete Swiss private bank, knows all too well. After a helicopter explodes, leaving behind the charred bodies of a client and a colleague, he teams up with Fatima, a mysterious Egyptian businesswoman. Together they follow the money trail around the world and back into the Swiss mountains, the NSA watching their every move. When taciturn Winter, a former special forces...
Author
Publisher
Izdatelʹstvo AST/Corpus
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Russian
Description
"V t︠s︡entr romana "Nochnoĭ administrator" master golovolomnykh shpionskikh istoriĭ Dzhon Le Karre pomestil Dzhonatana Paĭna. Otlichnyĭ razvedchik, Paĭn ostavil sluzhbu posle tragedii, v kotoroĭ pogibla dorogai︠a︡ emu zhenshchina. I vot on, nochnoĭ portʹe samogo respektabelʹnogo t︠s︡i︠u︡rikhskogo oteli︠a︡, vstrechaet cheloveka, vinovnogo v smerti li︠u︡bimoĭ. Chtoby pokaratʹ vraga, Paĭnu prikhoditsi︠a︡ vernutʹsi︠a︡...
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