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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Half-hidden by forest and overshadowed by threatening peaks, Le Sommet has always been a sinister place. Long plagued by troubling rumors, the former abandoned sanatorium has since been renovated into a five-star minimalist hotel. An imposing, isolated getaway spot high up in the Swiss Alps is the last place Elin Warner wants to be. But Elin's taken time off from her job as a detective, so when her estranged brother, Isaac, and his fiancée, Laure,...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
While at Hotel Verbier, a luxury resort in the Swiss Alps, Joël Dicker, Switzerland's novelist extraordinaire, finds his expertise in the art of the thriller put to the test when he investigates the hotel's long- unsolved murder case with the help of a beautiful fellow guest.
4) Heidi
Author
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. Includes illustrated notes throughout the text explaining the historical backround of the story.
5) Swiss Alps
Author
Series
Publisher
Passport Books
Pub. Date
[1993]
Physical Desc
120 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Genealogy and local history volume LH 25
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Massachusetts Bay Company's claim on New England was preceded by those of two other joint stock companies. The first of these was the Dorchester Company, organized by the Anglican minister John White. When it went out of existence in 1626, the company's claim was transferred to a new organization, the New England Company, led by John Endecott. Endecott would ultimately found the town of Salem, Massachusetts in 1628. Endecott's shares and those...
Author
Series
VAMPS (Nicole Arend) volume 1
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Nestled in the Swiss Alps, VAMPS is the ultimate academy for the progeny of the wealthiest and most powerful vampire families. Unfortunately for Dillon, he's an outsider--to be more specific: he's a dhampir, a vampire who is half human. If he wants to survive beyond a single term, he's going to need to embrace his fangs. But blood never lies, and soon it becomes clear there is something special and deadly in Dillon's veins. As his power grows, so...
13) Forgotten colony
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[1971?]
Physical Desc
46 pages, 5 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Formats
Author
Series
S.T.O.R.M volume 3
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The teenaged geniuses of STORM, a secret organization dedicated to eliminating the world's misery through science and technology, head to the Swiss Alps seeking the last of six scientists whose Project FIREball is of interest to MI6, the CIA, and an unknown assassin.
16) Echo
Author
Publisher
Nightfire
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
After a terrible accident high in the Alps, travel journalist Nick Grevers wakes from a coma to find that his climbing buddy, Augustin, is missing and presumed dead. But Nick claims to not remember anything. Sam, Nick's long-suffering boyfriend, wants to be glad that Nick is alive and coming home. But the accident has stirred up terrible memories. Because it turns out that-though Nick was the only body airlifted off that mysterious peak-he didn't...
Author
Series
Swiss American Historical Society special publication volume no. 21
Publisher
Picton Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
vii, 120 pages : 1 map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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