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1) Intimacies
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"An interpreter has come to The Hague to escape New York and work at the International Court. A woman of many languages and identities, she is looking for a place to finally call home. She's drawn into simmering personal dramas: her lover, Adriaan, is separated from his wife but still entangled in his marriage. Her friend Jana witnesses a seemingly random act of violence, a crime the interpreter becomes increasingly obsessed with as she befriends...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Lydia Pallas, a translator for the U.S. Navy, is hired by Alexander Banebridge, or "Bane, " a man who equally attracts and aggravates her, to translate a seemingly innocuous collection of European documents, and finds herself in the middle of a secret war against some of the most dangerous criminals on the East Coast.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"It has been years since Helen Franklin left England. In Prague, working as a translator, she has found a home of sorts--or, at least, refuge. That changes when her friend Karel discovers a mysterious letter in the library, a strange confession and a curious warning that speaks of Melmoth the Witness, a dark legend found in obscure fairy tales and antique village lore. As such superstition has it, Melmoth travels through the ages, dooming those she...
5) Black ice
Author
Series
Ice thrillers volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Living paycheck to paycheck in Paris, American book translator Chloe Underwood would give anything for some excitement and passion--even a little danger. So when she's offered a lucrative weekend gig translating at a business conference in a remote château, she jumps at the chance to shake things up.
Then by chance Chloe discovers her employers are anything but the entrepreneurs they appear, and suddenly she knows far too much. Her clients
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Series
Bride trilogy (Mary Jo Putney) volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Award-winning author Mary Jo Putney captivated the hearts of readers everywhere with her breathtaking hardcover debut, The Wild Child. Now, in her spectacular new novel The China Bride, she has created another brilliantly moving love story, and a very special heroine--a rare beauty torn between two cultures who valiantly struggles to discover the woman she is destined to be.
Born to a Scottish father and now living in China, Troth Montgomery...
Born to a Scottish father and now living in China, Troth Montgomery...
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Language
English
Formats
Description
An "elegantly written . . . exhilarating" Booker-award finalist is "a knowing glimpse at the ways we hold ourselves responsible for saving the people we love" (People).
It is the summer of 1997. In England, Alec Valentine is returning home to care for his ailing mother, Alice, a task that only reinforces his deep sense of inadequacy. In San Francisco, his older brother Larry prepares to come home as well, knowing it will be hard...
It is the summer of 1997. In England, Alec Valentine is returning home to care for his ailing mother, Alice, a task that only reinforces his deep sense of inadequacy. In San Francisco, his older brother Larry prepares to come home as well, knowing it will be hard...
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Language
English
Description
1807: A baby is discovered floating in a basket along the canals of Venice; a guild of artisans take him in and teach him their trades. Sebastien Trovato wrestles with questions of his origins, but it isn't until a woman washes ashore on his lagoon island that answers emerge. 1904: On an assignment to translate a rare book, Daniel Goodman hopes to redeem a past laden with regrets. Instead he finds himself embroiled in a web of secrets carefully kept...
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Language
English
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"In this epistolary novel from the WWII home front, Johanna Berglund is forced to return to her small Midwestern town to become a translator at a German prisoner of war camp. There, amid old secrets and prejudice, she finds that the POWs have hidden depths. When the lines between compassion and treason are blurred, she must decide where her heart truly lies"--
12) The translator
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
After an accident, renowned translator Hanne Schubert loses the ability to speak her native language. Speaking only Japanese, she leaves for Japan where she is forced to reexamine her life, including her estranged relationship with her daughter, after a Japanese novelist accuses her of sabotaging his work.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Thanks to a nomadic childhood, Revelle Lee is fluent in ten languages, which she puts to use at crime scenes and in courtrooms across London. When one of her cases involves a murder victim she knew slightly, Revelle fears she's seeing a miscarriage of justice play out. Putting career at risk, she deliberately mistranslates a Polish man's alibi to put his accused friend behind bars, even though he insists he's innocent. Revelle thinks she's gotten...
14) Magic words
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First Pegasus Books edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 400 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lydia works as translator for the Logi cultural attaché to Earth. They work well together, even if the act of translating his thoughts into English makes her somewhat wobbly on her feet. She's not the agency's best translator, but what else is she going to do? She has no qualifications, and no discernible talent in any other field. So when tragedy strikes, and Lydia finds herself at the center of an intergalactic incident, her future employment prospects...
19) Autumn bridge
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
415 pages : 24 cm
Language
English
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