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1) Heidi
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
AD 1000L
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Rudi dreams of climbing to the summit of the Citadel, the highest mountain in Switzerland. His father was the only man who dared to approach the top and he died in the pursuit. Now Rudi yearns to complete the quest.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.4 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
1170L
Language
English
Description
"Few works by comic book artists have earned the universal acclaim and reverence that Bernie Wrightson's illustrated version of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein was met with upon its original release in 1983. A generation later, this magnificent pairing of art and literature is still considered to be one of the greatest achievements made by any artist in the field. This book includes the complete text of the original groundbreaking novel,...
Author
Language
English
Description
A sometime Israeli spy by trade and an art restorer by preference, Gabriel Allon arrives in Zurich to clean the work of an Old Master for a millionaire banker -- only to find himself standing in his client's blood and framed for the murder. Without warning, Allon is drawn into a spiraling chain of events involving Nazi art theft, a decades-old suicide, and a bloody trail of killings -- some of them his own. The spy world Allon thought he had put aside...
Author
Language
English
Description
Taking the stage that evening, Daisy Justine had no idea that she was auditioning for her life. Watching from the darkness beyond the footlights was the world-famous composer Jason Hayes. The reclusive genius was seeking a new star to play the tragic heroine in his latest work, an adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello. From the moment he heard her sing, Jason knew he'd found the star he'd been searching for his whole life. But coaxing her from Geneva...
Author
Series
Jonathan Ransom volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dr. Jonathan Ransom, world-class mountaineer and surgeon for Doctors Without Borders, wife is killed while they are climbing the Swiss Alps. Twenty-four hours later he receives an envelope addressed to his wife containing two baggage-claim tickets. When he goes to claim the baggage he is attached by the Swiss police, thus beginning his search for the truth and his being the subject of an international manhunt.
10) Switzerland
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Description
Describes the history, geography, plants and animals, economy, language, people and culture of Switzerland.
11) The fear index
Author
Language
English
Description
"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"--
12) Swiss vendetta
Author
Series
Agnes Lüthi mystery volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Inspector Agnes Luthi, a Swiss-American police officer in Lausanne, Switzerland, has just transferred to the Violent Crimes unit from Financial Crimes to try to shed all reminders of her old life following her husband's death. Now, on the eve of the worst blizzard Lausanne has seen in centuries, Agnes has been called to investigate her very first homicide case. On the lawn of the grand Chateau Vallotton, at the edge of Lac Leman, a young woman has...
13) Frankenstein
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
GN 850L
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: Frankenstein: Using parts from corpses, Victor Frankenstein creates a large, man-like creature. Rejected and abused by humans, the creature takes revenge by committing murder. Frankenstein then pursues the creature, determined to kill him or die in the attempt. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: When Dr. Henry Jekyll begins to look ill and isolates himself from his friends, they fear for his life. A mysterious, evil man...
15) Bloomability
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
When her aunt and uncle take her from New Mexico to Lugano, Switzerland, to attend an international school, thirteen-year-old Dinnie discovers an expanding world and her place within it.
17) North face
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Deutsch
Description
An adventure drama, based on a true story, about a competition to climb the most dangerous rock face in the Alps, the north face of the Eiger. Set in 1936, Nazi propaganda urges German alpinists to conquer the mountain, and two reluctant young climbers, Toni and Andi, attempt a daring ascent, closely followed by two Austrian climbers. All goes well at first, but then the climbers lose their advantage over the mountain and the race against time and...
18) Iced
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
THRILLERS THAT RACE FROM THE VERY FIRST PAGE . . . 'Felix Francis' novels gallop along splendidly' Jilly Cooper 'From winning post to top of the bestseller lists' Sunday Times Miles Pussett is a former steeplechase jockey. Now he gets his adrenalin rush from riding down the Cresta Run, a three-quarter-mile Swiss ice chute, head first, reaching speeds of up to eighty miles per hour. Finding himself in St Moritz during the same weekend as White Turf,...
19) Switzerland
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[2013]
Lexile measure
1050L
Language
English
Description
Provides information about Switzerland, with emphasis on its geography, culture, history, economy, and government.
20) Hausfrau
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Anna Benz, an American woman in her thirties, lives in comfort and affluence with her Swiss banker husband and their three young children in a picture-perfect suburb of Zurich. Despite the tranquility and order of her domestic existence, Anna is fallingapart inside. Isolated in a foreign country and a faltering marriage, Anna begins three adventures to restart her life: Jungian analysis, German language classes, and a series of extramarital affairs...