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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
A monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator. Includes illustrated notes throughout the text explaining the historical background of the story.
2) Heidi
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 16
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
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"--
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2002
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a tiny village in the Swiss Alps, an angel meets an American girl named Zola who has come with her father to open a school, and together Zola and the angel rescue a group of homeless orphans, who gradually change everything.
Author
Language
English
Formats
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 falling apart. In an effort to restart her life, she turns to Jungian analysis, German language classes, and a series of extramarital affair, whose consequences she cannot foretell.
14) Heidi
Author
Series
Language
Español
Formats
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.
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
After recovering from the icy journey that brought him to present day London, Sherlock Holmes and his companion, James Wilson, investigate a mad scientist torturing apes, the mysterious death of Sylvia Swann, and the cyberterrorist attacking England.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A woman's life changes when the Nazis come to power in Germany. Caroline Hartzinger's boyfriend becomes a Nazi and abandons her because she is half-Jewish. She escapes to America, marries a fellow refugee and gives birth to the Nazi's son.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Pike Logan must stop a deranged fanatic bent on igniting an international conflagration in this explosive, action-packed thriller from New York Times bestselling author and former special forces officer, Brad Taylor"--
When a paragliding trip in Switzerland results in the brutal murder of the former head of Israeli intelligence, Mosad brings in terrorist hunters Aaron and Shoshana to investigate. Taskforce operators Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill...
18) Numbered account
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A financial thriller on security analyst Nicholas Neumann whose father was murdered while working for a Swiss bank. When Neumann hears that the bank has a trainee vacancy, he sees his opportunity to find the killer. He gives up his well-paid job in New York to work for the bank in Zurich and discovers a money-laundering operation by drug dealers.
19) Heidi
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling Pub
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of Johanna Spyri's classic story of a Swiss orphan who 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.
20) Heidi
Author
Series
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley
Pub. Date
2000
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. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.
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