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Gabriel Allon novels volume 19
Description
When a girl from an exclusive private school in Switzerland is kidnapped in the Haute-Savoie region of France, Gabriel Allon is thrust into a deadly secret war with an old enemy that will determine the future of the Middle East--and perhaps the world.
She was covered from head to toe in expensive wool and plaid, the sort of stuff one saw at the Burberry boutique in Harrods. She carried a leather bookbag rather than a nylon backpack. Her patent leather...
2) Heidi
Pub. Date
1993.
Description
After charming her reclusive grandfather and falling in love with the beautiful mountain he calls home, Heidi is uprooted and sent to Frankfurt where she befriends Klara, a young girl confined to a wheelchair, and must make a difficult decision.
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Play Misty for me: a radio disc jockey becomes the victim of psychotic obsession when he tries to end an affair with a fan. The Eiger sanction: a professional assassin is forced out of retirement in order to avenge a friend's murder in the Swiss Alps. Coogan's bluff: an Arizonia lawman's unorthodox methods of capturing an escaped murderer angers a tough NYC police lieutenant. The beguiled: a wounded soldier finds shelter in an all-girls academy during...
4) North Face
Pub. Date
2010
Description
In 1936, two German mountain climbers attempt to climb the North face of the Eiger in the Swiss Alps and discover that two Austrian climbers are struggling to reach the top before them.
Pub. Date
2008.
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Based on a true story, a gripping adventure 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...
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James Bond volume 6
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James Bond goes undercover in the treacherous Swiss Alps and becomes involved in artillery-laden ski pursuits, incredible stunts and thrills. James finds love with the beautiful and seductive Tracy Di Vicenzo. But first Bond must stop the evil genius Blofeld from realising a germ warfare plot could kill millions.
11) Heidi
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
After charming her reclusive grandfather and falling in love with the beautiful mountain he calls home, Heidi is uprooted and sent to Frankfurt where she befriends Klara, a young girl confined to a wheelchair, and must make a difficult decision.
13) The boat is full
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
A ragtag band of exiles from Germany sneak into Switzerland seeking asylum. They are allowed to stay at an isolated inn as long as they pretend to be a family. In order to maintain this deception they must communicate with a young French-speaking boy, who cannot understand the rest of the German-speaking refugees. They must impress upon him the importance of remaining silent, or else their plan, and their lives, could fall apart.
14) Heidi
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
Story of a girl sent to live with her hermit grandfather in the Alps, where her influence reconciles her grandfather to the town. Then her aunt takes her away from the grandfather she has come to love, to live in Frankfurt as the companion of a crippled girl whom Heidi encourages to try walking again.
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An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious 'wellness center' at a remote location in the Swiss Alps. He soon suspects that the spa's miraculous treatments are not what they seem. When he begins to unravel its terrifying secrets, his sanity is tested, as he finds himself diagnosed with the same curious illness that keeps all the guests here longing for the cure.
17) Youth
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Two longtime friends are vacationing in the Swiss Alps. Fred, an acclaimed composer and conductor, who brings along his daughter and best friend Mick, a renowned filmmaker. The two men reflect on their past, each finding that some of the most important experiences can come later in life.
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), scheduled to go online in May 2008, is designed to boost protons to nearly the speed of light and crash them into one another, producing effects that can only be theorized and haven't existed since the first moments of the Universe's creation.
19) Youth
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Two longtime friends are vacationing in the Swiss Alps. Fred, an acclaimed composer and conductor, who brings along his daughter and best friend Mick, a renowned filmmaker. The two men reflect on their past, each finding that some of the most important experiences can come later in life.