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Author
Series
Magic bone volume 4
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Hoping to escape the cold in his backyard, Sparky chomps on his magic bone--only to find himself in snowy Zermatt, Switzerland. He befriends Lena, a Saint Bernard rescue dog with a terrible sense of direction. The two, in search of food, quickly get lost. But Lena and Sparky might just be in the right place at the right time for Lena to complete her first ever rescue mission!"--
Author
Series
George Greenby books volume 3
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
George tries to escape a host of problems by going to Switzerland to help his friend Annie's father, Eric, run an experiment exploring the origins of the universe, but faces saboteurs and a mysterious message from George's old nemesis, Reeper, there. Includes scientific essays exploring the latest theories on the origin of the universe.
Author
Series
VAMPS volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
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...
24) Whiteland
Author
Series
Whiteland volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In a lonely Swiss mountain village, Kira's holiday erupts. It's winter, it's eerie, and out in the woods something imbeds its claws into her sister. When Romy returns, she's different. She's violent, inhuman, and by rights, should be dead. Even though things aren't normal, all their parents care about is that she's still alive. In the otherworldly forest, Kira starts to pry, but secrets like to be kept. With the help of Callum, a sarcastic Scotsman,...
25) Iced
Author
Series
Dick Francis novels volume 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Seven years ago, Miles Pussett was a steeplechase jockey, loving the rush of the race. But after an unfortunate event, he left horseracing behind and swore he would never return. Now he gets his adrenaline rush from riding headfirst down the Cresta Run, a three-quarter-mile Swiss ice chute, reaching speeds of up to eighty miles per hour. Finding himself in St Moritz during the same weekend as White Turf, when high-class horseracing takes place on...
26) Island of time
Author
Series
Island of time volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The Geneva branch of Interpol - the international agency tasked with policing magic and the arcane arts - is where careers go to die. Action is rare as Switzerland banned magic seven hundred years ago. That's how Agent Jackson Burnett likes it. But then reports of an explosion lead Jackson to the home of businessman Bernard Bouchon. What's there is unfathomable: The family and their possessions have vanished into ash. Jackson's enigmatic new partner...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
One spring night in 1998, the beautiful Cressida Strauss plunges from a fourth-floor balcony at the Lycée Internationale Suisse with catastrophic consequences. Loath to draw negative publicity to the school, a bastion of European wealth and glamor, officials quickly dismiss the incident as an accident, but questions remain: Was it a suicide attempt? Or was Cressida pushed? It was no secret that she had a selfish streak and had earned as many enemies...
Author
Series
Disreputable debutantes volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
After being expelled from a young ladies' academy, it seems Miss Arabella Jardine will never find a well-connected husband. Not that she minds stocking at heart, she'd rather bury her nose in a medical text than wed. When Arabella is forced to accompany her family on a Grand Tour in Switzerland, she unexpectedly encounters the irresistible rakehell-in-exile, Gabriel, the Earl of Langdale. Arabella soon realizes the only thing worse than getting married...
Author
Series
Pike Logan thrillers volume 16
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a paragliding trip over the picturesque mountains of Switzerland results in the brutal murder of the former head of Israeli intelligence, Mossad brings in terrorist hunters Aaron and Shoshana to investigate. But they'll need help to find out who was behind the attack and what they’re planning next. Luckily, Aaron and Shoshana know exactly who to call. Taskforce operators Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill have been trapped in Charleston, South...
30) Swiss vendetta
Author
Series
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...
32) Behind the wheel
Author
Series
Choose your own adventure volume 121
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The reader's decisions control the course of an adventure in which a gambling syndicate tries to influence the outcome of a Swiss auto race.
33) Barry
Author
Series
Dog diaries volume 3
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Barry der Menschenretter, a Saint Bernard dog, reflects back on his life in the early 1800s at the Hospice of the Great Saint Bernard in the Swiss Alps, where he rescued some forty people from avalanches. Includes facts about the breed and the hospice.
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