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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Famous last words Famous last words Timothy Findley En 1945, dans un palace abandonné des Alpes autrichiennes, un écrivain américain traqué, zélateur du fascisme, couvre les murs et les plafonds de ses souvenirs : la Chine de 1924; la France de 1936; … OL102444W
The Star of Kazan The Star of Kazan Eva Ibbotson After twelve-year-old Annika, a foundling living in late nineteenth-century Vienna, inherits a trunk of costume jewelry, a woman claiming to be her aristocratic mother arrives and takes her to live i… OL104406W
An equal music An equal music Vikram Seth The author of the international bestseller *A Suitable Boy* returns with a powerful and deeply romantic tale of two gifted musicians. Michael Holme is a violinist, a member of the successful Maggior… OL11926W
Stolen words Stolen words Amy Goldman Koss In her diary, eleven-year-old Robyn describes her family's visit to Austria, from the disastrous theft of their luggage to adventures in the countryside, while she tries to recover from the death of … OL14919998W
Murder on a midsummer night Murder on a midsummer night Kerry Greenwood The Hon. Phryne Fisher, languid and slightly bored at the start of 1929, is engaged to find out if the antique-shop-owning son of a Pre-Raphaelite model has died by homicide or suicide. At the same t… OL15498397W
The invention of everything else The invention of everything else Samantha Hunt Louisa is an imaginative and curious chambermaid who, while cleaning rooms at the New Yorker Hotel, stumbles across a man living permanently in room 3327, which he has transformed into a scientific l… OL15843503W
The chess machine The chess machine Robert Löhr "Vienna 1770 -- Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen unveils a strange, amazing invention, the Mechanical Turk, a sensational and unbeatable chess-playing automaton. But what the Habsburg court hails as the g… OL16074436W
Escape to Liechtenstein Escape to Liechtenstein Ed Dunlop Hans and Gretchen discover a young Jewish boy hiding from Nazi troops and decide to assist him in his escape from Austria. OL1637382W
Indigo Indigo Clemens J. Setz Robert--a man with Indigo syndrome, a condition that causes anyone that comes near him to suffer from nausea and vertigo--investigates a mysterious link between a former math instructor and the disap… OL17877030W
Maestoso Petra Maestoso Petra Jane F. Kendall Maestoso Petra, a Lipizzaner stallion, trains to perform in the Spanish Riding School and is hidden away during the German occupation of Austria in World War II. Includes facts about Lipizzaner horse… OL1929686W
Elisabeth Elisabeth Barry Denenberg The diary of Princess Elisabeth, written in 1853-1854, describing her engagement and marriage to her cousin Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria. Includes historical notes concerning her life as Empres… OL1967006W
Sisi Sisi Allison Pataki "In imperial Vienna, where the court halls buzzed with waltzes and champagne, as well as temptation, rivals, and cutthroat intrigue, the intensely personal tale of Empress Sisi unraveled. Infamously … OL20020548W
I don't live here anymore I don't live here anymore Gabi Kreslehner Charlotte's life is changed forever when her parents' marriage breaks up, and she has to leave her beloved house and her old life behind. Then, two very different boys cross her path, and a new emoti… OL24441102W
The Artist's Wife The Artist's Wife Max Phillips "At the turn of the century, she was "the most beautiful girl in Vienna," intelligent, aristocratic, and adored. Her father was a landscape painter and an Imperial favorite. She herself stood at the … OL2969439W
The musician's daughter The musician's daughter Susanne Emily Dunlap In eighteenth century Vienna, Austria, fifteen-year-old Theresa seeks a way to help her mother and brother financially while investigating the murder of her father, a renowned violinist of Haydn's or… OL5738123W
Der Kameramörder Der Kameramörder Thomas Glavinic,Thomas Glavinic Mit seiner Lebensgefährtin besucht der Erzähler ein befreundetes Paar in der Steiermark. In den Medien wird über einen Doppelmord an zwei Kindern berichtet, den der Mörder mit einer Videokamera aufge… OL5787729W
Mozart finds a melody Mozart finds a melody Stephen Costanza Wolfgang Mozart finds the inspiration to compose a new piano concerto from his pet starling and the sounds heard through the streets of eighteenth-century Vienna, Austria. OL6030836W
The One from the Other The One from the Other Philip Kerr Le point de vue de l'éditeur On se souvient de Bernie Gunther, l'ex-commissaire de police devenu détective privé, qui, à la fin de La Trilogie berlinoise, assistait à la chute du IIIe Reich, conscien… OL79760W
The jump artist The jump artist Austin Ratner A novel that recreates the true story of Philippe Halsman, a photographer whose portraits of some of the greatest names of our times - Dali, Einstein and Monroe among them - ensured his enduring fame… OL8545390W