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Famous last words
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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; … |
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The Star of Kazan
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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… |
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An equal music
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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… |
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Stolen words
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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 … |
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Murder on a midsummer night
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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… |
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The invention of everything else
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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… |
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The chess machine
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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… |
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Escape to Liechtenstein
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Ed Dunlop |
Hans and Gretchen discover a young Jewish boy hiding from Nazi troops and decide to assist him in his escape from Austria. |
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Indigo
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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… |
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Maestoso Petra
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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… |
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Elisabeth
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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… |
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Sisi
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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 … |
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I don't live here anymore
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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… |
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The Artist's Wife
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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 … |
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The musician's daughter
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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… |
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Der Kameramörder
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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… |
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Mozart finds a melody
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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. |
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The One from the Other
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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… |
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The jump artist
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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… |
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