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The alchemist's door
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Lisa Goldstein |
Fleeing to Prague to escape a demon attack, alchemist and astrologer John Dee assists a mystic rabbi in the creation of a clay Golem that will defend the city's Jewish Quarter and prevent the fulfill… |
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Torn thread
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Anne Isaacs |
In an attempt to save his daughter's life, Eva's father sends her from Poland to a labor camp in Czechoslovakia where she and her sister survive the war. |
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I, city
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Pavel Brycz |
"I, City is a novel about the north Bohemian city of Most, an ancient city founded on a primeval wetland literally relocated because it stood on a coal field. The city is the narrator of this unusual… |
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Daughter of Smoke and Bone
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Laini Taylor |
Seventeen-year-old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters--the chimaerae who form the only family she has ever known. |
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Zoli
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Colum McCann |
In het naoorlogse Tsjechoslowakije wordt een zigeunermeisje onder het communistische regime naar voren geschoven als dichteres. |
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The cabinet of curiosities
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Theresa Dowswell |
When Lukas Declercq is orphaned, his uncle summons him to Prague, a refuge for Europe.s greatest alchemists and natural philosophers, offering to take him on as an apprentice. Uncle Anselmus is court… |
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Aaron's leap
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Magdaléna Platzová |
"Based on the real-life story of Bauhaus artist Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, Aaron's Leap is framed by the lens of a twenty first-century Israeli film crew delving into the extraordinary life of a woman w… |
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Angel station
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Jáchym Topol |
"Angel Station takes its title from the bustling Metro stop in the Prague district of Smíchov. Until the gentrification of the late 1990s, it was a rough-and-tumble, working-class neighborhood with a… |
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A World I never made
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James LePore |
Pat Nolan, an American, is summoned to Paris to claim the body of his estranged daughter Megan who has committed suicide. The body, however, is not Megan's and it becomes instantly clear to Pat that … |
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Bohemian gospel
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Dana Chamblee Carpenter |
Thirteenth-century Bohemia is a dangerous place for a girl, especially one as odd as Mouse, born with unnatural senses and an uncanny intellect. Some call her a witch. Others call her an angel. Even … |
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Someone Named Eva
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Joan M. Wolf |
The story of a young fictionalized girl raised near Prague whose village is destroyed by the Germans in retaliation for an attack on a Nazi official (true event). "Eva" is jewish but appears to meet … |
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A boy of Old Prague
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Sulamith Ish-Kishor |
When a young peasant in sixteenth-century Prague is caught stealing, the lord of the manor sentences him to service in the Jewish ghetto, where he discovers unexpected kindness. |
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Giraffe
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J. M. Ledgard |
Marking the debut of an unforgettable talent, this haunting novel rescues a tragedy from historical oblivion in a voice that engulfs the reader like a rapturous dream. In 1975 the largest captive her… |
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Příliš hlučná samota
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Bohumil Hrabal |
Funny, absurd, sad, ultimately tragic and at the same time affirmational, this story of Hanta is one of the great celebrations of the human spirit and of the transcendent value of art and beauty. (I… |
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The Republic of whores
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Josef Škvorecký |
Josef Skvorecky, internationally acclaimed for his rich prose and expansive vision, spins a beguiling comical tale of army life under foreign occupation. The Republic of Whores takes place on an army… |
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