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Hanna's cold winter
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Trish Marx |
A child tells how her family and other people in Budapest help save the famous hippopotamuses in their city's zoo from starving one difficult winter during World War II. Based on a true story. |
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Puppet
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Eva Wiseman |
A fictionalized account of the last blood libel trial in Hungary in 1882 is told through the eyes of Julie, a friend of the murdered servant girl Esther and a servant at the jail where Morris Scharf,… |
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The Finno-Ugrian vampire
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Noemi Szecsi |
Although many teenagers these days would tell you there's nothing more exciting than being a vampire, Jerme Volt Ampere is not ready to embrace her destiny. Unfortunately this doesn't sit well with h… |
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Kingdom of shadows
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Alan Furst |
In spymaster Alan Furst's most electrifying thriller to date, Hungarian aristocrat Nicholas Morath--a hugely charismatic hero--becomes embroiled in a daring and perilous effort to halt the Nazi war m… |
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No stopping train
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Les Plesko |
"No Stopping Train is the magnum opus and final novel of the late writer Les Plesko, a powerful, swirling novel of memory and violence set during the Hungarian Revolution. The Hungarian Revolution of… |
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The door
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Szabó, Magda |
"The Door is an unsettling exploration of the relationship between two very different women. Magda is a writer, educated, married to an academic, public-spirited, with an on-again-off-again relations… |
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The Afterlife of Stars
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Joseph Kertes |
When Russian tanks roll into the public squares of Budapest to crush the Hungarian Revolution, brothers Robert and Attila Beck flee with their family to the Paris townhouse of their great-aunt Hermin… |
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Fatal Network
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Trevor Scott |
When a tech rep in charge of an avionics retrofit at a U.S. Air Base in Germany comes up missing, Jake Adams, a former Air Force intelligence and CIA officer, is hired to find him. Was the man sellin… |
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A lily of the field
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Lawton, John |
A novel set before, during, and after World War II follows the loosely parallel lives of an Austrian cellist, Meret Voytek, whose orchestra becomes part of the Hitler Youth, and Hungarian physist Kar… |
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The fall of the red star
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Helen M. Szablya |
Fourteen-year-old Stephen takes up arms and joins the resistance in this novel of the Hungarian Revolution. |
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The Good Master
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Kate Seredy |
"'My cousin Kate from Budapest is coming to live with us. She's delicate and has had the measles!' shouted Jancsi to a friend as he and his father were driving to the station to meet her.
Jancsi h… |
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Good-bye to Budapest
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Jeannette Eyerly |
Megan becomes involved in international intrigue when she is lured to Budapest where spies are trying to obtain secret information from her father. |
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Prague
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Phillips, Arthur |
A first novel of startling scope and ambition, Prague depicts an intentionally lost Lost Generation as it follows five American expats who come to Budapest in the early 1990s to seek their fortune--f… |
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The Book of Fathers
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Miklos Vamos |
When in 1705 Kornell Csillag's grandfather returns destitute to his native Hungary from exile, he happens across a gold fob-watch gleaming in the mud. The shipwrecked fortunes of the Csillag family s… |
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