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2016., Jonathan Cape Call No: Fic Sza Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Here are nine men. Each of them is at a different stage in life, each of them is away from home, and each of them is striving - in the suburbs of Prague, in an over-developed Alpine village, beside a Belgian motorway, in a crap Cypriot hotel - to understand just what it means to be alive, here and now. Vibrating with detail and intelligence, pathos and surprise, All That Man Is is a portrait of contemporary manhood, contemporary Europe and contemporary life from a British writer of supreme gifts - the master of a new kind of realism --
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2012., Soft Skull Press Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: A serial killer with a penchant for severed hands. A watch that runs backward and forward at the same time. An Eastern European gangster known only as Rumplestiltskin. The Nazi invasion of Prague, Soviet-era Czech secret police, 16th century alchemy and black magic mild-mannered American Lee Holloway never thought any of these would intrude upon his ordinary life.But that was before he received a mysterious letter from a woman named Vera, a cryptic missive implying Lee§s estranged brother Paul, who disappeared years ago in Prague, was actually murdered in an attempt to steal The Rudolf Complication, a priceless watch commissioned by the eccentric Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II, rumored to hold the power of eternal life. When Lee goes to Prague to investigate, his involvement with the enigmatic Vera, as well as the guidance offered from a mysterious travel book, triggers a series of violent and bizarre events that force Lee to confront disturbing truths about his brother as well as himself. Unless Lee can reconstruct the final hours of his brother§s life, and separate truth from myth in this haunted city, he might not get out of Prague alive.
![Complication [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT75108.JPG "Complication [eBook]")
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2012., Soft Skull Press Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: A serial killer with a penchant for severed hands. A watch that runs backward and forward at the same time. An Eastern European gangster known only as Rumplestiltskin. The Nazi invasion of Prague, Soviet-era Czech secret police, 16th century alchemy and black magicmild-mannered American Lee Holloway never thought any of these would intrude upon his ordinary life.But that was before he received a mysterious letter from a woman named Vera, a cryptic missive implying Leeœs estranged brother Paul, who disappeared years ago in Prague, was actually murdered in an attempt to steal The Rudolf Complication, a priceless watch commissioned by the eccentric Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II, rumored to hold the power of eternal life. When Lee goes to Prague to investigate, his involvement with the enigmatic Vera, as well as the guidance offered from a mysterious travel book, triggers a series of violent and bizarre events that force Lee to confront disturbing truths about his brother as well as himself. Unless Lee can reconstruct the final hours of his brotherœs life, and separate truth from myth in this haunted city, he might not get out of Prague alive.
![Complication [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT75109.JPG "Complication [eBook]")
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2011., Open Letter Call No: Fic Vac Edition: First Open Letter edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2020., HarperCollins Publishers Inc. Connect to this eBook title Summary Note: "Meet Bird and Mimi in this brilliant new novel from one of Canada's foremost authors. Inspired by a handful of old postcards, sent by Uncle Lenny nearly a hundred years before, Bird and Mimi attempt to trace the steps of Mimi's long-lost uncle and the family medicine bundle he took with him to Europe. By turns witty, sly and poignant, this is the unforgettable tale of one couple's holiday trip to Prague. The often grumpy Bird and optimistic Mimi and their wanderings through the European capitals reveal a complicated history, both personal and political."-- Publisher. .
![Indians on vacation [eBook] : a novel](/Library/images/~imageCT101708.JPG "Indians on vacation [eBook] : a novel")
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2018., Custom House Call No: NEW Fic Per Edition: First U.S. edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: It has been years since Helen Franklin left England. In Prague, working as a translator, she has found a home of sorts--or, at least, refuge. That changes when her friend Karel discovers a mysterious letter in the library, a strange confession and a curious warning that speaks of Melmoth the Witness, a dark legend found in obscure fairy tales and antique village lore. As such superstition has it, Melmoth travels through the ages, dooming those she persuades to join her to a damnation of timeless, itinerant solitude. To Helen it all seems the stuff of unenlightened fantasy. But, unaware, as she wanders the cobblestone streets Helen is being watched. And then Karel disappears. . .
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By Adler, H. Gc2011., Adult, Random House Call No: Fic Adl Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A brilliant epic, 'Panorama' is a portrait of a place and people soon to be destroyed, as seen through the eyes of young Josef Kramer. Told in ten distinct scenes, it begins in pastoral Word War I<U+2013>era Bohemia, where the boy passively witnesses the 'wonders of the world' in a thrilling panorama display; follows him to a German boarding school full of creeping xenophobia and prejudice; and finds him in young adulthood sent to a labor camp and then to one of the infamous extermination camps, before he chooses exile abroad after the war. Josef's philosophical journey mirrors the author's own: from a stoic acceptance of events to a realization that 'the viewer is also the participant' and that action must be taken in life, if only to make sure the dead are not forgotten."--Inside jacket.
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2024., Adult, Hamish Hamilton Call No: NEW BLK Fic Oye Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: For reasons of her own, Hero Tojosoa accepts an invitation she was half expected to decline, and finds herself in Prague on a bachelorette weekend hosted by her estranged friend, Sofie Cibulkova. Little does she know she's arrived in a city with a penchant for playing tricks on the unsuspecting. A book Hero has brought with her seems to be warping her mind: the text changes depending on when it's being read and who's doing the reading, revealing startling new stories of fictional Praguers past and present. Uninvited companions appear at bachelorette activities and at city landmarks, offering opinions, humor, and even a taste of treachery. When a third woman from Hero and Sofie's past appears unexpectedly, the tensions between the friends' different accounts of the past reach a new level.
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By Kerr, Philip2011., G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: SC MYS Fic Ker Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: A Bernie Gunther novel.
