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By Haas, Wolfc2014., Adult, Melville House Call No: MYS Fic Haa Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Brenner Volume: 4Summary Note: "Another dark and funny crime novel by the author Carl Hiaasen has called "the real deal." The fourth Brenner book finds the detective in Vienna, uncovering corruption in the ambulance business...and just barely escaping with his life in the process. Disillusioned ex-cop Simon Brenner decides to take a job as an ambulance driver, in the hopes of getting away from the drudgery and corruption in the police force, and finding a "worthy profession." But the ambulance service he goes to work for has a problem--their major competitors are beating them to every pick-up, somehow listening on their radio communications. And Brenner can't help being just a little bit curious about this chance to do some detective work. Things turn considerably darker as he digs deeper, and it turns out that ambulance services are, literally, a cutthroat business. And there are people who don't want their business exposed. Brenner races around summertime Vienna, lights flashing, siren blaring, in a desperate attempt to fit it all together before there's another dead body on his conscience. A caustic and hilarious new installment in the Brenner series."--Publisher.
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2010., Adult, Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: Fic Kei Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A penetrating study of ordinary people resisting the Nazi occupation--and, true to its title, a dark comedy of wartime manners--Comedy in a Minor Key tells the story of Wim and Marie, a Dutch couple who first hide a Jew they know as Nico, then must dispose of his body when he dies of pneumonia. This novella, first published in 1947 and now translated into English for the first time, shows Hans Keilson at his best: deeply ironic, penetrating, sympathetic, and brilliantly modern, an heir to Joseph Roth and Franz Kafka.
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c2012., General, Viking Call No: Fic Dra Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Separated after falling in love as children in their seaside hometown in 1960s Croatia, rising artist Luka and successful actress Dora reunite by chance in Paris and struggle against formidable obstacles to be together.
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2011, c2010., Adult, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: MYS Fic Pot Edition: 1st Mariner Books ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Germany, 1659: When a dying boy is pulled from the river with a mark crudely tattooed on his shoulder, hangman Jakob Kuisl is called upon to investigate whether witchcraft is at play in his small Bavarian town. Whispers and dark memories of witch trials and the women burned at stake just seventy years earlier still haunt the streets of Schongau. When more children disappear and an orphan boy is found dead, marked by the same tattoo, the mounting hysteria threatens to erupt into chaos. Before the unrest forces him to torture and execute the very woman who aided in the birth of his children, Jakob must unravel the truth.
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2012, c2008., Adult, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: Fic Bey Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A book about a great man, a giant in the world of science with all-too-human flaws, "Kaltenburg" is a beautifully detailed novel from a major German writer that brings to life both an individual and a whole world: Ludwig Kaltenburg and his Dresden Institute for research into animal behaviour.
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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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2011., Adult, Nan A. Talese/Doubleday Call No: Fic Wal Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Twenty-nine-year-old Anna Viktorovna lives in Moscow with her young son and her father, a once popular and respected poet who has fallen into disgrace because of his dissident views. Her husband, a junior officer in the Red Army, is on active duty and living seven time zones away. Anna struggles gamely through her difficult existence, doing the best she can amidst the long lines, bureaucratic inferno, and corruption and incompetence of the police state. When she meets and makes an impression on a powerful Soviet official--Alexey Bulgyakov--her life begins to look a little brighter. Alexey is married and nearly twice her age, but he turns out to be a man of infinite patience and forbearance, and gradually a strange but solid bond grows between them. Though Anna still loves her mostly absent husband and harbors no illusions about the future, she and Alexey become lovers. Soon Anna and Alexey<U+2019>s burgeoning romance is irrevocably threatened when a KGB colonel forces Anna to spy on Alexey, who is suspected of disloyalty to the state. Though Anna loathes the notion of double-crossing the man she has come to love, when her family is threatened she must comply. But Anna isn<U+2019>t the only character playing a double game."--Publisher.
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c2013., General, Minotaur Books Call No: MYS Fic Neu Edition: 1st St. Martin's Minotaur ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Kirchhoff and von Bodenstein mysteries Volume: 1Summary Note: "On a rainy November day police detectives Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver von Bodenstein are summoned to a mysterious traffic accident: A woman has fallen from a pedestrian bridge onto a car driving underneath. According to a witness, the woman may have been pushed. The investigation leads Pia and Oliver to a small village, and the home of the victim, Rita Cramer. On a September evening eleven years earlier, two seventeen-year-old girls vanished from the village without a trace. In a trial based only on circumstantial evidence, twenty-year-old Tobias Sartorius, Rita Cramer's son, was sentenced to ten years in prison. Bodenstein and Kirchhoff discover that Tobias, after serving his sentence, has now returned to his home town. Did the attack on his mother have something to do with his return? In the village, Pia and Oliver encounter a wall of silence. When another young girl disappears, the events of the past seem to be repeating themselves in a disastrous manner. The investigation turns into a race against time, because for the villagers it is soon clear who the perpetrator is--and this time they are determined to take matters into their own hands. An atmospheric, character-driven and suspenseful mystery set in a small town that could be anywhere, dealing with issues of gossip, power, and keeping up appearances"--Publisher.
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2015., Adult, 37 Ink/Atria Call No: Fic Sen Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Rising Dragon series Volume: bk. 1Summary Note: American expat Paul Leibovitz is living as a recluse on an outlying island of Hong Kong when the murder of a distressed American woman's son brings him out of his shell.
