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2012, c2011., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: Fic Har Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A visionary scientist creates a revolutionary form of artificial intelligence that predicts movements in the financial markets with uncanny accuracy. His hedge fund, based in Geneva, makes billions. But after an intruder breaks into his home, he has to try to discover who is trying to destroy him"--
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2017., Harper Call No: Fic Goo Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In this suspenseful, provocative novel of friendship, secrets, and deceit, a successful writer returns to her elite Swiss boarding school to get to the bottom of a tragic accident that took place while she was a student twenty years earlier. How far would you go to uncover the truth? One spring night in 1998 the beautiful Cressida Strauss plunges from a fourth-floor balcony at the Lycée Internationale Suisse with catastrophic consequences. Loath to draw negative publicity to the school, a bastion of European wealth and glamour, officials quickly dismiss the incident as an accident, but questions remain: Was it a suicide attempt? Or was Cressida pushed? It was no secret that she had a selfish streak and had earned as many enemies as allies in her tenure at the school. For her best friend, scholarship student Kersti Kuusk, the lingering questions surrounding Cressida's fall continue to nag long after she leaves the Lycée. Kersti marries and becomes a bestselling writer, but never stops wondering about Cressida's obsession with the Helvetian Society—a secret club banned years before their arrival at the school—and a pair of its members who were expelled. When Kersti is invited as a guest to the Lycée's 100th Anniversary, she begins probing the cover-up, unearthing a frightening underbelly of lies and abuse at the prestigious establishment. And in one portentous moment, Kersti makes a decision that will connect her to Cressida forever and raise the stakes dangerously high in her own desire to solve the mystery and redeem her past. An unputdownable read as clever as it is compelling, The Finishing School offers a riveting glimpse into a privileged, rarefied world in which nothing is as it appears.
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c2015., Adult, Random House Call No: Fic Ess Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Anna Benz, an American woman in her thirties, lives in comfort and affluence with her Swiss banker husband and their three young children in a picture-perfect suburb of Zurich. Despite the tranquility and order of her domestic existence, Anna is fallingapart inside. Isolated in a foreign country and a faltering marriage, Anna begins three adventures to restart her life: Jungian analysis, German language classes, and a series of extramarital affairs whose consequences she cannot foretell. Hausfrau is a daring novel about marriage, fidelity, morality, and most especially, self: how we create ourselves and how we lose our selves and the sometimes disastrous choices we make to find ourselves."--Publisher.
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By Plain, Belva1998., Thorndike Press Call No: LP Fic Pla Edition: Large print ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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[1967], Coward-McCann Call No: 940.5 A172m Edition: [1st American ed.] Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2019., Biblioasis Call No: QWF Bio O54m Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In the south of Bosnia and Herzegovina lies Mostar, a medieval town on the banks of the emerald Neretva, which flows from the "valley of sugared trees" through sunny hills to reach the Adriatic Sea. This idyllic locale is where Maya Ombasic's life begins, but when civil war breaks out in Yugoslavia and the bombs begin to fall. Her family is exiled to Switzerland, and after a failed attempt to return, they leave again for Canada. While Maya adapts to their uprootings, her father never recovers from the trauma, refusing even to learn the language of his new country. Mostarghia, a portmanteau of "Mostar" and "nostalgia", centers around Ombasic's often explosive relationship with her father, who was both influence and psychological burden: he inspired her interest, and eventual career, in philosophy, and she was his translator, his support, his obsession. Along with this portrait of a larger-than-life man described by turns as passionate, endearing, maddening, and suffocating, Ombasic deftly constructs a moving personal account of what it means to be a refugee and how a generation learns to thrive despite its parents' struggles."--.
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2016., VLB éditeur Call No: QWF FR Bio O54m Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Mostar, dans le sud de la Bosnie-Hezégovine, est une ville idyllique entourée de collines ensoleillées. La cité médiévale est traversée par la Neretva, le fleuve émeraude qui charrie jusqu'à l'Adriatique la douceur de vivre dans la « vallée des arbres sucrés », où naître chrétien ou musulman, serbe ou croate, est la dernière des choses qui comptent. C'est là que vit la jeune Maya quand les obus se mettent à tomber, d'abord un à un, puis en pluie drue sur la Yougoslavie. Dans l'abri anti-bombardements, les scènes tragicomiques que rapportent les habitants hilares n'empêchent pas la réalité du massacre de filtrer : la guerre est là, elle va durer, il faut partir. Maya et son petit frère s'enfuient dans la caravane des gitans ; ils retrouveront leurs parents à Split, d'où la famille s'embarquera avec d'autres réfugiés pour un exil qui la mènera en Suisse, puis au Canada. Tout au long de ce périple, Maya grandit et s'éduque, poursuivant jusqu'à Cuba un dialogue enflammé avec son peintre de père, homme blessé, prophétique, emporté, balkanique jusqu'au bout des ongles. La résignation révoltée de Nenad, ses enthousiasmes d'enfant cent fois déçus, ses explications savantes sur l'indigence des mots pour dire la vérité du monde et des coeurs scandent le texte sensible et baroque de Maya Ombasic, qui signe avec Mostarghia son livre le plus autobiographique.
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1977., Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday Call No: MYS Fic Web Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2005., General, MGM Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Pink Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: MGM DVD.Summary Note: A bumbling, disaster-prone inspector invades a Swiss ski resort and becomes obsessed with capturing a jewel thief hoping to lift the legendary 'Pink Panther' diamond.
![The Pink Panther [DVD] (1964). Directed by Blake Edward.](/Library/images/~imageCT69252.JPG "The Pink Panther [DVD] (1964). Directed by Blake Edward.")
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c2008., Doubleday Call No: MYS Fic Rei Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: General Adult. Following the death of his wife in a mountaineering accident, Dr. Jonathan Ransom, a surgeon for Doctors Without Borders, receives a mysterious message that makes him the subject of an international manhunt and the target of an assassin as he struggles to unravel the truth behind his wifes secrets and a terrifying global conspiracy. 150,000 first printing.
