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39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers 3 Bartimaeus trilogy bk. 2 Bernie Gunther novel ; 8 Blackbriar 1 Daughter of smoke and bone trilogy 3 Daughter of smoke and bone trilogy ; 3 Doubleday Large Print Home Library Hidden masterpiece novel Hidden masterpiece novel 2 Thorndike Press large print reviewers' choiceTaylor, Laini
Summary: "Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky. In a dark and dusty shop, a devil's supply of human teeth grown dangerously low. And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherworldly war. Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown, and Company 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TAYTooke, Hana
Summary: Following the one clue her friend Sylvie left behind before she went missing, Ema seeks to infiltrate the mysterious Midnight Guild to rescue Sylvie, despite a peculiar fear of shadows and the ability to predict events before they happen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TOORomero, R. M. (Rachel Maria)
Summary: Sent to stay with her aunt in Prague and witness the humble life of an artist, Ilana Lopez--a biracial Jewish girl--finds herself torn between her dream of becoming a violinist and her immigrant parents' desire for her to pursue a more stable career. When she discovers a forgotten Jewish cemetery behind her aunt's cottage, she meets the ghost of a kindhearted boy named Benjamin, who died over a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Teen 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ROMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ROMStroud, Jonathan.
Summary: In their continuing adventures, magician's apprentice Nathaniel, now fourteen years old, and the djinni Bartimaeus travel to Prague to locate the source of a golem's power before it destroys London.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Paperbacks for Children 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC STRWishnia, K. J. A.
Summary: In 1592 Prague, Emperor Rudolph II sits on the throne; the Papal Inquisitor has arrived to persecute witches and heretics; and the city's Jews live behind the walls of the ghetto. When the body of a young Christian girl is found in a Jewish shop on the eve of Passover, a blood libel charge is brought against the shopkeeper. The relative peace enjoyed by the Jewish community is in peril, and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M WISTaylor, Laini
Summary: When a brutal angel army trespasses into the human world, Karou and Akiva must ally their enemy armies against the threat -- and against larger dangers that loom on the horizon in this thrilling conclusion to the Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TAYCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC TAYRichman, Alyson.
Summary: During the last moments of calm in prewar Prague, Lenka, a young art student, and Josef, who is studying medicine, fall in love. With the promise of a better future, they marry--only to have their dreams shattered by the imminent Nazi invasion. Like so many others, they are torn apart by the currents of war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2011
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Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SZACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Szalay 2016Gervais, Simon
Summary: When an undercover Treadstone agent is murdered in Prague, but none of his superiors know what he was doing there, Blackbriar operatives Helen Jouvert and Donovan Wade are sent to investigate, drawing them into a world of conspiracy and fake news.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GERFlyte, Magnus.
Summary: A music student working in Prague cataloging Beethoven's manuscripts discovers clues that her deceased mentor may not have committed suicide and becomes involved with a time-travel drug, a 400-year-old dwarf, a handsome Prince and a powerful U.S. senator.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLYPerry, Sarah
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Perry 2018Scruton, Roger.
Summary: "Set in the twilight years of the Czechoslovak communist regime, recalled from the suburbs of Washington, this novel describes a doomed love affair between two young people trapped by the system. Roger Scruton evokes a world in which every word and gesture bears a double meaning, as people seek to find truth amid the lies and love in the midst of betrayal. The novel tells the story of Jan...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Midpoint Trade Books Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCRWindley, Carol
Summary: "In 1927, as Natalia Faber travels from Berlin to Prague with her mother, their train is delayed in Saxon Switzerland. In the brief time the train is idle, Natalia learns the truth about her father - who she believed died during her infancy - and meets a remarkable woman named Dr. Magdalena Schaeffer, whose family will become a significant part of her future. Shaken by these events, Natalia...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WINCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction WindleyBlack, Benjamin
Summary: "Bestselling author Benjamin Black turns his eye to sixteenth century Prague and a story of murder, magic and the dark art of wielding extraordinary power Christian Stern, an ambitious young scholar and alchemist, arrives in Prague in the bitter winter of 1599, intent on making his fortune at the court of the Holy Roman Emperor, the eccentric Rudolf II. The night of his arrival, drunk and lost,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLATaylor, Laini.
Summary: "The otherworldly Karou struggles to come to terms with who and what she is, and how far she'll go to avenge her people"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TAYCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TAYLLerangis, Peter.
Summary: Siblings Amy and Dan must find another way to outwit the Vespers when they target and kidnap Dan's only friend, eleven-year-old Atticus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC THIKerr, Philip.
Summary: In 1941 Prague, private detective Bernie Gunther must sort through a roomful of murderous high-ranking Nazi Party members to discover who killed a young member of Reinhard Heydrich's staff.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KERKellerman, Jonathan.
Summary: The legend of the Golem of Prague has endured through the ages: a creature fashioned by a sixteenth-century rabbi to protect his congregation, now lying dormant in the garret of a synagogue. But the Golem is dormant no longer ... Detective Jacob Lev wakes one morning, dazed and confused: He seems to have picked up a beautiful woman in a bar the night before, but he can't remember anything about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Kellerman 2014Cambron, Kristy
Summary: "Two women, one in the present day and one in 1942, each hope for a brighter future. But they'll both have to battle through their darkest days to reach it. Today. With the grand opening of her new gallery and a fairy-tale wedding months away, Sera James appears to have a charmed life. But in an instant, the prospect of a devastating legal battle surrounding her fiancé threatens to tear her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION CAMKerr, Philip.
Summary: In 1941 Prague, private detective Bernie Gunther must sort through a roomful of murderous high-ranking Nazi Party members to discover who killed a young member of Reinhard Heydrich's staff.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marian Wood Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEREisen, Norman L.
Summary: When Eisen moved into the US ambassador's residence in Prague, he was startled to discover swastikas hidden beneath the furniture. As he unspooled the twisting, captivating tale of some of the remarkable people who had called this palace home, he began to chronicle the upheavals that transformed the continent over the past century. He introduces us to optimistic Jewish financial baron, Otto...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown, an imprint of Crown Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.71 EISStelson, Caren
Summary: "This powerful story is told from the collective perspective of the children who were rescued from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II, as Hitler's campaign of hatred toward Jews and political dissidents took hold. The narrative starts in 1938 and follows the children as they journey to foster families in England for the duration of the war, return to Prague afterward in an unsuccessful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.53 STEAlbright, Madeleine Korbel.
Summary: From former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright comes a moving and thoughtful memoir of her formative years in Czechoslovakia during the tumult of Nazi occupation, World War II, fascism, and the onset of the Cold War.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 943.71 ALBRIGHT, MADELEINE KORBEL ALBAlbright, Madeleine Korbel.
Summary: The former Secretary of State paints a portrait of her early life from 1937 to 1948 during which she witnessed the Nazi invasion of her native Prague, the Holocaust, the defeat of fascism, the rise of communism, and the onset of the Cold War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2012