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Night soldiers volume 6
Pub. Date
[2001]
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Paris, 1938. As Europe edges towards war, Nicholas Morath, an urbane former cavalry officer, spends his days working at the small advertising agency he owns and his nights in the bohemian circles of his Argentine mistress. But Morath has been recruited by his uncle, Count Janos Polanyi, a diplomat in the Hungarian legation, for operations against Hitler's Germany.
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[2011]
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The women of a rural Hungarian town are all too happy when their brutish men leave to fight in World War I. After the war, when the village men return, Sari Arany, a young woman with herbal knowledge, devises a sinister plan to rid herself of her abusive fiancé. Then a friend asks to escape a similar fate and Sari stumbles down a dangerous path. Based on a true story.
5) The tombs
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Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are intrigued when an archaeologist friend requests their help excavating a top secret historical site. What they find will set them on a hunt for a prize greater than they could ever imagine. The clues point to the hidden tomb of Attila the Hun, the High King who was reportedly buried with a vast fortune of gold and jewels and plunder . . . a bounty that has never been found. As they follow the trail through...
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"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of Backlash, comes In the Darkroom, an astonishing confrontation with the enigma of her father and the larger riddle of identity consuming our age. 'In the summer of 2004 I set out to investigate someone I scarcely knew, my father. The project began with a grievance, the grievance of a daughter whose parent had absconded from her life. I was in pursuit of a scofflaw, an artful dodger...
7) Hungary
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Explores the history, geography, wildlife, infrastructure and government, and culture of Hungary. Also includes a detailed fact file, maps and charts, and a traceable flag.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 42
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"Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters. The letters are all addressed to "My dear and unfortunate successor," and they plunge her into a world she never dreamed of - a labyrinth where the secrets of her father's past and her mother's mysterious fate connect to an inconceivable evil hidden in the depths of history." "The letters provide links to one of the darkest powers...
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"Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War I explodes across Europe. Enraptured by romantic tales of battlefield surgery, he enlists, expecting a position at a well-organized field hospital. But when he arrives--at a commandeered church tucked away high in a remote valley of the Carpathian Mountains--he discovers a freezing outpost ravaged by typhus. The other doctors have fled, and only a single mysterious nurse...
11) Hungary
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Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
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"Developed by literacy experts for students in grades three through seven, this book introduces young readers to the geography and culture of Hungary"--
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Lords of the Underworld volume 1
Description
To silence the voices in her head, Ashlyn Darrow arrives in Budapest where she seeks help from men rumored to have supernatural abilities. She is drawn to their most dangerous member, Maddox, who is living in a hell of his own.
14) Prague: a novel
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Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
Five American expats travel to Budapest in the early 1990s to seek their financial, romantic, and spiritual fortunes, but when they arrive, they fail to find the adventure and inspiration they hoped for.
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"On a freezing night in January 1941, a little Jewish girl is found on the steps of an apartment building in Bucharest. With Romania recently allied with the Nazis, the Jewish population is in grave danger, undergoing increasingly violent persecution. The girl is placed in an orphanage and eventually adopted by a wealthy childless couple who name her Natalia. As she assimilates into her new life, she all but forgets the parents who were forced to...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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Hungarians live in fear of the dreaded Secret Police. A student-led demonstration soon turns into a bloody battle to overthrow the hated communist regime. People fight with Molotov cocktails, bravery and cunning. They fight for freedom. They fight to survive. A panoramic novel of courage, sacrifice and the indomitable human quest for freedom.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
"Andras Vayda grows up in a turbulent, war-torn Hungary, where he begins to have affairs with older women at a very early age...As a teenager, Andras is attracted to girls of his age, but he is discouraged by their inexperience and shyness. Then he meets Maya and everything changes...But Maya is only the first of many mature women that Andras will learn to love..."--Container label.
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