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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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Daughter of smoke and bone trilogy volume 2
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English
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Karou struggles to come to terms with who and what she is and finds out how far her loyalty to her people will go.
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c2009
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English
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When successful novelist Isabel Raines learns that everyone that her husband worked with is dead--and that her missing husband has been legally dead for some time--she will not rest until she finds the truth about him. Who he was, where he's gone, and how he was able to deceive her so completely.
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Bartimaeus trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
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English
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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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2024.
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English
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When Hero arrives in Prague for her friend Sophie's bachelorette weekend, she has no idea what's in store. This city has a penchant for playing gentle tricks on unsuspecting tourists. A book Hero is reading seems to be warping her mind: the text changes each time she picks it up, revealing startling new stories about the city's history. Figures from Czech lore appear during bachelorette activities and at city landmarks, offering wisdom, humor, and...
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Blackbriar volume 1
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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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.
The assassination of a Treadstone agent leads two Blackbriar operatives down a rabbit hole of deceit and betrayal in this explosive new series from the world of Robert Ludlum. A car explodes along a quiet...
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2020.
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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 otherwordly war. Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real; she's prone to disappearing on mysterious...
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