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Author
Series
Bartimaeus trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
562 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
431 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
While working on a project translating letters from sixteenth-century Prague, high school senior Nora Kane discovers her best friend murdered with her boyfriend the apparent killer and is caught up in a dangerous web of secret societies and shadowy conspirators, all searching for a mysterious ancient device purported to allow direct communication with God.
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Teen
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Staying with her aunt in Prague, aspiring violinist Ilana finds a forgotten Jewish cemetery where she meets a kindhearted ghost named Benjamin who introduces her to the enchanted side of the city, where she resolves to save the boy she loves.
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Children
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 x 29 cm.
Description
Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel visits the Emperor, leaving a new housemaid to prepare for his Hanukkah party, but returns to find that she has misused the clay man he created. Includes historical and cultural notes.
Author
Series
Daughter of smoke and bone trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
613 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
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.
Author
Series
Daughter of smoke and bone trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Seventeen-year-old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters--the Chimaerae who form the only family she has ever known.
Author
Series
Blackbriar volume 1
Formats
Description
"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 Prague side street--among the dead is an undercover Treadstone agent. It's not unusual for such men to meet their fates on an operation, but in this case there's one catch. None of his superiors know what he was doing there. Two Blackbriar operatives,...
Author
Publisher
Custom House
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
271 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"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 it, Melmoth travels through the ages, dooming those she...
10) Goulash: a novel
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
205 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Eager to escape stifling small-town Indiana, Elliott Black moves to Prague, where he gets a job teaching English. Its 1998, and the Czech Republic is moving with increasing rapidity out of the shadow of communism and into the wilds of twenty-first-century capitalism. Elliott meets his students in a variety of pubs and conducts his lessons over pints of local Radegast beer. He gets his shoes stolen by an experimental artist who engages Elliott in a...
Author
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
ix, 384 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"After the demise of the Soviet Union, the newly-established Russian government privatized its industry by issuing vouchers to all of its citizens, allowing them the chance to be shareholders in the country’s burgeoning businesses. The slips are distributed among the population and auctions are arranged where they can be exchanged for actual shares. For the country’s rural populations living in abject poverty, the vouchers appear to be little...
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