Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 289
Lexile measure
1350L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story involves a young man (Hans Castorp), who visits a cousin in a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps before World War I. After manifesting symptoms of tuberculosis, he remains there for seven years. The characters he meets during this time forms a microcosm of pre-war Europe and represents a classic example of the German Bildungsroman. The work was instrumental in winning Mann the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1929.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the outer deck of a North Sea ferry stands Futh, a middle-aged and newly separated man, on his way to Germany for a restorative walking holiday. After an inexplicably hostile encounter with a hotel landlord, Futh sets out along the Rhine. As he contemplates an earlier trip to Germany and the things he has done in his life, he does not foresee the potentially devastating consequences of things not done. This novel tells the tense, gripping story...
4) The trial
Author
Series
Lexile measure
1150L
Language
English
Description
"The story of the mysterious indictment, trial, and reckoning forced upon Joseph K. in Franz Kafka's The Trial is one of the twentieth century's master parables, reflecting the central spirital crises of modern life. Kafka's method--one that has influenced, in some way, almost every writer of substance who followed him--was to render the absurd and the terrifying convincing by a scrupulous, hyperreal matter-of-factness of tone and treatment. He thereby...
5) The taster
Author
Language
English
Description
"Magda Ritter is pressed into service for her country and, now, every meal could be her last. She is one of a handful of young women given the dubious honor of tasting Adolf Hitler's food, protecting the paranoid dictator from death by poisoning. Pampered compared to most in wartime Germany, the girls live on a knife's edge of fear and suspicion."--
6) The interim
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This monumental novel about an anguished East German writer interrogates with bitter wit the detritus of late twentieth-century life: alcoholism, car culture, consumerism, God, love, statelessness, and above all else, the writer's place in a "century oflies.""--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A family story spanning two world wars and several generations in a German family centers on Helene, a woman who must make the most of a tumultuous time, in a book that reveals the scope of German citizens' denial--or "blindness of the heart"--as a survival mechanism during World War II.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sexual obsession goes awry in this charged story of a sexual relationship between a teacher and an underage student. Thrown together to organize a fundraiser for their failing private school, Judy sees in Zach the elements of a young man she loved as a child. What Zack does not realize is that their relationship is-- for Judy-- only the latest in a lifetime of disturbing secrets.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The narrator of Tezer Özlü's novel is between lovers. She is in and out of psychiatric wards, where she is forced to undergo electroshock treatments. She is between Berlin and Paris. She returns to Istanbul, in search of freedom, happiness, and new love. Set across the rambling orchards of a childhood in the Turkish provinces and the smoke-filled cafes of European capitals, Cold Nights of Childhood offers a sensual, unflinching portrayal of a woman's...
10) The Ipcress file
Author
Series
Unnamed spy novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped, and a secret British intelligence agency has just recruited Deighton's iconic unnamed protagonist-later christened Harry Palmer-to find out why. His search begins in a grimy Soho club and brings him to the other side of the world. When he ends up amongst the Soviets in Beirut, what seemed a straightforward mission turns into something far more sinister.
With its sardonic, cool, working-class hero, Len...
11) Black ice
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An amateur investigation into Erika's watery death buys our anti-hero a ticket for a vertiginous ride.
12) David's Revenge
Author
Language
English
Description
A taut psychological thriller about a visitor from war-torn Georgia who brings paranoia to a peaceful family.
13) The Stronger Sex
Author
Language
English
Description
In this groundbreaking work, autism researcher John Cannell, MD, provides the most comprehensive and compelling explanation to date regarding autism causes, prevention strategies, and treatment protocols that, in many cases, reverse symptoms.
14) The lie
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After meeting Susanne Lasko, a desperate, unemployed divorcee, by chance, Nadia Trenkler, a stylish Berlin investment counselor, hires Susanne, whom she closely resembles, to spend the weekend with her husband, with whom she barely interacts, so she can conduct an out-of-town affair. Of course, a lot more is going on than Susanne realizes. For one thing, Marcus Zurkeulen, a shady investor Nadia has been tricking, wants the money she stole from him....
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request