switzerland

A graphic novel adaptation of the William Tell story about a Swiss hunter who is forced to shoot an apple off of his son's head or be killed along with his son.

An orphan sent to live with her grandfather learns to love both the old man and the Swiss Alps and is homesick when she goes to the city to be a companion to an invalid.

After Heidi, an orphan, builds a strong bond with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps, she is sent into town to attend school and be a friend to a wealthy man's daughter, who is restricted to a wheelchair, but Heidi's health begins to fail as her desire to return to her home in the mountains increases.

An orphan sent to live with her grandfather learns to love both the old man and the Swiss Alps and is homesick when she goes to the city to be a companion to an invalid.

"On the snow-covered slopes of Utah, the unthinkable has just become a nightmarish reality: thirty Secret Service agents have been viciously executed and the vacationing president of the United States is kidnapped by one of the most lethal terrorist organizations in the Middle East--the dreaded Fatah Revolutionary Council."--front flyleaf.

Ruth Gruninger learns how her father helped numerous Jewish families escape Nazi persecution during World War II.

In letters throughout the year, Alexandra's grandmother describes the routines and celebrations that make up life in her little village in the mountains of Switzerland.

Art restorer/Israeli secret agent Gabriel Allon travels to Zurich to restore a Raphael owned by a Swiss banker and finds his life threatened by men attempting to hide Switzerland's shady past involving artworks confiscated from Jews during the Third Reich.