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1) Heidi
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A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.
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George tries to escape a host of problems by going to Switzerland to help his friend Annie's father, Eric, run an experiment exploring the origins of the universe, but faces saboteurs and a mysterious message from George's old nemesis, Reeper, there. Includes scientific essays exploring the latest theories on the origin of the universe.
7) Barry
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Barry der Menschenretter, a Saint Bernard dog, reflects back on his life in the early 1800s at the Hospice of the Great Saint Bernard in the Swiss Alps, where he rescued some forty people from avalanches. Includes facts about the breed and the hospice.
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En lo alto de las montañas suizas hay un gran hotel cuyos días de gloria, sin duda, han quedado atrás. Fanny, una joven de diecisiete años que trabaja en el hotel, se ocupa de hacer la estancia de los huéspedes lo más confortable y lujosa posible. Sin embargo, se da cuenta de que algunos de los huéspedes no son quienes fingen ser. ¿Qué planes secretos se forjan detrás de las cortinas de terciopelo? ¿Es cierto que la mujer del millonarios...
10) Heidi
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An abridged version of Johanna Spyri's classic story of Heidi, an orphan who builds a strong bond with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps, but after she is sent into town to attend school and be a friend to a wealthy man's daughter, who is restricted to a wheelchair, Heidi's health begins to fail as her desire to return to her home in the mountains increases.