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  The Invisible Bridge

  by Julie Orringer

  Julie Orringer’s astonishing first novel—eagerly awaited since the publication of her heralded best-selling short-story collection, How to Breathe Underwater (“Fiercely beautiful”— The New York Times )—is a grand love story and an epic tale of three brothers whose lives are torn apart by war. Paris, 1937. Andras Lévi, a Hungarian Jewish architecture student, arrives from Budapest with a scholarship, a single... (more)
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  Prague

  A Novel

  by Arthur Phillips

  A novel of startling scope and ambition, Prague depicts an intentionally lost Lost Generation as it follows five American expats who come to Budapest in the early 1990s to seek their fortune. They harbor the vague suspicion that their counterparts in Prague have it better, but still they hope to find adventure, inspiration, a gold rush, or history in the making.
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  Ballad of the Whiskey Robber

  A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts

  by Julian Rubinstein

  Part PINK PANTHER, part UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING, part SLAP SHOT, this uproariously funny, exuberantly praised book tells the story of Attila Ambrus, a professional hockey goalkeeper (possibly the worst in the sport's history), gravedigger, roulette addict, whiskey drinker (with a fondness for women in leopard-skin hot pants), and native of Transylvania who became Hungary's celebrated gentlemen thief, the... (more)
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  Fatelessness Trilogy: Book 1

  Fatelessness

  by Imre Kertész

  At the age of 14 Georg Koves is plucked from his home in a Jewish section of Budapest and without any particular malice, placed on a train to Auschwitz. He does not understand the reason for his fate. He doesn’t particularly think of himself as Jewish. And his fellow prisoners, who decry his lack of Yiddish, keep telling him, “You are no Jew.” In the lowest circle of the Holocaust, Georg remains an outsider. The... (more)
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  Danube

  A Sentimental Journey from the Source to the Black Sea

  by Claudio Magris

  Danube is a triumphant celebration of a river that has forever been at the center of the great movements of history. In this fascinating journey through the history and culture of the Danube, Claudio Magris, whose knowledge is encyclopedic and his curiosity limitless, invites the reader to accompany him along the whole course of the river, from the Bavarian hills through Austria-Hungary and the Balkans to the... (more)
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  Under the Frog

  by Tibor Fischer

  Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Under the Frog follows the adventures of two young Hungarian basketball players through the turbulent years between the end of World War II and the anti-Soviet uprising of 1956. In this spirited indictment of totalitarianism, the two improbable heroes, Pataki and Gyuri, travel the length and breadth of Hungary in an epic quest for food, lodging, and female companionship.
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  Archaeological Mysteries: Book 8

  The Magyar Venus

  by Lyn Hamilton

  After the unveiling of the Magyar Venus--a head and torso of a woman carved from mammoth ivory during the Upper Paleolithic period--one of Lara's friends commits suicide. Determinedly tracing the Venus's provenance to Budapest, Lara discovers a truth that arises from the secrets of the past.
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  Castles Burning : A Child's Life in War

  by Magda Denes

  This unsparing portrait of a childhood in 1939 Hungary--told in the voice of a brave and unforgettable nine-year-old Jewish girl--is "the best sort of memoir, revealing not only a compelling story, but also the bruised yet still bold self which bears the weight of its story in memory" ("The New York Times Book Review") .
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  Awakened By Blood: Book 1

  Blood on Silk

  by Marie Treanor

  The debut of a seductive new contemporary series of vampires, lust, and revenge. While in Romania researching historical superstitions, Scottish academic Elizabeth Silk comes upon the folk tale of Saloman, a seductive prince staked centuries ago, legend's most powerful vampire. Now, in the ruins of a castle crypt, Elizabeth discovers supernatural legends that have come alive. Her blood has awakened him. Her... (more)
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  Awakened by Blood: Book 2

  Blood Sin

  by Marie Treanor

  The author of Blood on Silk brings readers the next novel in her seductive new Awakened by Blood series.Months after her dangerous encounter with the vampire overlord Saloman, Scottish academic Elizabeth Silk is still trying to cope with both the demands of her vampire-hunting bloodline-and the desire she feels for Saloman, the immortal she brought back from the grave. But when Saloman's ancient sword... (more)
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  The Bourne Legacy (Movie Tie-in Edition)

  by Eric Van Lustbader

  Once, Jason Bourne was notorious in the clandestine world of covert-ops as one of the CIA's most expert international killers for hire.  Out of the ashes of his violent past he's emerged today as a Georgetown professor, living a quiet life, retired from danger--until he narrowly escapes the bullet of a faceless assassin. And when two of Bourne's closest associates are murdered, Bourne knows that his legacy has... (more)
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  The Angler: Book 1

  Bait

  by Annie Nicholas

  Sent on a mission to lure Budapest’s vampire Overlord into a trap, Connie Bence is instead caught red-handed by the dark Casanova. Her employer has concrete proof of the dubious leader’s misdeeds but she is surprised when this ruthless killer, Rurik, offers her protection and rescues her from his own kind. It plants seeds of doubt in her mind and she begins to question his guilt. Now she is thrown into his world... (more)
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  Extraordinary Renditions

  by Andrew Ervin

  Set in Budapest—a city marked by its rich cultural heritage, the scars of empire, the fresher wounds of industry, and the collateral damage of globalism— Extraordinary Renditions is the sweeping story of three equally tarnished expatriates. World-renowned composer and Holocaust survivor Lajos Harkályi has returned to Hungary to debut his final opera and share his mother's parting gift, the melody from a lullaby... (more)
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  The Rough Guide to Budapest [ THE ROUGH GUIDE TO BUDAPEST BY Hebbert, Charles ( Author ) Apr-30-2012

  by Charles Hebbert

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  Budapest a diktatúrák árnyékában

  by Krisztián Ungváry

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  Finnugor vámpír

  by Szécsi Noémi

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  Egy Kardforgató Élete: Filmnovella Petschauer Attiláról

  by Hámori Ottó

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  A Vérgróf

  by Szabolcs Benedek

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  Kolorádó Kid

  by András B Vágvölgyi

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  Gordon Zsigmond Krimi: Book 1

  Budapest Noir

  by Kondor Vilmos