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Look into the Eye

Look into the Eye
  • Author(s): Jennifer Barrett
  • Location(s): Norway, Dublin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2012

Melanie McQuaid has a five-year plan. And it doesn’t include love or fun. Richard Blake seems set on self- destruction. There’s a spark between them, though they have nothing in common. Then their lives are transformed. Disillusioned from a...

Mayday

Mayday
  • Author(s): Grethe Bøe
  • Location(s): Norway, Russia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In Norway’s frozen north, tension is escalating across the border with Russia. One false move could trigger a major political crisis, or even a war … When an F-16 N.A.T.O. plane goes down on Russian territory, the danger of...

Misadventures in the Screen Trade

Misadventures in the Screen Trade
  • Author(s): Alison Ripley Cubitt
  • Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa), Australia, Norway, United Kingdom, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1980s to the present

A young woman in a man’s world takes on the media industry. Can she hit the heights of her dreams, or will she fall flat on her face? Sydney 1981 Alison Ripley Cubitt couldn’t wait to make her mark....

Mysteries

Mysteries
  • Author(s): Knut Hamsun, Gerry Bothmer (translator)
  • Location(s): Norway
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, In Translation
  • Era(s): early 2000s

In a Norwegian coastal town, society’s carefully woven threads begin to unravel when an unsettling stranger named Johan Nagel arrives. With an often brutal insight into human nature, Nagel draws out the townsfolk, exposing their darkest instincts and suppressed...

Norwegian Wood

Norwegian Wood
  • Author(s): Lars Mytting
  • Location(s): Norway
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction

“A step-by-step guide to preparing your wood store” Independent Whether you’re a seasoned woodcutter, or your passion is yet to be kindled, NORWEGIAN WOOD is an entertaining guide for year-round wood management, and the perfect gift. Chopping and stacking...

Out Stealing Horses

Out Stealing Horses
  • Author(s): Per Petterson, Anne Born (translator)
  • Location(s): Norway
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): early 2000s

We were going out stealing horses. That was what he said, standing at the door to the cabin where I was spending the summer with my father. I was fifteen. It was 1948 and one of the first days...

Pan

Pan
  • Author(s): Knut Hamsun, Sverre Lyngstad (translator)
  • Location(s): Norway
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): late 19th century

A lone hunter accompanied only by his faithful dog, Aesop, Thomas Glahn roams Norway’s northernmost wilds. Living out of a rude hut at the edge of a vast forest, Glahn pursues his solitary existence, hunting and fishing, until the...

Pursued by Death

Pursued by Death
  • Author(s): Gunnar Staalesen, Don Bartlett (translator)
  • Location(s): Bergen
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

.   When Varg Veum reads the newspaper headline ‘YOUNG MAN...

Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic’s Edge

Rowing to Latitude:  Journeys Along the Arctic’s Edge
  • Author(s): Jill Fredston
  • Location(s): Alaska, Arctic, Canada, Norway
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Biography
  • Era(s): 2000

The author describes experiences as close to the edge of catastrophe as in any adventure book, but she rides them all out with grace, judgement and muscle, and her self-awareness, humor, and feeling for the animals, landscapes and forces...

Shadow Forest

Shadow Forest
  • Author(s): Matt Haig
  • Location(s): Norway
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Samuel Blink is the hero of this story, but he doesn’t know it yet. Right now, he and his sister Martha are in the back of his parents’ car. He has no idea a giant log is about to...

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