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Body Squeeze
Narrative Non-fiction / Self Help2017 · 240 pp

Body Squeeze

Kari Løvendahl Mogstad

Kari Mogstad is a doctor and mother of five, a passionate mediator and avid article writer. As a doctor, she daily meets children and young adults who are struggling with increasing body image issues and focus on their appearance. Many of them have headaches or stomach-aches, depression and eating disorders. In this book, she tries to find out more about how children and young adults are really doing, and show parents what a child's reality looks like. She also tackles the role of today's parents and asks what kind of role models we really are. The book helps parents to become more aware, and you will likely replace a few princess dresses after having read it. She also uses her extensive experience as a mother to give advice on how to help children and young adults have a good life and resist external pressures. "Body Issues is an important contribution in the struggle against just talking about the tyranny of beauty and the body pressure that is destroying the quality of life for so many young people today. Right now, the most important thing is that we join forces to give the young generations of our time the possibility to have a possitive image of their bodies, and to shift the focus from the cosmetic body to the functioning body."Jorunn Sundgot-Borgen, professor at the Norwegian Sports College

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Art Rock
Narrative Non-fiction2017 · 112 pp

Art Rock

Torgrim Eggen

The third generation of rock consisted of slightly different types of people than the previous two. Roxy Music, Kraftwerk and David Bowie considered rock music to be a visual art form as much as musical craftsmanship. By finding a position that looks both back and forth at the same time, they created pop music that still seems completely new and bold, over 40 years later. Art Rock is a music book with slightly larger perspectives, which touches art history, politics and the biographical.

He Never Promised Me Gold, Only Green Forests
Narrative Non-fiction2017 · 224 pp

He Never Promised Me Gold, Only Green Forests

Lene Julsen

Man loves woman. Woman loves man. But 385,186 square kilometers of Norwegian nature separates them. All she wants is to have children, all he wants is to go to the mountains. Convincing a ‘Nature Man' that there is room for a child will prove to be just as difficult as walking up Store Skagastølstind in stilettos. A warm, humorous story about how people can live together despite great differences.

Per is Dying
Narrative Non-fiction2017 · 256 pp

Per is Dying

Per Fugelli

Per Fugelli, one of Norway's loudest and most fearless voices for almost half a century, has been fighting a long battle with cancer. Per is Dying will be his very last book, written as a survey report about the very last episode of life and finished only when he is at death's door. At the same time, it is a great humanist's last message for posterity, a reminder of what really matters when it all comes down to it.

The Ultimate Redesign Book
Crafts and Hobbies / Narrative Non-fiction2017 · 176 pp

The Ultimate Redesign Book

Connie Riiser Berge / Siri Berrefjord / Marianne Hildeng Vigneau

Find value in old textiles and create your very own unique wardrobe! Redesign is environmentally friendly, fashionable and fun. The authors show you how to use what you find in flea markets, attics and cellars as a starting point for sewing. The materials are things anyone can get hold of: duvet covers, old pants and shirts, crocheted tablecloths and blankets, to name a few.

The Journey to Bretton Woods
Narrative Non-fiction2017 · 224 pp

The Journey to Bretton Woods

Maria Berg Reinertsen

Early one summers day of 1944, a small group of economists set to sea. Their wish was to create a better world. In their wake, London was getting over the first attack performed with the VI – the flying bomb – Hitlers new super weapon. Under the deck of the boat 2000 German war prisoners from the landing at Normandy was kept. On the bridge, Commodore Bisset, the English commercial fleets biggest hero. Ahead of them all – seven days at sea, journeying to the Bretton Woods-conference in the US. Reinertsen tells the tale about the boat journey that would lay the grounds for world economy the way we know it in our time, 70 years later. During the crossing the travellers drafted what would become IMF and The World Bank, while The Queen Mary was criss-crossing to avoid German submarines. Because of the war, the Atlantic more or less vast and empty, apart from the group of economists on deck discussing rules and deprecation of currencies. This journey at sea becomes a prism to describe the past – what was it that lead the way to Bretton Woods? – And for the future: What was the effect it had on the world in the half century that followed, and what traces can we still see today?

SEPP
Narrative Non-fiction2017 · 256 pp

SEPP

Nina Kristin Nilsen

In Sepp, Nina Kristin Nilsen writes about one of the most exciting destinies in Norwegian emigration history. Leonhard Seppala was of Kven lineage – from Skibotn in Troms. He emigrated to the United States in 1900, during the gold rush in Alaska. Nilsen writes about this era, the gold miners, immigrants and life in the Arctic in a way that will leave the reader breathless. But Seppala's greatest claim to fame (in his time, he was one of America's best known people) didn't come from gold mining, but from dog mushing. When the small gold mining community of Nome – on the furthest west coast of Alaska, by the Barents Sea – was struck by a diphtheria epidemic, it couldn't be reached by neither boat nor plane. It was mid-winter, with temperatures down to 45 degrees below zero and winds of over 35 m/s. In a sled relay that was followed by all of the United States via telegraph lines, the dog teams struggled through the Arctic tundra – and when they reached their destination, a new set of heroes was born.

We’ll Talk Next Week
Narrative Non-fiction2017 · 176 pp

We’ll Talk Next Week

Ellen Sofie Lauritzen

"We´ll talk next week" he said. And went silent. When Ellen Sofie Lauritzen reluctantly decides to give the dating-app Tinder a chance, a brand new world opens. A world where you can always swipe your way to your next date, and where the access to new and interesting people is never ending. But she soon finds out that the Tinder-life also has a dark side. The alternatives are so many, and the next date always seems more alluring than the one you are on. And dumping someone never seems to create any consequences. Not for her, her friends or the men they meet. Lauritzen gives us a humoristic and honest look at a young woman´s year as an app-dater. She tells stories - her own and those of others - about anything from fateful profile pictures and catastrophic choices of pick-up-lines, to double gaming, harassment, date-rape-drugs and deceit. And some stories about actually finding real love. "We´ll talk next week" is a friend for those who lie awake at night swiping, and a liberatingly recognizable book for those who have tried to find the right one.

The Interpreter
Narrative Non-fiction2017 · 240 pp

The Interpreter

Simen Sætre / Qais Wahidi

Afghan interpreter Qais Wahidi's account from within the Norwegian and Swedish military involvement in Afghanistan provides a unique documentation of an organization that the Norwegian public has never been fully aware of. The book, written by Simen Sætre, reveals serious events that until now have been unknown. Wahidi was a central witness to the control of a brigade of 3000 men, and present at key events in the Norwegian involvement in Faryab.

The Compassionate Human
Narrative Non-fiction2017 · 264 pp

The Compassionate Human

Dag O. Hessen

The Compassionate Human is a book that will simply turn you into a better person. It is a biologist's optimistic defence for the good in all of us, in these modern times many find dark and disturbing.When talking about human nature, most of us think of the ability to commit heinous and violent acts, to kill or be killed. In The Compassionate Human author and biologist Dag O. Hessen argues that these mechanisms might more often than not inspire and lead us to do good instead of evil.

Wimbledon
Narrative Non-fiction2017 · 288 pp

Wimbledon

Gudmund Skjeldal

”Farmers don't play tennis. But they could, and they could do it well.” With its leadoff in this old statement, Gudmund Skjeldal writes a book about what makes the sport of tennis so captivating. It is the story of Wimbledon's magical grass, Roger Federer and Serena Williams' elaborate games. It is the drama of the days of Björn Borg and John McEnroe, when Norwegian cities and streets were completely empty when the final was being played. Like other good games such as football and chess, tennis kindles a tension reminiscent of life itself. Tennis is a sport of extreme concentration, whether you're a top player or a content amateur. It is also a solitary sport, and a sport where you depend on another person. Perhaps it is for these reasons that many books and song lyrics are written about tennis. The book Wimbledon is shaped like a waiting period in which these books and experiences are reflected upon, and a colorful reportage trip to Wimbledon itself.

12 Adventures and a Bathtub
Narrative Non-fiction2016 · 272 pp

12 Adventures and a Bathtub

Aleksander Gamme

A new collection of tales of adventure from Aleksander Gamme! Along Lake Mjøsa in a bathtub, base jumping in the USA, dramatic and widely varied rock climbs, visiting mountain gorillas in East Africa, an exciting date with a veiled lady in Iran and a trip to the North Pole with four 13-year-olds. Aleksander has his own unique style, in life as in his writing. Every tale is told from an unexpected point of view and written with a humorous twist.