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The Female Brain
Narrative Non-fiction / Self Help2026 · 240 pp

The Female Brain

Ann-Marie de Lange

Our brains are shaped by hormones, yet science has long ignored how profoundly this affects women. In The Female Brain, cognitive neuroscientist and clinical psychologist Ann-Marie de Lange explores how hormonal rhythms sculpt the female brain across every stage of life, from puberty and the menstrual cycle to pregnancy, motherhood and menopause. Drawing on new research and personal stories, she reveals the astonishing adaptability of the female brain: how it grows stronger, more complex and more resilient through change, loss and transition. Why do so many women experience brain fog, mood shifts or changes in memory and focus? What really happens inside the brain during pregnancy or menopause? De Lange challenges the long-standing medical bias built on male physiology, offering a new, evidence-based perspective on women’s neurological health. Both enlightening and empowering, The Female Brain combines cutting-edge science with lived experience to show that women’s biology is not a limitation — it is a source of strength. “This book contributes to increase the understanding of how the physical changes experienced by women, affects the psyche. … The author writes about complex topics in a very good way.” SYKEPLEIEN “Ann-Marie de Lange’s book The Female Brain should become common knowledge for all thinking and feeling persons. … Generally, the book is full of perspectives that gives renewed respect for the enormous changes women experience, physically and cognitively. The writer is personal in a way that must have taken courage and is able to reflect upon difficult emotions while drawing on her field of expertise.” FORSKERFORUM “Ann-Marie de Lange writes with that rare combination of the researcher’s precision and the storyteller’s warmth. … The most striking thing about the book may be its respect for the reader. De Lange never underestimates women’s ability to understand complex research, but neither does she drown her language in an academic fog. The language is easy to read, without becoming overly simplified.” APOLLON

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The Power of Sound
Narrative Non-fiction / Self Help2026 · 288 pp

The Power of Sound

Audun Myskja

Discover the transformative power of sound for your health and well-being. Dr. Audun Myskja, a renowned physician, researcher, and author with over 20 best-selling books, presents his latest groundbreaking work: The Power of Sound. With deep insights into the intricate connection between mind and body, Dr. Myskja explores how music, song, tones, and various frequencies profoundly impact our health. Drawing on cutting-edge scientific research and decades of clinical experience, The Power of Sound reveals how different forms of sound—from listening to music to using our own voices—can act as powerful therapeutic tools. This book offers compelling, scientifically-backed knowledge on sound's effects on living organisms, complete with practical exercises and patient examples to guide you. If you're seeking inspiration and practical methods to harness sound for healing, vitality, and overall well-being, this essential guide offers a fresh perspective on health.

Trauma – The Price We Pay to Survive
Narrative Non-fiction / Self Help2026 · 208 pp

Trauma – The Price We Pay to Survive

Mari Kjølseth Bræin

When safety is lost, survival takes over. We adapt by becoming invisible, controlled, strong on the outside while turmoil brews within. These adaptations help us endure, but they come at a cost: tension in the body, self-blame, shame, and the persistent feeling of never being truly safe, even when the danger is long gone. In Trauma – The Price We Pay to Survive, clinical psychologist Mari Kjølseth Bræin explores how attachment wounds and trauma shape the brain, body and nervous system and how we can begin to heal. With warmth and clarity, she shows how early experiences of fear, neglect, or broken bonds continue to echo through adult life, influencing our choices, our relationships, and the way we see ourselves. This is a book about how we survive and how, slowly, we can learn to live again.

Understand Your Child Through Astrology
Narrative Non-fiction / Self Help2025 · 128 pp

Understand Your Child Through Astrology

Nina Skjemstad

Understand your child's unique personality through the principles of astrology Discover a new dimension in parenting with Understand Your Child Through Astrology. This insightful book combines astrological wisdom with modern knowledge to give a unique tool for understanding and supporting a child's individual development. Each child is a unique combination of heredity, environment and free will. By exploring a child's star sign, you can gain deeper understanding of the child's personality, needs and potential. It provides practical advice for strengthening a child's self-esteem, identity and coping abilities, while promoting empathy and respect in relationships. Understand Your Child Through the Astrology is not a book for putting children into boxes, but a tool for opening up new perspectives and insights. It encourages reflection and awareness, and gives you the opportunity to meet the child where they are, with understanding and love.

The Nature Effect
Narrative Non-fiction / Self Help2025 · 268 pp

The Nature Effect

Marianne Sleire Lundblad

New research shows that we are more disconnected from nature than ever before. This is despite the fact that spending time outdoors is one of the healthiest and smartest things we can do for ourselves. But what exactly are the effects nature has on us and our health? This is what Marianne Sleire Lundblad explores in this book, using her background as a psychologist, and basing the answers she finds around the four elements, earth, fire, water and air. How can a handful of soil or five minutes outside in the rain work as a happy pill? What happens to our immune system when we walk in the forest, and why does an ice plunge help with depression? How can time in front of a fire give us a deeper sense of calm, and what happens to us when we touch the soft fur of an animal? Perhaps many of the answers we are looking for to feel better - mentally, physically and socially – lie right outside our door.

Live Outdoors
Narrative Non-fiction / Self Help2024 · 190 pp

Live Outdoors

Jannicke Øien

Jannicke was an A&E nurse, looking after traffic accident victims and others whose lives had taken a sudden turn. Seeing them on the operating table had a powerful effect on her. The serious injuries were one thing, but even more unbearable was the grief over all the plans and dreams that were now unattainable. Patients told her how they had let life pass them by, planning for a quieter future where they could enjoy themselves. One day she decided that she wasn’t going to end up like that. She had to live now. Jannicke Øien is an adventurer and wilderness guide. Live Outside, Live Now is a tribute to the wild and untouched beauty that surrounds us. It contains personal reflections and stories about her experiences in nature, and how nature can affect us as humans. She writes about climbing some of the world’s highest mountain peaks, walking through dense forests and being in contact with the rich diversity of wildlife. We get to go to some of the most incredible places on the planet, such as the Himalayas, Alaska and Kilimanjaro. But this is also a book about something more: the importance of living our dreams while we can, while we have the health to do so.

Covid teens
Narrative Non-fiction / Self Help2023 · 192 pp

Covid teens

Lars Halse Kneppe

As a psychologist at a Norwegian high school in Oslo, Lars Halse Kneppe has spent the entire pandemic visiting schools and spending time among young people. The world was changing from week to week, and no one knew how long it would last. There has been much written about the youth during the pandemic, but Kneppe has met these young people who are the cause of scary statistics and worrying numbers. Behind the numbers are real humans with their own stories who can complement the impression we get from graphs or statistics. In this book Kneppe shares the stories of the youths, about how they’ve been coping during the pandemic, but also after the world opened back up. To understand what the youth has been through, and in order to meet them halfway in the aftermath, it’s more important to listen to their stories rather than reducing them to numbers as part of a statistic. This is an exploration of time and an insight into the day-to-day lives of the teenagers throughout the pandemic; how were they feeling and how were they doing, and how have their experiences affected the teenagers many refer to as the corona generation?

Instruction Manual for Couples
Narrative Non-fiction / Self Help2022 · 168 pp

Instruction Manual for Couples

Siri Dalsmo Berge

Did you know that a good relationship can strengthen your immune system, lower your blood pressure, and make wounds heal faster? On the other hand, relationship troubles can triple the risk of heart attacks, increase the risk of infection and can cause more buildup of plaque in the arteries. In this fascinating and entertaining book GP and researcher Siri Dalsmo Berge shows how your relationships and health are connected. Through stories from both her life as a doctor and her personal life, she offers specific and research-based tools for better relationships and increased quality of life. Instruction Manual for Couples – the road to a healthier relationship highlights the benefits for your health related to relationship issues in a whole new way. It’s all put together with warmth, a bit of cheek and a large dose of hope – which offers you belief that improving your lives together is possible.

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Elias & Benjamin
Narrative Non-fiction / Self Help2022 · 208 pp

Elias & Benjamin

Lars Petter Kjær

How do you process grief after a suicide? And how do you deal with the feelings of guilt, powerlessness, shame? The feeling of not having done enough? Lars Petter Kjær lost both of his sons to suicide in the space of six months. In this book, he reveals how painful suicide is for the those left behind, and he shares his grieving process with the reader by writing about his children’s upbringing, his role as a father, the feeling of losing control, and the destructive desperation he suddenly found himself having to deal with. The twins where very close. They were both resourceful, but where also suffering from high functioning autism (Asperger). It could be hard for them to understand both their own feeling as well as the feelings and reactions from others. Kjær is a psychologist and a father who has been an active part of his children’s lives. He is an optimist and used to getting things done. He has a wish to understand his children and does his best so that they can take part in life, in activities and vacations, everyday joys and the possibility of things getting better. In this book the worst you can imagine has happened. But faced with such a total crisis Kjær chooses that life must go on. He writes his way through the grief and unwraps layer upon layer of the children’s lives, his role as a father, the process of grief, the powerlessness, and the destructive desperation he is himself thrown into. Suicide is one the most common cause of death for young men, and in this book the author also points to how destructive suicide is for relatives losing their family members to suicide. But this book is a book that is meant to help, a book about working one’s way through grief and choosing life.

Philosophical First Aid Kit
Narrative Non-fiction / Self Help2022 · 224 pp

Philosophical First Aid Kit

Øyvind Kvalnes

The public discussion is at times polarized and the algorithms point us toward people that are more or less just like us. The effect of this is that we have less practice conversating with those who think, talk, and behave differently from us. At the same time, we are facing great challenges that we are supposed to solve together. Philosopher Øyvind Kvalnes has written Philosophical First Aid Kit as a helper, so that we are better equipped to cooperate when it comes to solving great issues together. It gives us inspiration to start conversations across barriers and get to know strangers and their perspective. The content of this book can help loosening up in the sharp fronts and conflict between people, so that small and great cooperation miracles can happen.

Map of Loneliness
Narrative Non-fiction / Self Help2022 · 344 pp

Map of Loneliness

Hilde Østby

In March 2020 the world closed down and stayed completely or partly closed for two and a half years. Most arenas where humans go for companionship, such as offices and concerts, weddings and funerals, disappeared or were decimated overnight. It’s as if the whole world has taken part in a huge experiment in loneliness, according to author Hilde Østby. The result of this experiment is worth dwelling on, as it’s not an easy diagnosis to just brush off. Research shows that loneliness, if it is chronic, is more dangerous for our health than smoking 15 cigarettes a day. In Map of Loneliness Hilde Østby approaches the subject on a personal, philosophical and journalistic level in order to get to grips with loneliness – one of our most enigmatic and under-communicated public health challenges. She shows us what loneliness does to us and asks where it comes from. That is a question which can be answered both medically and existentially. Maybe the mechanisms which drive us apart could later bring us back together? In that case loneliness is something we must solve as a community, through community, and for the community.

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Little Adult
Narrative Non-fiction / Self Help2022 · 240 pp

Little Adult

Guro Hoftun

Little Adult is a book for parents who want to be able to let go when their twenty-year-olds leave home to make their own lives. Through many conversations, Guro Hoftun gets close to people and draws a map of the situation of young adults in Norway, what kind of jobs and careers they start, what they struggle with and what they want. And how parents, who nowadays may be closer to their children than ever, handle letting their little adults be independent. In this book, Guro Hoftun sets the stage for an important and timely discussion of young adults who need to find their own way, and dedicated parents who want a good relationship with their adult children.