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Circus
UpLit / Literature and Fiction2019 · 320 pp

Circus

Magne Hovden

Funny, elegant and entertaining novel about a traveling circus and a woman's fateful choice. A cynical, self-centered businesswoman inherits a circus and sets out on a journey that introduces her to a world of traditions, dedication and camaraderie that gradually causes her to reevaluate how she'll spend the rest of her life.Sold to Germany, Italy, France and Estonia before it was launched in Norway!Hovden has succeeded in writing a colourful, satirical and catchy novel.DAGBLADETSend in the Clowns! ‘"I would rather shovel Elephant muck!" seems to be the moral of this cross over between Jonas Jonasson’s The Hundred Year Old Who Climed out the Window and Wall Street. In other words likeable and well written entertainment.’STAVANGER AFTENBLAD

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After Us
UpLit / Literature and Fiction2019 · 272 pp

After Us

Gunn Marit Nisja

The year is 1967. After an exciting - and cataclysmic - year at folk high school, four girls go their own ways. They were going to be friends for life.Forty years later, Ingrid is alone after her husband Arvid suddenly passes away. Even though many years have passed, she summons up the courage to call one of her old friends. Both love and conflict soon come back to life. Perhaps it isn't too late for them after all.After us is a tender and warm novel about friendship, love, and the meaning of life.

The Common Swifts
UpLit2019 · 256 pp

The Common Swifts

Merete Lien

A family with secrets - three sisters who do not know the past... Bergen, 1896. The three Engevik sisters come from good stock, but their mother had to sacrifice it all when she married for love, to a free-spirited artist. When he's not composing broadside ballands, their father dreams of sailing to distant waters. Their mother tries to keep both feet on the ground, but it is not easy when adventure is calling them. Little do Mathilde, Louise and Leah know that their entire future could fall to pieces if the great voyage becomes a reality ...

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Nude in Hijab
UpLit / Literature and Fiction2019 · 304 pp

Nude in Hijab

Gunn Marit Nisja

When Live and her friend travel to exotic Egypt, it ends up striking Live mid-heart. She ends up falling overwhelmingly in love with the local guide Kareem, marry him and move into his family home. But soon Kareem changes, and Live ends up trapped in a hijab. This book was nominated to the Norwegian Bookseller Award in 2016.

The Olive Stone
UpLit / Literature and Fiction2019 · 272 pp

The Olive Stone

Gunn Marit Nisja

Hoda is 18 years old and supposed to be married off. Her family run Tree of Life, a popular inn next to the pyramids of Giza in Egypt. The inn is both a lively gathering place for western tourists, as well as a private home where the young daughters honour is under strict control. The family is introducing Hoda to a number of candidates for marriage, but within her completely different feelings are growing. When the Norwegian journalist Sigrid moves in and advises her to follow her own heart, it ends up having unexpected consequences for them both...

The Porcelaine Girl
UpLit / Literature and Fiction2019 · 272 pp

The Porcelaine Girl

Gunn Marit Nisja

Kristin is in her late thirties, and to her mother´s great disappointment still single and childless. But her dream comes true when she opens the café Little Pots in the hamlet of Åndalsnes. At the night of the opening, nineteen year old Marta knocks on the door. Kristin hires Marta, even though the young girl is clearly marked by a dark past. When Kristin´s father dies abruptly, she is expected to come home and take over the family farm. Can she let her family down and follow her own path?

The Porter Residence
UpLit / Literature and Fiction2019 · 304 pp

The Porter Residence

Gøril Emilie Hellen

Ten year old Svanhild thinks she lives in the safest place in the world: the porter residence by the city hospital, where her father Johan has a post as a porter. She idolizes her brother Einar, almost ten years her elder, even though the adults say that his imagination has run wild. Svanhild is going to Girl Scout camp, but she misses her brother, who's been admitted to the psychiatric hospital. The day Svanhild comes home from camp, tragedy strikes. The Porter Residence is a poignant and poetic novel about a family that falls victim to the post-war healthcare system and treatment methods of that time.

Shadow Play
UpLit2017 · 256 pp

Shadow Play

Eva J. Stensrud

En kvinnes kamp for friheten Oslo/Hedmarken, april 1940 Ingen tror at ondskapen vil ramme nettopp dem – men når verdens mektigste hær invaderer Norge, havner hamarjenta Inger Marie og familien i begivenhetenes sentrum. De rømmer mot tryggheten, men møter et helvete, og tilværelsen snus på hodet.Lammet av frykt slåss Inger Marie for familien, for sitt eget liv, og for den besettende kjærligheten. Dramaet som følger river skorpen av gamle sår og bringer vonde familiehemmeligheter opp i dagen.Kampen mot urett har sin pris, både for Inger Marie og for menneskene hun elsker. Men å gi opp ville være å svikte seg selv, og det er en umulig tanke for henne.

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In Deep Water
UpLit / Mystery and Crime2017 · 144 pp · Age 6 - 12

In Deep Water

Arne Svingen

The world's most dangerous gang is tougher than ever. This time, they've built the biggest slingshot ever using Killer's grandfather's suspenders. They must cure Vampire Rosa of the most unpleasant disease. The quartet become sumo wrestlers and find a dead man in the Evil Forest. The gang proves what true friendship is, which gets them into deep, deep water... The Verdens farligste gjeng-books contain short, wild and very funny stories about everything that can happen when the adults aren't paying attention.

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Emma & Johannes
UpLit2016 · 256 pp

Emma & Johannes

Inger Harriet Hegstad

Et inderlig familiedrama.Drømmer og lengsler – ubrytelige bånd …Emma Dal er sytten år og forelsket i barndomsvennen Olav. Moren synes ikke han er den rette, og vil at Emma skal flytte til tanten i Kristiansund for å gå i lære hos henne. Selv trives Emma aller best når hun kan være med faren ut i båten, eller hun kan stikke seg bort med skisseboken. Da en fremmed kunstmaler flytter til øya, får drømmen hennes om en dag å bli malerinne ny næring. – Jeg forstår ikke hva han er ute etter. Karen smelte igjen ovnsdøren. – Så du ikke hvordan han så på Emma? – Nei, det så jeg ikke, svarte Peder oppgitt. – Hvorfor tar du alltid alt i verste mening? – Det gjør jeg vel ikke, men denne karen er det noe ved som ikke tåler dagens lys. Du skal sanne mine ord. Kunstner! snøftet hun. – Det kan vel alle kalle seg.Averøya 1911

White Hearts
UpLit2016 · 256 pp

White Hearts

Ann-Christin Gjersøe

There is something mysterious about Ekely Hospital on the Nøtterø archipelago. Amelia is excited on her first day as a student nurse there in 1911. Does she really know what she is letting herself in for? There are tight moral rules to be followed and much she has to forsake, not least her love. Amelia soon begins to notice that the house lives a life of its own during the night. Ekely is brooding on dark secrets from the days when it was a mansion house …

The doctor's daughter
UpLit2015 · 256 pp

The doctor's daughter

Trine Angelsen

Engeløya,1862. One cold winter evening, Gabriel is on his way home from visiting a patient when his horse suddenly starts to one side. A girl is lying at the side of the road, apparently lifeless. Without hesitation, the young doctor takes her home with him. There is great commotion in his household when the half-dead girl is brought in. Who is she, and where is she from? Nobody knows, and she doesn’t tell them anything …