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Winter Hearts
UpLit2024 · 352 pp

Winter Hearts

Elisabeth Hammer

Christmas is approaching, and snow blankets the little coastal town of Christiansand. The holiday calm spreads through the streets, but not to the young Miss Amalie Gren. Inside her, a storm is brewing. She was completely caught off guard by the proposal from Captain Sjaaland, but before she was able to give him her answer, the powerful Mrs. Gyllenmaark told him yes on her behalf! The Captain is certainly handsome and charming, but Amalie wants to follow her heart – and she is full of doubt. In the serving girl Marte’s heart, however, there is no doubt. She knows who she loves, but she cannot have him. Jacob is the son of the Lord she works for, and far above her station. If the two were caught together, Marte could lose her job and her family would starve. Then, without a word, Jacob goes to Copenhagen to enlist in the army. The temptation is gone, but Marte misses him dearly and she fears from his life. Especially now, that the Napoleonic Wars are ravaging the continent, and the consequences increasingly impact the Danish-Norwegian Kingdom.

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Xiania 2 - Ada
Literature and Fiction2024 · 352 pp

Xiania 2 - Ada

Lotta Elstad

Ada is born around 1880. There is no birth certificate. Her father is a fisherman and gambler. Her mother is absent and almost always pregnant. Most of her children die, and she herself dies in labor when Ada is fifteen. Ada is the lone witness to this brutal event, and the one who has to deliver her bloodied, orphaned little brother. Soon after, her father loses Ada's hand in a card game. On her honeymoon, she runs away and flees to Xiania. She finds lodging and works as a cleaning lady at an “establishment”, fronted by a delicatessen, and run by a certain Madame Josefine. Ada begins to kick prostitutes in the stomach as an abortion method. Her services are high in demand. This is the start of a journey that ends with Ada inheriting the delicatessen, getting rid of the anchovy smell and taking the alias Madam Zavarella. She opens a hat shop on the ground floor – and an abortion clinic in the basement. The story ends in 1923, when a young girl, Klara, knocks her door. Xiania 2: Ada is a raw tale of a run-down part of town, of life and death, of drinking and sex, of women’s health and abortion, of underpaid drudges and colourful procuresses, thieves, smugglers and circus folk. «Lotta Elstad balances well here, between serious political morals and playful entertainment. [...] It breathes and thumps, and sizzles and smells – of Elstad's Kristiania.»Dagsavisen «There's not a lot of fun in the Xiania series, but Lotta Elstad can certainly write.»Stavanger aftenblad, five/six stars

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The Book Devourer
Literature and Fiction / Children's Books2023 · 160 pp · Age 9 - 12

The Book Devourer

Bjørn Ousland

Thick and exciting comic book for devourers of books! In Bjørn Ousland’s new action comic book series, books and reading are at the forefront. It all begins with a book club put together by three children. One day the books start disappearing – not just from their own shelves, but also from the school library and libraries all over the country. And it doesn’t just happen one book at a time, but all of them at the same time! The book club decides they need to make a plan. One night they see the thief – a strange flying creature who brings them to a tiny island far, far out at sea. There they’re captured by a strange little man – and suddenly the story takes a new turn. Bjørn Ousland has years of experience as a comic book illustrator, and he’s published a range of picture books and comic books, as well as educational and engaging non-fiction titles about polar heroes and feats. This book, however, is something entirely new!

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The Nameless Inheritance
Mystery and Crime2023 · 352 pp

The Nameless Inheritance

Ellen Gustavsen

Nerve-wrecking psycological thriller Warning: A DNA-test can potentially change your life A June evening in year 2000 a group of youths gather by a tarn outside the city to celebrate the end of middle school and beginning of high school. The energy is high, but when dawn breaks the joy shatters. A girl has been raped, and her revenge ends in a merciless tragedy for everyone involved. It's an incident that causes deep marks.Sixteen years later a doctor at a fertility clinic is brutally murdered. Police detective Lars Lukassen is assigned the case. The police quickly understands that it will be a challenging case to solve, and they soon are deep into an investigation involving Norway's sperm donor system and human lives, and also Lukassens's own history.This is a crime novel in the spirit of Lisa Marklund’s The Polar Circle. The search for identity and the consequences of a public sperm donor system that is unravelling create the framework for the second novel about Lars Lukassen, written by one of our most promising crime authors. «Well-written, capitvating and believeable ...»RINGERIKES BLAD, six/six stars «... without a doubt Ellen G. Simensen's best crime novel.»Randaberg24

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The Drone Catcher
Literature and Fiction / Children's Books2023 · 152 pp · Age 6+

The Drone Catcher

Øyvind Torseter

On a small island lives the Mule Boy. He receives a warning about a catastrophe and locks himself inside his house. The rats have taken over the city. Should he escape, or should he stay put? After consideration, he bravely ventures out into the empty streets, where he finds someone who’s part of the resistance. An adventurous, apocalyptic action-filled story about isolation, being daring and giant rats. The Drone Catcher is the fifth book about Mule Boy, a series of graphic novels that blend myth, adventure and social commentary, in text and images. Mule Boy’s skewed and somewhat alienated universe enables us to see ourselves and our society with fresh eyes.Allowing plenty of time is recommended: Between Torseter's covers there is - in every way - so much going on that his broad pages are a joy to turn.KLASSEKAMPEN[The book] is large and thick, but it is wise to give yourself plenty of time on each page, to study the details. This is where the experience lies - and the opportunity to supplement with your own associations and reflections. This applies to both adult readers and children.VÅRT LANDTorseter stands firm in its art form. The overview images are colourful, intricate and detailed, while the close-ups and individual scenes are simple and immediate, with black ink and a white background. This contrasting alternation creates a good flow in the narrative.BARNEBOKKRITIKK

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The Dream Bike Register
Literature and Fiction2023 · 144 pp

The Dream Bike Register

Erlend Loe

The Dream Bike Register is about Solveig (who after a while changes her name to Sara, then to Fleur and later to Flexie-Belle) whose bicycle is stolen in a dream and then discovers that her insurance doesn’t cover bicycles stolen in dreams. She feels alone and not present in her own life. She also struggles with boyfriends. She’s had way too many in too short a time. All the while, bicycles keep disappearing in her dreams. The Hittites steal them. And Einar Tambarskjelve. And her neighbour Krout keeps going out. After an especially silly dream where Fleur’s bicycle is stolen while she makes a speech about bike theft at the UN, she rants online. And quickly becomes a spokesperson for people who are sad and upset after having their bicycles stolen from them in their dreams. Flexie-Belle starts a movement. She gets Krout onboard. And after a while establishes dreambikeregister.com, which receives registrations from across the world. Thousands of bikes disappear in dreams every single night. But thanks to the register a lot of people get their dream bikes back. Everyone joins in. The Norwegian City of Trondheim becomes the first place in the world to collectively register the bikes their inhabitants use in their dreams. Shangai becomes the first large city in Asia to join. Flexie-Belle becomes a hero, she gets rich, and finally gets her life in order. The Dream Bike Register is a success story. Norwegian star author has committed a small stroke of genius. Again.«Regardless: Erlend Loe's beautiful, short, touching and insanely funny novel is both very light and very deep. Typically him... Its main character is not at all likeable. The novel about her is another stroke of genius from the man behind the novels "Doppler" and "Fvonk" and other delights. It's good that he exists.»BERLINSKE (Denmark), five/five starsSeriously funny from Loe«You'll struggle to find a more distinct literary project than that of Erlend Loe. Key words: humour and naivity.»NRKMakes you chuckle«The imaginative author Erlend Loe denies himself little, as usual, in a story that exists far from realism's demand of credibility. The short novel will hit home for loyal Loe readers.»VG«... balances beautifully on the border between the completely banal and the pleasantly recognisable. ... The result is highly charming reading.»KLASSEKAMPEN

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Edward Rubikon's Mysteries: The Night of the Yule Goat
Literature and Fiction / Children's Books2023 · 56 pp · Age 6 - 12

Edward Rubikon's Mysteries: The Night of the Yule Goat

Aleksander Kirkwood Brown / Andreas Iversen

Now as a graphic novel in a large format! Edward Rubikon is a monster hunter, a secret family business that almost no one knows about, but which keeps his hometown of Grimsrud free from monsters and scary creatures. Along on the hunt he has his friends Kasper and Nadira, and together they fight against lesser and well-known enemies, such as witches, spectres and time vampires. The population of Grimsrud have become likely to believe almost any conspiracy theory and other wish-wash, and this allows the Yule Goat, who no one previously thought about, to return to his previous power. Luckily for the inhabitants of Grimsrud, Edward and his friends are on the case! A series full of action, humour and monsters – Stranger Things for 7-10 year olds. The Night of the Yule Goat is the eight book in the series.

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You're going to die
Mystery and Crime2023 · 368 pp

You're going to die

Gard Sveen

You're Going to Die is the first book in a new crime series about the detective duo Ulf Sommer and Agnete Ness. Winter 2019: The first weekend of December, Camilla Lund goes on a girl’s trip to Sweden. At least, that’s what she tells her husband. She never comes back home to Setesdal. Her husband’s suspicion that his wife is a completely different person than he believed grows stronger. Camilla didn’t have any old friends, no living parents – seemingly, she had no past at all. In Oslo the leader of Kripos (NCIS), Agnete Ness, is ordered by the Attorney General to start a secret investigation of Camilla Lund’s disappearance. The Attorney General wants Agnete’s best detective, Ulf Sommer, on the case. With strict orders to not reveal its contents to anyone except Ulf, Agnete is given a folder of secret documents. In the folder is a photograph of a young girl. Twenty years ago, everyone in Norway knew her face. Three neo-Nazis, including a fifteen-year-old girl, were sentenced for the murder of two immigrant boys in Oslo. It was the most shocking murder case the country had ever experienced. To Agnete Ness, it’s personal. The black abyss that she thought was in the past, is suddenly her reality again. Camilla Lund’s disappearance is the start of Agnete’s biggest nightmare. To Ulf Sommer, it’s a ticking clock: He is the only one who can save Agnete from her own past.

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Damn, Damn, Damn
Literature and Fiction2023 · 208 pp

Damn, Damn, Damn

Linn Strømsborg

Britt is forty-three years old, married, and mother to a young daughter. All her life, Britt has done the right things. She has followed the rules, made everyone else happy. She been responsible, cleaned up after herself and others. But on this one day, on holiday in a summer house in Norway, she loses her temper and tells off her whole family and friends. And the only thing she regrets, is that she didn't do it a long, long time ago. Together with Niko, the gorgeous free-spirited woman in her husband's group of friends, Britt sets off. Just to get away, spend a night on the beach, to feel the freedom she never allowed herself. But at some point, the night is over, and Britt has to ask herself who she wants to be. As a woman, as a partner, as a mother.Damn, damn, damn is a novel about anger and defiance, about desiring a different life - and a different world. But it is also a novel about surprising yourself, about falling apart and picking yourself up again, and about everything that can happen when you dare to listen to yourself. Damn good«Great content. Well-written. Funny. Relatable. Spot on about contemporary issues. Oh yes, Linn Strømsborg delivers.»ADRESSEAVISEN, five/six stars «When there's a new book out by Linn Strømsborg, I have to have it right away. I don't care how empty my wallet is, I have to have it. And Damn, damn, damn did not disappoint.»STUDVEST

Explores female rage in modern society
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Farewell, Farah Diba
Mystery and Crime2023 · 320 pp

Farewell, Farah Diba

Karin Fossum

The third crime novel about the energetic detective Eddie Feber is one of the best books Karin Fossum has ever written. A man storms into a police station, limping, past the queuing system and shouts that his daughter has disappeared. His despair is heart-breaking. Kandis, almost 6 years old, has disappeared in the middle of the day on a Saturday. She was wearing a light blue dress and hair bow, strappy sandals, and her dark hair was gathered in a braid. The desperate man is Alfie René, Kandis’s dad. Her mother, Fayroz Mohaved, is dead from cancer. Alfie is visibly injured from a serious motorcycle accident. It turns out that a little girl has been observed in a grey van, both near a supermarket and a gas station near the forested area of Natvig. We follow Eddie Feber and his partner Margot as they search for traces. Has she been kidnapped by an abuser? Has the little girl in the beautiful dress been taken far into the dark forest? Does a shipment of OxyContin opiod pills have something to do with the disappearance? As the days go by, the hope of finding the girl alive becomes a desperate and perhaps unrealistic hope. Eddie Feber also has a daughter of the same age as Kandis and the case hits him hard. We get to know him on a more personal level than in previous books. Karin Fossum has written a painfully relevant and gripping story, where the readers will have their assumptions and suspicions turned on their heads. NOMINATED TO THE RIVERTON PRIZE 2024 Reveiws World class «Heart-wrenching topic which, by anyone other than Fossum would be speculative and tendentious. […] at her best she writes psychological thrillers of world class. As this one is.» Dagbladet, six/six stars «Elegant and intelligent crime […] fairy-tale like, gripping and almost surreal.» Bok365, six/six stars «… one of the smartest crime authors in Norway, especially how thoughtfully she writes about what humans are capable of, both good and bad.» Randaberg24, six/six stars «Karin Fossum is close to her very best. And crime literature doesn’t get much better than that.» Adresseavisen, five/six stars Farewell, Farah Diba – Excels! «To deliver so strongly only a year after her previous publication, is an achievement few Norwegian crime authors will do after her.» VG, five/six stars «Farewell, Farah Diba stands out as Karin Fossum at her most superb. It offers excitement, entertainment and wise reflections in a wonderful mix. Karin Fossum proves once again that she belongs to the very top echelon of Norwegian crime.» Dagsavisen Karin Fossum – A whole other class «Most crime stories, also the very good ones, are often particularly exciting in certain passages. With Fossum the whole novel is one continuous passage of excitement. No one does it better.» Nettavisen One of Bok365's best books of 2023 «We should and must live in uncertainty, as it should be, whether the mysteries can be solved or not, but there is a slow and almost imperceptible development in the relationship between child and adult which means that we as readers see with wonder and amazement and pure joy that the balance of power almost tips in favor of the child. In a blend of a fairy tale story, descriptions of nature, some philosophical considerations of life, the text gives us hope and faith in the forces of life.»

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Because You Are
Literature and Fiction2023 · 96 pp

Because You Are

Odveig Klyve

Because You Are is about travel, exile, war, pandemics, a hug, a childhood, and steep mountains in Western Norway, where sheep can fall down; where father can fall down. Shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Odveig Klyve published her poem “Does Your Hand Shake, Vladimir?” on Facebook. The poem went viral and was shared and quickly translated into 100 languages. This poem is the central piece in Because You Are.

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Before the Magnolia Blooms
UpLit / Literature and Fiction2023 · 304 pp

Before the Magnolia Blooms

Ann-Christin Gjersøe

Sommersholm - A family history spun with a web of lies and secrecy February 1867 Rose and her mother are visiting the Collett family in Christiania, but the stay is disrupted when Mr Collett dies. He leaves a company in ruins, and Aurelia is welcomed back to Sommersholm. Rose's parents hope that an educational stay in Denmark will help her forget the enchanting groom Torkel. Rose is in despair over being sent away, but soon her reluctance turns to joy. The mute lacemaker Margrete enters an overwhelming world when she becomes Miss Aurelia Collett's chamber maid. But the trouble of working for the willful Aurelia have a silver lining, when Margrete meets the Collett family's tenant Axel Adler. It is love at first sight, and when she slowly realises Axel may return her feelings she dares dream of a life where she can love, and get love in return. The relationship between Alise and Birk is still meeting resistance from all sides. Alise's father sticks to the promise he gave his dying mother: That no one in his family would be romantically involved with an Adler. Estate owner Count Gerhard Adler employs all tricks to prevent his heir from marrying a house maid, and forces Alise to make an impossible choice. Gerhard Adler also guards his dark, bleak family history well. Before the Magnolia Blooms is the third book in the Sommersholm series, perfect for any fans of Bridgerton.

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