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Parenting Power
Self Help2023 · 256 pp

Parenting Power

Marco Elsafadi / Nina Lødemel

As a parent you can help your child develop a strong and positive mindset. You can offer help to handle difficult emotions. You can parttake the good times and support the child’s curiosity as it explores the world. But how do you lay the groundwork for this good communication, and how can you strengthen it? In Parenting Power, youth worker Marco Elsafadi offers you the tools you need to get closer to your child. He shares his very best techniques on how to meet and understand your child in the best possible way – as well as how you can recognize the pitfalls when they first appear. It really all comes down to investing the time and effort – what you put into your relationship with your child while they are still living at home. Which questions should you ask, and which conversations should you have? The fights between parent and child can seem unnecessarily large if you don’t understand each other when situations arise. When you take their feelings seriously, your child will learn that they can come to you and share news, get support and comfort. Their safe haven. If the child feels loved, prioritized, and acknowledged, the desire to explore will come naturally and the chances that they will become a confident and independent young adult is high – which again will create strong and healthy relationships with other children and adults. Marco Elsafadis’ reflective, whimsical, and warm style of narration will both engage and touch anyone who reads this book. His goal is to help you become a calmer, more confident and harmonic parent, whose appropriate and constructive reactions become a natural part of your reflexes. By following his methods, you will be able to better connect with your child – right now, but also later in life.

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Happy Tummy, Happy You
Cook Books / Self Help2023 · 208 pp

Happy Tummy, Happy You

Gry Hammer

Do you have a troubled and sensitive stomach? Do you want powerful experience and research-based advice about how to handle this, as well as recipes for stomach-friendly food? Then Happy Tummy, Happy You is the ideal book for you! Gry Hammer has throughout several years shared dietary knowledge through courses and bestselling books. In Happy Tummy, Happy You she guides you through our digestive system and teaches you how you can get a calmer tummy by improving the intestinal flora. The author shares a load of concrete advice, practical exercises and lovely recipes for food which will strengthen your digestion and make your gut happier. Try oven-baked cod with pesto, keto pad thai or sourdough bread baked in a cast iron pot. Or how about yogurt pudding with strawberries, liquorice balls or apple pie with a fermented nutty topping? You will also get recipes for drinks which nourish the good bacteria in the stomach, enzyme snacks to prevent digestive problems and many potent and delicious shots, breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and desserts. When you know what your body can handle, you can eat so many delicious things, and Gry will guide you along the way. Don’t let an unstable tummy take control over your life – start your lifestyle change today!

In Tears
Self Help2023 · 240 pp

In Tears

Silje Baarli Salvesen

Crying is the first thing we do in this world. The crying kickstarts our lungs and our lives outside the uterus. As children we cry a lot, and there is no difference between boys and girls, but somewhere along the road to growing up the crying becomes more feminized and by some made into a problem. Crying in public affects the surroundings and can cause discomfort, sympathy, disgust, and empathy, because crying has both a forgiving and a provoking effect. Children’s choirs, fights, spiders, funerals, and sports performances can all be tear-inducing since all feelings can trigger crying. This book considers emotional crying. Emotional crying is unique to humans. It’s extremely natural and normal but can at the same time be both embarrassing and problematic. Crying moves, engages, and provokes, and it has a surprising news value. The author Baarli Salvesen considers the social, historical, cultural, and psychological aspects of crying. And why do some people cry only once every ten years, while others cry ten times a week?

Haakon
Narrative Non-fiction2023 · 560 pp

Haakon

H.K.H. Kronprins Haakon / Kjetil Stensvik Østli

For the past two years, journalist and author Kjetil S. Østli has spent a lot of time with H.R.H. Crown Prince Haakon. The result is a book where the heir to the Norwegian throne himself tells the stories of his childhood, the freedom of studying in California, when he met his wife Mette-Marit, about life as a father, his burning wish to change the world, and about growing older. We accompany him to his secluded family home at Skaugum and to the Royal Palace, to his cabin in the Norwegian Mountains, and on road trips with the Crown Prince himself behind the wheel. We travel to a NATO exercise, to Oslo's east side, and to Windsor Castle. Haakon - Stories from an Heir is an unusually frank, modern, funny and multifaceted portrait of a coming king. «After grandfather died, we drove from Kongsseter to the Royal Palace. That's when I saw all the candles outside. First a few candles, then more and more, they grew to an ocean. (...) We stood in the windows and watched it. We saw people slowly approach. Everything was very quiet. We saw them light candle after candle. It moved me to stand there in the palace window and see the palace square shining.» REVIEWS Will be known as a masterpiece in the genre of royal biographiesAlthough the two have become well-acquainted through this long process, where Østli also has followed the Crown Prince to work and to the cabin and into the mountains, they’ve held the distance that’s completely necessary for this to be a critical, yet close portrait. Østli has simply placed himself at Champions League-levels when it comes to this rare literary genre.NETTAVISEN, six/six stars ... one of the best royal portraits I’ve read.DAGBLADET, six/six stars The book offers interesting insights into both the person and the institution. […] The result of the collaboration between Østli and Crown Prince Haakon is an original biography worth reading.NRK, five/six stars Reflected, knowledgeable, self-assured and sensible. The Crown Prince makes an almost unreasonably good impression in the new biography of him. […] It’s become a vividly written book, where author Østli often shifts between fascination and wonder.VG, five/six stars A playful and close portraitBy capturing and putting into words the strange, yet also freeing connection between responsibility, gravity, duty and play, Kjetil Østli has created a strikingly good and likeable portrait of Crown Prince Haakon. One that rightfully places him at eye-level with the people he is born to one day reign over. DAGSAVISEN Østli is an unusually good observer. He really manages to create a sense of who the reserved heir is, despite the book containing few revelations or unknown information. VÅRT LAND

Hello!
Narrative Non-fiction2023 · 176 pp

Hello!

Atle Nielsen

In Hello! you’ll read about anxiety over telephone charges, queues for telephone boxes, long-distance phone calls, receiving-party-pays systems, prank callers and nuisance calls. The telephone has left its mark on film and literature, music and theatre. Some telephone calls have changed the world, others have altered the direction of people’s lives. This book is full of fantastic facts and photographs spanning a period of 160 years. A highly informative and entertaining book about how one invention changed the world, becoming humanity’s most cherished possession and most important tool.

Hooked on Sourdough
Cook Books2023 · 224 pp

Hooked on Sourdough

Martine Sletmoen

Hooked on Sourdough is an inspiring and gorgeous book showing the extent of everything you can bake with sourdough. Not only are the baked goods fluffier, juicier, more flavourful and with a crunchier crust – sourdough is also gentle and good for the tummy. In Hooked on Sourdough you get delicious and well-tested recipes for everything from the most gorgeous breads and bread rolls to cakes, sweet bakes and tasty pizzas. You’ll get the best tips and tricks to succeed with your sourdough baking, as well as inspiration for expanding your sourdough repertoire with new favourites. If you thought baking with sourdough is just for the especially dedicated or interested, think again! Sourdough is easy and lots of fun – and it is very easy to become hooked!

What I Tell Drunk Boys Who Come Over Pretending They Don't Want To Talk About Panic Attacks
Self Help2023 · 216 pp

What I Tell Drunk Boys Who Come Over Pretending They Don't Want To Talk About Panic Attacks

Aslak Hartberg

Every month on average six men between the ages of 20 and 30 years commit suicide in Norway, according to the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. Two of three who commit suicide before they turn 25 years old are men. Men are overrepresented in statistics about depression and panic attacks. Despite this they rarely ask for help. Aslak Hartberg, a Norwegian rapper, has written a book about anxiety which is especially aimed at men. The consequences of anxiety are often poorer quality of life, people staying home and in the worst cases disappearing from working life. Luckily panic attacks are possible to eradicate. The author describes his book as “a self-help book for those who do not like self-help books.” This is the personal story of Hartberg himself, about how his panic attacks took over his life. It’s not a provocatively positive self-help book with solutions and expert recipes, but instead a brutally honest story from man to man about how he found his peace and got rid of his anxiety. By using cognitive therapy, he explains what the cause of the fear is, how and why it appears, and how one can stop it. This is a personal story with a literary and captivating language, which also guides the reader along their way out of the anxiety, through theory, cognitive and physical exercises.

No One is Innocent: Anti-Semitism on the Left
Narrative Non-fiction2023 · 248 pp

No One is Innocent: Anti-Semitism on the Left

Torkel Brekke

Does the Norwegian left have a problem with anti-Semitism? Yes, argues Torkel Brekke in this book. The author shows how parts of the left have cultivated conspiracy theories about Jews and how Soviet Holocaust revisionism was spread in the Norwegian public. He examines how violence against civilian Israelis is justified and how parts of the Norwegian trade union movement and organizational life moved from post-war sympathy for Israel and the Jews to a rhetoric with an anti-Semitic character. No One Is Innocent takes an uncomfortable but necessary reckoning with a political tradition that has been ignored for far too long. For the left, it has been easy to stick the Jew-hatred on the others, i.e. Nazis and the far-right. The left has failed to look in the mirror and ask how they themselves have referred to and treated Jews.

No One Can Spit at a Smiling Face
Narrative Non-fiction2023 · 208 pp

No One Can Spit at a Smiling Face

Synne Sun Løes

As long as difference exists, it will always speak with a contradictory tone. Speak over itself. Interrupt, protest and bang its fist on the table. Try to convince the world that it deserves to be heard. At the same time it’s also scared to death and trying to hide under that same table. Tries to muzzle itself. All because it’s scared to be exposed. In these personal and investigative essays Synne Sun Løes writes about adoption and identity. She bases her writing on her own experiences as adopted, as well as non-fiction, academia and the public debates. The themes being illuminated are widely spread, from xenophobia, racisms, being different, “the trend of diversity”, hysteria around infringement and Korean revenge art, to more psychological topics such as transgenerational traumas, psychoanalysis, and connectional damage. How can one take ownership of one’s own experiences as adopted and as a ‘’different child’’ without being accused of taking on the role of a victim? How can one adopt one’s own personal identity, as oneself, when one is “different” in present day Norway? How is identity affected by meeting one’s own biological parents? How can one survive in a world which time and time again tries to spit in one’s face? The author approaches these questions both with wonder, humour and seriousness, and she also casts a critical view at the tendency of society to simplify, edit and polarize the stories from marginalized groups.

Saving Big
Self Help2023 · 208 pp

Saving Big

Marie Olaussen

Saving Big puts economy and smart money management on the agenda, without wrapping the topics in foreign words, incomprehensible terms and graphs which require a degree in economics to understand. Here you can get the tips and inspiration you need for your day-to-day life and your wallet, from an author who’s had the first-hand experience of being completely broke. In Saving Big you get tips for how to cut your expenses, increase your income and save money by not spending it on unnecessary things – so that you can have more money for what you actually want to spend your money on. The book is chock full of surprising, fun and super useful saving tips, and the author puts all the expenses from a day-to-day under a magnifying glass – from food, clothes and beauty products to housing, cars and gardens. And so much more! In addition to this you get smart tips for investing as well as practical tips for how you can turn the hundreds you have saved into even more – and not least teaching you how to make your new, good money habits last.

Wolverine Tracks
Narrative Non-fiction2023 · 224 pp

Wolverine Tracks

Dag O. Hessen

One day in February 1972 Dag O. Hessen is on a ski trip with his father in the mountains when they come across a wolverine track in the snow. The young Dag convinces his father to follow the trail, but after half an hour of searching the imprints of the predator disappear down a steep passage and they have to give up on their hunt. 50 years later he’s back at the same place to pick up on the trail of the animal that escaped him. His father is now long gone, but the mountains are still there and somewhere out there is a wolverine. Tracking the Wolverine is Hessen’s most personal book so far. It’s a portrait of Norwegian nature’s most fascinating and shy animal, so compact in its wildness and power that there is hardly anything like it. An animal with a jaw strong enough to bite through even the thickest thigh bones and enough power to take down an animal many times its own weight, bite its head off and then drag its body up a tree. Seeing the animal in its natural habitat is a rarity only very few people get to experience. The wolverine, and the desire to meet the wild animal, is the framing of the story taking place in the mountainous nature. But this is also a story about time passing and changes we cannot prevent. About everything that slips through our fingers. The things we cannot completely catch and tame: A childhood long gone, close family members who have passed, the wild nature and a natural diversity which is about to weather away. And at the bottom of all of this lies a deep affection and respect for nature and biology, presented by one of Norway’s most respected non-fiction authors.«... several of the country's non-fiction writers should envy his effortless elegance and ability to find formulations like this one, about the author's fascination for the wolverine as 'a primal force, the wilderness in animal form, everything that is lost in an increasingly tame residual landscape.'»MORGENBLADET «Hessen the poet rises to his full height. This he has threatened to to in previous books too, but not dared to take the leap, perhaps? But this book was worth the wait. Hessen shows the tender and weary nuances in life, and in nature. The nature descriptions are touching. I feel I am gazing into the mountains, and feel, in an animalistic way, that life is good.» «He is our Thoreau, in the year 2023.» VÅRT LAND «Dag O. Hessen’s Tracking the Wolverine will place as one of this year’s best non-fiction books.» «The book deserves a place next to the author’s own favourite cabin reads: Zappfe, Thoreau, and Ingstad.» BOKMAGASINET/KLASSEKAMPEN

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The Cakes We Love
Cook Books2023 · 168 pp

The Cakes We Love

Elin Vatnar Nilsen

In The Cakes We Love the Norwegian baking queen and author Elin Vatnar Nilsen has collected all her favourite cakes in one place. The recipes are thoroughly tested and simple to follow, and nothing is left to chance. If you follow Elin’s measures and approaches, you are guaranteed to bake the most beautiful and delicious cakes! The Cakes We Loveis the book you’ll get out every time there’s a birthday, a graduation, a dinner with friends and for weekend treats – or when you just want to surprise your family with a delicious cake. You’ll open the book time and time again, because you’ll always find cake recipes you love and need, whether it’s the undefeated pavlova, a soft Norwegian spice cake, or gooey and lovely brownies to cheer up an otherwise boring Monday evening.