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Your Expedition with Nansen
Children's Books2017 · 96 pp · Age 6 - 12

Your Expedition with Nansen

Bjørn Ousland

This is your expedition with Fridtjof Nansen. This book is full of facts and valuable knowledge for people who want to become a great polar explorer. What should you take in the sled? What do you eat? How do you keep warm? Along with games, small tasks and activities, this book will fill many hours. Bjørn Ousland has won awards for his success with his polar books about Fridtjof Nansen and Roald Amundsen.

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The Codex of Death
Literature and Fiction / Mystery and Crime2017 · 224 pp

The Codex of Death

Gert Nygårdshaug

Gert Nygårdshaug's food- and wine-loving hero, Fredric Drum, finds himself in Italy this time around. Commissioned by the University of Rome, he is tasked with deciphering an ancient Greek text. But suddenly he is entangled in a life-and-death drama whose ingredients include ancient philosophy, the Dark Ages, and a cynical, invisible killer who leaves his victims with no signs of external trauma. A quintessential Nygårdshaug novel, packed with mystery, exotic lore, and suspense from the first page to the last

Rights soldSold to Germany and Poland
Edward Rubikon
Children's Books2017 · 128 pp · Age 9 - 12

Edward Rubikon

Aleksander Kirkwood Brown

The head teacher doesn't want to have a Halloween celebration this year. There's always so much noise and so many creepy costumes! Instead, he introduces "Hello-friend". At the same time, The Wild Hunt is approaching, and they're looking for a real party – and someone to kidnap to take along with them. Soon, there is complete chaos in Grimsrud. It's up to Edward Rubikon and his companions to stop the dark forces. This is book 3 in the series about Edward Rubikon and his friends.

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Love me tomorrow
Literature and Fiction2017 · 240 pp

Love me tomorrow

Ingvar Ambjørnsen

Love me Tomorrow is both tender-hearted and dark; a humoristic novel about loves ability to change us. At least in theory. In the fourth book about Elling, he once again has trouble with reality. But now he is looking for love. The focus of his attention is supposedly named Elise. She works in a hot dog stand and love to read books about UFO-phenomenon. Kjell Bjarne, Ellings estranged friend, knows very little about UFO´s but a lot about women. He is now a responsible stepfather, living with Reidun, and has a job as a bottle sorter. Elling on the other hand has let things slide for a while. But now that Elise is in the picture, Kjell Bjarne might get back in his good favour again. A suitor needs all the backing he can get. Ingvar Ambjørnsen won the Riksmålsprisen Award for this book in 1999.Reviews: “Absolutely on par with the first three”, “screamingly funny – with serious undertones.” DAGBLADET “I insist that this is significant literature.” NRK P2 KULTURNYTT “This is strong stuff.” ADRESSEAVISEN A new hit for Ambjørnsen “Ambjørnsen surprises once more; Ambjørnsen is a significant author. Love me tomorrow is a gloomier tale than its predecessors. From early in the plot, the reader is drawn into dark premonitions… It is the use of contrasting underlays of grief and pain that enables Ambjørnsen to create great comedy.” AFTENPOSTEN Screamingly funny – with serious undertones. “It so happened that I was high above the Skagerrak when Elling stepped into my life for the fourth time. Perhaps that wasn’t the smartest choice of location for our rendezvous. When, with no apparent provocation, a passenger starts to shake and laugh so hard that beer glasses and coffee cups end up on the floor, it quite reasonably attracts a certain amount of attention from their fellow-travellers. Well, I’ll just have to live with that, and deep down I think I’m a lucky person to be able to sit on a plane working and having such fun that I lose track of both time and place. Because Ambjørnsen has done it again. It’s impossible to fathom what that man can wring out of just one person and one central idea. There’s nothing for it but to give in and declare that Love me tomorrow is absolutely on a par with the first three Elling books.” DAGBLADET “A new hit about strange, crazy, loveable, lonely Elling… It’s far from unlikely that these books will endure as central works in Norwegian fiction of the 1990s.” BERGENS TIDENDE

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Emma and Isak – Treasure Hunts and Dirty Tricks
Children's Books2017 · 248 pp · Age 6 - 12

Emma and Isak – Treasure Hunts and Dirty Tricks

Helene Nagelhus

Twins Emma and Isak are nine years old. They have a two-year-old brother, a mom and dad, a grandmother in the house next door, and they live on Eiktun farm. Emma loves to play soccer, and she has two rabbits. Isak wants a dog more than anything else in the world. But Mom is scared of dogs, so there's no farm dog at Eiktun. Life at Eiktun is full of adventures and everyday pleasures. Emma and Isak never get bored. They help out in Mom's café, they rescue a baby fox, they build a cable car with Uncle Knut and they reveal something quite illegal! Over the course of a year, we get to follow the twins around in the forest and mountains, on the farm and in the village. We learn just what it's like to live on a farm, be nine years old and have a twin! Helen Nagelhus debuts with great story-telling abilities, and she's written an incredibly charming and recognizable story.

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The Day Mom left
Children's Books2017 · 40 pp · Age 3 - 6

The Day Mom left

Kaia Linnea Dahle Nyhus

The Day Mom Left is a picture book about losing someone and then losing your sense of reality. With the help of a good grasp of the visual and a poetic text, Kaia Dahle Nyhus captures the understanding of loss and want with warmth and humour. Chosen as a White Raven for 2017. The difficult conversationsThis beautiful story about how longing and sorrow can make a child loose foothold, is told in a simplistic text that is open for building it further. The conscious use of visual means like contoure, perspective, colour, frames and cut outs, fills out the verbal text even more. That makes this picture book admirable, and it strengthens Kaia Dahle Nyhus´position in the line of great Norwegian picture book authors. BARNEBOKKRITIKK.NO When Mother breaks awayThe abstract illustrations with colours and shapes that invite the reader to fictionalize even more, is the strength of the book art of Kaia Dahle Nyhus. The Day Mom Left invites to read together, and the grown up and child can enter a conversation about a topic that touches many. TØNSBERGS BLAD

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COLORS FOR THE PEOPLE
Crafts and Hobbies2017 · 176 pp

COLORS FOR THE PEOPLE

Dagny Thurmann-Moe

Did you know that gray cars crash the most and that red cars crash the least? That white, which is used more and more often in both institutions and schools, increases stress, decreases concentration and is a catalyst for headaches? What are colors, why do we need them and what do we use them for? In this book, color expert Dagny Thurmann-Moe battles against an increasingly more colorless existence. She shows us how Norway has gone from being colorful and full of impressions to being a landscape of gray and white, even in the summer. In the first part of the book, she gives an introduction to what colors are, why people need colors, and what we use them for. She explains what a color palette is and how to use it. In the second part, she envisages the use of color in architecture, public spaces, public institutions and on cars. Finally, she shows how we can use colors inside our houses and in our wardrobes, and that colors have a natural place – no matter what style you wish to have.

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COLORS FOR THE PEOPLE
Crafts and Hobbies2017 · 176 pp

COLORS FOR THE PEOPLE

Dagny Thurmann-Moe

Did you know that gray cars crash the most and that red cars crash the least? What are colors, why do we need them and what do we use them for? In this book, color expert Dagny Thurmann-Moe battles against an increasingly more colorless existence. She shows us how Norway has gone from being colorful and full of impressions to being a landscape of gray and white, even in the summer. She gives an introduction to what colors are, why people need colors, and what we use them for.

Rights soldSold to 3 territories
From the History of Hope
Literature and Fiction2017 · 64 pp

From the History of Hope

Hanne Bramness

From the History of Hope is a history book in the shape of a poem, where hope is sees as a deciding power, as important as all the gloomy actions that take place. For even under difficult circumstances there is hope. Hope is an exchange, recognition, of a united destiny. But also outside the extrasensory, in the vision: to see beyond what is right in front of you, hear more than what is just around you. In the poetry of Hanne Bramness she brings the fragments from the history of hope to life, in the here and now.

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French Opening
Literature and Fiction2017 · 144 pp

French Opening

Vigdis Hjorth

A bold, erotic, and reflective novel, which explores the possibilities for a real meeting between a man and a woman. "She had thought of his gaze, when he stood in the doorway and she lay on the bed, before he came over and pulled off the covers, as if she had met it before. And she asked herself, if she allowed everything, what would happen then, if she let him choose, what would he choose, if she gave him that space."

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Kingdom of Frost
Narrative Non-fiction2017 · 192 pp

Kingdom of Frost

Bjørn Roar Vassnes

An award-winning science journalist explains what Earth's frozen waters tell us about the past, present, and future of humanity. "The Kingdom of Frost," or what scientists call the cryosphere, refers to all of Earth's frozen waters. Glaciers, ice caps, and fields of Arctic snow—the cryosphere is vital to our survival. It supplies us with water and helps cool cities from Bangladesh to Bangkok, Los Angeles to Oslo. In this captivating, eye-opening account, esteemed Norwegian writer Bjørn Vassnes interweaves brilliant climate reporting with the fascinating story of Earth's frozen world. He draws on cultural history and anthropology to tell us how the cryosphere once helped to spark life on Earth—and how it continues to sustain us despite its shrinking size. And he answers pressing questions such as: What will happen if it all disappears? ‘Vassnes never get high pitched, there is no alarmism, and no rhetoric about how we are standing at the edge of the abyss. In a hushed manner and with a steady pen, he still makes us aware of the seriousness. Underway to this seriousness we have joined him on an educational journey in the Kingdom of frost.’ KLASSEKAMPEN

Rights soldSold to 6 territories
The Bird Dance
Literature and Fiction2017 · 208 pp

The Bird Dance

Ingvar Ambjørnsen

An intelligent, sad but at the same time funny book. In The Bird Dance Elling wakes up in a psychiatric institution in the same room as Kjell Bjarne. Two weird people slowly approaching each other, and a frail friendship evolve. In this book we also get the story of how Elling and his mother made a desperate attempt of having a normal vacation in the Spanish town Benidorm. Ingvar Ambjørnsen received the Brage Prize of 1995 for this novel. Reviews: “Books rarely make me laugh, almost never, in fact – but I make an exception for Ambjørnsen because with him, there’s nothing for it but to give in. But now and then I feel like crying, because this is so sad too. NRK “A story that swings – from the deepest abyss to the most unbridled slapstick – and at the same time the composition is taut… a magnificent novel.” ADRESSEAVISEN “… a lavishly funny, tragicomic novel…” TØNSBERG BLAD “… impressive portrayal of an uncommon mind.” BERGENS TIDENDE “… a wonderful book.” VARDEN Ambjørnsen’s cuckoo’s nest “… an intelligent book that is at once sad and funny…” DAGBLADET “… must be one of the best books to appear between two covers this autumn.” AVISA TRONDHEIM ******

Rights soldSold to 15 territories