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Children's Books902Literature and Fiction722Narrative Non-fiction336Self Help179Crafts and Hobbies146Mystery and Crime143Cook Books107UpLit82

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2025 and newer2020–20242015–20192014 and older

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Picture books318Easy read235Read-aloud184Children's novels238Young adult121Children's non-fiction181Comics33

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The Witch Night
Children's Books2018 · 192 pp · Age 12+

The Witch Night

Alexander Løken

It happens the evening twins Ada and Nathaniel are practicing driving at night. They're awaiting a couple of boring hours in the car with the driving instructor. But then the snowfall gets thicker, and suddenly the car – and the evening – takes an unexpected turn. It's the evening they meet the witches. And the evening they learn why they've always hated each other. Exciting horror story from Alexander Løken. Have fun – and get scared!

Hooked on Lace Knitting
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Crafts and Hobbies2018 · 184 pp

Hooked on Lace Knitting

Denise Samson

Lace knitting is fun, beautiful, and trendy. From oversized pullovers knitted on big needles to fine baby sweaters and summer dresses, lace-knitted garments are seen everywhere these days.With this book you'll learn how to read charts and patterns in the book's introduction as well as lace knitting techniques. You will also find 30 designs showing different teqhniques in use. Once you've mastered the basics, the fun can begin! Just choose a pattern and yarn and you're all set to go. Be careful, though, because you are sure to get hooked on lace knitting!

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THE ALL YEAR BODY
Self Help2018 · 176 pp

THE ALL YEAR BODY

Camilla Aastorp Andersen

Do you want to be inspired to pursue a more active life? With The All Year Body, the writer shows that you can love your body 365 days a year, summer and winter, and that it is possible to find a good balance between training, food, relaxing and rest. This is the book for those who want to get in slightly better shape, find a way to enjoy training, and eat simple and healthy everyday food. The motto is: A little bit of everything and everything in moderation!

HUMMUS AND POMEGRANATE
Cook Books2018 · 256 pp

HUMMUS AND POMEGRANATE

Vidar Bergum

Hummus and Pomegranate is an inspiring and unpretentious introduction to one of the world's most traditional and renowned cuisines. Here you will be introduced to the best food from Turkey and the Middle East. Dishes and flavors that have been developed and perfected from generation to generation throughout numerous dynasties and empires. You won't necessarily find the tastiest Turkish or Middle Eastern food at a restaurant - you'll find that in people's homes. Most of the recipes in the book are therefore classic homemade everyday dishes, prepared just as they are in the many kitchens all over Turkey and the Middle East.

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If
2018 · 56 pp

If

Tine-Jarmila Sir

What if you where Joe Bainard at a party with Ron Padgett? What if you where David Foster Wallace walking the dogs a wonderful winters morning? What if you where Bodil Malmsten, spending an entire summers day testing grandfathers newly made furniture? Or what if you where a small abused child instead? Far away from what is safe and good. How do you write about that? If (Hvis) is a poetry collection like no other. If I was David Foster WallaceI would say it like thisthat it was like walking upto the net before the tennis match startedand offer to loosenot do any mentionable resistanceas long as you do not usesticks or rocks, your voicesand not kickonly rapethis childin a normal way

How to get to Nirvana without dying first
Narrative Non-fiction2018 · 304 pp

How to get to Nirvana without dying first

Christine Istad / Kari Gjæver Pedersen

They found the secret door right into the heart of Japan. 88 temples, 140 miles, 7 weeks and Nirvana without dying first. Japan is just as fascinating as you think. And much easier to travel in than you feared. It's just about finding the key. Kari Gjæver Pedersen (text) and Christine Istad (photo) want to go under the skin of Japan and decide to go the country's most important pilgrimage where temple of temple can cleanse its negative bonds and achieve nirvana in this life. In this way, they take step by step into Japanese everyday life and culture. Along the way, they realize that this particular journey is the key to the secret door you do not find as a tourist. It will be an adventurous journey in what is the land of dreams and the kingdom of the sun. They meet another Japan, open-minded people, fascinating customs, deep thinking, warmth, joy, laughter, caring - and a security that a traveler everywhere in the world can't dream of experiencing.

WHY DOES BEING WET MAKE YOU SO COLD?
Narrative Non-fiction2018 · 184 pp

WHY DOES BEING WET MAKE YOU SO COLD?

Randulf Valle

Different outdoor experiences can be explained by physics, chemistry and biology. However, when explained in an easy-to-read and entertaining manner it helps increase the readers knowledge of both outdoor life and science. What are the effective degrees of cold? Does it help to put on a hat when your feet are cold? Does the snow on the cabin roof get heavier when the weather gets milder? Is it warmer to lie on the side than on your back in a sleeping bag? Many people have questions about outdoor life and what sort of equipment to use. The answers are often based on both myths and personal experiences. These are examples of questions answered and explained by Randulf Valle, using both facts and science in an entertaining and humorous way. He distinguishes facts from myths and gives the reader a better understanding of both outdoor living and science. Randulf Valle has a Ph.D in metallurgy. He works as a writer and has to date released ten books. His numerous articles have also been published in many different journals.

Hvorfor er det så kaldt å være våt?
Narrative Non-fiction2018

Hvorfor er det så kaldt å være våt?

Randulf Valle

Why does being wet make you feel so cold?Different outdoor experiences can be explained by physics, chemistry and biology. However, when explained in an easy-to-read and entertaining manner it helps increase the readers knowledge of both outdoor life and science. What are the effective degrees of cold? Does it help to put on a hat when your feet are cold? Does the snow on the cabin roof get heavier when the weather gets milder? Is it warmer to lie on the side than on your back in a sleeping bag? Many people have questions about outdoor life and what sort of equipment to use. The answers are often based on both myths and personal experiences. These are examples of questions answered and explained by Randulf Valle, using both facts and science in an entertaining and humorous way. He distinguishes facts from myths and gives the reader a better understanding of both outdoor living and science. Randulf Valle has a Ph.D in metallurgy. He works as a writer and has to date released ten books. His numerous articles have also been published in many different journals.

Hush
Literature and Fiction2018 · 96 pp

Hush

Vigdis Hjorth

Something happens that makes the prostitute start spying on one of her customers, a family man residing in the wealthy area of Frogner in Oslo. The summer is warm; there is a smell of flowers and dust in the calm streets. Here a grim drama takes place, with a brutal outcome. ...that it is possible to write something so beautiful about something as awful as the inevitable loneliness of man.BERGENS TIDENDE

In a house in Alvdal
Narrative Non-fiction2018 · 184 pp

In a house in Alvdal

Anne-Britt Harsem

For the first time, Kevin tells openly and honestly about what went so terribly wrong at home with his mother. Kevin is the oldest son in the Alvdal-case, Norway's most serious sexual assault case of modern times, where his mother was sentences for sexually abusing her own children. She is the first woman in Norway to be sentenced to imprisonment for sexual assult.In this book, Kevin opens up about the consequences of living and growing up in a home marked with drugs and neglect. Through Kevin's story the readers get a sense of the fierce loyalty children can show to their parents – and how they try their best to take responsibility once one of them lose grip of their lives.

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The Polar Bear Puzzle
Mystery and Crime2018 · 352 pp

The Polar Bear Puzzle

Hans Olav Lahlum

On Friday 18 May 1973, 16-year-old Jørgen Magnus Kvamme disappears without a trace on his way home from school. His single mother reports him missing, and police inspector Kolbjørn ‘K2’ Kristiansen is handed the case.It takes on a new dimension when K2 finds out the identity of the boy's father has been kept secret. He is the powerful business man Bjørn Christopher Fabricius, a timid old giant referred to as the Polar Bear. K2 also stumbles upon an unsolved 40-year-old mystery involving Fabricius' eldest son, who was kidnapped from his childhood bedroom in 1933 and never found.Hans Olav Lahlum returns with his ninth book in the historical crime series about K2 and Patricia, this time with a hair-raising and magnificent crime drama that is also a thought-provoking family history.Lahlums newest book in the series about the investigator duo K2 and Patricia Borchmann, The Polar Bear Puzzle, is the best he has written so far about the two. Lahlum exceeds himself in this high paced and exiting story that extends over decades. This book has drive and excitement from first to last page.TVEDESTRANDSPOSTEN – Six out of six starsLahlum is skilled in the art of crime writing. The level of suspense is so high that it is hard to put the book down before you have finished reading. The author keeps the cards close to his chest, and managed to a number of times trick me into believing that I had found out who the kidnapper is. The high level of surprise when the answer was revealed was also a plus.FÆDRELANDSVENNENLahlum is an entertainer. I like his dramaturgy and writing, as well as the fact that he uses his knowledge about history in his stories.GUDBRANDSDØLEN DAGNINGEN

HUNTED BY THE GESTAPO
Narrative Non-fiction2018 · 176 pp

HUNTED BY THE GESTAPO

Arnfinn Haga

Catalogue textThe revelation of the Stein Organisation in Bergen in 1941 is one of the major provocation cases of the war. Several of those implicated made daring escapes – for some it ended well, for others not. This is an account of how the escape itself came about. The motorcutter Blia came from Shetland to collect an agent, but was wrecked with around forty people aboard. This was the single greatest loss in the Shetland base's history.