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

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

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Elias Clears Up
Children's Books2015 · 48 pp · Age 0 - 6

Elias Clears Up

Alf Knutsen

Krana is quite perturbed because a big storm has upset everything in Lunvik. She doesn't like all this mess. Elias sets about tidying up, with good help from Duppe and the other boats. Duppe suddenly runs into danger when she gets stuck fast on the remains of a wreck on the seabed. The rights for Elias have been sold to Netflix USA as the first Norwegian children's television series, and will become available to all the English-speaking world. This means that children in USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, New Zealand and Australia can now get to know our little rescue boat!

A Good Decision
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Narrative Non-fiction / Self Help2015 · 160 pp

A Good Decision

Nils Tore Meland

Why did I buy a flat with a balcony when I really needed a garage? Which candidate shall I employ? Do we need a turnaround at work? Should I set up this project? These are important questions with major consequences. Decisions are to do with making choices and putting an end to uncertainty and doubt. Unfortunately, an overwhelming mass of good research indicates that more than half of all our decisions turn out badly. Most of us think that it is difficult to make complex choices which involve risk and serious consequences. We put off and wait, or we just leave things as they are. We base our decisions on too much, too little or incorrect information. So we identify too few possibilities and propose inadequate solutions. Or we simply solve the wrong problem. Those who use a little more time, especially at the start of the decision process, identify more opportunities and formulate better solutions. In the whole process they make quicker and better choices, up to six times better in fact. Good decision-making can be both learned and practised to a high standard, and the process can be both exciting and fun. This book will give you seven practical steps towards better decision-making. ’A superbly good book about decision-making. An example for future authors of non-fiction’Elin Ørjaseter ’ … one of the year’s most exciting Norwegian books on management’HR Norge ’… a fantastic book for all who want to develop their skills at making better decisions … which many will get great benefit from reading.’ Hans-Petter Nygård-Hansen ’some of the best I have read on the subject. The book is so elegantly written that the main message never becomes boring.’Edvard Noer Bjørge

One More Game
Narrative Non-fiction2015 · 256 pp

One More Game

Thomas Karlsen / Claus Lundekvam

There are better footballers than Claus Lundekvam. There are players with faster legs, smoother technique, better tactical sense and last but not least, a better eye for a chance at goal. Lundekvam's old trainer, Gordon Strachan, is reputed to have said that a corpse put in the penalty area would have had a better chance of scoring from a corner than Lundekvam. After all that is said – no Norwegian has played more games in top level English football. 410 appearances for Southampton speak for themselves. During the 12 years he played for the club, he was one of the town's most popular players. The story of Claus Lundekvam's life as a footballer is an unparalleled success, just as much as the story of his later life is an extraordinary failure. When he hung up his boots in 2008, as the lights went out and the doors of the stadium shut behind him for the last time, he said to himself that now he would set aside two years just to relax. That was the start of a roller coaster of sex and alcohol dependency which ended up with admission to a detoxification clinic. This is a raw and honest book which borrows as much from rock biographies as from the chronicles of English football. It is a story of trying to tame the wild animal in oneself without losing oneself on the way.

There Is Still Time
Literature and Fiction2015 · 280 pp

There Is Still Time

Tora Ørdal Mikkelborg

All of the short stories in Ennå er det tid are unique in their own way. The writing is monologic and switches between spoken and everyday language. The purpose of the short stories is not primarily to tell stories – it is the atmosphere, emotions, main character's anger and thought processes, and generally the relationship between inner experience and the outside world that preoccupies the author. That is why the plot aspect is often simple and uncompounded, and often retrospective or suggestive in form. The short stories in Ennå er det tid are told from a subjective perspective in each text, something that gives a fluent and somewhat associate narrative. All of the short stories can be said to feature a kind of pain caused by deceased or absent persons. The main characters in the texts are almost consumed or “haunted” by other people and previous experiences of loss. They also often find themselves in an isolated or marginalised situation such as being in an institution, consumed by grief, alone with imaginary people or excluded from social interaction. The author has a keen sense of what it means to be destructive or marginalised, and writes a sense of human shelteredness and distance that is able to touch and fascinate. With Ennå er det tid, Tore Ørdal Mikkelborg has written an exciting and unique collection of short stories.

A Whole Person in Half a Body
Narrative Non-fiction / Self Help2015 · 192 pp

A Whole Person in Half a Body

Anne Grethe Solberg

Anne Grethe Solberg was shot by her ex-husband eight years ago. One shoulder and arm had to be amputated, and her hip was shot to pieces. It was uncertain whether she would survive, and whether she would be able to walk. She was certainly not expected to be able to run a marathon. In this book she tells the dramatic story of the shooting episode. She relates how she saved her life by playing dead. Not least, she describes what happened after the shooting; how she escaped from the scene of the shooting and how she was saved. She has a strong survival instinct. She wants to look after her children, work and pay the bills herself. She develops strategies for self-mastery, and as she herself is a coach, she coaches herself in the recovery period after the shooting. After an impressive amount of practice, Anne Grethe teaches herself to walk. However, it becomes apparent that it is easier to run. She decides to run a marathon and she writes grippingly about her progress to the New York Marathon. Finally, she shares her ten strategies for self-mastery which we can all make use of. A story of self-mastery, strong will, hard work and a strong wish to survive in order to be able to make a difference.

SOMEWHERE OUT THERE I’LL BE HAPPY
Literature and Fiction2015 · 72 pp

SOMEWHERE OUT THERE I’LL BE HAPPY

Camilla Groth

Camilla Groth looks at some of Edvard Munch's works (Puberty, The Drowned Boy, etc.) and writes herself into them, into the minds and lives of those depicted. What's going through the mind of the young girl on the edge of the bed as Edvard's gaze moves over her again and again?As we know, Munch's paintings depict a high degree of anxiety: they are dark, unfinished and inquisitive, and full of people in what we can clearly see are difficult situations – so it was high time someone gave these people a voice, let them comment on the pictures themselves, let them live and perhaps bring a little light to Munch's utter darkness. In Puberty, for example: why is the young girl sitting naked on the edge of the bed? Why is she trying to cover herself? Why is Edvard interested? What do you think he sees? What is she seeing as she is observed and immortalised? Is something terrible going to happen? Has it already happened? Et sted der ute er jeg lykkelig reverses the relationship between the artist and his motives: here they're staring back at him.

Europeans
Narrative Non-fiction2015 · 304 pp

Europeans

Simen Ekern

The struggle for the future of Europe is intense, alarming and dramatic. In this book we meet the main actors.When Simen Ekern went to live in Brussels as an exchange student in the late 1990’s, the mood was optimistic. The ‘Erasmus Generation’ would nurture a new Europe, where national differences were less important than the idea of future harmony. When he returned to the EU capital as a journalist ten years later, people were talking instead about a ‘Lost Generation.’Europeans is about the crisis which has hit Europe. The difficult economic situation has presented opportunities for political entrepreneurs with widely different ideological projects. Ekern introduces the reader to Italian populists, Scottish separatists and Hungarian extremists. He talks with Brussels bureaucrats, French patriots and a Greek crime-writer who has his own distinctive views about who are the villains in the story. ‘... great insight and even more knowledge combined with observational skills and an eye for detail.’NRK‘Journalistically prepared, linguistically confident, technically solid. ... Ekern’s book is divided into ten chapters. Most of them are based on interviews that either facilitate access to topics such as the German austerity policy or are used as a basis for portraits of selected problem countries such as Greece, Italy and Hungary. …But the strength of the book is equally in how Ekern interweaves these interviews with history lessons, anecdotes, well-placed quoted, short travelogues and a suitable dose of first-person journalism. A lot of hard work goes into a tapestry like this.’AFTENPOSTEN ‘In this book he applies his great knowledge of the topic, combined with his astute observational skills, to portray the lives of ordinary people and relate them to the major themes in contemporary Europe.’FÆDRELANDSVENNEN ‘An insightful and well-informed description of Europe. … Ekern’s account of the struggle for the future of Europe is both intense and alarming.’TRØNDERAVISA ‘Very relevant to a deeper understanding of the current political fluctuations in Europe. … This book combines accounts of meeting important and less important people, with wholly personal experiences and discussion of the major trends.’FINANSAVISEN ‘In Europeans, Simen Ekern has written a sound and very topical book about the EU and the challenges facing Europe.’HAMAR ARBEIDERBLAD ‘Simen Ekern’s new book shows us the enormous gulfs which have grown up between the nationalists who want the whole EU to go to Hell and the pro-Europeans who see an even greater diminution of the sovereignty of the nation states as the solution. … an up-to-date discussion of hot topics.’UNIVERSITAS

Children of Eternity
Literature and Fiction2015 · 352 pp

Children of Eternity

Beate Grimsrud

In Evighetsbarna we meet Siri, Louise and Tomas, who are trying to understand what it means to be adults as they are thrown into experiencing the contrasts between strong interdependence and stark loneliness one winter and spring on the island of Södermalm in the city of Stockholm. In her new novel, Beate Grimsrud tries to extend the bounds of narrative with her blending of realism with poetry, humour and philosophical gravity. 'I know of few authors who manage in this way to express the big existential and philosophic questions by describing people’s lives in short episodes which each end slightly unresolved. This is one of the autumn’s best and most important books.' ADRESSEAVISEN '... her characteristic strength lies in going so far into existential situations that she normalises the madness. She turns things inside out, and writes about the most painful situations with a comic levity and most amazing images.' DAGBLADET 'Beate Grimsrud’s language is always close to experience and feeling, expressed in plain words without explanations or circumlocutions. We as readers are thereby compelled to see and experience the world in a new way.' P2 'Grimsrud has a fabulous talent for drawing the reader right into loosely coupled trains of thought which will make sense even to the most healthy. Even psychotic situations can seem logical within her linguistic repertoire.' AFTENPOSTEN ''Evighetsbarna' is a new reminder of Beate Grimsrud’s literary gifts and her intelligent, oblique view of the world and existence.' DAGSAVISEN 'Beate Grimsrud and her books have a rare quality, recognisable when you see it. […] outstanding book of the year.'STAVANGER AFTENBLAD Reviews of the Swedish edition of Evighetsbarna: 'Altogether, this novel approaches the human condition with such sympathy and respect that my eyes watered as I read it. Grimsrud expresses in words the fundamentals of being human, and reminds us of obvious truths which we stupidly seem to have forgotten.' GÖTEBORGS-POSTEN 'Beate Grimsrud's greatness and strength – for she is one of our great Scandinavian authors – are in the voices, the spaces between the words, the rhythm, the flows of thought, the contrasts, the language. Despite her dyslexia she writes relaxed, strong, independent, soaring prose. It is often mournful and not infrequently funny – often both at the same time.' VÄSTERBOTTENS-KURIREN

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Fearless
2015 · 240 pp

Fearless

Anja Hammerseng-Edin

Anja Hammerseng-Edin, handball player, considers that there is too much fear in our society. We are all scared, concerned that we don't look good enough, we are not successful enough in our job, we are not good enough as parents, partners, siblings, friends. Our inner critic often holds us back from challenging ourselves. That is the irritating voice persuading you that this could be difficult, the voice saying that you are not good enough, the voice making you afraid. Why do we allow fear to have so much control over our lives? What would life look like if YOU were fearless? Fearless is about internal strength training. Our own thoughts and beliefs control our feelings. The brain is a flexible, living organ which can be influenced by training, and with good inner strength we can fashion new ways of thinking and new levels of achievement. We can take control over the inner critic. We can direct our feelings in the direction we want them to go, and thereby dare to do what we were frightened to do before. Anja Hammerseng-Edin gives you the best techniques for developing inner strength, including mental exercises, visualising and positive reinforcement, and she shows you the significance of physical and psychological strength. The book builds on her experience, but the techniques are explained by expert professionals. Through the accounts of her experiences from sport and elsewhere, the author demonstrates how challenges and adversities can be turned into new opportunities.

Cousins
2015 · 272 pp

Cousins

Kristian S. Hæggernes

Whereas children his age, including his siblings, have completed their education and leapt into adult life, Njål has abandoned his studies, still lives in his parents' basement and works at the petrol station just across the road. Fettere & kusiner follows Njål through ten days during which he looks back on his childhood and wonders whether everything turned out as it did because of what happened one summer at the cabin. Ten days during which he also receives an offer and makes new acquaintances that might be able to help him out of his rut. ‘The man who won’t grow up is a familiar figure in Norwegian contemporary literature, but I have rarely seen these directionless individuals depicted in such a relaxed yet nevertheless serious fashion as in Bergen-based Kristian Hæggernes’ debut novel Fettere og kusiner. … With loneliness as a sounding board, Hæggernes writes beautifully about fellowship. … Hæggernes is able to say things like they are without it falling flat. The real nerve of the narrator confirms that this is an authorship of which we should keep track.’DAGENS NÆRINGSLIV‘By allowing ambiguity in the main character’s approach to his own situation, a sense arises in the novel that tragedy is never far away, despite its light-hearted and humorous feel.’BERGENS TIDENDE‘His text has a slightly incomprehensible appeal, perhaps because it seems honest and genuine.’AFTENPOSTEN‘Hæggernes is best with small surfaces where the material and idea is cemented into good literature, because that’s what this is about.’DAG OG TID

Philip flips out
Children's Books2015 · 48 pp · Age 3 - 6

Philip flips out

Martin Ernstsen

It's Philip's birthday. Today he can get to make all the decisions. But that turns out to be not such a good idea. Philip behaves intolerably. He misses school and an appointment at the dentist. At his birthday party he refuses to eat dinner, and he won't let the other children come on the treasure hunt. He opts out completely and then gets bad toothache. Fillip flipper is a humorous picture-book about an intolerable but likeable lad.

Flettemia’s Favourites
2015 · 264 pp

Flettemia’s Favourites

Maria Sindre

Have the best hairstyle! Do you want a fashionable plait? Would you like to learn to make fine plaits and hairstyles for yourself and others? Now you can teach yourself with @Flettemia. Be inspired to create your own style, using a little patience and Flettemia's expert tips, step-by-step guidance, and masses of ideas for hair decoration and styling. Chapters in the book include: Plait your own hair; Plaits for little girls; and Make your own hair decoration. Plaits and styles for everybody, including those who don't have super-long or super-thick hair. Flettemia shows you what you need to know to style hair like a professional. Learn everything from basic plaits such as Dutch plait and fishbone plait to party plaits and styles such as waterfall plait, crown plait, doughnut plait and elegant hair twists. All plaits and styles are presented with step-by-step guidance. In addition to plaits and styles, Flettemia shows you how to make your own hair decorations, with everything you need for bows, bands and other decorations.

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