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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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Sh! I’m colouring!
Crafts and Hobbies2015 · 112 pp

Sh! I’m colouring!

Fam Irvoll

Colouring is always fun! Set free the artist in you – take out your colour pencils and relax by creating something beautiful and inspiring. Set your own distinctive style on Fam Irvoll's brilliant, exuberant designs – and become part of the richly coloured universe of one of Norway's most significant fashion designers. Give colour and life to summer flowers and animals, sun and butterflies, faces, cupcakes – and much more.

In the Best Sense
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Literature and Fiction2015 · 224 pp

In the Best Sense

Benedicte Meyer Kroneberg

Helene grew up with foster parents Anna and Helge. She has now started her own family and moved back to her home town in the hope of saving her marriage with Karl. It is winter, they are living in a huge old house, and Karl is working out of town. He says that he cannot come home because of the weather. This novel tells the story of Helene's search for companionship: about feeling like a guest in her foster parents' house, about young love, longing and loneliness. Helene and her growing sense of unease are headed for a storm: will Karl come home?I beste mening is an insightful novel about belonging. Benedicte Meyer Kroneberg explores communication problems in close relationships and how people can become lonely even in the most seemingly ideal situations. It is also a novel about those that fall between the cracks, about those who are too unforgiving for most, but not confident enough when it comes to those closest to them, and about how the incorrect assumptions we make about the motive of others can have serious consequences. ‘A strong story of being disconnected and the need to belong. … This book’s strength is the author’s insight into what it means to be human. It is with warmth that she investigates what is necessary to feel that you belong, how expectations of dedication can be too high and how trust is a risky business.’5/6 FÆDRELANDSVENNEN

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Tomorrow Everything Will Be Dark: Marlen's Story
Children's Books2015 · 288 pp

Tomorrow Everything Will Be Dark: Marlen's Story

Sigbjørn Mostue

The parasite MTG turns people into killing machines. Now it has reached Norway. Marlen understands what lies ahead, the end of everything. But she refuses to give up, and together with her family she tries to avoid death. Marlen will have to call up all her resources of courage and will-power to meet the challenges which await her. This is the second book in the critically acclaimed series I morgen er alt mørkt. Civilisation is falling apart, and people are fleeing throughout the town. As in all wars, it's every man for himself, with the strongest fending for themselves and the weakest, especially women and children, outwith the protections of modern civilised society. But Marlen doesn't let herself fall apart. She tries to preserve her humanity, a task which is far from easy, and she has to stretch her moral boundaries far beyond breaking-point. Rights for books 1 and 2 have already been sold to Denmark. This is our biggest potential action story for export. 'The story is like a clenched fist in the stomach, and I would not be surprised if yet another Young People’s Prize for Literature awaits him.'DAGBLADET HELGEAVISA ‘Sigbjørn Mostue always writes well, and this fast-moving and absorbing novel is no exception. Marlen’s Story is both entertaining and thought-provoking. Is nature taking such a brutal revenge? Are we facing an unstoppable epidemic?’ROMERIKES BLAD ‘A virus is creating a pandemic where infected people go mad and attack everybody around. It becomes a struggle between life and death and a moral struggle to make the right choices. … Can it be morally defensible to kill people who are obviously sick? Can social cohesion be maintained in an extreme situation which can easily develop into everybody for himself or herself?’NRK.NO

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Today. Yesterday. And Other Days.
2015 · 128 pp

Today. Yesterday. And Other Days.

Inger Wold Lund

A family sit on the train, eating sausages from a large plastic container. A couple move all of their belongings into the bathroom. A young man speaks ardently about a mistake in the translation of Kafka's The Trial. The sky changes colour from black to blue, and as it reaches a particular nuance, all the birds start to sing. Inger Wold Lund writes short prose based on everyday events. Her art is not in the language as such, but in the excerpts from reality – the narrator's perspective of the world around them. In a way, these pieces of prose are also a call for increased receptivity: how do we see what we see? How much of reality is lost to us because we don't keep our eyes and ears open?

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Jacob and the Dog
Children's Books2015 · 104 pp · Age 6 - 12

Jacob and the Dog

Liv Frohde

Now and then there is a children's book that manages to tell a completely new story while also reminding us of great children's classics. Jacob og hunden is one of these books. The story of Jacob, a boy grieving the loss of his dog and eventually finds a new friend, is touching, recognisable and exciting, and presented using warm and natural language ideal for reading aloud. Asbjørn Tønnesen provides the beautiful illustrations. ‘Beautiful, exciting and unsentimental. … it is entirely possible that Liv Frohde has written a new classic with this liberating, old-fashioned and beautiful book.’DAGBLADET‘A traditional tale of high quality.’AFTENPOSTEN

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I should have said I love you.
Self Help2015 · 168 pp

I should have said I love you.

Audun Myskja

Are we looking out for the important moments in our lives? Are we following our dreams?When our time comes, can we manage to close life's book with the reassurance of knowing that we have lived the life we wanted to? Dr. Audun Myskja has sat by many deathbeds and had many difficult but fulfilling conversations with the dying. Here he writes about people who will soon have completed their life on Earth. People's inmost longings and wishes come out, with remorse about what didn't happen, joy about the bright moments, and the love and sincerity which life also offered. Myskja weaves the stories together with his own reflections based on his long experience as a doctor. This is a warm and thoughtful book which moves the reader to reflect on his own life and what it is being used for.

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The Hunter
2015 · 80 pp

The Hunter

Per Dybvig

In The Hunter, Per Dybvig describes a world where displacement of identity and absence of civilisation are obvious. The presence of nature is just as obvious. The mountains tower above people and animals, and flowers are in bloom, but the people and the animals are in a worse situation. The animals seem to have mutated, acquiring alien features of both nature and people. Where horns once protruded, tree stems can now grow. Hares walk on two legs, chain-smoking with one paw and carrying a pistol in the other.‘This picture book by Per Dybvig takes your breath away as soon as you open it.’ VÅRT LAND

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Colder Towards Night
Literature and Fiction2015 · 512 pp

Colder Towards Night

Britt Karin Larsen

There is a legal case going on in Elverum where several people are accused of taking part in illegal wolf-hunting. The bitter conflict between the defenders and the opponents of wolves which has been going on since the seventies is one of the themes of this book, which will be the last in this series and which moves us on to more recent times. We follow the same families, as some move back out from the city to try to make themselves a new life in the woods, while others turn their backs on Finnskogen for good. Oliver from Linna helps to bring Ruth, who is Jewish, and her children across the border to safety in Sweden. Many years later she tries to find him again, to thank him. Many journalists and researchers come to Finnskogen to gather knowledge of an almost forgotten culture and to try to save the last words of a language which will soon be extinct. People from other countries come to the woods to settle in cheap abandoned houses and feel themselves well received, while ”The Little German” Turid, child of a Skogfinnish mother and a German soldier father, even into her adult years feels unsure where she belongs. But her great gradmother told her about Mostamägg, and after living her whole life in Oslo, Turid wants to rediscover the remains of what was Taneli's and Lina's old croft. 'A welcome rarity in contemporary literature.' DAGBLADET 'It is hardly possible to find any match for such a venture with a comparable range of topics, breadth of human portrait and depth of landscape.'HAMAR ARBEIDERBLAD 'With the seventh book the multi-storied narrative has come full cycle, and the people of Finnskogen have had their history as vividly and intensely told as can only be achieved by an energetic writer with a strong calling for the topic.' ØSTLENDINGEN 'Britt Karin Larsen has impressively maintained tension and quality all through the long series about the people from Finnskogen.'AFTENPOSTEN 'Small and large stories are braided together, without losing the main perspectives; this is the classic art of story-telling.'GLÅMDALEN 'With ’Colder Towards Night,’ Britt Karin Larsen has brought a magnificent epic to a close.”DAGSAVISEN 'A welcome innovation in contemporary literature.'DAGBLADET

CAMOUFLAGE
Children's Books2015 · 204 pp

CAMOUFLAGE

Janne Aasebø Johnsen

A roadside bomb has exploded close to a Norwegian camp in Afghanistan. The media reports are unclear. The armed forces are playing their cards close to their chests. At home in Norway, Renate asks herself whether her father may have been killed. Janne Aasebø Johnsen has written a strong nail-biter of a story about the war waging in the mind of soldiers’ relatives. A story about a turbulent childhood and worries that a young woman would have liked to have shared with her Dad – if only he were there. A story about those who go to war and take their entire families with them. Janne Aasebø Johnsen has first-hand knowledge of the situation in which she places her protagonist and writes with rare insight and authority about a little-discussed topic. ‘Our autumn book is a novel which is just as relevant and readable for parents as for children and young people. … The language in Camouflage is pointed and direct. … Janne Aasebø Johnsen demonstrates her insight into the emotional lives of young people and how they meet and tackle life’s challenges. The dramatic development is skilful and cohesive. She does not write in black and white, but brings out nuances and dilemmas. A good and important book.GUDBRANDSDØLEN DAGNINGEN

The Cat Girl
Children's Books2015 · 56 pp · Age 3 - 9

The Cat Girl

Veronika Erstad

It's the last school day before the Christmas holidays. ”What are you going to do for Christmas?” asks Kristin. ”I'll be with August,” I reply. ”Can I come with you today?” she asks. I don't answer. I don't want to be with Kristin today. I've got other plans. ”Come here a moment, Ruth,” Dad calls from the living room. I can tell from his voice that it's something I won't like. ”We have a surprise for you,” says Dad. He smiles. ”I don't like surprises, you know that,” I say. ”I think you'll like this surprise,” Dad says. But Ruth the cat girl doesn't want to go to Lanzarote for the Christmas holidays, and she doesn't want to link up with Kristin either. Ruth and her cat, August, are going to do a secret project, and they don't want to be disturbed! Kattejenta is a charming debut story written by Veronika Erstad and illustrated by Bo Gaustad. A book to be read aloud, about friends, cats and wanting to choose for yourself. 'The relationship between the two girls is so down to earth and so well described that it is a joy'VÅRT LAND'A fine and entertaining book about time alone, cats and not liking surprises.'FORELDRE & BARN

Kim's Game
Narrative Non-fiction2015 · 208 pp

Kim's Game

Sun Heidi Sæbø

At Easter 1979 a bag was found on a 169 bus after it had reached its terminus at Sørkedalen outside Oslo. When the driver opened it he found a string vest, a camera, a written and stamped postcard and a passport belonging to a South Korean called Koh Sang-Moon. The driver handed the bag in to the lost property office at Oslo police station, and the case remained unsolved until Sang-Moon inexplicably reappeared several months later on North Korean television propaganda as a defector. After the end of the Korean War, the kidnapping of South Koreans abroad became one of North Korea's most important propaganda weapons against the West. In Kim's Games, journalist Sun Heidi Sæbø follows up the story of the student who brought the major political game between North and South Korea to the little land of Norway. She tracks down Sang-moon's daughter at her home in Seoul and discovers that she has still not given up hope of getting her father back. Sæbø interviews surviving participants in the affair and delves into embassy archives. Last but not least, she speaks with a South Korean who took what to us seems an incomprehensible decision, choosing to leave South Korea for the North. Was it really unthinkable that Koh Sang-Moon moved voluntarily? PRESSCUTTINGS:‘A brilliant introduction to the history and utterly unique psychology of the hermit state. The book is obligatory reading for both novices and experts with an interest in the almost absurd existence of the totalitarian monarchy created by the Kim dynasty, with a hybrid ideology quite unlike anything we have seen before.’MINERVA‘… An enthralling real-life thriller crammed full of amazing events and shocking stories about North Korea, its diplomats and its autocratic leaders, and about the communist beacon’s attraction for young left-wing radicals. … Kim’s Game is the very best kind of high political page-turner. … a well-documented and exciting thriller drawn from the bizarre reality of the Cold War.’DAGBLADET‘Easy to read, instructive, exciting.’DAGSAVISEN

Dear Sister
Children's Books2015 · 96 pp · Age 9+

Dear Sister

Alf Kjetil Walgermo

When a young person dies today, their Facebook page often remains in place. In many cases the Facebook wall continues a life of its own, as a place where relatives and friends turn to the deceased directly. The profile becomes a kind of book of memorial, but also a way to extend the life of the person that has passed away.When Amalie dies, her big sister Eli Anne takes over the administration of her facebook page. Several months pass, and Eli Anne wants to take down the page – to say a final farewell.Eli Anne writes on Amalie's wall and looks back at their relationship – status changes, lies and jealousy, but also at the love that existed between the two sisters. There was so much that she never managed to say when Amalie was alive. ‘Dear sister,' Eli Anne writes on Amalie's Facebook wall. She doesn't want to leave anything unsettled between them by the time she finally takes down the page.Kjære søster is a novel that tells a story of sorrow, remorse and shame alongside joy, vitality and hope. It's also a novel about music, in which various genres and artistic perspectives are brought together.‘What makes this book exciting is that it raises some good questions about death in the digital age.’Bergens Tidende‘The way in which Amalie is reflected through the eyes of her big sister in Facebook comments is touching and intense. The reader is also given good insight into Eli Anne in contrast to her little sister, [...] and the way in which Walgermo refers to Patti Smith’s song lyrics makes the story painful, but also more beautiful. [...] Although most people can relate to how it is to lose someone, the use of Facebook is a small yet effective twist that makes the book even more identifiable for today’s young people. [...] It is also about hope and recovery. Kjære søster is a book that will appeal to many and deserves its place in all Norwegian bookcases.’Vårt Land‘Walgermo doesn’t direct his reader’s attention to the accident, but instead to the grief and the relationship between the two sisters, which is characterised by both sisterly love and jealousy. [...] Walgermo has [...] managed to move Facebook away from the trivial and towards the existential. He also depicts social media as both reality and fantasy. [...] I think that today’s young people will enjoy this!’Barnebokkritikk.no‘Walgermo uses clean and simple language to create beautiful imagery and sorrowful passages. […] There are many touching moments here: when they have to clear out her room, give her clothes away, whether she’s freezing out there in the cemetery, Eli inadvertently setting one place too many for dinner.’Dagbladet‘Alf Kjetil Walgermo writes so well about this, employing an intimacy and sensitivity that make him a joy to read. […] The language he uses is so simple, clear and concise that it must have taken a lot of time and work for him to construct. […] Yet another impressive piece of work from Alf Kjetil Walgermo. […] The author’s fastidious prose should be savoured and read in small chunks, preferably several times, so that all of the nuances are picked up. This is a treat, and you don’t bolt down treats.’Nytt i Uka‘A sensitive and in many ways beautiful story communicated through Facebook messages.’Dagen‘Real truth without any kind of guise. Kjære søster is a plunge into a close and dear relationship between two siblings – an honest declaration of love shaped like a farewell.’Gjengangeren‘A tender story of sisterly love, but also jealousy – they liked the same boy. Eli Anna thinks she has a lot to ask Amalie’s forgiveness for, and the author paints beautiful, credible portraits of both of them. They are teenage girls, and the author manages to get them on the same wavelength using simple methods. It is well done.’FÆDRELANDSVENNEN‘There is a very interesting idea behind Alf Kjetil Walgermo’s most recent young adult novel: what happens when a person is gone, but their Facebook profile still exists? How does grief manifest in social media? … Walgermo managed to give Eli Anna a credible voice … This novel would be a good starting point for a conversation about sorrow, loss, jealousy, reconciliation and forgiveness.’DEMOKRATEN

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