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The Patchwork Family Guide
Self Help2024 · 240 pp

The Patchwork Family Guide

Liv Anniken Berg

Four out of five patchwork families split up within five years. What is it that makes this type of family so challenging? The Patchwork Family Guide presents well-documented advice and useful measures to ensure that adults and children in blended families can live well together. Although this type of family is becoming more common, not everyone knows all they need to know to improve family life when things get difficult. With an awareness of the classic hurdles, your family will be better prepared to handle them. In this way, family members can focus their attention on the joys and benefits of a patchwork family. Research suggests that many patchwork families give up at the wrong time. Adults and children get on better when they know how to establish a this family form in a good and effective way. In The Patchwork Family Guide, experienced family therapist Liv Anniken Berg shares useful measures for young and old to live happily together in a patchwork family. This book gives you constructive advice and new knowledge about a type of family that is becoming more and more prevalent, in which research-based insight has so far been lacking.

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Buffy By Gets in the Christmas Spirit
Children's Books2024 · 264 pp · Age 9 - 12

Buffy By Gets in the Christmas Spirit

Ingeborg Arvola

Christmas is going to be a bit different for Buffy By and her brother Bobby. This Advent, their mum Lillie is recovering from a brain tumour, but she’s still sick. When Grandma Olava goes back home to Northern Norway, Dad, Jimmy – an incorrigible small-time crook and liar – turns up and fills their flat with mysterious boxes. Buffy doesn’t know quite what to make of it all. Of course it would be nice to have a proper family Christmas, but she knows Jimmy will vanish as soon as he has offloaded the “presents.” And he isn’t exactly a Dad worth having – or relying on. Meanwhile, preparations are underway for the school Nativity play in which Buffy is going to play the Baby Jesus – who will be born onstage. This is the fourth book in Ingeborg Arvola’s critically acclaimed series about Buffy By. Although it isn’t an Advent calendar, we follow Buffy, Bobby and all the other characters from December 1 to 24, in a book that is funny, dramatic and utterly charming.

The Billy Goats Gruff Celebrate Christmas – Activity Book
2024 · 32 pp · Age 3 - 6

The Billy Goats Gruff Celebrate Christmas – Activity Book

Bjørn F. Rørvik

At last there’s an activity book based on the Christmas bestseller, The Billy Goats Gruff and Santa, packed full of activities to keep you busy while you wait for Santa to arrive. Guess which Christmas tree the goats choose, find out who has fallen flat on their face and help the littlest goat find his way out of the snow cave, as well enjoying other more traditional activities like dot-to-dot puzzles and crosswords. Yet another colourful, fun addition to the Billy Goats Gruff universe. CE-advarsel: Ikke egnet for barn under 3 år. Små deler.

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The Lives of Others
Literature and Fiction2024 · 160 pp

The Lives of Others

Ida Fjeldbraaten

The Lives of Others is a merciless description of a society where everyone wants to be seen and heard, and where people will do anything to stand out from the crowd. A young woman previously worked on a reality show that ended up never airing. She isolates herself at home while scrolling endlessly thought the anti-social corners of the web. While the bills pile up and social security makes their demands, the protagonist escapes into other people’s lives. But what is real, and what is staged? What was it that went so terribly wrong during the recording of the reality show, set in an old asylum, that filmed five contestants left to their own devices? The Lives of Others is a poignant satire about the total domination of the reality genre, about loneliness, and about who will remain in the audience as everyone is clamoring to stand on stage. The novel ruthlessly depicts our contemporary times, where the need to be seen leads people into bottomless decay and total humiliation. «… a raw illustration of reality-TV’s dark side. … Reading this book was like therapy for us internet addicts. I want to throw my phone in the sea and take a long shower.»FRAMTIDA, six/six stars «Ida Fjeldbraaten manages to let the reality characters both amuse us and make us wiser. That's a tried-and-true recipe for a good book.» MORGENBLADET «The Lives of Others drips of bitter satire. Occasionally, the observations are funny and precise.»DAGBLADET «The novel is too credible to be pure satire and stretched too far to be pure realism. It is elegantly balanced …»DAG OG TID «… a piece of well-written, entertaining gluttony in misery and suffering.»KLASSEKAMPEN

The Fabulous Narcissist
Self Help2024 · 287 pp

The Fabulous Narcissist

Espen Skorstad

The Fabulous Narcissist offers a new look at one of the personality traits we seem most focused on and fascinated by in modern times, and it explains why the self-absorbed not only cause damage to their surroundings, but also move the world along. At the beginning of the 2000s, Espen Skorstad fell upon a project that was highly unusual for a psychologist at the time. He was fresh out of university and had just started his own business, but he had neither money nor clients. A celebrity psychologist he knew took pity on him, and asked if he wanted to help choose candidates for a couple of reality TV shows. Reality TV? Was that really how he should put his six-year-long education to use? What he didn't know then was that reality and celebrity TV was about to blow up. That in a few years, the Norwegian princess Märta Louise would be attempting to flee prison for our entertainment. That science journalists would be dancing shirtless on TV. Or that a politician would find the opportunity to run his election campaign from one of our most popular reality TV shows. Without knowing it, in 2001 Skorstad wandered into narcissism’s ground zero. Twenty years later, narcissism is in focus in popular culture and media. We are fascinated by antagonists, egoists and people who treat other people poorly. We must discuss: when is narcissism damaging, and when is it not? We might even ask: when is narcissism constructive? If we cannot see the positive aspects of a personality trait, or cannot recognise them in ourselves, will we ever be able to deal with our darker sides? «Interesting, well-written and diverse about narcissism.»DAGBLADET

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The One No One Sees
Mystery and Crime2024 · 384 pp

The One No One Sees

Terje Bjøranger

Nazdar Gulli’s family discovers that studying law isn’t all she’s doing at university. She’s also seeing Julio. Soon after this revelation, Nazdar ends up in hospital as an obvious victim of honour-based violence. Police investigator Charlie Robertsen tries to get Nazdar to report her brothers and father for violence and attempted murder. But Nazdar drops the charges, scared of the consequences they could have for both her family and for herself. The investigation is put on ice, but Charlie can’t let the case go. He knows that Nazdar is in danger of being sent out of the country and disappearing, like so many other women who are victims of honour crimes. Can he help her in time? At the same time, a young man calling himself Azad hides with a Kurdish single mother and her daughter in Sweden. Mother and daughter are brutally shot and killed by a criminal gang. Azad wants to avenge them, no matter the cost. Even if it costs him his secret identity. The One No One Sees is a realistic and captivating thriller with deep insight into a highly topical social issue. [...] an engaging and gripping story – written in ice cold and controlled language. Terje Bjøranger is a brilliant author who knows the art of building an intrigue. [...] one of the best and most relevant Norwegian crime novels I've read in a long time.VG - six/six stars [...] frightening, nail-bitingly intense and topical.Randaberg 24 - six/six stars [...] a frightening and extremely exciting thriller.Nettavisen - five/six stars The most important crime novel of the yearTerje Bjøranger has delivered a very good thriller. It’s the most political crime novel of the year. That makes it brave. And important.Stavanger Aftenblad - five/six stars

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Burden of Guilt
Literature and Fiction / Mystery and Crime2024 · 448 pp

Burden of Guilt

Hilde S. Palladino

It is a scorching hot summer. The heatwave has lasted for weeks. Former forensic psychologist Bjørk Isdahl is tasked by the police with looking for a middle-aged woman who has disappeared. It turns out that the missing woman had a daughter who disappeared without a trace, eighteen years ago. Bjørk quickly discovers similarities to the double-homicide case in which she made a fatal error three years ago. Where she caused the wrong person to be charged with the brutal murder of two teenage girls. He ended up taking his own life in his cell. Together with her former partner at the National Criminal Investigation Service, Absalon Lund, Bjørk starts investigating the case. The girl who disappeared eighteen years ago may have been the actual perpetrator’s first victim. Bjørk and Absalon are likely hunting a killer who may have been active for two decades. A perpetrator who has become Bjørk’s nemesis. As the search for the missing woman intensifies, yet another young girl disappears from the neighbourhood. Bjørk is convinced that the serial killer is active again. Burden of Guilt is an ambitious and well-written psychological crime novel that serves as a follow-up to H.S. Palladino’s explosive debut. The first book in the series, Hidden Under Snow, was sold to Germany, Sweden and Denmark on publication. «Vibrating and mystified crime where the author keeps the reader in doubt until the last sentence»RANDEBERG 24, six/six stars

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Where the Larks Sing
UpLit2024 · 304 pp

Where the Larks Sing

Ann-Christin Gjersøe

A curse that goes through generations - a love that's put to the test Spring 1867. Rose is preparing for her stay in Denmark, filled with sweet expectations now that she knows Torkel will follow her. Well hidden in her luggage is a fateful letter and a forgotten diary, inherited from her paternal grandmother. In the diary, Rose will learn of a secret that could ruin her family. Alise and Birk must say their farewells, as Birk is leaving to go to Germany to study. Will their love be able to survive the distance? At the same time, the conflict between Alise's father, on behalf of the tenants, and the land agent Captain Crossby is getting heated, and will have fatal consequences. Miss Aurelia's boundless cunning and web of lies become a trial for the mute chamber maid Margrete, as she discovers that Aurealia has stolen one of Alise's letters from Birk. Margrete's own love life is also a mess of confusion—is Axel just being nice to her out of pity, or could he really, truly return her feelings?

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There's something in the water
Children's Books2024 · 136 pp · Age 6 - 12

There's something in the water

Sidsel Jøranlid

An easy reader that's just scary enough, just dark enough. A perfect summer holiday read! The summer vacation is here, and Ella will spend three weeks at the cabin. It's on a tiny little island just off the coast somwhere. And it's storming! Ella feels trapped on the island in the chaotic weather. What's even worse: the electricity disappears and she must share a bedroom with her older brother. It's clammy, grey and sultry. And Ella has promised her brother to go swimming in the sea every day, regardless of the weather. Suddenly, strange things start to happen. The sea throws fish on land, the beach is flooded with jellyfish, the uneasy feeling spreads. Then people start disappearing.

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The Absence
Literature and Fiction2024 · 144 pp

The Absence

Susanne Mørk

Every day we live is as fateful as it is destined. Anything can happen. In The Absence people meet people, often in an unusual way. People with unclear desires. People who don't really understand themselves. Who follow after one another. People who disappear. People who never leave. People left behind, without closure. It's as if there is a curse upon us as we read. Often, the author folds the lives of their characters together, like freshly laundered clothes, and the perception of time changes, as does truth, meaning, and all those things. They are understood as folded, rather than chronological. The stories in The Absence confirm that we live tragic lives, which we don't really have control over - but it doesn't make us condemned creatures.

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North of the Winter Sun
Narrative Non-fiction2024 · 210 pp

North of the Winter Sun

Veronica Skotnes

Only by travelling the sea way can you truly understand the coast. For three years, Veronica Skotnes has sailed along the coast of Northern Norway, searching for people stories and nature experiences from the country's most remote and windswept region. North of the Winter Sun depicts a journey by boat, as well as an inner journey. Veronica Skotnes travels through polar nights and under the midnight sun, on the calm sea and through storms. She's all by herself on the deck of an old sailing boat. The book emphasises a beautiful and dwindling part of Norway's coastal culture, alongside the author's own reflections, experiences and challenges from sailing in the Arctic. «A fantastic travel report that strongly touches on the challenges of life and the present.»Dagbladet BOK, five/six stars «The travel depiction North of the Winter Sun is a tribute to the sea, and a declaration of love to all who live along our northernmost coast.»Friluftsliv «This is a book completely out of the ordinary. Poetic texts about the sea and the people on the islands in the farthest north. Warm human encounters, written with honesty. Anyone who is interested in the coast and coastal culture should get this book.»Norsk Fyrforening

Poetic travel writing
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Something Lost and Something Found
Children's Books2024 · 40 pp · Age 3 - 6

Something Lost and Something Found

Kaia Linnea Dahle Nyhus

A powerful and highly topical picture book about war, flight, change and reconciliation. In the beginning, there is a house with blue window frames. There is a mum and a dad, a cushion, a grandmother, a school, a cat on the step and a secret chocolate drawer. But there is also war. There are bombs and uniforms and grownups talking in whispers, and the war will change everything. Soon almost everything is gone. The chocolate drawer and the cat, the cushion and Grandmother, the school and even Dad. Now there are new things. There are queues and cold draughts and a house that isn’t a home. There are people who talk strangely and food that tastes weird. But there are also children who play. And a cat on the step who may become a friend. Something Lost and Something Found is a powerful story about having to abandon everything you know and put down new roots in an unfamiliar place. It’s a story that will be a great conversation-starter in schools and kindergartens, where many people meet children who have been forced to flee from war and unrest in their homelands. «... the picture book Something Lost and Something Found is a hopeful, empathetic and very aesthetically driven story. The author does not dwell on the act of fleeing ..., but also thematises the way forward, after one has arrived in a safe place. How to establish a new everyday life, when your thoughts and memories linger on the past? Fortunately, a lot of good can be rediscovered.»BARNEBOKRITIKK.NO