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Why doesn’t the moon fall down?
Children's Books2023 · 64 pp · Age 6 - 12

Why doesn’t the moon fall down?

Dennis Siva Lie

We’re back with 52 new questions children often ask, this time about science. How much does a cloud weigh? Who invented the internet? How many trees do we need to make one toilet roll? And why does the slice of bread with Nutella always fall with the Nutella-side down? Dennis Siva answers these questions, and 48 others. Siva is a biologist and known from the children’s science programme Newton, and is skilled at explaining science to kids. Why doesn’t the moon fall down? is educational, easy to understand and humorously illustrated, and a perfect for beginning to teach science to children aged 6–9. The entire series is illustrated by Leonard Furuberg, who has a playful and accessible style reminiscent of Pixar/ Disney animation.

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Why Don't We Eat Banana Peel?
Children's Books2023 · 64 pp · Age 6 - 9

Why Don't We Eat Banana Peel?

Emilie Nereng

A fun and educational book about food! Children have many strange questions and in this non-fiction series they get their answers. In Why Don't We Eat Banana Peel? the nutritional advisor Emilie Nereng answers the children’s questions about food. Because why are strawberries spotty on the outside? Can you eat eggshells? Who invented spaghetti? Do they only eat Indian food in India? Why Don't We Eat Banana Peel? is educational, easy to understand and humorously illustrated. It’s the perfect conversation starter for children between 6 and 9 years.

Fire, Teeth, Water, Tongue
Literature and Fiction2023 · 320 pp

Fire, Teeth, Water, Tongue

Nhu Diep

Fire, Teeth, Water, Tongue is a personal book of memories. Through episodic glimpses and scenes from her own life, Nhu Diep writes about her own complicated family story. Around 10,000 Vietnamese refugees arrived in Norway between 1975 and 1990. Among these were Ba and Má – meaning mother and father in Vietnamese – and their eleven children. The family was picked up by a Norwegian tank ship in 1978 and later put on a plane to Oslo. Little N was 8 months old at the time. In a yellow house the eleven siblings grow up. They get rôi (a beating) day and night. Brutal violence, a strict family hierarchy, and high demands and expectations marks N and her siblings’s childhoods, so they all carry with them many wounds into their adult lives. As a young adult N chooses to move away from her family. She needs to find out who she is, what she’s capable of and what she wants, and what role her family will occupy in her life. But eventually a wish to belong appears, bit by bit. She starts calling home, speaks Vietnamese instead of Norwegian. She gradually finds her way home, back to her own kin. Then the unthinkable happens. A death occurs in the family, suddenly and brutally. N returns home. When life is at its hardest, they are there, with their black manes, ready to welcome her. Now, her family must find a way to move forward - together. Fire, Teeth, Water, Tongue is a mature and good debut novel, about finding a place in a very special family, and finding one's own path in life.NRK Nhu Diep's intense coming-of-age novel shows the complex art of reconciliation after parental neglect (...) In Diep's account of growing up, there are experiences that are worth taking note of. And the power that lies in being able to reach out a hand to the child in itself - I keep thinking about that.KLASSEKAMPEN Our lives are not epic stories from A to Z, most of us do not go through 'a journey', but are left with strong moments, decisive episodes and small details that for more or less understandable reasons have stuck in our memory.DAGENS NÆRINGSLIV

No One is Innocent: Anti-Semitism on the Left
Narrative Non-fiction2023 · 248 pp

No One is Innocent: Anti-Semitism on the Left

Torkel Brekke

Does the Norwegian left have a problem with anti-Semitism? Yes, argues Torkel Brekke in this book. The author shows how parts of the left have cultivated conspiracy theories about Jews and how Soviet Holocaust revisionism was spread in the Norwegian public. He examines how violence against civilian Israelis is justified and how parts of the Norwegian trade union movement and organizational life moved from post-war sympathy for Israel and the Jews to a rhetoric with an anti-Semitic character. No One Is Innocent takes an uncomfortable but necessary reckoning with a political tradition that has been ignored for far too long. For the left, it has been easy to stick the Jew-hatred on the others, i.e. Nazis and the far-right. The left has failed to look in the mirror and ask how they themselves have referred to and treated Jews.

No One Can Spit at a Smiling Face
Narrative Non-fiction2023 · 208 pp

No One Can Spit at a Smiling Face

Synne Sun Løes

As long as difference exists, it will always speak with a contradictory tone. Speak over itself. Interrupt, protest and bang its fist on the table. Try to convince the world that it deserves to be heard. At the same time it’s also scared to death and trying to hide under that same table. Tries to muzzle itself. All because it’s scared to be exposed. In these personal and investigative essays Synne Sun Løes writes about adoption and identity. She bases her writing on her own experiences as adopted, as well as non-fiction, academia and the public debates. The themes being illuminated are widely spread, from xenophobia, racisms, being different, “the trend of diversity”, hysteria around infringement and Korean revenge art, to more psychological topics such as transgenerational traumas, psychoanalysis, and connectional damage. How can one take ownership of one’s own experiences as adopted and as a ‘’different child’’ without being accused of taking on the role of a victim? How can one adopt one’s own personal identity, as oneself, when one is “different” in present day Norway? How is identity affected by meeting one’s own biological parents? How can one survive in a world which time and time again tries to spit in one’s face? The author approaches these questions both with wonder, humour and seriousness, and she also casts a critical view at the tendency of society to simplify, edit and polarize the stories from marginalized groups.

Saving Big
Self Help2023 · 208 pp

Saving Big

Marie Olaussen

Saving Big puts economy and smart money management on the agenda, without wrapping the topics in foreign words, incomprehensible terms and graphs which require a degree in economics to understand. Here you can get the tips and inspiration you need for your day-to-day life and your wallet, from an author who’s had the first-hand experience of being completely broke. In Saving Big you get tips for how to cut your expenses, increase your income and save money by not spending it on unnecessary things – so that you can have more money for what you actually want to spend your money on. The book is chock full of surprising, fun and super useful saving tips, and the author puts all the expenses from a day-to-day under a magnifying glass – from food, clothes and beauty products to housing, cars and gardens. And so much more! In addition to this you get smart tips for investing as well as practical tips for how you can turn the hundreds you have saved into even more – and not least teaching you how to make your new, good money habits last.

I Have Colleagues
Literature and Fiction2023 · 240 pp

I Have Colleagues

Camilla Bogetun Johansen

I Have Colleagues is a novel about labour. Luckily I got a job. With the municipality. What are your thoughts on being beaten? the interviewer asked me. With tenderness, candor and comedy, author Camilla Bogetun Johansen writes about the physical and mental reality of being a care worker.. We meet the geology student, the chef, the telemarketer, the former hand model, the artist, the unskilled employees, the social worker and more. Their common ground is that they work in a caregiving home for mentally disabled autists. What kind of work is it to be a care worker? And who is the care worker? I Have Colleagues is a novel about manual labor, dreams, money – and being a body in search of a safe place.

I Hope You Are Doing Ok
Literature and Fiction2023 · 80 pp

I Hope You Are Doing Ok

Ole-Petter Vaaten

Ole-Petter Vaaten’s poetry collection I Hope You Are Doing Ok explores the idea of longing. Longing for life as it used to be. Longing for someone to need you. Longing for those who are gone. Longing for love. At the same time Vaaten’s poetry is exploring getting used to longing. For example, that piece of the sky that existed over the house you grew up in. Some of the poems also hint at a growing sense of unease about what’s awaiting you in the future, such as old age and death. Some of the poems describe a general unease about a world which is changing at an increasingly higher speed, with unforeseen events such as pandemics, war, and terror – and as part of this a worry not only about how the narrator will handle it, but also about his family. Yet, as the title so hopefully puts it: I hope you are doing ok.

Wolverine Tracks
Narrative Non-fiction2023 · 224 pp

Wolverine Tracks

Dag O. Hessen

One day in February 1972 Dag O. Hessen is on a ski trip with his father in the mountains when they come across a wolverine track in the snow. The young Dag convinces his father to follow the trail, but after half an hour of searching the imprints of the predator disappear down a steep passage and they have to give up on their hunt. 50 years later he’s back at the same place to pick up on the trail of the animal that escaped him. His father is now long gone, but the mountains are still there and somewhere out there is a wolverine. Tracking the Wolverine is Hessen’s most personal book so far. It’s a portrait of Norwegian nature’s most fascinating and shy animal, so compact in its wildness and power that there is hardly anything like it. An animal with a jaw strong enough to bite through even the thickest thigh bones and enough power to take down an animal many times its own weight, bite its head off and then drag its body up a tree. Seeing the animal in its natural habitat is a rarity only very few people get to experience. The wolverine, and the desire to meet the wild animal, is the framing of the story taking place in the mountainous nature. But this is also a story about time passing and changes we cannot prevent. About everything that slips through our fingers. The things we cannot completely catch and tame: A childhood long gone, close family members who have passed, the wild nature and a natural diversity which is about to weather away. And at the bottom of all of this lies a deep affection and respect for nature and biology, presented by one of Norway’s most respected non-fiction authors.«... several of the country's non-fiction writers should envy his effortless elegance and ability to find formulations like this one, about the author's fascination for the wolverine as 'a primal force, the wilderness in animal form, everything that is lost in an increasingly tame residual landscape.'»MORGENBLADET «Hessen the poet rises to his full height. This he has threatened to to in previous books too, but not dared to take the leap, perhaps? But this book was worth the wait. Hessen shows the tender and weary nuances in life, and in nature. The nature descriptions are touching. I feel I am gazing into the mountains, and feel, in an animalistic way, that life is good.» «He is our Thoreau, in the year 2023.» VÅRT LAND «Dag O. Hessen’s Tracking the Wolverine will place as one of this year’s best non-fiction books.» «The book deserves a place next to the author’s own favourite cabin reads: Zappfe, Thoreau, and Ingstad.» BOKMAGASINET/KLASSEKAMPEN

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The Cakes We Love
Cook Books2023 · 168 pp

The Cakes We Love

Elin Vatnar Nilsen

In The Cakes We Love the Norwegian baking queen and author Elin Vatnar Nilsen has collected all her favourite cakes in one place. The recipes are thoroughly tested and simple to follow, and nothing is left to chance. If you follow Elin’s measures and approaches, you are guaranteed to bake the most beautiful and delicious cakes! The Cakes We Loveis the book you’ll get out every time there’s a birthday, a graduation, a dinner with friends and for weekend treats – or when you just want to surprise your family with a delicious cake. You’ll open the book time and time again, because you’ll always find cake recipes you love and need, whether it’s the undefeated pavlova, a soft Norwegian spice cake, or gooey and lovely brownies to cheer up an otherwise boring Monday evening.

The Kamelia Box
UpLit / Literature and Fiction2023 · 304 pp

The Kamelia Box

Ann-Christin Gjersøe

At Sommersholm, the Adler family, the servants and the household stand on the threshold of the year 1867.During the Christmas ball, Rose caused a scandal because she invited her horse groom Torkel. Rose's father, County Administrator Adler is furious, and wants to send off his daughter to the family in Denmark. But no one can control another's heart, least of all one that is young and in love.Meanwhile, Alise despairs over the engagement between Birk and Miss Aurelia Collett – the beautiful but unscrupulous merchant's daughter from Christiania, who does everything in her power to capture the heart of Sommersholm's heir.One of Alice's dearest possessions is the kamelia box, which she inherited from her grandmother, and which once belonged to Mrs. Juliane, the Countess at Sommersholm. But Alise discovers that the box is more than a testimony to her grandmother's life as a chambermaid. For decades, it has hidden another story, from another life destiny.

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Karsten and Petra Host a Christmas Party
Children's Books2023 · 56 pp · Age 3 - 6

Karsten and Petra Host a Christmas Party

Tor Åge Bringsværd

Petra and her mum invite people over for a Christmas party. Grandpa and Esther are attending, as are Karsten and his family. They have a fun day with games, magic tricks, Christmas food and Christmas cakes. Karsten and Petra even have time to take a trip into space while they play in the bedroom. They also get to come along when the children next door go caroling. Not to mention that there is also a sleepover, and the next day the children smash the gingerbread house in Petra’s room. The popular series about Karsten and Petra began in 1992 and is still popular with new generations. The themes in the series revolve around friendship and play and the books are lovely, short stories with topics that engage all children of kindergarden age. The last few years a lot of children have also gotten to know Karsten and Petra and their stuffed animals through the many films and TV show adaptations that have been created.