Rights catalogue

Bodies Are Odd

Anne Østgaard

Runny noses, dripping blood, strong muscles and limber legs! Our bodies are strange and fascinating things, and children love to hear about all the weird stuff that happens inside us. This is an ebullient, colourful book that’s full of fun, slightly naughty rhymes about the body and bodily functions. The book is packed with nonsense, bodies and colours that are guaranteed to get kids reading it over and over and over again.

Ancient Egypt

Eldrid Johansen

Come along on an exciting voyage to Egypt in the olden days. You’ll encounter pharaohs and pyramids, sphynxes and hieroglyphics. In Ancient Egypt, people believed in life after death. But you had to be on your best behaviour while you were alive and pass difficult tests after you were dead. You couldn’t cheat either – because your heart would give you away. And what was happening here in the North while the Egyptians were learning about writing and culture? Totally thrilling material for kids who have cracked the reading code!

Disgusting

Alexander H. Sandtorv

Slimy snot, stinky farts, squirting diarrhoea and the sound of a knife scraping a plate. The world is full of disgusting things. But what are some really disgusting things? And why are they disgusting? The reader will find the answers in this book. But it comes with a warning! If you can’t cope with reading about truly disgusting, repulsive, stinky, slimy stuff, you must not buy this book! The book is repulsively illustrated by Linn Eielsen who has clearly channelled her inner stinking and anally fixated nine-year-old. The resulting illustrations are… well… nauseating.

Either or

Would you rather eat your nails each time you cut them, or eat your hair each time you cut it? Either or? What would you rather? This book is filled with dilemmas, where all of the options are completely insane!

Peculiar Puppies

Jenny J. Jacobsen

Learn to read with these strange but sweet animals! Some puppies have purple tongues. Some have no fur at all. Others have loads of wrinkles. And some have dreadlocks. The one thing they all have in common is that they’re really peculiar – and pretty cute, of course. This is a Young Lion book for children who have just learned to read – and love animals!

The Power

Heidi Furre

I can often see it in others. I don’t exactly know how I can see it, because it’s fleeting. It inhabits their face. It’s in their skin, around their mouth, in their eyes. Some women carry the pain in their face. Men too. It’s difficult to pin down, it easily slips away. It defies youth, it defies beauty. I’ve seen it in others since I was a child, before I knew what it was. I’ve seen it in children. I’ve seen it in elderly women. Some days I’ve seen it in myself. In my pores, in my skin tone, in the lines on my face. If I don’t watch out, it seeps through.Liv is a nurse. She takes good care of herself and others. She is a normal person hiding a normal secret. One night, many years ago, she was raped. By a man she willingly followed home. The Power is a novel about power, but also a book about having the power. The Power to move on. Unsafe spacesA thing that I value with Furres writing is how the feelings of her characters are taken seriously. Especially in her two latest novels the specific female experiences, that before might have been dismissed as overly sensitive, is given space and explanation. In The Power the personal experiences are also highly political, without the author turning it into a gender discussion about how men can not relate to the lives of women. Instead, The Power is a concrete tale of the experiences of Liv, a story many women can relate to as we step of the bus late at night and must walk the last stretch home on a dimly lit road.MORGENBLADET A totally normal type of rapeOne out of ten women become victims of rape. (…) With The Power Heidi Furre shows what those statistics actually mean. The topic is harsh and painful, but The Power is also good literature. (…) A novel about rape and the effects it has both on an individual and general level will obviously never by a “nice” feelgood book. But Heidi Furre manages to take good care of the reader none the less in this wise and clear book.DAGBLADET Accurate about the relief of traumaIn Heidi Furre´s hard striking novel The Power a mother of small children is trying to take back the control of her own life. What has happened cannot be undone. And this grey zone rape never ends up in a court of law. But Heidi Furre has found a different sort of relief in her precise sentences. A form that finds the reader.NRK One of this falls most important books.framtida.no

Mayday

Grethe Bøe

Sensational Action Thriller Debut! The Arctic is blowing up – and Ylva is the spark! Caught behind enemy lines, NATO-pilots Ylva and John faces a seemingly impossible task: They have to cross the frozen Siberian tundra on foot - with the enemy at their heels – to get back to Norway and stop a catastrophe that might lead to World War III. The relations between Russia and NATO are at a freezing point as NATO launches their greatest ever winter exercise in the far north of Norway. The Russians are provoked and mobilize their own “snap exercise” on the Russian side of the border. A Russian fighter plane is provoking a Norwegian carrier helicopter in the border area between Norway and Russia, and F-16-pilots John Evans and Ylva Nordahl is sent to escort the helicopter safely to shore. The NATO-plane end up in a stress-flight with the Russian plane, and the F-16 is damaged in a near crash, it is then shot down after ending up on the Russian side of the border. The episode sparks political crisis where both Russia and NATO see the event as an attack. The only thing that can stop an all-destructive conflict is the pilots Ylva Nordahl and John Evans making their way back across the border to Norway, to tell what really happened. It is a fight against time, as the Russian President, The General Secretary of NATO and private military industry are all sharpening their knives.Norwegian Reviews: Norwegian Crime Sensation: Bravo!Grethe Bøe makes a great debut with achillinglyrealistic thriller where the north of Norway is in danger of becoming a new Crimea.***** - Five stars out of six.DAGBLADETRefreshing debutGrethe Bøe and her protagonist Ylva are fresh and welcome additions to the Norwegian Crime Book Universe. It feels refreshing to have the arrival of a female author writing in a genre otherwise dominated by men - already writing with authority and weight about anything from international politics and reindeer herding to how to fly a fighter jet. And not least in a language full of good and creative descriptions and sentences.VGA seriously fresh debutThe idea and potential is at top level, written with international approach, cockiness and thorough on all the detail; be it the technical parts of flying a fighter jet, military, political or geographical (...) with main characters that have extreme survival skills and technical knowledge.ADRESSEAVISA Nightmare in the whiteIce-cold thriller with a unique female hero.***** - Five starts out of six.STAVANGER AFTENBLADFrightingly good from BøeGrethe Bøe has established herself in the top of Norwegian crime authors on her first try. … This is the best crime debut I have read – ever.***** - Five starts out of six.NETTAVISEN Thriller from the ice-cold ArcticGrethe Bøe has created a story with great weight when it comes to the relevance of the topic.GJENGANGEREN This is without a doubt one of the best debut of the year. I take my hat off for this thoroughly solid debut, and with [Grethe Bøe] welcome into the gang of thriller and crime writers. Because Bøe can write. I already look forward to her next book.RANDABERG 24 Grethe Bøe has written a smart and entertaining thrillerEntertaining and smart.AFTENPOSTEN Salander on speedSay hello to the northern Lisbeth Salander.BOK365

The Middle Man

Lars Saabye Christensen

The Middle Man is a dark and humorous satire taking place in the small American town called Karmack. After a series of accidents and deaths, the small town’s own “commission” – consisting of a sheriff, a doctor and a priest – decides to hire a “middle man”. A person in charge of informing family and relatives when an accident occurs. Frank Farrelli is a quiet and sane guy who is seemingly perfect for the job. He undertakes his new duties with enthusiasm and quickly becomes the town’s messenger for bad news. But the pressure from his new job as well as a new thriving romantic connection overwhelms Frank. To ease the burden, he calls in a ‘service’ that ends in a murder, and Frank finds himself stuck in a vicious circle where he is not only the guy who brings bad news, but also the one making them

Milla Saves the Amazon

Selma Lønning Aarø

When your best friend suddenly finds a new friend… Milla is ill and has to stay home from school. She isn’t very good at it, she likes to be where it’s all happening! Her best friend Filla comes to visit but one day he doesn’t turn up – because he’s found a new friend. Naja, the new girl in class, wants to be a rainforest scientist, just like Milla. And Milla doesn’t like that! She needs to get better and get back to school so she can show this new girl who knows best when it comes to the Amazon! Because the Amazon is burning – and it needs help. Milla Saves the Amazon fits neatly into Selma Lønning Aarø and Tiril Valeur’s charming hit trilogy about Milla. Climate and conservation play a major role in this delightful tale of friendship and jealousy.

Everyone Has to Sleep

Lena Lindahl

Fun and surprising facts about animals’ sleeping patterns! Did you know that bats sleep upside down? Or that the parrot fish uses a sleeping bag? Or that guinea pigs sleep with their eyes open? In Everyone Has to Sleep you’ll meet lots of different animals and find out how they sleep. It’s totally wild and weird that there are so many different ways of sleeping.

Weird Facts About Europe

Håkon Forfod Sønneland

This is the ultimate guide to weird laws and customs in the different countries of Europe: all the things you’ve ever wondered about, or didn’t even know you were wondering about, when it comes to our neighbour countries. Did you know that the Olympic Games come from Greece? And that all the competitors originally competed naked? Or that chocolate milk was invented by a man in Ireland? Or that in Switzerland you’re not allowed to own just one guinea pig. Håkon Sønnenland calls himself an artist of ideas. That’s probably because he has so many peculiar ideas himself. You can read about some of them in this book. The book has lively illustrations by Jens A. Larsen Aas.