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

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2025 and newer2020–20242015–20192014 and older

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

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Dragon
Children's Books2024 · 40 pp · Age 6 - 9

Dragon

Sveinung Lutro

This mythical beast has been part of our storytelling for more than 3,000 years. The dragon breathes fire and eats virgins and children. But wherever there are dragons, there are sure to be dragon-slayers too. Did you know that one of the most famous dragon-slayers was a girl? Or that some dragons didn’t just breathe fire, but also produced farts so stinky that they made people faint?

The Unicorn
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Children's Books2024 · 40 pp · Age 6 - 9

The Unicorn

Sveinung Lutro

The unicorn is a mytical creature that once was believed to heal sick people. Their horn was crushed into powder, which was sold as medicine. But what was really in the powder? And what is the unicorn today? It's found as toys and as a symbol for Pride, but is there more to it? The Unicorn is the first in a new non-fiction series about mythical animals.

Leona in Bike Trouble
Children's Books2024 · 56 pp · Age 6 - 9

Leona in Bike Trouble

Anneli Klepp

Leona and Felix only went out to buy ice cream, but it’s Wacky Saturday at school and there’s a flea market there too. When they arrive the headmaster is boasting about his new racing bike, which he’ll use to win the cycling race at three o’clock. The prize is ten thousand whole kroner! Leona wants to take part in the competition too, but she doesn’t have a bike. Luckily they’re at the flea market where there are masses of used bikes. Leona finds the perfect racing bike for sale and at three o’clock, she’s ready on the starting line. But was her used bike bargain a bit too good to be true? Whose bicycle is this? It turns out to Leona has landed herself in some serious bike trouble.

The World’s Stupidest Animals
Children's Books2024 · 52 pp · Age 6 - 9

The World’s Stupidest Animals

Hanna Nyborg Støstad

Fact book about stupid animals There are plenty of peculiar animals in the natural world. Some of them do things that seem downright dim-witted! But maybe they’re not so stupid after all… Some fish swim straight into the mouth of a shark. The woodpecker bashes its beak against a tree over and over again. Surely it must get a headache, mustn’t it? The kakapo is a bird that can’t fly. When it’s scared, it just stands around hoping no one will see it. The animals in this book might seem pretty stupid, but they actually have very good reasons for doing exactly what they do. Perfect for nature fans aged 6 to 9 years old.

My Friend, Alice
Mystery and Crime2024 · 320 pp

My Friend, Alice

Mally Marlene

Jessie and Alice have been inseparable for as long as they can remember, sharing a consuming interest in True Crime cases.When Alice becomes obsessed with an unsolved disappearance case from the 90s – The Sleeping Baby Case – Jessie finds that her friendship with Alice becomes more and more threatening. Alice is very dominant, and Jessie finds it challenging to maintain a normal life. Can Alice be trusted and is she the friend Jessie thinks she is? My Friend Alice is a psychological thriller exploring disturbed human minds and the fatal consequences of them. The storytelling is visual and captivating, and it will for sure make you question yourself along the way. The pieces of the puzzle in this psychological thriller fits perfectly together in the end.5/6 stars - Adresseavisa In the run-of-the-mill spring of Norwegian crime fiction, Mally Marlene emerges as a breath of fresh air, infused with a mix of lewd sexuality and Freudian terror. This psychological thriller is a demonstration of power. 6/6 stars – NRK I won’t be surprised if this novel, in a revised form, becomes the basis for a movie or a TV series.Stavanger Aftenblad

Møllergata 19
Narrative Non-fiction2024 · 312 pp

Møllergata 19

Vegard Sæther

During the Second World War, almost 40,000 Norwegians personally experienced internment in Nazi prisons, prisoner-of-war camps and concentration camps. They were arrested on suspicion of resistance-related activities, for their political and religious beliefs, for deviant sexual orientation, or for being Jewish or Roma. Many became political prisoners for an indefinite period – left to German justice and a fate no longer in their control. Almost 7,000 people were put in the Germans’ main political prison at Møllergata 19. Vegard Sæther sheds light on their story from a broad perspective – the road to imprisonment, torture and their subsequent fate. Over the course of five difficult years, number 19 became an important symbol of the Norwegian resistance movement. The book also looks closely at the captors. Who were they?

Night Ninja: Snakes and Ladders
Children's Books2024 · 64 pp · Age 3 - 6

Night Ninja: Snakes and Ladders

Rolf Magne G. Andersen

Night Ninja: Snakes and Ladders is an adventurous book about Martin who doesn’t like going to bed. At night, he solves a range of problems with the help of the lamp spirit Akari, who transforms Martin into the Night Ninja, and offers him good advice along the way.Martin loses against Dad at Snakes and Ladders. Martin wants a rematch, but it's time for bed. Going to bed is the worst thing Martin knows. Luckily, he can turn into the Night Ninja and break into the castle from the Snakes and Ladders game, where he must play the game for real.Reality and imagination mix in this tough and exciting goodnight story, perfect for everyone who likes ninjas!

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Landing
Literature and Fiction2024 · 176 pp

Landing

Aksel Selmer

Ottar Arne Andersen, failed poet and author of mediocre advertising texts, recently widowed and retired, has finally worked up the courage to move back to his hometown. For more than forty years he has longed to return home to the winter and ideal skiing conditions. But when he is sitting with his boxes of books in the house he has bought, he realises it was maybe something else he longed for, something he is struggling to get back. Landing is a cheerful and melancholic story about coming home and then trying to remember what it was that what it was that you left and why you left it. It is also a tale of soaring over the landscape of your childhood and making a good Telemark landing on your skis.

The Most Prominent Thomas Mann-expert in Norway
Literature and Fiction2024 · 208 pp

The Most Prominent Thomas Mann-expert in Norway

Fredrik Lilleby

Fredrik Lilleby’s novel The Most Prominent Thomas Mann Expert in Norway is a novel about sexual and romantic relationships, the possibilities and limitations of literature, lives, lived and unlived, desire and gratification, transgression and regret. Helge Kaspersen is the chief district judge at Fløtterud court, well into his fifties and married to Randi. Thomas Mann has been his favourite author his whole adult life, largely due to Mann’s supressed homosexuality, desires that Helge Kaspersen has realised he shares. He is looking forward to a two-month sabbatical from his position as district judge, during which time he plans to write a 150-to-200-page book about Thomas Mann. To also try to “do something about” his own homoerotic desires, he creates a profile on the dating app Grindr and eventually meets someone he likes. The sabbatical doesn’t turn out quite like he had envisioned.

Norwegian love
Literature and Fiction2024 · 128 pp

Norwegian love

Brynjulf Jung Tjønn

Was Brynjulf a child sold across borders? Can he still be glad he was bought by someone in Norway? All he wants is to be part of the country where he grew up, to acknowledge the painful, but also see what's beautiful. At the time when White, Norwegian man came out, a story broke that there had been problematic aspects to the adoption industry. This shook the self-image and identity of many adopted people, including Brynjulf Jung Tjønn. Even though you are born in another country and have dark skin colour, you still just want to belong. To be part of the Norwegian. Who has Brynjulf been? Who will he be or become? What does it mean to be Norwegian? "(...) poems that vibrate with quiet, understated tension.”Marius AspVG, Five/six stars “He is often satirical and has an undeniable talent for pinpoint phrasing.”Espen GrønlieDagbladet, Five/six stars “… a poetic commentary on the ongoing news landscape.”Gro Jørstad NilsenBergens Tidende, Five/six stars “Brynjulf Jung Tjønn finds a finely tuned balance between the despair of identity and reconciliation.”Ingunn ØklandAftenposten “Brynjulf Jung Tjønn’s new poetry collection plays on ‘Norwegian’ as a hallmark of identity, values, and tradition, while also capturing the experience of alienation, racism, and the loss of self.”Sigrid Elise StrømmenVårt Land

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Swoosh!
Literature and Fiction2024 · 272 pp

Swoosh!

Morten Langeland

In November 1996, the workers of coalmine 3 at Svalbard were told that operations were being suspended. The workers put down their tools and left the mine in the middle of their shift. Trygve became an unemployed sole provider for his daughter, Mariane. For years, Mariane has lived a successful and hectic life as a trend analyst. The international lifestyle brands have sky-high expectations, which Mariane rarely fails to exceed. But when a pitch meeting for Nike suddenly goes awry, Mariane opts for a self-imposed break. As she attempts to analyze her new situation while licking her wounds, an important phone call knocks her further out of balance. From multinational negotiations on the 27th floor in Tokyo office buildings, to hard manual labor in Coal Mine 3 on Svalbard: Swoosh! is a journey between generations, towards a new understanding of one’s own identity. Praise for Swoosh! Existentially curious about parenthood and identity "Through Mariane and Trygve, the novel explores the enormous social changed that have happened over just two measly generations, with the parallel, disquieting changes of our planet as its framework. (…) an existentially curious exploration of estrangement and love across two generations, in a rapidly changing world." MORGENBLADET Praise for Morten Langeland Masterly by Morten Langeland After 260 pages of dense and intense text with the unmistakable tinge of Morten Langeland’s playful approach to language and matter, and with several narrative threads weaved together sort of like a complicated fugue by Bach, I’m not only convinced of the novel’s greatness. I’m equally moved, touched and happy to have partaken in this work of art. This book will stay with me for a long time. FÆDRELANDSVENNEN Between spiritus and spiritus mundi Morten Langeland writes contemporary-cultural look-and-find-books one definitely shouldn’t miss. (…) With his publications these last four years, Morten Langeland has become a completely unique and very significant writer. MORGENBLADET

If you were human
Literature and Fiction2024 · 224 pp

If you were human

Sunniva M. Roligheten / Daniel A. Wilondja

a sorrow and a worry, a wave on Facebook and a question as to whether it was perhaps more painful than good to know you. She is a student working on a project on the conditions in Congolese mines. He works in just such a mine. One summer, he comes to Norway in connection with the project. They become friends without speaking the same language, through an interpreter. He returns home, telling her through Google Translate about sleeping in the mine, about people dying in the mine, about his strong desire to be educated. She has a good idea: if they write a book together, he’ll get money for an education, and she’ll help him get a place on a programme of study in Norway. It becomes much more difficult and painful than they could have anticipated. This novel has a very unusual format, written by Sunniva M. Roligheten and Daniel Akilimali Wilondja, in Norwegian, French and Swahili, a lot of it with help from Google Translate. The book is political, poetic, funny and very sad.