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Soft and Colorful Wool Felting
2017 · 160 pp

Soft and Colorful Wool Felting

Tone Tvedt

Felting is an exciting craft with many possibilities. The ideas range from scarves, ponchos, hats and gloves to pillows, blankets, angels and much more. The models are made in several grades of wool with different possibilities for decoration, with the aim of achieving exciting and different textures and expressions in the final product. The models have different levels of difficulty, from simple to somewhat more advanced.

He Never Promised Me Gold, Only Green Forests
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Narrative Non-fiction2017 · 224 pp

He Never Promised Me Gold, Only Green Forests

Lene Julsen

Man loves woman. Woman loves man. But 385,186 square kilometers of Norwegian nature separates them. All she wants is to have children, all he wants is to go to the mountains. Convincing a ‘Nature Man' that there is room for a child will prove to be just as difficult as walking up Store Skagastølstind in stilettos. A warm, humorous story about how people can live together despite great differences.

Inevitable Happy Ending
2017 · 184 pp

Inevitable Happy Ending

Sigrid Hesjevoll

Anna has lost her entire family. This is in no way nice and in every way unreasonable. This book is not so much about that. It is about other things. It is about wedding pretzels. Travel companions. Hail. And the inevitable happy ending. * 01:40- Did you love many before me?- Not a one.- Did you make love to many before me?- What’s riboflavin and why is it present in milk? * BreatlessShe met the man with the wrists in Kathmandu. They made her breathless and infinitely more aware of wrists the remaining years of her life. * Why the soapmakers mom doesn’t wash her sons pantsHe’s got the soap.He’s 83.She’s 101.That should be plenty. * Scottish woman whisperingThe pot of gold at the end of the rainbow buys you two pairs of shoes, a mandolin and a loaf of bread. And if you’re lucky, a goat. * JimJim is a crossword maker and sex symbol. In Cork. Which is more than you can say of most. * Sigrid Hesjevoll has earlier published the chapbook Manual for better days. Inevitable Happy Ending is her debut, a humoristic and dark collection of short prose circling around Anna, the main character.

Nina Skarra Knitting Book
Crafts and Hobbies2017 · 192 pp

Nina Skarra Knitting Book

Nina Skarra

In this book, you get 29 unique Nina Skarra-designs you can knit yourself. Designer Nina Skarra takes us on a journey into her fantastic world and shows you how you can use clothing from the catwalk in your own wardrobe, think consciously about your style, and choose quality pieces that will last a long time. In addition to patterns, you get a glimpse into Nina Skarra's working method, and get tips on how you can work on and develop your own creative abilities. The fashion world is characterized by a high pace and little focus on sustainability, ethics and the environment. By knitting yourself, you take the power back. The book is beautifully photographed by fashion photographer Baard Lunde.

If only
Literature and Fiction2017 · 320 pp

If only

Vigdis Hjorth

The playwright Ida Heier has met the love of her life: the professor Arnold Busk, who is ten years her senior. Both are married and have children. For several years she pines for him to let go of his family for her. But when he does their relationship moves toward the extreme, an obsession that borders on madness… «A great, tragic romance novel that hits the reader like a high-speed train.»DAGBLADET «With the novel If only Hjorth steps up a division. It is written with the blood of her heart, and might be her best novel.»VG «By the end of If Only, Hjorth reworks that old aphorism: unhappy stories are all alike. It’s the ones that eke out a kind of happiness that set themselves apart. Hjorth emerges once again, in this novel, as not only a chronicler of the bruised and bloody, but their champion, an author who grants her characters the power to author their own stories themselves.»Full Stop (US) «An absorbing study of inner turmoil ... gripping.»Guardian «Addictive ... The beauty of If Only is in the way Hjorth underscores how often love and suffering are bedmates.»Susie Mesure, Financial Times «Cult author Vigdis Hjorth’s most important novel ... If Only exposes the tragedy of both longing for and attaining one’s love object.»Mia Levitin, Monocle «Vigdis Hjorth is one of my favorite contemporary writers.»Sheila Heti «A love affair consumes a Norwegian woman's life in Hjorth's breathtaking latest ... Hjorth's narration is both irresistible and exhausting, a headlong rush that describes and enacts Ida's feelings as she careens between love and hate for a man she knows isn't "worth the sacrifice." Like Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment, Ida has occasional flashes that she's acting irrationally, and Hjorth evokes the agony of her protagonist's self-entrapment to a devastating degree. It's an enthralling tale of passion gone to rot.»starred review, Publishers Weekly «Hjorth, the Norwegian novelist behind 2022’s Is Mother Dead, painstakingly chronicles a 30-year-old married woman’s all-consuming and volatile romance with a married man, which blurs the lines between passion and love.»Sophia Stewart, The Millions «The Norwegian author of Long Live the Post Horn! and Will and Testament has formed a small but formidable cult following in the US, and If Only should only grow their army. If Only starts off with enigmatic and addictive words of love and death that call to mind our favorite doomed affairs-painful and poetic, cursed and necessary, we must go back in time to understand how our heroine found herself on the brink, caught between passion and ruin.»James Folta, Lit Hub; Most Anticipated Books of 2024 «Feverish and intoxicating, If Only is a novel about the depths of a life-altering devotion and the connections between love, creativity, and self-making.»Foreword Reviews «Who are we without passionate love, and do we need heartbreak to truly know ourselves? If Only chronicles one woman’s questions of life, love and existence during a torrid love affair.»B&N Reads «Everything here that sets my teeth on edge – the claustrophobia and repetition, the endless torture the lovers put each other through – is exactly what makes Hjorth’s novel so remarkably, and horrifyingly, accomplished.»Lucy Scholes, Telegraph «Hjorth’s portrait of her heroine’s madness nearly always teeters towards comedy, which is one reason the book, though depicting suffering and shame, is such a pleasure to read.»Stuart Jeffries, Observer «In form and function, If Only paints a vivid portrait of desperation ... And for what? For love? For lust? For nothing? The question is not answered. It’s simply two lives laid out for ultimate destruction.»Frank Valish, Under the Radar

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Care
Literature and Fiction2017 · 160 pp

Care

Kristin Buvik Sivertsen

On February 17, 2015, the police are called to an assisted living facility about a suspicious death and a possible rape. More than a month and a half later, a recently graduated policewoman is brought on to the case. She starts interviewing residents, employees and others who might be able to shed light on what happened. Slowly but surely, the conditions at the assisted living facility are revealed. We get not only the residents' interpretation of what happened, but also that of the social educator and a psychology student who were on duty the night of the 7th, as well as the police's. Thus, the pros and cons of a system that insists on one particular solution to a problem are shown. As rigid as the system is, the style of writing is, in opposition, flexible when it lists the different views, opinions and theories. Whether it is a retired policeman or the patient who stubbornly claims that he is invisible at night. With an insightful, sharp, exciting and enjoyable debut, Kristin Buvik Sivertsen asks the question of what care means in the year 2016.

Operation Hades
Mystery and Crime2017 · 352 pp

Operation Hades

Johnny Brenna / Sigbjørn Mostue

A thrilling and action packed crime! Operation Hades is the fourth book in the series about police detectives Axel. Th. Munthe and Tobben at the Oslo Policedepartment for special operations. The family of undercover cop Axel Th. Munthe's colleague Tobben is attacked. Some young people from a new, militant animal rights organization are found brutally harmed. It turns out that we are facing an international criminal organization without any scruples, and whose brutal conduct will show that they will stop at nothing to achieve their goal. If they succeed, the country will never be the same. "It does not lack action nor violence, this novel, that is the duos best so far. The writers have done well through all their four books about Axel and Tobben. As a read it flows well and the book can be hard to put down. Especially since it is action packed from beginning to end."ROMERIKES BLAD

Pelle-Ragnar and the yellow building
Children's Books2017 · 144 pp · Age 9 - 12

Pelle-Ragnar and the yellow building

Vigdis Hjorth

The yellow building is in Copenhagen. Soon Pelle-Ragnar and his parents will be moving back to Norway, back to all the aunts and uncles there, the ones his mother has told him so much about. That is why Wilhelmina must be told the story about Tarzan climbing the tree at night and about all the treasures and secrets. Because someone needs to know when Pelle-Ragnar is no longer there, in the yellow building. A book for young readers by Vigdis Hjorth, the bestselling author of Jørgen + Anne = True.

Per is Dying
Narrative Non-fiction2017 · 256 pp

Per is Dying

Per Fugelli

Per Fugelli, one of Norway's loudest and most fearless voices for almost half a century, has been fighting a long battle with cancer. Per is Dying will be his very last book, written as a survey report about the very last episode of life and finished only when he is at death's door. At the same time, it is a great humanist's last message for posterity, a reminder of what really matters when it all comes down to it.

Pillment
Self Help2017 · 384 pp

Pillment

Niels Christian Geelmuyden

In Pillment, Niels Chr. Geelmuyden poses awareness-raising and flashy questions about drug use, research results, how common medications work and the pharmaceutical industry's working methods. What do our most common medicines actually contain? Blood pressure medications, statins and painkillers? Who approves them, and how do they work? The global pharmaceutical industry's turnover is approaching $13 billion a year. It should therefore be well equipped to work on behalf of people's health. But does it? asks the author. Read this book and acquire the knowledge you need to ask your doctor all the right questions, whether you need a painkiller now and then or have to use medicine every day. Read it for the sake of your own health! Dr. Charlotte J. Haug was a consultant for the book and, in collaboration with the author, provided good advice on prevention, self-help and safer medicine use. Haug holds a Ph.D. in immunology and infectious diseases and a master's degree in healthcare research from Stanford University. The dubious sides of extensive pill-poppingGeelmuydens elegance, subtleties and humour are of good help when reading this book. And still there are few books I have read and reviewed through the last 20 years, that I feel should be read with a greater seriousness.…The layman Geelmuyden has - on behalf of all us other laymen that might be worried about the scope of publically authorized and partially financed overuse of medicines - done a formidable job in penetrating and illuminating this rather dark landscape.…It should also be mentioned that we in this book meet the playful writer in a more serious and careful tone of voice. He is careful to balance the information and give room for the contradicting scientific results, letting the reader make up their own mind.AFTENPOSTENWhat do you know about the medicines you prescribe?Geelmuyden has done solid work to gather and adapt this content for a wide audience. ... All in all, this is a book that is worth while the read, and I really hope that the information it contains will echo through Doctor´s-offices all over. It is a must read for "difficult" patients and pill-sceptical nurses. SYKEPLEIEN

Pornomania
Literature and Fiction2017 · 320 pp

Pornomania

Eirik Husby Sæther

Mattis grows up in an age of porn magazines and censored pictures of naked bodies. But then the Internet arrives, the censorship is gone and porn is made available for free through streaming. To attract "voyeurs" the porn becomes more and more violent and humiliating. This is when porn take over the life of Mattis. From living in a house with his parents and younger sister, he is institutionalized in the care of the state. He is sentenced for rape, arson and hard violence. The pornography imprisons him, in a bodily prison he wants to break free from. This is a novel about a generation of voyeurs. About extroverted sex and loneliness.

Powder Witch Gets Dressed Up
Children's Books2017 · 40 pp · Age 3 - 6

Powder Witch Gets Dressed Up

Ingunn Aamodt

One day, Powder Witch finds a strange box outside her door. The box is full of the strangest garments. “Let's get dressed up,” suggest Hocus and Pocus, and so they do. Soon, all the other friends come to visit. Are there enough costumes for everyone? And what will the Policeman think when Powder Witch's house is full of strangers? A well-known and well-loved character in a new format and new series from Cappelen Damm.