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Andre og bedre historier
Literature and Fiction2021 · 144 pp

Andre og bedre historier

Edel Maria Landsem

Above the earth we tell stories. Stories of hugs and bodies and souls and sex. Dewy-fresh words and old sentences, genious pieces and deceitful memories. We want to be thinking humans in a gliding story, vagabonds with free will, free feet and a free head. Other and Better Stories by Edel Maria Landsem is a burlesque and sassy collection of short stories about everything that can happen when what’s well-behaved and normal is on collision course with the baser forces of our human nature. A woman travels to London in affect after a breakup, and ends up shitfaced in a hotel bar, grasping for the wrong guy. Another is on a romantic weekend getaway in Paris with her husband, but sneaks outside during the night wearing only a trenchcoat while he is sleeping. A third becomes so jealous that she reveals a scandalous secret about the parentage of her friends’ child. A fourth visits her father in a nursing home, gets terrified of early dementia, takes a leave of absence from work and travels to Switzerland. The women in these stories experience the small despairs of everyday life while dreaming of travels, self-fulfillment, excitement and belonging, all while they are feeling deep longing, spite, and the urge to break free. Fresh debut about well-behaved women's everyday despair, spite and primordial powers ... one can rejoice in a vital, rythmical languace, rich fantasy, odd perspectives, depth and knowledge, and not least, a significant dose of liberating and totally normal madness, as several female protagonists go off the deep end. FIVE OUT OF SIX STARSSTAVANGER AFTENBLAD Landsem’s talent is clear, her humanist capital is large, and taking into account her mode of writing – her essayistic, novel-like fragments without an obvious plot, but with surperior linguistic authority – I think we’ll see thicker books from her pen in the future.VÅRT LAND

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Anne F.
Literature and Fiction2021 · 144 pp

Anne F.

Kristian Klausen

What happens when you move well-known biographical figures to a new place and give them new surroundings, a different background, a different narrative arc and an alternative ending? Anne Frank died in Bergen-Belsen in spring 1945. Before that, she and her family, along with four other Jewish people, spent more than two years living in hiding on the upper floor of business premises in Amsterdam until they were discovered and deported. Kristian Klausen’s novel, Anne F., portrays Anne and her father Otto in Drammen and it is Otto Frank’s Drammen that is depicted for the reader. Until the outbreak of war, Otto Frank runs a tobacco kiosk on Konnerudgata. Later, again, it is Otto’s perspective we see. We meet him alone in Auschwitz and at Drammen railway station after the war, as the sole survivor. It is Otto who obtains the diaries that were left behind and starts to live through them. A thought-provoking, gripping book from Kristian Klausen.

Anton Doesn’t Want to Have a Bath
Children's Books2021 · 32 pp · Age 0 - 6

Anton Doesn’t Want to Have a Bath

Amadeus Blix

Anton is big and gentle and kind and the world’s very best playmate. But once he’s set his mind on something, he can’t be budged. His family are trying with all their might to get Anton to do what they say. But will they manage to convince him? And is Anton really the only stubborn person in the family? The Anton books are suitable for readers aged two upwards.

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Anton Won’t Go to Bed
Children's Books2021 · 32 pp · Age 0 - 6

Anton Won’t Go to Bed

Amadeus Blix

Anton is big and soft and kind and the world’s very best playmate. But when he sets his mind on something, he can’t be budged. This time, he doesn’t want to go to bed! His family try everything they can to get the big dog to do as they say. But will they manage to convince Anton? The books about Anton are funny, captivating and relatable stories for readers between the ages of 3 and 6.

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Backyard Dog
Children's Books2021 · 160 pp · Age 12+

Backyard Dog

Magnus Buen Halvorsen

Balal is 14 and runs a YouTube channel with three pals, where they play innocent pranks on people in the street. But traffic on the channel is pretty low, and they realise they have to do something that will really attract attention. That’s when they come up with the idea of a stunt at subway station in central Oslo at rush hour on a Friday – a so-called terror challenge. Balal isn’t sure whether this is a step too far, but his friends are already in full swing, firing up the comment field and promising to livestream the action to their subs. But the terror challenge is far from successful and has an impact on Balal’s parents, who are already burdened by their traumatic experiences. Now his father is convinced that terrorism has come to Norway and that war will follow. He builds a shelter in the flat and refuses to leave it. And even when the police quickly confirm that the action subway station was just a stunt, it does no good. Because, as his father asks, who on earth would be so idiotic as to joke about something like that? Over several hectic weeks, the story from their homeland unfolds and Balal is seriously put to the test. Backyard Dog is a fast-paced YA novel about belonging and friendship, and about carrying on with life when you are burdened by difficult histories.

The Get-to-Know-Each-Other Book
Self Help2021 · 112 pp

The Get-to-Know-Each-Other Book

Kjersti Kvam

In The Get-to-Know-Each-Other Book you get a toolbox full of good questions and "icebreakers" that you can use in your everyday life. It will help you to get to know both yourself and the people around you in an informal and fun way. The book contains 300 questions that will kick-start the good conversation, divided into chapters on different situations you might find yourself in. Some of them can overlap and be divided into smaller categories in a dynamic way.To feel a connection with other people is important in life. From the time we are born, we attach to parents, siblings and other family. After that we attach to friends, partners and colleagues - and in many situations also get to know people you have never before met. But how well do you know the people around you? Who are the persons you are surrounded by? And how much do you really know about them?An honest response: Not much.Families gather around the dinner table with their phones on, before leaving for different activities. Friend topics like love and football are looping. People who have been working together for years knows nothing about their close colleagues, apart from some of them being extremely annoying in meetings. And when we meet new people, we tend to talk about the weather.The same goes for weddings, religious ceremonies and birthdays, where several generations meet in solemn expectation, in their nicest clothes and new shoes. We might not have seen these people in a long time, you might feel timid, and a bit left out standing there in your finest. At that time, it can be hard to start a conversation. People have different personalities, needs and ways to communicate. But why is it so hard to move from awkwardness to an interesting and stimulating conversation?The Get-to-Know-Each-Other Book is your friend in need when you want to get in the swing of things socially. It will create laughter, recognition, discussion, and new knowledge. And the reward will be that good feeling of togetherness.

Benny and the Mystery of Camp Milky Way
Children's Books2021 · 192 pp · Age 9 - 12

Benny and the Mystery of Camp Milky Way

Tom Erik Fure

Benny and the Mystery of Camp Milky Way is the third book in the Benny Bark series. It’s the perfect book for fans of David Walliams and Tom Fletcher. For his birthday Benny receives the most incredible birthday gift: a weekend getaway at the luxurious Milky Way Hotel & Resort, situated in Tjess Valley, world-renowned for its UFO phenomena. Of course, in true Benny fashion, nothing goes according to plan when it turns out he is not, in fact, staying at a luxury hotel, but at the extremely dilapidated Camp Milky Way, where he must contend with roommates who can’t stand each other, outdoor toilets, and the resident loonies. Other things not on his birthday wish list: an unhinged horse, Evan the Ice Prince, communal showers, and mysterious fires of possible alien origin! The question is no longer: Is there alien life in Tjess Valley? The question is: Will Benny even survive his twelfth birthday?

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Bjørg Vik’s Way
Narrative Non-fiction2021 · 400 pp

Bjørg Vik’s Way

Lars Vik

Few Norwegian authors of the 20th century left more of a mark on their society than Bjørg Vik. In eleven short story collections, five novels and numerous plays, she explored women’s lives and the background to their experience like no other writer. In a warm portrayal of his mother, Lars Vik offers us an honest and intimate portrait of the author, public figure, and private person that was Bjørg Vik, based on her journals, letters and countless conversations with those around her. The book offers a wealth of new information about one of Norway’s most important cultural figures. Between her life and her writing, the book portrays a person of uncommon calibre, who had huge ambition and made an enormous impact. But it also shows the price of success.

Buffy By Is Feeling Adventurous
Children's Books2021 · 336 pp · Age 9 - 12

Buffy By Is Feeling Adventurous

Ingeborg Arvola

Buffy By – the poor girl from rich Oslo – is back! Her mum Lillie has gone into hospital and nobody knows how long she’ll have to stay there. So what’s supposed to happen to Buffy and Bobby? It turns out that Lillie’s mother, Olava, lives in Northern Norway and has graciously agreed to take in the grandchildren she has never met. But Olava isn’t your average grandmother. This is a journey and a visit that will leave none of them untouched! The books about Buffy By are fun, clever, charming, inventive and exceptionally well written, and they tell a story that is entertaining, exciting and different. A critically acclaimed, award-winning middle grade series that offers plenty to laugh and talk about.

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Bukkene Bruse drar til Syden - Aktivitetsbok
2021 · 40 pp · Age 3 - 6

Bukkene Bruse drar til Syden - Aktivitetsbok

Bjørn F. Rørvik

Bli med Bukkene Bruse til Syden! Let etter vannpistoler, pakk kofferten og hjelp den lille bukken med å finne igjen håndkleet sitt. Her er morsomme og akkurat passe utfordrende oppgaver til Bukkene Bruse-fansen. Finn fem feil, labyrinter, prikk til prikk, fargelegging og bildekryss – du finner alt som skal være med i en aktivitetsbok, til og med klistremerker. Mye festlig feriemoro - enten man er på ferie, på vei til ferie eller hjemme!

Bunker
Literature and Fiction2021 · 208 pp

Bunker

Rune Salvesen

Bunker is a novel about fear: about the fear of failing in creative endeavours but also about not letting that fear take control. It is about the fear of exposure to terror or violence and what, in extreme cases, that fear can drive us to. In this fragmentary structured novel, we encounter three voices: the first belongs to the first-person narrator, who has just delivered a new book manuscript to his publisher. Is what he has written good enough? How far has fear marked the life he has lived? Salvesen writes about what it means to write a literary universe into being, about how and why the I-narrator does it and how artists must live with the consequences of their art. The second voice belongs to David, who has lost his father and his job in the oil industry. He feels alienated in the life he lives. Now he has planted a bomb outside the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate in the coastal oil town Stavanger and has gone into hiding in a bunker beneath the sea. The terrorist act was organised by others and David has escaped the consequences for his action. When the bomb went off, he was already out of range. What and who has this action turned him into? The third and final voice belongs to Snorre Sand, an author who has taken early retirement and who helped cast the concrete of the bunker where David now is during the Second World War. He looks back over his eventful past – war, imprisonment, love, a literary life – and tries to seek meaning in an existence in which he no longer writes. But his story is cunningly interwoven with the narrative above David and a kind of essay about the first-person narrator’s own writing process. Everything is connected with everything else. What motivates a terrorist? What is the essence of fear and violence? What does isolation do to us? And how are these elements connected with the premises of all artistic work? Bunker draws the reader into uncomfortable questions that affect our own age and is a latticework of questions and threads in which readers must seek answers and direction for themselves.

The Secret Life of the City
Narrative Non-fiction2021 · 240 pp

The Secret Life of the City

Hanna Bjørgaas

Hanna Bjørgaas is a biologist who spends her days among the penguins and whales in the Antarctic, one of the world’s most dramatic landscapes. The tourists she guides pay immense sums to travel there and encounter nature as they will never experience it anywhere else in the world. Or will they? Here is the starting-point for her project: to walk out of her door and take a non-judgemental interest in the nature she encounters over the course of a year. Can she experience nature in the city? The majority of Europe’s population live in towns or densely populated areas, and city nature is the nature most people will encounter. In this book, Bjørgaas tracks down the most fascinating specialist knowledge available to us about the species and nature in cities. But the book is also a declaration of love to the biologists and experts who share their knowledge with commitment and enthusiasm.

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