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Open Sesame
Children's Books2017 · 48 pp · Age 6 - 12

Open Sesame

Gro Dahle

Brothers Al and Kas share a room and a computer. When big brother Kas has friends over, Al isn't allowed to hang out with them. But he can use the computer again after they've gone. And one day there is something on the screen that shouldn't have been there... Children are more vulnerable to sexual content online than ever before. Very few parents enable filters on web searches at home, and today's children learn about pornography earlier than ever before. Gro Dahle has won awards and critical acclaim for addressing problematic themes for children and young readers. Dahle writes rhythmic, sensitively and well, drawing the parallel to the story about Ali Baba and the Forty Robbers from A Thousand and One Nights. Sesame, sesame is the words that brothers Kasim and Ali use to open the doors to the robbers cave. The doors that are opened for Kas and Al also lead to gold. But the Internet also has darker caves. Here the action of adults is crucial, and Als mother solves the situation well. She does not add to the feeling of shame for the boys, but explain that pornography is acting for grown-ups. We need books about the dilemmas that the children meet. That children’s books have a clear educational mission, like explaining pornography, is not a problem. The premise must be that the artistic level is high, as it is with Gro Dahle in books about topics like divorce, incest, violence and depression. DAGBLADET Gro Dahle challenges the last taboo of Children’s Books: Looking at Porn. A typical objection to Gro Dahles books is that "they are not for everyone". That is, at it´s best, a misunderstanding. Children have a great deal of curiosity and empathic competence. But you might say that the books rarely are right for a cosy read. They work best for readers who are prepared for the topics that are dealt with. AFTENPOSTENFairytale sexWhat is so good with Open Sesame is that it does not leave the child alone with its questions, shame and disgust, nor with its curiosity, lust and the tingling feeling in the body. It lets things just be - and gives the child the opportunity to talk about something that is really hard and really weird. In it´s own way it sides wholeheartedly with the child. I warmly recommend it to all my both prude and frivolous friends out there.AFTONBLADET, SwedenOh yes, we should talk about pornGro and Kaia challenges us. Their books may have an educational angle, but they become more than that, where Dahles responsive language fills out or relativize Dahle Nyhus intense and fearless illustrations.NRK

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The Million Kroner Kindness Competition
Children's Books2017 · 240 pp · Age 9+

The Million Kroner Kindness Competition

Arnfinn Kolerud

One perfectly ordinary day, Frank and Mom win the lottery. And then no days become ordinary again.Every one in the village is after the twenty-four million. And Mom makes it worse by promising money to whomever is the kindest. Frank and Mom flee to southern Europe. For how long can they stick their heads in the sand? Who will win the competition? And can it really end up that Frank doesn't get a single krone? The Million kroner kindness competition is a humorous story about how difficult it is to be incredibly rich – and at the same time a good person.

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SOCKS FROM NORWAY
Crafts and Hobbies2017 · 200 pp

SOCKS FROM NORWAY

Nina Granlund Sæther

In Socks From Norway, we travel through Norway's countryside and it's different knitting traditions – this time while keeping our feet warm. In this book you'll find fascinating stories about the origins of the various socks, archive images from museums around the country, and plenty of patterns for knitting socks to the whole family. The book includes 41 sock patterns for men, women and children.

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Christmas knitwear for the whole family
Crafts and Hobbies2017 · 152 pp

Christmas knitwear for the whole family

Siv Kari Dyvik

24 great garments for the holiday seasonThe trend of garish and humorous Christmas knitwear has come to stay. In this inspiring book the experienced knit designer Siv Dyvik has prepared patterns for 24 great Christmas knitwear gifts for the whole family! Here you will find patterns in various levels of difficulty and garments that are suitable for both men, women, children - and even for the dog.

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TINDE HANDKNITS
Crafts and Hobbies2017 · 136 pp

TINDE HANDKNITS

Iselin Hafseld

The best thing about knitting your own garments, is that you can make them just the way you want them. Iselin is the designer behind the brand Tinde and has designed her own colors by knitting with several strands at once, either in the same quality or by blending different qualities in combination with exciting knitting textures. You get everything from lovely, classic jackets and vests, hats and pullovers to ponchos and short and long sweaters.

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It´s time
Literature and Fiction2017 · 96 pp

It´s time

Knut Ødegård

In his fiftieth year as a poet, Knut Ødegård is more vital than ever. This years collection shows us a poet painting bold pictures with his words, unafraid to enter the political scene of our days. The poets span from childhood to old age, from Molde to the mother fleeing Syria with her child, in the same way Mary fled with Jesus.

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Threads
Children's Books2017 · 40 pp · Age 3 - 9

Threads

Torill Kove

Threads is based on Torill Kove's latest animated film of the same name. A red thread lifts a woman up and leads her to a small child. The child is anxious and doesn't like to be touched, but eventually the two are tied together. We follow them through the child's upbringing – until the thread loosens and the child goes its own way. A poignant and touching story about love and attachment, told almost without a single word. The red thread of love…She let´s the thread that binds them together become longer and longer, and the bubble that surround them become bigger and bigger, before the daughter eventually breaks the bubble and severs the thread. Then something happens! The read thread becomes a small red tussle inside the both of them. A heart symbolizing the love and safe feeling they both carry with them onwards. A beautiful picture - striking and instantly understandable for both children and adults. Here Kove creates her own very original metaphor.DAGBLADET Strong Children´s book from the Norwegian Oscar-winnerIs this a story about adoption? Possibly. But the insight that is conveyed is valid in any safe relationship between children and adults. That people who love each other are bound together by threads is a beautiful and precise picture of our dependence in each other and our need to be loved and cared for.VG Warm and tenderThreads contain a story that many may relate to, and it is told with a gripping warmth and sensitivity. It is a piece of wisdom chiselled out on bright and clean pages. The relationship between mother and child is expressed wisely, and there is thoughtfulness in the portrayal.HAMAR ARBEIDERBLAD Beautiful about adoption and motherly loveAs usual, Kove´s illustration is stylistic and hushed. The characters are drawn two-dimensional and in full figure, mostly in a normal perspective. The background is absent or outlined, the colour palette soft. It is obvious that the deeply personal story becomes stronger through the simple narrative. And this works! It feels like a declaration of love and a philosophy of life.AFTENPOSTEN It is really wonderful how a few small sentences can have such a deep impact and can so accurately describe what is really important in life. It is a great book to talk to children about life and unconditional love.LEESBEVORDERING IN DE KLASIt feels like a universal story about love, security, growth and independence, exactly what a human life entails from baby to adulthood. ... The love between mother and child is beautifully represented.NOORDHOLLANDS DAGBLADMoving picture book by Torill Kove about love and parenting.JEUGDBOEKHANDEL SILVESTER

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Invisible Hands
Literature and Fiction2017 · 264 pp

Invisible Hands

Stig Sæterbakken

Police Inspector Kristian Wold has been assigned the year-old, unsolved case of a missing person. There is no mistaking the message from his superiors: this is to be the last ditch attempt in finding the person before the case is dropped. Nonetheless, Kristian's conscience forces him to agree to meet Inger Danielsen, the mother of the 14-year-old girl who has disappeared. It is to be a meeting that will have unexpected consequences for them both. While Kristian feels committed to continuing an investigation that has so far proved fruitless, an exciting intimacy is also developing between him and the mother. Inevitably, and against all the odds, the two are drawn to each other, with an unpleasant outcome in store. 'In a good, old-fashioned way Usynlige hender grips you from page one. It is a novel you read fast, and which you do not want to put down.'AFTENPOSTEN 'Stig Sæterbakken writes disturbingly well about desire, the crossing of moral boundaries and people you absolutely do not want to resemble.'DAGSAVISEN 'Usynlige hender is a very strong novel, written in a precise and economic language where each and every word has meaning and weight, where there are hardly any clichés, and where merciless passion takes care of the drive.'DAGBLADET 'The strength in Sæterbakken’s authorship lies in his ability to look deep. Deep into human inner life, history, hopes, dreams, darkness and longing.'MORGENBLADET ´A cruel stylist. Stig Sæterbakken shows the reader what morality really is. (...)He is extremely exact in his observations of our weak sides, the moments when our moral ideals and our moral behavior fall apart.'DAGENS NYHETER, Sweden 'In a chopped, precise language Sæterbakken dramatizes the entire relational-psychological circuit of idealizing, polarizing and evil integration. Less than a hardboiled, black detective story Usynlige hender is a novel which tests our ability to understand and forgive, while at the same time pushing the reader farther and farther out on morally boggy ground.'SVENSKA DAGBLADET, Sweden

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A View to Paradise
Literature and Fiction2017 · 160 pp

A View to Paradise

Ingvar Ambjørnsen

A book about loneliness. Tender, and very, very funny. Elling is 32 years old and lives in the apartment that he shared with his mother until her death. He passes the time by documenting the lives of his neighbours through a telescope, while nurturing his love to prime minister Gro Harlem Brundtland. A condition he treats by collecting pictures of the prime minster - the woman who represents the only thing safe in an otherwise chaotic environment. Reviews: “This is a dense, meticulously well constructed, muted and shimmeringly sad novel.” ARBEIDERBLADET “Laughter and contemplation are two important ingredients in our experience of reading Ingvar Ambjørnsen’s latest novel… What captivates most is the experience of a person with an enormous capacity for observation and a teeming wealth of associations, but who lives locked into utter solitude, both social and mental. A rich book written in smooth and supple conservative Norwegian. A new and exciting Ingvar Ambjørnsen.” AFTENPOSTEN “Ingvar Ambjørnsen’s book – so unlike his earlier novels – may be read as a psychological study of a lonely, stunted life, and of an attempt to write one’s way out of solitude… Ingvar Ambjørnsen has gazed deep into a special psyche, offering a convincing portrayal of a sorrowful fate, an intractable solitude.” BERGENS TIDENDE Ambjørnsen hits the bullseye “This time Ambjørnsen has written an insanely funny and thoroughly serious novel. With A view of paradise, Ambjørnsen has totally remade himself in both language and content. He opens with a hint of Camus and continues with a glimmer of Solstad. This is a joyous book.” VG

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In Deep Water
UpLit / Mystery and Crime2017 · 144 pp · Age 6 - 12

In Deep Water

Arne Svingen

The world's most dangerous gang is tougher than ever. This time, they've built the biggest slingshot ever using Killer's grandfather's suspenders. They must cure Vampire Rosa of the most unpleasant disease. The quartet become sumo wrestlers and find a dead man in the Evil Forest. The gang proves what true friendship is, which gets them into deep, deep water... The Verdens farligste gjeng-books contain short, wild and very funny stories about everything that can happen when the adults aren't paying attention.

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YOGA MADE SIMPLE
Self Help2017 · 160 pp

YOGA MADE SIMPLE

Bente Helene Schei

Exercises and programs for the whole body In Yoga made simple, yoga teacher Bente Helene Schei focuses on the classic and simple parts of yoga and gives you specific exercises and programs you can follow at home. You can choose the programs that suit you and your level best. The shortest program is 10–20 minutes, the longer ones are 30–60 minutes, and the longest are 60–90. The book also contains programs with exercises that specifically help fight ailments connected with stomach and digestion, neck and shoulders, as well as balance and concentration. All the poses are described clearly, step by step, and are illustrated with photos of the author.

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and when there is light, it will be amazing
Literature and Fiction2017 · 64 pp

and when there is light, it will be amazing

Kristin Berget

In earlier works, Berget has explored the individual´s experience of not settling in the categories appointed to them. In this new collection we are invited into an intimit collective, placed in unstable landscapes of fields and oceans, seasons shifting. Human life is small and vulnerable. The world is areas of conflict, or the view from the lighthouse. And like always with this poet, a fire is lit.

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