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Cool Machines
Children's Books2021 · 56 pp · Age 3 - 6

Cool Machines

Line Halsnes

The seven coolest machines you’ll find between the covers of a book! Dumper-trucks and tractors, diggers and combine harvesters and many more. Colourful, detailed and accurate – this book will show you what the machines do and what they look like. Line Halsnes takes the very youngest budding engineers seriously, showing us big working vehicles and machines just as they are, in a way that will make readers curious and a little bit wiser. WINNER OF THE NORWEGIAN CULTURE DEPARTMENT’S NON-FICTION PRIZE 2021 NOMINATED TO THE BRAGE PRIZE 2021

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Unloved
Literature and Fiction2021 · 224 pp

Unloved

Iram Haq

Sofia is from Oslo, the child of Pakistani parents. She often has too little money and spends too much time on Tinder. Sofia is awarded a grant to make photographic art but suspects she only got it because she’s brown. When her father falls seriously ill, she starts to take pictures of him. And when an old flame comes to town, Sofia’s yearning for love intensifies. A passionate affair ensues. Unloved is driven by painful comedy and characters with an instinct for survival. This debut is amongst the very best this fall. (…) A well composed narrative. (…) Unloved is a nuanced family portrait that both wonders and rebels. – FIVE STARS OUT OF SIXSTAVANGER AFTENBLAD With her debut novel Unloved, Iram Haq has made her way to the upper echelons of younger Norwegian novelists. Unloved is well written, and the topic of the book is good and important.- FIVE STARS OUT OF SIXNETTAVISEN Brutally honestIram Haq proves herself as a steady builder of character, and that makes the book principally good. Sofia is frighteningly vivid. Iram Haq has written a novel that leaves marks. – FIVE STARS OUT OF SIXDAGBLADET Funny, tender and sexy novelIram Haq´s debut novel is a great read!AFTENPOSTEN

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Unique knitwear with colour and structure
Crafts and Hobbies2021 · 200 pp

Unique knitwear with colour and structure

Sigrid Marie Blom / Inga Semmingsen

Knitting is more popular today than ever before, and we see a clear trend towards colour, structure and designs which offer that little bit extra. Here you’ll find patterns for modern, user-friendly sweaters, cardigans, snoods, woolly hats and balaclavas. The book has patterns in sizes ranging from XS to 3XL. Become part of a unique knitting world that will give you huge doses of inspiration and hours of knitting joy.

Out of the Crisis
Narrative Non-fiction2021 · 384 pp

Out of the Crisis

Marte Spurkland

The past year has given us a totally new insight into and understanding of what a social crisis is. But what does a cataclysmic crisis look like to people who have experienced it close up – when everything they have falls apart and they have to rebuild their entire life from scratch? The mother who had to come to terms with her daughter’s death at the hands of terrorists and the mother who had to cope with the fact that her son was a terrorist; the wife who suddenly discovered that her husband had condemned their family to a life of poverty through online gambling; the man who lost all use of his limbs and was written off by medical science until his wife found out that he was capable of communicating, albeit slowly and using just one finger; the man who wrote off the world and locked himself into his man-cave – for good. With warm empathy and wisdom, award-winning journalist and author Marte Spurkland offers us a series of stories about collapse and apparent hopelessness, but also about the courage and unknown strength that lives in all of us.

Burnt Out
Self Help2021 · 224 pp

Burnt Out

Selina Barker

All over the world we’re hearing about burn out and about people who are in danger of suffering that fate. Everyone from senior executives to nurses, doctors to teachers, journalists to artists – yes, even yoga teachers – is being diagnosed with burn out. Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, cut down on work and give us more leisure time. Instead, many people find that they are more exhausted and under greater pressure than ever before. Selina Barker gives you a well-stocked toolkit and an instruction manual for the tools you’ll need to feel empowered, calm and focused, every single working day – no matter how hectic things get. A practical six-step guide for people who have hit the wall – or are afraid they might. Whether you’re doing too much, giving too much or thinking too much, this book will help you set boundaries, recharge your batteries and create the life you want.

The Inn
Literature and Fiction2021 · 96 pp

The Inn

Per Dybvig

The Inn is Per Dybvigs fourth picture book. It is also his first one without text, in a format that is moving towards the graphic novel.

Winter Swimming
Narrative Non-fiction / Self Help2021 · 168 pp

Winter Swimming

Cecilie Thunem-Saanum

Why are more and more people choosing to submerge themselves in ice-cold water in midwinter? To don mittens and bobble hats and feel chunks of ice sloshing against their naked flesh? The author, who’s in her eight year of year-round bathing, tells you what you need to know before, during and after winter bathing, and uses science and her own experience to answer questions like: Is it safe? Can anyone go for a dip when it is freezing cold? What happens inside your body? In Winter Bathing, Cecilie Thunem-Saanum invites you to join her in the open channels between the ice when the temperatures are well below freezing and long after the frost has taken hold. In the water, an experience of profound peace, a clarified mind and great wellbeing await you. On land, an energy boost, a rush of joy and a sense of achievement is the award – along with a towel and dry clothes.

Viruses on the Loose
Narrative Non-fiction / Self Help2021 · 352 pp

Viruses on the Loose

Eystein Hellstrøm Hoddevik

What is a virus? Even experienced microbiologists need to stop and think before answering this simple question. Viruses are tiny. The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has a width of no more than one hundred nanometers. Ten thousand such viruses lined up after each other will barely have the width of a pinhead. But an invisible enemy like this can bring a whole world to its knees, just as it did in spring 2020, with the COVID-19 pandemic. Through carefully selected stories, the author shows you what a virus is, what it consists of, how it is transmitted and how it produces disease. Viruses and humans have coexisted forever, so this journey covers biological evolution, our own bodies, historical events, diagnostics, global politics, genetic material, ethics and biological warfare. The book is also about vaccines, one of our most important weapons in the war against viruses. The making of vaccines is in itself a science which is based upon our knowledge of how viruses are constructed and cause disease. Viruses are bred to spread and don’t hesitate to set off on intercontinental journeys, like the travel-loving stowaways they are. In this book, you’ll get to know different kinds of viruses: some of the most common, some that are extremely cunning and some that are so dangerous their fatality rate is close to 100%. Viruses cause contagion by travelling, just as we do, but their journey doesn’t stop there. The way in which they produce disease inside us can also be viewed as a microscopic travelogue. We shall therefore follow some viruses as they travel through our bodies to reach the cells they both hijack and harm. If you are prepared to face what fear of viruses you might have, you’ll discover that knowledge of viruses is extremely helpful. In certain situations, it may help you survive and avoid diseases like warts, cold sores, shingles, blindness and even cancer.

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ZOLO KAROLI
Narrative Non-fiction2021 · 208 pp

ZOLO KAROLI

Maria Schwaller Rosvoll

A European History ZOLO KAROLI is an account of the fate of Norway's Romani people in the years preceding World War II, as described in documents and police reports. Maria Rosvoll was co-author of the disturbing An Unwanted People (2017), which documented the longstanding persecution of "gypsies" in Norway. In this year's book, she looks at a family who were hounded from country to country, in a Europe that wouldn't recognize them, until their journey ended in the gas chambers.

Our Wounds in the Clear-Cut
Literature and Fiction2021 · 72 pp

Our Wounds in the Clear-Cut

Kristin Berget

Our wounds in the clear-cut purge surrender shining trees blossom forth in the death rate whisper the name out here The poems in Kristin Berget’s sixth collection explore how humans live with and against nature, gather for meals, for prayer, around campfires, beside coffins when living conditions change.

Living in Tune with Mother Earth
Narrative Non-fiction / Self Help2021 · 240 pp

Living in Tune with Mother Earth

Grethe Nordhelle / Ujagar Singh Sakhi

Humans are part of nature. We are utterly reliant on it. If we distance ourselves too much from its terms and premises, we create an imbalance – in nature, in society and, not least, in ourselves as individuals. Living in Tune with Mother Earth aims to serve as a supplement – and counterweight – to knowledge creation in our specialised society. The more fragmented society becomes, the greater the need for more people to be concerned about integral thinking and knowledge. Integral knowledge creation is a scarce commodity in modern society, the author claims. This is where integral therapy can make a vital contribution, by looking at the process of human development in its entirety – physical, psychological, environmental and spiritual. The book aims to raise people’s awareness of the genuine need to understand themselves as individuals, in relation to themselves, nature, the family, society and the entire universe. It’s about creating and maintaining a natural balance between the internal and the environment. How can we function in an integral way – physically, psychologically and spiritually – in relation to our immediate environment and wider society? And what hinders us at all these levels? The knowledge offered in this book can be used to both repair and protect. Living in Tune with Mother Earth is anchored in a value system that views humans as having a particular place in the natural order, just as plants and animals do. Because humans have the potential for far-reaching development – not just in positive but also negative directions – we are at risk of becoming remote from our positive, harmonious rhythm, growth and development. If we breach the principles of nature in the way we live, we risk creating physical and psychological discord. The one thing that can bring us peace, within us, between us, in relation to elements in nature with which we come into contact and in wider society, is an integral understanding of what it means to be human – and an integral practice in our interaction with our environment.

123 for tough kids
Children's Books2020 · 48 pp · Age 3 - 6

123 for tough kids

Anne Østgaard

Anne Østgaard and Egil Nyhus have made a collection of fun, cool counting poems for tough kids – and most other kids too! The texts rhyme and are simply constructed with good rhythms that make them perfect both for reading out loud and for practising reading, counting and calculating.

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