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Benny and the Ghosts of Nowhere
Children's Books2020 · 168 pp · Age 9 - 12

Benny and the Ghosts of Nowhere

Tom Erik Fure

Benny and the Ghosts of Nowhere finds Benny and the gang swept up in a new adventure brimming with humor, chills, and romance. Benny's world is turned upside down when his crush, Ken, arrives for a prolonged sleepover. Additionally, Benny has a new nemesis in the form of Magda-Rose’s ruthless daughter-in-law, who has sold Magda-Rose’s mansion and sent her off to an awful retirement home. With Magda-Rose quickly losing hope and withering away, Benny must do everything in his power to save her, vanquish her horrible daughter-in-law, come to terms with his feelings for Ken, and get rid of the new occupants of Magda-Rose’s mansion. And surely nobody wants to live in a haunted house, do they?

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Pruning Your Garden
Crafts and Hobbies2020 · 104 pp

Pruning Your Garden

Kenneth Ingebretsen / Tommy Tønsberg

Pruning rejuvenates plants and keeps them healthy. Fruit trees bear more fruit, roses become lusher and hedges become denser. This book offers the best tips on how to prune your garden. You’ll learn which are the most suitable tools, how to make the cuts and when it’s the best time to prune trees, bushes, hedges, roses and climbing plants. Good explanations and precise illustrations give you the knowledge and inspiration you need to prune correctly, enabling you to enjoy a lush and well-kept garden.

Borgia’s Forbidden Book
Narrative Non-fiction2020 · 224 pp

Borgia’s Forbidden Book

Jørn H. Hurum / Torstein Helleve

Precious gems, corrupt popes, incest, impotence, massacre, plagiarism, the forbidden books of the Vatican, the French Revolution, Leonardo da Vinci and Machiavelli. There’s room for all these elements in a little book that is, above all, about the love of ancient books and stones. Jørn H. Hurum and Torstein Helleve have written about an extremely rare book and its incredible journey through 500 years of European and scientific history.

Brev til en sønn
Narrative Non-fiction / Self Help2020 · 320 pp

Brev til en sønn

Kristin M. Hauge / Kristine Gølin Haddal / Simen Knudsen / Hakim Lindland-Rahimi / Einar Norbakken / Trygve Skaug

Boys are the extreme sex. The fastest and the ones that come last. The most robust and the most vulnerable. In this book, you’ll find timely and touching messages for the boys of today from the poet, the refugee, the military chaplain, the environmental warrior and the mother of a world champion. Five compelling stories about the power of relationships; about winning, losing and finding your place and values in modern, multicultural, egalitarian Norway.

Buffy By Gets Inspired
Children's Books2020 · 256 pp · Age 9 - 12

Buffy By Gets Inspired

Ingeborg Arvola

A new book about Buffy By, the a poor girl from rich Oslo! Buffy has given up her slalom dreams, but now she’s keen to go somewhere for the summer holidays. Can they persuade Mum to borrow Bolla’s holiday cabin? It isn’t not easy when Mum doesn’t want to end up owing other people favours. But Buffy isn’t one to give up, even though she has no boyfriend, no bus fare and no wheels on her suitcase. Buffy By is here to stay – and that’s a good thingBARNEBOKKRITIKK.NO

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The Billy Goats Gruff Go to the Mediterranean
Children's Books2020 · 48 pp · Age 3 - 9

The Billy Goats Gruff Go to the Mediterranean

Bjørn F. Rørvik

Once upon a time there were three billy goats called the Billy Goats Gruff. All winter long, they’d scraped and saved because this year they were going to the Mediterranean. The biggest Billy Goat Gruff found a place that was cheap and cheerful. So they packed their bathing trunks and sunglasses – and their water pistol, in case there were any trolls in the Mediterranean. But of course there weren’t. Because trolls are allergic to sunlight, aren’t they…? The latest reunion with the Billy Goats Gruff is great fun and just the right amount of scary. «Rørvik and Moursund have found the recipe for success. They take the familiar and create laugh-out-loud surprises when they mix old and new. (...) Gry Moursund exhibits a wonderful combination of cute and scary in her colourful drawings. (...) Rørvik also likes details. He plays with language and clearly takes into account that this text should be read aloud. It should come to life when performed by an adult.»NRK

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Digital Guinea Pigs
Narrative Non-fiction2020 · 208 pp

Digital Guinea Pigs

Gaute Brochmann

Norwegian society is in the midst of a comprehensive digitalisation process whose front line is primary education. Developments have taken place without research into or examination of the consequences for either education or public health. The compulsory introduction of iPads for children as young as six is happening entirely without parental involvement, debate or any kind of qualified knowledge, claims architect, editor and father of three, Gaute Brochman. Digital Guinea Pigs attempts to trace the history and reasoning behind the choices that are made, to give a status report on the current situation – and to foresee the future consequences of an increasingly digitalised school life. The result is a hard-hitting polemic that will spark heated discussions around dinner tables and force the politicians responsible to answer for their choices. Is it really true that the children of today need more digital expertise? Or is it rather the case that they already possess this expertise and are in sore need of other, complementary skills, such as the capacity for deep thinking and prolonged concentration?

Deterring Dementia
Narrative Non-fiction / Self Help2020 · 320 pp

Deterring Dementia

Andreas Engvig

Why is it that some of us have good memories throughout our life whereas others have much poorer memories? In one study 72 per cent of respondents aged 30 to 70 said that fear of memory loss was their greatest source of anxiety about aging. Close to 100,000 Norwegians have age-related dementia and the number is constantly climbing. What if we could influence our biological age and pursue a lifestyle that kept our brain healthy for longer? Age-related dementia implies loss of memory, judgement and the capacity to take care of ourselves. There is no shortcut or magic pill for avoiding dementia, but diseases and lifestyle-related issues such as obesity, diabetes, social isolation, high blood pressure and hearing loss contribute to the development of dementia. The processes that lead to dementia and memory loss arise several decades before the symptoms emerge, so early prevention is crucial. But there is a dementia deterrent! This book contains a three-step method with concrete advice to give you a good memory and keep your brain healthy for longer. Take control of your aging process, prepare your brain and prevent dementia within the boundaries set by your own genes. Learn how you can strengthen your neurons, keep the arteries to your brain healthy and ensure the good maintenance of your brain. You’ll be motivated to adopt habits and take steps that reduce the age-related forms of dementia, and you’ll get a slightly better life along the way because you’ll achieve better brain health. The book sums up all the research about what can affect the development of dementia and how we can maintain a good memory throughout our lives. This is a research-based, practical handbook that will help readers make lifestyle and health choices that will keep their brain healthy for longer. Deterring Dementia is interesting for anyone who are curious about what memory is, and what affects memory. The book conveys in an easy and amusing way the scientific foundation of how you can maintain memory in the best way, as long as you have a healthy brain. The Norwegian National Health Association

The Third Angel
Mystery and Crime2020 · 288 pp

The Third Angel

Gert Nygårdshaug

KRIPOS investigator Skarphedin Olsen has moved to Røros and become the town's police chief. Then a macabre discovery is made: a human arm is sticking out of an anthill. The arm is examined by pathologists, while it turns out no one has been reported missing or involved in an accident. The mystery attracts major attention as it gradually emerges that the arm belongs to a very prominent person. "Once again, the author proves he is among our finest crime writers. The author is just as enigmatic, sending chills straight down your spine (...) a reading experience truly out of the ordinary, a page-turner brimming with boundless suspense. This is truly a crime novel you should read."Randaberg 24 "(...) a novel with room for the mystical, the imaginative, and the enigmatic (...) A crime story bearing the true Nygårdshaug trademark (...) This is a piece of authentic Drum, so sharp and varied that no one else carries on this exact form with this formula."Hamar Arbeiderblad "Entertaining and thrilling crime fiction (...) Nygårdshaug writes crime novels unlike anything else"Stavanger Aftenblad "Skarphedin Olsen is fascinating, and the story is captivating. Nygårdshaug has his own distinct style, and the plot is constructed with many small detours that constantly pull the reader into the world of gastronomy(...) Nygårdshaug is so thorough that once you get a taste for it, this becomes a delightful spice on the way to a surprising conclusion and solution."Trønder-Avisa "This is book number 13 in a delightful and utterly unique crime series (...) a well-written and elegant book."Adresseavisen

The Great Game
Narrative Non-fiction2020 · 288 pp

The Great Game

Bår Stenvik

Sci fi writers and philosophers used to be the ones worrying about artificial intelligence. Nowadays, the warnings are coming from technologists like Elon Musk and are expounded in serious newspapers. Computers have already pretty much taken over the world. Not as autocratic despots, but in the form of thousands of little helpers that control your car, tell you where to eat, what to buy and what music you’ll like. From morning to night, smart systems manage everything from what you see on your Facebook feed to plans for future TV series extrapolated from your viewing habits. All this we are already used to, and we barely think of it as ‘artificial intelligence’. But how are our lives actually shaped by the algorithms? And what lies just around the corner? Artificial intelligence is discussed as a decisive factor in the struggle for world domination between the US and China. In Norway, we debate whether new technology will save or destroy the welfare state. All those of us bringing up the next generation wonder how to equip them to survive in tomorrow’s job market and cope with their daily interaction with social media. This book seeks out expertise and examines the field in search of pointers.

Dis
Literature and Fiction2020 · 160 pp

Dis

Kjersti Kollbotn

Dis has left home to study, but it soon becomes clear that something is bothering her. She refuses contact with her mother, and her father doesn’t seem to be in the picture. Marginalised from social life, she seeks out her brother – a brother who is on his way to establishing himself, with his own life. What’s up with Dis, and why doesn’t she want to have contact with her own mother? We follow a questioning young woman seeking solid ground in an existence gone awry.

You and Me, Alfred
Literature and Fiction2020 · 112 pp

You and Me, Alfred

Edgar Burås

Norway, far off in the future. Elias lives in a house and the house is called Alfred. Alfred can think and speak, and provides shelter against the dangerous yellow rain that falls from the sky at irregular intervals. But Alfred also knows that Elias has a criminal past. Will his secret come out one day? And what happens when a robot refugee turns up outside the house? Must he take care of her? What is Elias to do?