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THE TEACHER’’S SONG

Vigdis Hjorth

Lotte Bøk teaches at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. She is passionate about Brecht, whose work she describes with great empathy to her drama students. One day senior student Tage Bast asks to film some of the teachers at work, but also outside of the academy. He wants to visit them at home to find out whether there is any correlation between their lives and their teaching.What happens when you feel terribly exposed? When you see yourself through someone else's merciless gaze? The Teacher's Song is a novel about self- understanding being challenged.Excerpt from The Teacher's Song: On 10 April 2016, Lotte Bøk left her old house by the Aker River and went to work at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, not knowing how her life would change over the next few weeks due to what others might consider chance. She walked down Blåmanngata, the sun high in the blue April sky. She was wearing overalls, a choice some people might think was (overly) brave for a woman of 57. But she bore her age well. She was light on her feet and sound of body, something she thought had to be more important than whether there were any lines on her forehead. So The teacher’s song is never a meta-novel about writing, but a pertinent tale about self-examination and change for Lotte Bøk, the reader and the author herself; about inspecting the relationship between theory and practice before the mirror of the individual’s life. All this in commendably clear language and a consistently controlled plot, and with a protagonist in the process of approaching ‘integrity in what she expresses’.STAVANGER AFTENBLAD Vigdis Hjort shines in her examination of the relationship between thought and action. The teacher’s song is honed on the present, it discusses what is happening in the world now, but maintains a literary ambiguity that makes it possible to consider the course of the novel in many different ways. She does not lock up the story with ideas but opens them to further complexity.VÅRT LAND … Hjorth is one of our best, most interesting contemporary writers – always intellectually curious and seductive, always tremendously eloquent and, not least, always brave.DAGBLADET An ambiguous novel with subtle humourIn the ongoing war between art and reality, Vigdis Hjort offers a witty and mildly satirical novel.BERGENS TIDENDE A brilliant little novel (…) Vigdis Hjorth at her best.VG It doesn’t just deal with art and private life but also with art and political life, and the ethical discussion is both tolerant and nuanced.KLASSEKAMPEN Her writing is at once compelling and analytical. She raises her gaze from the intimately private to the global (…) it is unsettling and still it is commendable.TARA This book is for you if: you’re interested in what happens when experience becomes art and if you like thinking when you read novels.NRK In The teacher’s song, the topic is relevant, the language playful and original.DAG OG TID A great little novel (…) it picks away at language, at habitual thinking, discusses how far art, philosophy, ideology can truly show the way in life.DAGSAVISEN

Glenn and the Bad Guys

Camilla Kuhn

All the police officers are able to capture bad guys, except for Glenn. "Namby pamby!" the other officers call him. But tomorrow, Glenn is going to show them! You can say a lot about Officer Glenn. He's nice. He's tidy. He's helpful. But he's not particularly observant. Camilla Kuhn has written and illustrated a new, funny Easy Reader that will hit home with the youngest readers.

Strange records

A super simple fact book for the newest readers. Read about the world's smallest dog and the world's shortest bridal couple, about the man who drove a lawnmower for 260 days, the bear who was a soldier… and many other strange records! Fun illustrations by Jens A. Larsen Aas and one sentence per page makes the facts simple and accessible to all.

The Immune mystery

Jørgen Jelstad / Anita Kåss

This is the story of a young researcher who thought outside the box, and about the immune system's unsolved conundrum autoimmunity. On the day of her mother's funeral, 13-year-old Anita Kåss took an encyclopedia down from the bookshelf and for the first time read about arthritis. She wanted an answer to the question Did Mom get sick because I was born? and decided to find out everything about arthritis, and to find a treatment. It was the beginning of her life as a researcher. When she was 20 years old, she began to study medicine. 15 years later, her research lead to a possible hormonal breakthrough, and pharmaceutical companies fought over the rights to this new treatment. It resulted in the biggest licensing agreement in the Norwegian medical history. Her quest towards more knowledge of autoimmune diseases forms the framework for a popular-science journey, hunting for the solution to a mystery no one has managed to solve yet: the mystery of autoimmunity.FULL ENGLISH TRANSLATION AVAILABLE.

Mum’s Betrayal

Anne-Britt Harsem

The trail of the Alvdal-case, Norway's most serious sexual assault case in modern times, started 11. January 2011. It's a case that shook the whole country, and revealed a pedofile community in a small village inland in Norway. On trail were a two couples and a retired teacher. They were accused for serious assaults, also against their own children. But the story does not start there. It starts many years earlier. Back then, the main female defendant lived in another city just north of the capital. This is the story of her oldest daughter.

Stolen Friend

Ingelin Røssland

Charming easy reader about needing someone to hang out with. Gustav solves this in his own way! It's summer break, and Gustav is bored. No one else is home, and Mom is just tidying up. Outside the store is a dog. Mom has always told him never to go up to strange dogs. But Mom isn't there, is she?

Upwards

Bjørn Ousland

Upwards – Roald Amundsen's Spectacular Air Voyages tells an exciting and dramatic portion of Norwegian polar history. Amundsen's pioneering work with airplanes and airships led the exploration of the polar regions into a new era, while simultaneously creating optimism for technology in the Nordic region. Roald Amundsen's disappearance during the dramatic rescue mission to find Umberto Nobile and other expeditions is told with a vivid style that has made Bjørn Ousland's polar books so popular. Today, he is one of the premier nonfiction writers we have in this visual form.

NEEDLE DANCE

Heidi Eikeland / Mette Hovden

Learn the old – and almost for gotten – entrelac technique for knitting beautiful and contemporary garments. Entrelac pieces have a lovely structure reminiscent of woven surfaces, and in Needle Dance you are given a thorough and step-by-step introduction to the technique. There are also many different patterns, and many of the garments are shown in various colour variants. There are large and small garments, garments for men and women, for adults and children – all knitted using renowned quality yarn.

Reynard´s Reveille - Piggy post

Bjørn F. Rørvik

New read-aloud gem about Fox and Piglet, that is especially entertaining for children and adults with a sense of humor! In the thirteenth book about Fox and Piglet, the two friends decide to make a newspaper. But it isn't that easy to find exciting news in the forest! A mouse who almost trips isn't that fun to write about. And what will they have on thefront page? Luckily, the King of the Forest is coming to visit, and then things start to pick up

The Red Zone

Gert Nygårdshaug

A Norwegian representative of the Rainforest Foundation is found headless in Tanjung, New Guinea. And before long, the body of the Norwegian investigator sent to solve the murder also turns up—headless as well. Skarphedin Olsen is next in line. He persuades his nephew, Fredric Drum, to join him in Tanjung, a nightmare of humid heat, lawlessness, and poverty.