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MODERN TRADITIONAL KNITWEAR
Crafts and Hobbies2019 · 152 pp

MODERN TRADITIONAL KNITWEAR

Birger Berge

Modern Traditional Knitwear offers more than just elegant and varied knitwear for men and women, it is also a journey through the author's great passion for traditional patterns, craftsmanship, and interplaying colors. You'll find patterns for sweaters, cardigans, scarves, hats and mittens – fashionable and practical garments. Also knits for the home are included here; nice pot-holders that can be used at home or at the cabin, or water-bottle cozies that you can keep in your rucksack. You can also give old bottles a new life by knitting them a cover decorated with flowers. Nostalgic and adventurous knitters can try making a bow-tie, and a matching belt for a nice party dress.

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The Murder of Lemuel Gulliver
Literature and Fiction2019 · 144 pp

The Murder of Lemuel Gulliver

Edgar Burås

Everyone knows the story of Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift. Or do we really? Are we so certain about what's fiction and what's fact in this story?Gulliver's Travels was published in 1726 and became an immediate success, read and discussed across the whole world. These days, however, we normally find the narrative as a rewritten or abbreviated version, reduced to a fun children's book full of entertaining notions and exciting stories. But the truth – according to Edgar Burås – is that the book is far more believable and realistic than most people know. It conceals a true story.Burås knows this thanks to Robert Loxley, who traveled to Newark-on-Trent himself to seek out the real Gulliver, who had moved to the countryside with his family. Loxley was looking for the Lilliput animals that Gulliver took with him before he made his way home.This novel is about the first inquiry and what happens afterwards, brilliantly told by Burås. The result is an enlightened story that consists of layer upon layer of text, but that is also extremely exciting, sharp and engaging. It also takes the adventure genre seriously; everything that can possibly be included has been, from lost manuscripts and dark and stormy nights to detective stories and fantastic journeys. It is strange, complex, funny and sensationally original. The Murder of Lemuel Gulliver will call forth associations with the best fairytale-tellers throughout history.

MUSIC AND THE BRAIN
Narrative Non-fiction / Self Help2019 · 256 pp

MUSIC AND THE BRAIN

Are Brean / Geir Olve Skeie

About the magic power of music and its amazing effect on the brainCreativity in music and the skills to play and appreciate music are uniquely human characteristics. All mammals seem to enjoy a tune but only human beings show true musicality and ability to communicate through music. The brain composes music to please itself: one can learn much about how the brain works by studying its responses to music and music-making.This book is written as three parts: The first part discusses what brain does with music, that is: how music is sensed and perceived, processes grouped together as the basis for "perception of music".The second part describes what music does to the brain: how it affects its functioning and enables it to change – effects known as manifestations of neuroplasticity. The authors then go on to analyse the characteristics of "the musician's brain" – the brains of musicians have shared features that set them apart from other people's brains.In the third part, the authors give an account of the ways in which the brain-changing effects of music can be used to aid recovery after blows to the head and to treat neurological and related disorders such as dementia, Parkinson's disease and mental illnesses. Music for the brain, not for the earsThe easy read, exciting and intriguing popular science book Music and the Brain is warmly recommended fro anyone who would like to learn more about the grey lump of water and fat that we carry between our ears.BALLADE Musically about the brainThis is a fascinating rendition of the power that music has over man. Music and the Brain is an engaging presentation of extremely advanced processes in the brain. The book is full of interesting facts and reflections around how we relate to music. It contains exciting and brand new research on the topic, well balanced and knowledgeable.AFTENPOSTEN

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Mothers and Daughters
Literature and Fiction2019 · 176 pp

Mothers and Daughters

Tiril Broch

This is a story about loss. And about troubled love. And about mental health. And about the darkest darkness and brightest light. And about one of the 593 suicides in Norway in 2017. And bout being mothers and daughters. But it is also a story about laughter. In 2017 Tiril Broch Aakre looses her mother, who has chosen to end her life after struggling with mental illness for a long time. The daughter is going through her mother’s things, and through writing try to paint a portrait of a mother that will not be caught up by neither diagnosis nor what a traditional mother should be like. Through looking at her mother’s things, reading her books and letters, looking at pictures and digging through memory, the daughter tries to find the truth about who her mother was. The mothers voice is also heard through letters and text she has written and sentences underlined in books. In this way the mother draws up the way she sees the world, and the way she sees her daughter. And through this work the daughter has to ask herself: What is actually love? Mothers and Daughters is a novel about love and compassion, about mourning and mental illness. But most of all it is a story about being a mother and being a daughter. WHAT A BOOK!Beautiful, tender, honest and furious about a mothers suicide. ******DAGBLADET

Nude in Hijab
UpLit / Literature and Fiction2019 · 304 pp

Nude in Hijab

Gunn Marit Nisja

When Live and her friend travel to exotic Egypt, it ends up striking Live mid-heart. She ends up falling overwhelmingly in love with the local guide Kareem, marry him and move into his family home. But soon Kareem changes, and Live ends up trapped in a hijab. This book was nominated to the Norwegian Bookseller Award in 2016.

Norwegian Ninja
Children's Books2019 · 92 pp · Age 9+

Norwegian Ninja

Aleksander Kirkwood Brown / John S. Jamtli

At last the cartoon series about the Norwegian Ninja is here. Arne Treholt is back – and this is a true story! Inspired by the 80s and action cartoon shows, John Jamtli and Aleksander Kirkwood Brown have created a unique, madcap universe. For ninja lovers aged 12 and over.

NORWEGIAN KNITWEAR DESIGN
Crafts and Hobbies2019 · 168 pp

NORWEGIAN KNITWEAR DESIGN

Birger Berge / Iselin Hafseld / Kari Hestnes / Linda Marveng / Arne Nerjordet / Bente Presterud / Carlos Zachrison

Norwegian Knitwear Design is a truly fabulous knitting book, featuring patterns for wonderful garments from six of our most popular knitwear designers. Arne & Carlos contribute with a beautiful and modern ladies sweater, inspired by the classic ski-sweaters of the 1950s. Linda Marveng has made an elegant and trendy sweater with a wonderfully striking braid, and a matching hat and scarf. Among Bente Presterud's contributions you'll find a mens sweater, inspired by traditional patterns, which is exciting, and uses a totally modern choice of colors. From Iselin Hafseld you get an extraordinary and unique ladies sweater with a pattern that is graphic, but nevertheless based on traditional Norwegian patterns. One of Kari Hestnes's contributions is a very special dress for weddings or parties, summery and flirtatious, and perfect for large or small occasions. Birger Berge has, in addition to a modern and beautiful mens sweater, created a pattern for his-and hers mittens inspired by Western Norway's traditional animal motifs. It's not hard to find at least one must-have item in the book!

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A new perspective on autoimmune diseases
Self Help2019

A new perspective on autoimmune diseases

Erik Hexeberg / Sofie Hexeberg

Generally, patients are presented with the perception of the autoimmune diseases as being 'auto' in the sense that the body starts to attack itself without any cause and that the disease is also 'auto' in the way that the disease continues and will not be controlled unless the patient is treated with anti-inflammatory drugs. What if food proteins, both gluten and other food proteins, are identified by the body as unfamiliar to the body? Coeliac disease is often regarded as the “model disease” for autoimmune diseases. But as removal of gluten from the diet cures the patient the disease is not truly 'auto' in any sense. In this book the authors demonstrate the link between autoimmune diseases and food proteins by blood tests showing increased concentration of antibodies to specific food proteins and in parallel identifies parts of food proteins in urine samples. The authors propose a model where any food protein could elicit an immune response in a susceptible individual and thereby trigger an autoimmune disease. The dietary advice this book offers is based on this approach, and the book contains stories from people with different autoimmune diseases.

When I Drink
Literature and Fiction2019 · 128 pp

When I Drink

Martin Svedman

11-year-old Henrik stretches out on the bathroom floor after drinking vodka. He laughs, he cries, he discovers that he has a talent for ecstasy. When he as a young man starts his MBA his parents have been trying to deal with his alcoholism for years. He has been to rehab and in therapy. Henrik can stop drinking for a while. The problem is that he always starts drinking again. As a student he meets Sofie. Henrik likes that Sofie has a sense for numbers and complex calculations, and that she knows the piano concertos by Mozart. And he loves that she can drink just as much as he can. But when Henrik and Sofie move in together, Sofie changes personality. She stops drinking.When I drink is a poetry collection that portrays an alcoholic through sad, euphoric, painful, hopeful, absurd, and pathetic episodes. Henrik becomes just as sick when he does not drink as when he drinks. In a precise, specific and at times playfully poetic language the author shows us the otherness and pain of the alcoholic, and the way that they react both mentally and physically in a different way to a substance that most of us have a relationship to - alcohol.Inspired by the prose of Charles Baudelaire and talkative, narrative poets like Frank O´Hara, the author started writing poetry after being submitted to detox. He has not had a drink for 8 years.This book is solid. A long time will pass between each time a poetry collection of this calibre is published in Norway.DAGBLADETWhen I drink is in every way an unusual collection of poems. Not just unusually good. First and foremost, the collection is a rarity because it wants to do more than to mirror its originator.ADRESSEAVISENThe first print run was sold out in less than 2 weeks when the book was launched in Norway in January of 2019.

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WHEN RABBITS ARE SCARED
Children's Books2019 · 56 pp · Age 3 - 6

WHEN RABBITS ARE SCARED

Arne Svingen

A stark and beautiful picture book about being a child in a world at war. What's it like to be little when even your own mother cannot guarantee everything will be alright? Mom says Noah can run faster than bullets, and that's a good thing, because sometimes bullets hit their apartment block. It's going to be ok, says Mom. Mom looks after Noah and Noah looks after Wild Rabbit. But one day their apartment block is hit by a bomb, and both Mom and Wild Rabbit are gone. Arne Svingen has written a number of books for children, teens and adults. The book is illustrated by Danish illustrator and artist, Kamila Slocinska. She is a graduate of The Danish Design School and Glasgow School of Art. 'So beautiful you could cry'POLITIKKEN, DK

The Olive Stone
UpLit / Literature and Fiction2019 · 272 pp

The Olive Stone

Gunn Marit Nisja

Hoda is 18 years old and supposed to be married off. Her family run Tree of Life, a popular inn next to the pyramids of Giza in Egypt. The inn is both a lively gathering place for western tourists, as well as a private home where the young daughters honour is under strict control. The family is introducing Hoda to a number of candidates for marriage, but within her completely different feelings are growing. When the Norwegian journalist Sigrid moves in and advises her to follow her own heart, it ends up having unexpected consequences for them both...

On the Norwegian Mentality
Narrative Non-fiction2019 · 544 pp

On the Norwegian Mentality

Georg Johannesen

Chosen as the post-war era's most important non-fiction book! Ever since its release in 1975, this book has held an outstanding position among Norwegian writers and intellectuals. The essays in On the Norwegian Mentality were written over a span of 20 years. They show Georg Johannesen's rhetorical talent, but also his ability and willingness to analyze the literary, cultural and political issues of the time.