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NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW A TIME MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD Out Stealing Horses has been embraced across the world as a classic, a novel of universal relevance and power. Panoramic and gripping, it tells the story of Trond Sander, a sixty-seven-year-old man who has moved from the city to a remote, riverside... (more)

Sophie's World

A Novel about the History of Philosophy

by Jostein Gaarder

Discovering two thought-provoking philosophical questions in her mailbox, Sophie enrolls in a correspondence course with a mysterious philosopher and begins to receive some equally unusual letters. Reprint.

Hunger

by George Egerton, Knut Hamsun

This powerful, autobiographical novel by a Nobel Prize-winning author made literary history when it was first published in 1890. A modern classic about a penniless, unemployed young writer, the book paints an unforgettable portrait of a man driven to the edge of self-destruction by forces beyond his control.

We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance

We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance

by David Armine Howarth

A World War II chronicles of Jan Baalsrud's escape from Nazi-occupied arctic Norway.

The Redbreast

by Jo Nesbo

From one of the most celebrated crime writers in Europe comes an epic new novel, brilliant in scope and design—a deep and fearless investigation of betrayal spanning two centuries and three continents. Police Detective Harry Hole has made a terrible mistake. An embarrassment in the line of duty has pulled him off his usual beat. Reassigned to mundane surveillance tasks, he reluctantly agrees to monitor... (more)

The Devil's Star

by Jo Nesbø

A young woman is murdered in her Oslo flat. One finger has been severed from her left hand, and behind her eyelid is secreted a tiny red diamond in the shape of a five-pointed star — a pentagram, the devil’s star. Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case with his long-time adversary Tom Waaler and initially wants no part in it. But Harry is already on notice to quit the force and is left with little... (more)

Kristin Lavransdatter: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio)

Kristin Lavransdatter: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio)

by Sigrid Undset, Tiina Nunnally

In her great historical epic Kristin Lavransdatter , set in fourteenth-century Norway, Nobel laureate Sigrid Undset tells the life story of one passionate and headstrong woman. Painting a richly detailed backdrop, Undset immerses readers in the day-to-day life, social conventions, and political and religious undercurrents of the period. Now in one volume, Tiina Nunnally’s award-winning definitive... (more)

Kristin Lavransdatter I: The Wreath (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

Kristin Lavransdatter I: The Wreath (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

by Sigrid Undset, Tiina Nunnally

In Kristin Lavransdatter (1920-1922), Sigrid Undset interweaves political, social, and religious history with the daily aspects of family life to create a colorful, richly detailed tapestry of Norway during the fourteenth-century. The trilogy, however, is more than a journey into the past. Undset's own life-her familiarity with Norse sagas and folklore and with a wide range of medieval literature, her... (more)

Kristin Lavransdatter Cross

by Sigrid Undset, Tiina Nunnally

The definitive new translation of the masterwork of Scandinavia's most beloved author is now complete. Kristin Lavransdatter is a story of love, loyalty, and betrayal, set against a richly detailed historical backdrop of fourteenth-century Norway. The Cross (1922) finds Kristin returning with her husband, Erlend, and their sons to her childhood home, Jorundgaard. As the boys grow older, Kristin is... (more)

Kristin Lavransdatter II: The Wife (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics.)

Kristin Lavransdatter II: The Wife (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics.)

by Sigrid Undset, Tiina Nunnally

In Kristin Lavransdatter (1920-1922), Sigrid Undset interweaves political, social, and religious history with the daily aspects of family life to create a colorful, richly detailed tapestry of Norway during the fourteenth-century. The trilogy, however, is more than a journey into the past. Undset's own life—her familiarity with Norse sagas and folklore and with a wide range of medieval literature, her... (more)

Don't Look Back (Inspector Sejer Mysteries (Paperback))

Don't Look Back (Inspector Sejer Mysteries (Paperback))

by Karin Fossum

Don't Look Back heralds the arrival of an exotic new crime series featuring Inspector Sejer, a smart and enigmatic hero, tough but fair. The setting is a small, idyllic village at the foot of Norway's Kollen Mountain, where neighbors know neighbors and children play happily in the streets. But when the body of a teenage girl is found by the lake at the mountaintop, the town's tranquillity is shattered forever.... (more)

A Doll's House

by Henrik Ibsen

A Doll's House is a play written in 1879 by Norweigian playwright Henrik Ibsen. This play, being Ibsen's most famous, is a required reading in many high schools and colleges around the world. Although the play was considered controversial when it was originally published, it's critical view of victorian marriage is now seen as being educational. This work is known for its unconventional ending, which ends in a... (more)

Giants in the Earth : A Saga of the Prairie

Giants in the Earth : A Saga of the Prairie

by Lincoln Colcord, O. E. Rolvaag

The classic story of a Norwegian pioneer family's struggles with the land and the elements of the Dakota Territory as they try to make a new life in America.

The Dark Light (Sunburst Books)

by Mette Newth

When it was discovered that thirteen-year-old Tora has leprosy, she is sent from her family's remote mountain farm to the leprosy hospital in the bustling port of Bergen. In early-nineteenth-century Norway, lepers are quarantined in this hospital and no longer considered among the living. But even as her body gradually fails her, Tora's new life blossoms. She finds strength through helping her fellow patients,... (more)

The Bridal Wreath: Kristin Lavransdatter, Vol.1

The Bridal Wreath: Kristin Lavransdatter, Vol.1

by Sigrid Undset

Volume one of the trilogy; Kristin's girlhood.

The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece (P.S.)

The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece (P.S.)

by Edward Dolnick

In the predawn hours of a gloomy February day in 1994, two thieves entered the National Gallery in Oslo and made off with one of the world's most famous paintings, Edvard Munch's Scream . It was a brazen crime committed while the whole world was watching the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. Baffled and humiliated, the Norwegian police turned to the one man they believed could help: a half... (more)

The Solitaire Mystery

by Jostein Gaarder, Hilde Kramer

Weaving an astonishingly original tapestry of tales from the viewpoint of a 12-year-old boy named Hans Thomas, The Solitaire Mystery takes readers on a universal search for fulfillment and the meaning of life.

The Indian Bride

by Karin Fossum

When perpetual bachelor Gunder Jomann goes to India for two weeks and comes home married, the town of Elvestad is stunned. On the day the Indian bride is supposed to arrive, the battered body of a woman is found in a meadow on the outskirts of town. None of the "good people of Elvestad" can believe that anyone among them would be capable of such a brutal murder. But in his quiet, formal way, Inspector Konrad Sejer... (more)

The Far Islands and Other Cold Places: Travel Essays of a Victorian Lady

The Far Islands and Other Cold Places: Travel Essays of a Victorian Lady

by Elizabeth Taylor

Elizabeth Taylor (1856 - 1932) was a travel writer entranced by the Northern climes. Her visits to Iceland, Canada, Norway and, above all, the Faroe Islands, resulted in the essays contained in this book. Her original writings were passed around for year and eventually were given to her great-grandnephew who organized them and even visited some of the places Elizabeth wrote about. There are 39 articles from... (more)

Calling Out for You (Inspector Sejer Mysteries (Paperback))

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A Novel about the History of Philosophy

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