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The Orange Girl

by Jostein Gaarder

At fifteen, Georg comes upon a letter written to him by his dying father, to be read when he comes of age. Their two voices make a fascinating dialogue as Georg comes to know the father he can barely remember, then is challenged by him to answer some profound questions. The central mystery of The Orange Girl is the story of an elusive young woman for whom Georg’s father searches in Oslo and Seville—and whom... (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)

Before the Frost (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

Before the Frost (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

by Henning Mankell, Ebba Segerberg

In this latest atmospheric thriller, Kurt Wallander and his daughter Linda join forces to search for a religious fanatic on a murder spree. Just graduated from the police academy, Linda Wallander returns to Skane to join the police force, and she already shows all the hallmarks of her father--the maverick approach, the flaring temper. Before she even starts work she becomes embroiled in the case of her childhood... (more)

Das Kartengeheimnis.

by Jostein Gaarder

The Poetic Edda.

by EddaSaemundar

". . . the translation may indeed be regarded as the crowning achievement of a great scholar." --Scandinavian-American Bulletin The Poetic Edda comprises a treasure trove of mythic and spiritual verse holding an important place in Nordic culture, literature, and heritage. Its tales of strife and death form a repository, in poetic form, of Norse mythology and heroic lore, embodying both the ethical views and... (more)

Woman with a Birthmark: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery

Woman with a Birthmark: An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery

by Laurie Thompson, Håkan Nesser

A mother’s dying wish sealed with a deadly promise. Four men with a secret they thought they’d buried decades ago. A detective in love. A man desperate to live despite the shadow of his guilty past. After hearing her mother’s deathbed confession and following the dreary funeral, Maria Adler realizes she has no other option but to seize upon her mother’s imperative to do something. Dissolving the life she loathes,... (more)

When the Devil Holds the Candle (Inspector Sejer Mysteries (Hardcover))

When the Devil Holds the Candle (Inspector Sejer Mysteries (Hardcover))

by Karin Fossum

Eaters of the Dead

by Michael Crichton

The year is A.D. 922. A refined Arab courtier, representative of the powerful Caliph of Bagdad, encounters a party of Viking warriors who are journeying to the barbaric North. He is appalled by their Viking customs -- the wanton sexuality of their pale, angular women, their disregard for cleanliness . . . their cold-blooded human sacrifices. But it is not until they reach the depths of the Northland that the... (more)

Kurt Wallander: Book 7

One Step Behind

by Henning Mankell

Sixth in the Kurt Wallander series. On Midsummer’s Eve, three role-playing teens dressed in eighteenth-century garb are shot in a secluded Swedish meadow. When one of Inspector Kurt Wallander’s most trusted colleagues–someone whose help he hoped to rely on to solve the crime–also turns up dead, Wallander knows the murders are related. But with his only clue a picture of a woman no one in Sweden seems to know, he... (more)

Kurt Wallander: Book 6

The Fifth Woman

by Henning Mankell

Fifth in the Kurt Wallander series.

The Return of the Dancing Master (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

The Return of the Dancing Master (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

by Henning Mankell

When retired policeman Herbert Molin is found brutally slaughtered on his remote farm in the northern forests of Sweden, police find strange tracks in the snowÉas if someone had been practicing the tango. Stefan Lindman, a young police officer recently diagnosed with mouth cancer, decides to investigate the murder of his former colleague, but is soon enmeshed in a mystifying case with no witnesses and no apparent... (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)

He Who Fears the Wolf (Inspector Sejer Mysteries (Paperback))

He Who Fears the Wolf (Inspector Sejer Mysteries (Paperback))

by Karin Fossum

Inspector Sejer is hard at work again, investigating the brutal murder of a woman who lived alone in the middle of the woods. The chief suspect is another loner, a schizophrenic recently escaped from a mental institution. The only witness is a twelve-year-old boy, overweight, obsessed with archery, and a resident at a home for delinquents. When a demented man robs a nearby bank and accidentally takes the suspect... (more)

Four Major Plays: A Doll's House : The Wild Duck : Hedda Gabler : The Master Builder (Classics, No 120)

Four Major Plays: A Doll's House : The Wild Duck : Hedda Gabler : The Master Builder (Classics, No 120)

by Rick Davis, Henrik Ibsen

The translations, created through a fresh approach to the Norwegian original in tandem with a keen sense of Ibsen's theatricallity and playability, have all been tested and refined in productions at professional theaters. The translators have paid particular attention to three aspects of Ibsen's technique: his wit and humor, his "supertext" - the web of rich allusions and references that he weaves... (more)

The White Lioness (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

Kurt Wallander: Book 3

The White Lioness (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

by Henning Mankell

Third in the Kurt Wallander series. The execution-style murder of a Swedish housewife looks like a simple case even though there is no obvious suspect. But then Wallander learns of a determined stalker, and soon enough, the cops catch up with him. But when his alibi turns out to be airtight, they realize that what seemed a simple crime of passion is actually far more complex—and dangerous. The search for the... (more)

Peer Gynt (Dover Thrift Editions)

by William-Alan Landes, Henrik Ibsen, Christopher Fry

Among the masterpieces of world literature, this great verse drama by Norway's famed playwright humorously yet profoundly explores the virtues, vices, and follies common to all humanity as it follows the roguish life of a charming but arrogant young man. A literary delight since it was first published in 1875.

Pippi in the South Seas (Pippi Longstocking Books)

Pippi in the South Seas (Pippi Longstocking Books)

by Louis S. Glanzman, Astrid Lindgren

The adventures of the strongest girl in the world, who takes her two friends with her when she travels from Sweden to visit her father, king of an island in the South Seas.

Pippi Goes on Board (Pippi Longstocking)

Pippi Goes on Board (Pippi Longstocking)

by Louis S. Glanzman, Astrid Lindgren

The further adventures of Pippi and her friends Tommy and Annika.

The Christmas Mystery

by Jostein Gaarder

A beautifully re-illustrated child-friendly edition of this bestseller.

The Sea of Trolls

by Nancy Farmer

Jack was eleven when the berserkers loomed out of the fog and nabbed him. "It seems that things are stirring across the water," the Bard had warned. "Ships are being built, swords are being forged." "Is that bad?" Jack had asked, for his Saxon village had never before seen berserkers. "Of course. People don't make ships and swords unless they intend to use them." The year is A.D. 793. In the next months, Jack... (more)

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by Jostein Gaarder

by Henrik Ibsen

by Henning Mankell, Ebba Segerberg

by Jostein Gaarder

by EddaSaemundar

by Laurie Thompson, Håkan Nesser

by Karin Fossum

by Michael Crichton

by Henning Mankell

by Henning Mankell

by Henning Mankell

by Karin Fossum

by Karin Fossum

by Rick Davis, Henrik Ibsen

by Henning Mankell

by William-Alan Landes, Henrik Ibsen, Christopher Fry

by Louis S. Glanzman, Astrid Lindgren

by Louis S. Glanzman, Astrid Lindgren

by Jostein Gaarder

by Nancy Farmer