A Book by a Nordic Author

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A Book by a Nordic Author

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WINTER STORIES
RISHOI, INGVILD
Paper Book
The internationally acclaimed and nationally bestselling author of Brightly Shining returns with a trio of tender, powerful stories of courage and overcoming adversity Ingvild Rishøi is one of Scandinavia's most revered literary voices, winner of the Dobloug Prize from the...
A man called Ove : a novel
Backman, Fredrik
Paper Book
"You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll feel new sympathy for the curmudgeons in your life." --People The #1 New York Times bestseller about the grumpy old man next door that's an uplifting exploration of the unreliability of first impressions and a reminder that life...
Anxious People A Novel
Backman, Fredrik.
Ebook
An instant #1 New York Times bestseller, the new novel from the author of A Man Called Ove is a "quirky, big-hearted novel....Wry, wise, and often laugh-out-loud funny, it''s a wholly original story that delivers pure pleasure" (...
Out Stealing Horses
Petterson, Per
Audiobook
Multiple award-winning author Per Petterson delivers an eloquent, meditative novel. Sixty-seven-year-old Trond Sander lives secluded in a far corner of Norway. Casting his mind back to 1948, he recalls a horse stealing prank with his best friend that turned tragic and changed his life forever. ". on...
HARBOR
ENGBERG, KATRINE
Paper Book
"Reading Engberg feels like reading early Jo Nesbo, getting in on the ground of a major crime-writing career." --The New York Times Book Review This third novel in the "thrilling, nerve-wracking" (Shelf Awareness) Korner and Werner series follows the two...
The Chestnut Man
Sveistrup, Soren.
Ebook
International Bestseller * A New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year * Winner of the Barry Award for Best First Mystery/Crime Novel "A full-throttle thriller in the tradition of classic Stieg Larsson" --A.J. Finn, author of The Woman in the Window From Søren Sveistrup,...
The witch hunter
Seeck, Max
Paper Book
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A shocking murder in an affluent Helsinki suburb has ties to witchcraft and the occult in this thrilling U.S. debut from Finnish author Max Seeck. A bestselling author's wife has been found dead in a gorgeous black...
Blood on snow a novel
Nesb©?, Jo
Paper Book
From the internationally acclaimed author of the Harry Hole novels--a fast, tight, darkly lyrical stand-alone novel that has at its center the perfectly sympathetic antihero: an Oslo contract killer who draws us into an unexpected meditation on death and love. This is the story of Olav: an extremely...
The kingdom
Nesb©?, Jo
Paper Book
"I read The Kingdom and couldn't put it down ... Suspenseful ... Original ... This one is special in every way." --Stephen King Two brothers. One small town. A lifetime of dark secrets. A tense and atmospheric standalone thriller from best-selling author Jo Nesbø. ...
I'm traveling alone
Bjørk, Samuel
Ebook
International bestseller Samuel Bjork makes his US debut, a chilling and fast-paced thriller in which two detectives must hunt down a vengeful killer--and uncover the secret that ties each of them to the crime A six-year-old girl is found in the countryside, hanging lifeless from...
The angel of Grozny : orphans of a forgotten war
Seierstad, ©sne
Paper Book
In the early hours of New Year’s 1994, Russian troops invaded the Republic of Chechnya, plunging the country into a prolonged and bloody conflict that continues to this day. A foreign correspondent in Moscow at the time, Åsne Seierstad traveled regularly to Chechnya to report on the war,...
River kings : a new history of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the silk roads
Jarman, Cat
Paper Book
Follow an epic story of the Viking Age that traces the historical trail of an ancient piece of jewelry found in a Viking grave in England to its origins thousands of miles east in India. An acclaimed bioarchaeologist, Catrine Jarman has used cutting-edge forensic techniques to...
The 100-year-old man who climbed out the window and disappeared
Jonasson, Jonas
Paper Book
A larger-than-life old man with a fondness for vodka goes on an unexpected adventure in this whimsical novel -- perfect for fans of Forrest Gump and A Man Called Ove. The international publishing sensation -- more than six million copies...
Let the Northern Lights erase your name : a novel
Vida, Vendela.
Paper Book
On the day of her father's funeral, twenty-eight-year-old Clarissa Iverton discovers that he wasn't her biological father after all. Her mother disappeared fourteen years earlier, and now Clarissa is alone and adrift. The one person she feels she can trust, her fiancé, Pankaj, has just revealed a...
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