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Imperfect is the New Perfect
Bestselling book in Norway! Do you ever feel lost in society's expectations, or do you struggle with being true to yourself at different stages of life? This book shows the way to true self-discovery and personal growth. In a world where conformity is often valued more than individuality, it can be challenging to maintain one's own authenticity. This book takes you through the author's personal journey, from overcoming her fear of skydiving to spending a year in Panama with her family, and emphasizes the importance of pushing boundaries for personal growth. Through challenging and transformative experiences, the author learns the value of vulnerability and authenticity in building strong con...
Ildtunger
Elin Hansens debutroman, Ildtunger, bygger på hekseprosessene i Finnmark på 1600-tallet, som var blant de verste i Europa. I dette fylket, som hadde rundt 3000 innbyggere på den tiden, ble minst 92 mennesker brent på bål, mange av dem etter først å ha blitt utsatt for tortur i form av blant annet vannprøven. Året er 1621. Den nye trolldomsforordningen av 1617 kunngjøres på alle tingsteder i Vardøhus len. I Vadsø blir moren til ti år gamle Siri Pedersdatter anklaget for å ha inngått en pakt med djevelen. Som voksen må Siri kjempe mot et stadig sterkere trolldomsrykte. Heldigvis står Torvald ved hennes side. Han er hennes lyspunkt blant mennesker som vil henne vondt. I etterordet skriver historiker og forsker ved Universitetet i Tromsø, Rune Blix Hagen: «De aller fleste av dem som ble siktet, torturert og brent for trolldom, oppfattet ikke seg selv som hekser. Menneskene ble gjort til trollfolk.» Dette er noe Elin Hansen setter søkelys på i romanen og som avspeiles i tittelen Ildtunger. Boken ble kjøpt inn av Kulturrådet i desember 2019.
Og himmelens krefter skal rokkes
Kan dagens fiksjon bli morgendagens virkelighet? Forskerne Tor Tønder og Maria Skog er preget av fortiden. Da de møter hverandre i Tanzania virker det skjebnebestemt, og sammen engasjerer de seg i et enestående prosjekt. Gjennom sinnrike forretningsmanøvrer finner Tor en mulig løsning på den største trusselen mot vår sivilisasjon: verdens fattigdomsproblem. Men sterke markedskrefter vil det annerledes. I kampene som følger, mellom idealisme, mørke urinstinkter og kald materialisme, må Tor og Maria slåss mot både ytre og indre demoner. I en gripende fortelling, der ikke bare Tor og Maria, men hele sivilisasjonens eksistens er truet, tar Fergestad oss med på en reise mellom Tanza...
Reading for Fun
A renowned novelist considers some of the most brilliant and original American and British writers of the last hundred years, including Henry James, Doris Lessing, John Updike, Mary McCarthy, Anthony Powell, Angela Carter, and Garrison Keillor--some of whom she has known personally. Their best works combine both tragedy and comedy, supernatural events and social realism--and they are all fun to read.
Anna's Heaven
It is a day when everything aches and nails are raining from the sky. Anna's mother has died. Anna and her father are making their way to the funeral. But along the way they talk -- capturing memories, asking hard questions, picturing what heaven might be like. Anna's imagination leads both of them on a journey that, by the end, might just offer a certain sort of peace. With captivating artwork and text that is at times whimsical, at times haunting, this profound book will make a perfect companion for readers who are wrestling with their own questions about life's mysteries.
Witch-hunt
Seventeen year-old Silje Arngrimsdotter struggles to come to terms with the harshness of life in a high mountain valley among the witches and warlocks of the mysterious Ice People. Having fled there for her life with her adored 'wolf man' and two foundling infants from the Trondheim plague, Silje has bravely borne their first child.
The Therapist
From the mind of a psychologist comes a chilling domestic thriller that gets under your skin. What happens when a psychologist begins to question her own sanity? Sara runs a private psychology practice for troubled youth in the newly inherited house she is refurbishing with her husband, Sigurd. One morning, a voicemail from Sigurd tells Sara he’s arrived at a holiday cabin for a weekend away with the guys. A couple of hours later, Sigurd’s friends call from the cabin asking where he is — according to them, Sigurd never arrived. Sara is irritated by what she thinks is a practical joke. But as the hours stretch out, her anger turns to fear, and the large empty house begins to feel increasingly threatening. To get to the root of Sigurd’s disappearance, Sara must question everything she knows about their relationship. But can she trust her own thoughts? And where is she safe?
Dina's Book
Set in Norway in the mid-nineteenth century, Dina’s Book presents a beautiful, eccentric, and tempestuous heroine who carries a terrible burden: at the age of five she accidentally caused her mother’s death. Blamed by her father and banished to a farm, she grows up untamed and untaught. No one leads the child through her grief, and the accident remains a gruesome riddle of death, with Dina left haunted by the vindictive spirit of her mother. When her father agrees to take her back after several years, his efforts to cultivate her have little lasting effect. Tamed only by her tutor, who is able to reach her through music and draw out her gift for mathematics, Dina remains private and closely guarded, while her unconventional behavior and erotic power enchant and ensnare those around her. At age sixteen, she is married off to Jacob, a wealthy fifty-year-old landowner, who later dies under odd circumstances. Wrestling with her two unappeased ghosts, Dina becomes mute and then emerges from her shock to run Jacob’s estate with an iron hand . . . until one day a mysterious stranger, the Russian wanderer Leo, enters her life and changes it forever.
Hostage
The brand new thriller featuring Investigative Analyst Fredrika Bergman and Alex Recht of the Stockholm police. Shortly after a crowded New York-bound flight takes off from Stockholm, a bomb threat is found on board. Anonymous hijackers demand that the Swedish government revoke its decision to deport a Moroccan man. If their demands are not met, the plane will explode if it attempts to land. The US and Swedish governments must choose between negotiating with terrorists in order to save the four hundred passengers held hostage at thirty thousand feet, or to stand their ground and pursue the deportation of a possibly innocent man. Fredrika Bergman, familiar with the deportation case through he...
Sundowners
'A very 21st Century blockbuster, this has all the classic elements - nailbiting narrative, absorbing relationships, glamorous locations - with an extra shot of intelligence' COSMOPOLITAN 'Best described as a sort of Blockbuster Plus - in this case plus a little bit more intelligence and social and political grip than is normal . . . Agreeably glamorous and pageturning' DAILY MAIL Take four friends... Rianne: beautiful, wealthy and thoroughly spoilt, she has the world at her feet but is about to risk everything. Gabrielle: intelligent, loyal and always worrying about everyone else, now it's time for her to start looking after No.1. Nathalie: petite, pretty and with a shrewd eye for business, she uses her work to help her forget the one man she can't have. Charmaine: flirty and outrageous, she knows all about the good life. She just needs someone to pay for it... Then a chance encounter changes everything - and for Rianne and her friends, nothing is going to be the same again...
