Adler-Olsen, Jussi.
Summary: Receiving a sealed bottle with a years-old plea for help by two young victims imprisoned in a boathouse by the sea, Detective Carl Mr̜ck follows leads to a desperate woman trapped in a brutal marriage to a man who keeps her in isolation and hides deadly secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M ADLHesselager, Maria
Summary: "In their remote Viking settlement, Folkvi and her brother, Aslakr, have always been close-unnaturally close. They've grown more intimate still as Folkvi learns her shaman mother's craft, as men regard her with newly devouring eyes. Then illness carries off their parents, and the nest of home is shattered. Áslakr sets off on his first expedition, abandoning Folkvi to the dark of an endless...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HESKnausgård, Karl Ove
Summary: "A major new work from the author of the renowned My Struggle series, MORNING STAR is an astonishing, ambitious, and rich novel about what we don't understand, and our attempts to make sense of our world nonetheless Last night a new star appeared in the sky. The Morning Star. I know what it means. It means that it has begun. One long night in August, Arne and Tove are staying with their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KNAKnausgaard, Karl Ove
Summary: "In the Land of the Cyclops is Karl Ove Knausgaard's first collection of essays to be published in English. He explores art, philosophy, literature, or something as simple as a trip to the beach with his kids, with piercing candor and intelligence. Pairedwith full-color images throughout, his essays render the shadowlands of Cindy Sherman's photography, illuminate the depth of Stephen Gill's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Archipelago Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 839.823 KNAHelle, Helle
Summary: "Dorte is twenty and adrift, pretending to study literature at Copenhagen University. In reality she is riding the trains and clocking up random encounters in her new home by the railway tracks. She remembers her ex, Per - the first boyfriend she tells usabout, and the first she leaves - as she enters a new world of transient relationships, random sexual experiences and awkward attempts to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soft Skull Press, an imprint of Counterpoint 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HELAdler-Olsen, Jussi.
Summary: "The New York Times and internationally bestselling author returns with an astonishing and sinister case for Department Q. All fifteen-year-old Marco Jameson wants is to become a Danish citizen and go to school like a normal teenager. But his uncle Zola rules his former gypsy clan with an iron fist. Revered as a god and feared as a devil, Zola forces the children of the clan to beg and steal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M ADLHammer, Lotte.
Summary: Lying at the bottom of his apartment stairs, a postman is found dead. At first glance, his death appears to be a simple fall, a straightforward accident and the perfect case for Detective Chief Superintendent Konrad Simonsen to return to after a severe heart attack. But when he is called to investigate, new forensic evidence comes to light and something doesn't add up. Did the postman fall or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMRavn, Olga
Summary: "Funny and doom-drenched, The Employees chronicles the fate of the Six-Thousand Ship. The human and humanoid crew members complain about their daily tasks in a series of staff reports and memos. When the ship takes on a number of strange objects from the planet New Discovery, the crew becomes strangely and deeply attached to them, even as tensions boil toward mutiny, especially among the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Journey Editions 1999