Knausgsård, Karl Ove
Summary: "Two world-class writers reveal themselves to be the ultimate soccer fans in these collected letters Karl Ove Knausgaard is sitting at home in Skåne with his wife, four small children, and dog. He is watching soccer on TV and falls asleep in front of the set. He likes 0-0 draws, cigarettes, coffee, and Argentina. Fredrik Ekelund is away, in Brazil, where he plays soccer on the beach and watches...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 896 KNASummary: Jakob Eklund stars as tough Gothenburg cop, Johan Falk, in three films that introduced the character to audiences around the world --Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Svensk Filmindustri, Sonet Film, MHz Networks 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV JOHFredrik.
Contents: Vinterbarn--Milo--Holm--Den Sista fabriken--Vanmyren--Ava--Flax--Under vettenverket--Ner--Tretusen violer--Viskra--Locked in the basement--Omberg
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: The Kora Records 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK FREMarch, Fredric
Summary: When a painter and a playwright fall for the same woman and she is unable to choose between them, the three move in together as friends in a Paris apartment.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DESPohl, Frederik.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1985
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POHBerndt, Fredrick.
Summary: Text and diagrams introduce the rules and techniques of the different forms of domino games and puzzles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: T. Nelson 1974
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 795.3 BERBackman, Fredrik
Summary: "Looking at real estate isn't usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The captives include a recently retired couple who relentlessly hunt down fixer-uppers to avoid the painful truth that they can't fix their own marriage. There's a wealthy bank director who has been too busy to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BACBackman, Fredrik
Summary: As a big hockey match approaches, the not-so-innocent pranks between the communities of Beartown and Hed pile up, leading to the death of a local resident. The people of both towns are forced to wonder if the game they love can ever return to something simple and honest.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BACBibard, Fredric
Summary: A rewarding and effective method of learning French. If you cannot easily visit a French speaking country and immerse yourself in the French language, reading is one of your best alternatives. A painless and effective way to absorb the French Language. Reading has long been proven to be one of the most effective ways of learning a foreign language. By studying in this way, you should be able to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 BIB FRENCHPohl, Frederik.
Summary: The inhabitants of a future world find almost a thousand abandoned starships programmed for travel to distant parts of the universe, but the destination is unknown and can lead to immense wealth or death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1978
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Summary: The Heechee gateways, remnants of an ancient civilization, provide instantaneous passage to the far reaches of the universe but do not ensure destination, return, wealth, or survival.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POHEklund, Jason
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK EklunPeeters, Frederik.
Summary: A graphic memoir in which Swiss comic artist Frederick Peeters chronicles his relationship with his HIV positive girlfriend and her young son, who also has the disease.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2008
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 PeetersPohl, Frederik.
Summary: For Simyon Smin, Deputy Director, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station was a source of great pride. For Leonid Sheranchuk, engineer, it was a place where he could put his vast skills to the best use. For Tamara Sheranchuk, doctor, it was a place where she longed to work in order to be closer to her husband. But on April 26, 1986, Chernobyl forever became someplace very different for these three...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POHBackman, Fredrik
Summary: People say Beartown is finished. A tiny community nestled deep in the forest, it is slowly losing ground to the ever-encroaching trees. But down by the lake stands an old ice rink, built generations ago by the working men who founded this town. And in that ice rink is the reason people in Beartown believe tomorrow will be better than today. Their junior ice hockey team is about to compete in...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry, and Britt-Marie Was Here, comes a poignant, charming novel about a forgotten town fractured by scandal, and the amateur hockey team that might just change everything. Winning a junior ice hockey championship might not mean a lot to the average person, but it means everything to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2017
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Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Encore, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Audio 2016
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Summary: A curmudgeon hides a terrible personal loss beneath a cranky and short-tempered exterior while clashing with new neighbors, a boisterous family whose chattiness and habits lead to unexpected friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2014
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: LP FIC BACBackman, Fredrik
Summary: "From the author of the internationally bestselling A Man Called Ove, a charming, warmhearted novel about a young girl whose grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters, sending her on a journey that brings to life the world of her grandmother's fairy tales"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction BackmanBackman, Fredrik
Summary: "From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beartown and A Man Called Ove, hailed as "a writer of astonishing depth [with] the remarkable ability to make you understand the feelings of each of a dozen different characters" (The Washington Times), a heart-wrenching story of how loyalty, friendship, and love carry a town through its darkest days. After everything that the citizens of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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2 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BACBackman, Fredrik
Summary: Viewing an apartment normally doesn't turn into a life-or-death situation, but this particular open house becomes just that: a failed bank robber bursts in and takes everyone in the apartment hostage. As police surround the premises and television channels broadcast the hostage situation live, the eight strangers begin opening up to one another. Before long, the robber must decide which is the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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Summary: Taken hostage by a failed bank robber while attending an open house, eight anxiety-prone strangers--including a redemption-seeking bank director, two couples who would fix their marriages, and a plucky octogenarian--discover their unexpected common traits.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Backman 2020Backman, Fredrik
Summary: It's Christmas Even morning. Years ago a man abandoned his son to pursue professional success; now he wonders if it's too late to forge a relationship with him. One week earlier, in a hospital late at night, the man met a five-year-old girl with cancer. When the man is given the chance to do something selfless that could change the destiny of the little girl in the hospital bed, he needs to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Backman 2017Backman, Fredrik
Summary: Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon - the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him "the bitter neighbor from hell." But behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty young couple with two chatty young daughters...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014