Backman, Fredrik
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."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BACTursten, Helene
Summary: Goteborg, Sweden: A high-speed chase of a stolen BMW takes a chilling turn when the two police officers involved witness a gruesome hit-and-run. When they finally recover the abandoned vehicle, search dogs are unable to trace the thieves, but they do uncover an entirely different horror: the half-naked corpse of a young girl in a nearby root cellar. As Detective Inspector Irene Huss and her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TURJenoff, Pam
Summary: 1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Krakow Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother are forced to seek refuge in the perilous sewers beneath the city. One day Sadie looks up through a grate and sees a girl about her own age buying flowers. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC JENMezrich, Ben
Summary: Jack Grady, a field anthropologist and 21st century Indiana Jones, lives for the thrill of adventure and the joy of discovery. When his estranged brother, the introverted mathematician Jeremy Grady, is murdered, Jack is determined to find out what happened. His first clue: his brother was stabbed in the chest with an ancient ivory spear. It reminds him of the weapons of the Amazons, a fierce...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MEZFluke, Joanne
Summary: When The Cookie Jar becomes the setting of a star-studded TV special about movies filmed in Minnesota, Hannah hopes to shine the spotlight on her bakery - not the unsavory scandal swirling around her personal life. But thats practically impossible with a disturbing visit from the shifty character she once believed was her one and only love, a group of bodyguards following her every move, and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FLUBackman, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BACMankell, Henning
Summary: "Cold and poverty define Hanna Renström's childhood in remote northern Sweden, and in 1905, at nineteen, she boards a ship for Australia in hope of a better life. But none of her hopes--or fears--prepares her for the life she will lead. After two brief marriages, she finds herself a widow twice over, and the owner of a bordello in Portuguese East Africa, a world where colonialism and white...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MANSmirnoff, Karin
Summary: Lisbeth Salander has been named guardian to her niece Svala, whose mother has disappeared. Two things soon become clear: Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager, and she's being watched. Mikael Blomkvist has seen better days. Millennium magazine is in its final print issue, and relations with his daughter are strained. Worse still, there are troubling rumors surrounding the man she's about to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC SMITaylor, Brad
Summary: While on a mission in Sweden, Pike Logan learns of a rogue Ukrainian group's plans to assassinate Vladimir Putin to end the war between their nations. But even if they succeed, Putin has a last endgame.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Backman, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BACShaw, Janet.
Summary: "Taking place in 1854, Kirsten's stories follow the young Swedish immigrant and her family as they attempt to start a new life on a farm in frontier Minnesota. This collection includes: Meet Kirsten, Kirsten Learns a Lesson, Kirsten's Surprise, Happy Birthday, Kirsten!, Kirsten Saves the Day, and Changes for Kirsten."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD SHALarsson, Stieg
Summary: Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared off the secluded island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger family. Harriet's uncle, Henrik, is convinced that she was murdered by someone in her own family--the deeply dysfunctional Vanger clan. This is a violent and bloody thriller, a sinister family saga, a mystery of massive financial fraud and an ambiguous and haunting love story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LARMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: Perplexing, unfathomable, and perhaps unimportant, the cases Malmo's Department of Sensitive Crimes take on will test their limits, even as Detective Ulf Varg struggles to contain his feelings for colleague Anna Bengsdotter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCCBackman, Fredrik
Summary: Two years have passed since the events that no one wants to think about. Everyone has tried to move on, but there's something about this place that prevents it. The residents continue to grapple with life's big questions: What is a family? What is a community? And what, if anything, are we willing to sacrifice in order to protect them? As the locals of Beartown struggle to overcome the past,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BACMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: Ulf Varg will need to solve both a sensitive crime and his own delicate dilemma if he hopes to preserve the peace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: An open house becomes a fearful situation when an escaped bank robber takes everyone inside hostage. As pressure mounts, eight strangers open up to each other and share their darkest secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BACLagercrantz, David.
Summary: After receiving a call from a trusted source claiming to have vital information to the United States, journalist Mikael Blomkvist turns to hacker Lisbeth for help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2015
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LAGEkbäck, Cecilia
Summary: Swedish Lapland, 1717. Maija, her husband Paavo and her daughters Frederika and Dorotea arrive from their native Finland, hoping to forget the traumas of their past and put down new roots in this harsh but beautiful land. Above them looms Blackåsen, a mountain whose foreboding presence looms over the valley and whose dark history seems to haunt the lives of those who live in its shadow. While...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC EKBMartin, George R. R.
Summary: Centuries before the events of A Game of Thrones, House Targaryen, the only family of dragonlords to survive the Doom of Valyria, took up residence on Dragonstone. Their tale begins with the legendary Aegon the Conqueror, creator of the Iron Throne, and goes on to recount the generations of Targaryens who fought to hold that iconic seat, all the way up to the civil war that nearly tore their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MARFluke, Joanne
Summary: Juggling the responsibilities of opening her shop with the demands of Christmas, Hannah Swensen is surprised by the writing talents of an elderly local whose murder story chillingly comes true.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FLUPatterson, James.
Summary: After his daughter is murdered while on vacation in Rome, NYPD detective Jack Kanon travels to Europe in pursue of the culprit. Teaming up with the Swedish reporter Gabby Larsen, Kanon discovers that his daughter's death was at the hands of the serial killer who taunts the press by sending cryptic postcards to various newspapers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Patterson 2010Fluke, Joanne
Summary: The Tri-County Summer Solstice Celebration has come to town, and even among local artisans, athletes, and marching bands, Hannah Swensen attracts fans of her own while serving lip-smacking pink lemonade desserts. But the mood sours when a body turns up, leading revelers to wonder if the festivities mark both the longest day of the year and the deadliest. A retired professional MLB player has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: With gang violence escaling in Goteborg, Sweden, the Organized Crimes Unit pairs with the Violent Crimes Unit to help defuse the situation. But could there be a mole on the force? In this final installment of the internationally bestselling Irene Huss investigations, the gang warfare that has been brewing in Goteborg is about to explode. A member of a notorious biker gang has been set on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TURMankell, Henning
Summary: "A novel in which Kurt Wallander becomes involved in the case of the disappearance of a retired naval officer--who is Wallander's daughter Linda's future father-in-law--which leads him into a story of Cold War espionage. Wallander also confronts his own age and mortality, while welcoming his first granddaughter"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011