Chandler, Matt
Summary: "This is the true story of one man's bravery, ingenuity, and daring determination as he trekked thousands of feet up in the mountains. Readers will learn about the struggles Sven Somme endured as he eluded 900 German soldiers set out to capture him."--Publisher's website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a capstone imprint 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.53 CHABjørk, Samuel
Summary: Winter 1999. An old man is driving home when his headlights catch an animal on the empty road up ahead. He stamps hard on the brakes. But it is not an animal at all. It is a young boy, frightened and alone, with a set of deer antlers strapped firmly to his head. Fourteen years later, a body is found in a mountain lake. Within weeks, three people have died. Each time, the killer has left a clue,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday, an imprint of Transworld Publishers 2018
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Summary: International bestseller Samuel Bjørk makes his US debut with a chilling and fast-paced thriller in which two detectives must hunt down a revenge-driven and ruthlessly intelligent killer, and uncover the secret that ties each of them to the crime as I'm Traveling Alone races to an explosive -- and shocking -- conclusion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BJOBascomb, Neal
Summary: Chronicles the efforts of the Allied forces to thwart the Nazi occupiers of Norway in their effort to build an atomic bomb.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 940.54 BASHollway, Don
Summary: "The Last Viking tells the dramatic story of King Harald Hardrada of Norway, one of the greatest warriors to have ever lived. Drawing on original source material, Don Hollway recreates the violence and drama of the late Viking era in a gripping chronicle that transports the reader from the frozen wastelands of Scandinavia to the glittering opulence of the Byzantine empire and then finally to a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Osprey Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARALD III HOLSummary: After winning a huge sum of money in a betting pool, four coworkers begin to double-cross each other over the prize money. Based on a story by top crime writer Jo Nesbo, a Coen Brothers-inspired riff on greed and betrayal with a Nordic twist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JACSummary: "A Swedish efficiency expert under strict orders not to interact with his subject is sent to improve a Norwegian farmer's culinary efforts. But the sly old farmer much prefers to amuse himself by impeding the timid researcher's work! Soon, in the struggle between neutral observation and the need for human interaction, the kitchen becomes a battleground!"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KITMyhr, Mim
Contents: Sort sol -- O horizon -- Swales fell -- Peel me -- Milk run sky
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hubro Music 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MYHNesbo,̜ Jo
Summary: Oslo Police Detective Harry Hole is assigned to investigate a series of bank robberies of unparalleled savagery while at the same time absolving himself of the murder of his former girlfriend in a criminal investigation led by his longtime adversary Tom Waaler and Waaler's vigilante police force.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NESStrøksnes, Morten Andreas
Summary: In the great depths surrounding the remote Lofoten islands in Norway lives the Greenland shark. Twenty-six feet in length and weighing more than a tonne, it can live for 200 years. Its fluorescent green, parasite-covered eyes are said to hypnotise its prey, and its meat is so riddled with poison that, when consumed, it sends people into a hallucinatory trance. Armed with little more than their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jonathan Cape, an imprint of Vintage Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STROKSNES, MORTEN STRBarnett, Mac
Summary: Once there was a bridge and a terrible and VERY hungry troll lived underneath it. When the three Billy Goats Gruff decide to clip-clop across the bridge to get to the grassy ridge, the troll is already imagining all the way to prepare a delicious goat dinner. But the troll underestimates those seemingly sweet but oh-so-savvy goats!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BARBjørk, Samuel
Summary: "The thrilling follow-up to Samuel Bjørk's internationally bestselling I'm Traveling Alone, which The Wall Street Journal calls "tense and smartly constructed." When a troubled teenager disappears from an orphanage and is found murdered, her body arranged on a bed of feathers, veteran investigator Holger Munch and his team are called into the case. Star investigator Mia Kruger, on temporary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BJOSeierstad, Åsne
Summary: "On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb outside the Norwegian prime minister's office in central Oslo, killing eight people. He then proceeded to a youth camp on the wooded island of Utøya, where he killed sixty-nine more, most of them teenage members of the country's governing Labour Party. In [this book], the journalist Åsne Seierstad tells the story of this terrible day...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 948.1 SEISundstøl, Geir
Contents: Langen ro -- Gratarslaget -- Tony's theme -- Los -- Florianer -- Rok -- Baris -- Bek
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grappa Musikkforlag AS 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SUNBascomb, Neal
Summary: April 9, 1940. The invasion begins at night, with German cruisers slipping up a silent fjord. Soon planes full of paratroopers roar over the mountains, and in two months, the Nazis occupy all of Norway. They station soldiers throughout the country. They cripple food supplies to the Norwegian people. And at the Vemork power plant, they gain access to an essential ingredient in the weapon that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 940.54 BASBjørnson, Ivar
Contents: Hugsjá (4:35) -- Wulthur (4:16) -- Ni Døtre Av Hav (6:02) -- Ni Mødre Av Sol (5:55) -- Fornjot (4:41) -- Nattseglar (7:07) -- Nytt Land (7:48) -- Nordvegen (3:41) -- Utsyn (5:24) -- Oska (7:30) -- Um Heilage Fjell (5:27)
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/WORLDBEAT BJOHedvig Mollestad Trio
Contents: Laughing John -- Arigato, bitch -- Liquid bridges -- Rastapopoulos -- La boule noire -- Pity the children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rune Grammofon 2014
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1 available in NEW Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ MOLSummary: Depicts the harrowing true story from World War II of the Nazis' efforts to develop an atom bomb and the Allies' desperate struggle to prevent it from happening. The series starts in Stockholm in 1933 as the German scientist Werner Heisenberg is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, and although considered unreliable by the Nazis, he is allowed into the secret Nazi nuclear energy project,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HEANesb�, Jo
Summary: New friends Nilly and Lisa help eccentric professor Doctor Proctor to develop his latest invention, a powder that makes one fart, making them very popular at school, but someone is planning to steal the industrial-strength formula for evil purposes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2010
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Summary: Scot Harvath is having his best summer ever. With a cottage on the fjord, a boat, and his beautiful girlfriend Sølvi, he's got everything he could possibly want. But out of vacation days and long overdue back home, America's top spy has a decision to make--return, or submit his resignation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A group of medical students take a sex-and-booze-fueled ski vacation to a remote cabin in the Norwegian Alps, where they uncover a dark secret from WWII. This discovery results in the resurrection of a battalion of uncontrollable, unstoppable and extremely undead Nazis. What follows is a blitzkrieg of bloodshed, body parts and action-packed zombie carnage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2010
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF DEASummary: Follows a homicide detective tracking an American serial killer hiding in his community, with the help of an FBI agent. When an old case comes back to haunt Wisting, how will he save others when he finds himself suspended and fighting for his reputation, career, and life?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WISBascomb, Neal.
Summary: "Documents the Allied raid against occupied Norway's Vemork hydroelectric plant, the world's only supplier of an essential ingredient needed by the Nazis to build an atomic bomb, citing the teamwork of British Special Ops, a brilliant scientist and refugee Norwegian commandos that foiled Hitler's nuclear ambitions,"--NoveList. It's 1942 and the Nazis are racing to be the first to build a weapon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 BASCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.548 BASJespersen, Otto
Summary: When a group of Norwegian film students attempt to track down a mysterious bear hunter, they learn that he is actually hunting trolls.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magent 2011