Shipley, Neil

Summary: Sweden is a strikingly beautiful country with a reverence for the natural environment. Its extremes in geography, climate, and history have given rise to a population that values honesty, self-sufficiency, and harmony. Swedes are a rights-driven, modern, and tech-savvy people who also retain a deep respect for their own cultural legacy. A good background knowledge of the beliefs and values that...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kuperard 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.85 SWE

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."--

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BAC

Kepler, Lars

Summary: "Late one night, outside Stockholm, an emaciated young man named Mikael is found wandering. Thirteen years earlier, he went missing along with his younger sister. They were long thought to have been victims of Sweden's most notorious serial killer, Jurek Walter, currently serving a life sentence in a maximum-security psychiatric hospital. Now Mikael tells the police that his sister is still...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Kepler 2018

Summary: A Swedish policeman is confronted by criminal activities on the island Gotland. After the death of her husband, Maria moves to the picturesque Swedish island of Gotland with her two children to start over. While struggling to raise two children on her own and still mourning her husband's death, Maria manages to sustain her female perspective and approach to life in a harsh and male dominated...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MAR

Summary: Tillsammans, ('Together' in English), is a commune in the heart of Stockholm, still going strong in 1975, long after most members of youth culture have abandoned their notions of free love, harmoniously integrated extended families, and naive political idealism in favor of jobs, discos, and TV sitcoms. The commune's 'leader' is sweet, conflict-avoiding Goran. The arrival of his conventional,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Memfis Film 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TOG

Summary: "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.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KIT

Summary: In The White Lioness, Wallander is drawn into the case of a missing Swedish national while attending a police conference in South Africa. The second film sees Wallander back in Sweden, where a woman's body is discovered half buried in the forest swamps. And in The Troubled Man, Wallander is in a race against time as he embarks on his final case - the disappearance of his daughter's father-in-law.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WAL

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD NOT RATED

Summary: Inspector Erik Winter in a dedicated, yet tormented Swedish investigator. Winter and his wife, Angela, both juggle demanding careers as they face the challenge of raising two young daughters. Family provides a refuge for him, away from work where he is constantly faced with the darkest secrets of the human psyche. Never satisfied with just solving crimes, Erik Winter's motivation goes much...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV INS

Goat (Musical group)

Contents: Djorolen / Union of sun and moon -- I sing in silence -- Temple rhythms -- Alarms -- Trouble in the streets -- Psychedelic lover -- Goatband -- Try my robe -- It's not me -- All-seeing eye -- Goatfuzz -- Goodbye -- Ubuntu.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Sub Pop Records 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK GOA

McCall Smith, Alexander

Summary: "In the second installment in the best-selling Detective Varg Novels, Ulf and his team investigate a notorious lothario--a wolf of a man whose bad reputation may, much to his chagrin, be all bark and no bite. The Department of Sensitive Crimes, renowned for taking on the most obscure and irrelevant cases, led by Ulf Varg, their best detective, is always prepared to take on an investigation, no...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCC

Summary: He's got no style, no flash, and he's middle-aged. But Swedish detective Martin Beck is good at one thing: methodically catching criminals so they can be put away for a long time. Includes the episodes Sender Unknown, The Ad Man, and The Boy in the Glass Bowl.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BEC

Summary: Visit key climate-change hot spots in Europe and North America with the world's best-known climate activist during her year off from school. You'll witness first-hand the effects of global warming on weather, ocean life, and human and animal migration, and be inspired by Greta's determination to demand action and find solutions. Meet leading climate scientists who help you better understand the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GRE

Summary: Thrilling mystery tales about the brooding and disillusioned Inspector Kurt Wallander, set in the beautiful landscape of southern Sweden. In Faceless killers, an elderly couple are attacked at an isolated farmhouse and the town witnesses an outbreak of racist violence. In The man who smiled, Wallander is contacted by an old acquaintance who is suspicious about his father's death. In The fifth...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WAL

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD WAL NOT RATED

Summary: Three crime dramas based on the best selling novels by Henning Mankell. They follow Inspector Kurt Wallander, a disillusioned everyman, as he struggles against a rising tide of violence in southern Sweden.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WAL

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD WAL NOT RATED

Sjöblom, Lisa Wool-Rim

Summary: "Thousands of South Korean children were adopted around the world in the 1970s and 1980s. More than nine thousand found their new home in Sweden, including the cartoonist Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom, who was adopted when she was two years old. Throughout her childhood she struggled to fit into the homogenous Swedish culture and was continually told to suppress the innate desire to know her origins....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.829 SJO

Summary: During a blackout, a woman is found murdered in the middle of the Oresund Bridge, on the border between Sweden and Denmark. Police from both countries are called to the scene, and what looks like one murder turns out to be two. It's a spectacular double murder: the bodies have been brutally cut in half at the waist and put together to form a single corpse. Half of the body belongs to a Swedish...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BRI

Summary: In this dark and suspenseful miniseries, Maja Silver is an inspector with the Stockholm police department who returns to her hometown in the Swedish Bible Belt in an attempt to reconnect with her estranged daughter, Becky. The family reunion is interrupted by a terrible discovery as an emaciated girl is found dead on a highway. When another local girl disappears, Maja finds herself embroiled in...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MIS

Summary: Set in Sweden's "beautiful and menacing" arctic region, these "spine-chilling mysteries" (The Wall Street Journal) follow prosecutor Rebecka Martinsson as she investigates crimes in her remote hometown. But as Rebecka buries herself in her work, she can't escape family secrets that start to resurface, the pull of her old life in Stockholm, and her complicated feelings for her colleague, Krister.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV REB

Summary: He's got no style, no flash, and he's middle-aged. But Swedish detective Martin Beck is good at one thing: methodically catching criminals so they can be put away for a long time. Includes the episodes Blind Profit, The Scorpion, and The Unclaimed Girl.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BEC

Summary: When a childhood friend suddenly dies Rebecka Martinsson returns home to the north of Kiruna. But not everything is what it seems.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV REB

Goat (Musical group)

Contents: Impermanence & death -- Raised by hills -- I became the unemployment office -- TSOD -- Vakna -- You'll be alright -- Join the resistance -- Tripping in the graveyard

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rocket Recordings 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL POP/ROCK GOA

Summary: Fjällbacka Murders is based on the world of Camilla Lackberg's character, Erica Falck, a successful crime writer and mother of three. She's moved with her husband and children from the city to her hometown of Fjällbacka, a fishing village on a picturesque island off the coast of Sweden. Her return seems idyllic, but simmering beneath the village's surface lie hidden secrets, twisted desires and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FJA