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Author
Series
Moomin books volume 2
Publisher
E. Benn
Pub. Date
[1951]
Physical Desc
191 p. illus. 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Moomintroll encounters a mouth organist, a moth collector, and a lovely maiden, and discovers the danger of a threatening comet when he takes a journey to seek advice from the Professor.
Author
Series
Moomin books volume 3
Publisher
Farrar
Pub. Date
1989
Physical Desc
170 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Relates various adventures of the Finn Family Moomintroll after they awaken from their winter sleep. They live in the forests of Finland and like the sunshine.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A journalist accidentally runs over a hare which he subsequently follows and saves. The grateful animal adopts the journalist and the two scamper together through farcical adventures and political scandals. By a Finnish writer.
Author
Series
Moomin books volume 6
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
138 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Moomintroll wakes up in January, he finds that winter has changed all his favorite places in the Valley.
Author
Publisher
Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in an alternative historical present, in a "eusistocracy"--An extreme welfare state -- that holds public health and social stability above all else, it follows a young woman whose growing addiction to illegal chili peppers leads her on an adventure into a world where love, sex, and free will are all controlled by the state.
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Already an international sensation: a debut novel that tells a love story set in two countries in two radically different moments in time, bringing together a young man, his mother, a boa constrictor, and one capricious cat. In 1980s Yugoslavia, a young Muslim girl is married off to a man she hardly knows, but what was meant to be a happy match goes quickly wrong. Soon thereafter her country is torn apart by war and she and her family flee. Years...
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the internationally acclaimed author of Purge--a chillingly suspenseful, deftly woven new novel that opens up a little-known yet still controversial chapter of history: the occupation, resistance, and collaboration in Estonia during and after World War II. 1941: In Communist-ruled, war-ravaged Estonia, two men have deserted the Red Army--Roland, a fiercely principled freedom fighter, and his slippery cousin Edgar. When the Germans arrive, Roland...
8) Purge
Author
Series
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
388 p. : maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Aliide Truu, an older woman guilty of crimes during the Soviet occupation of Estonia, takes in a young woman, Zara, who is trying to escape a sex-trafficking ring, and as they work through their suspicion, the two rediscover a tragic family history from the past.
Author
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Reprint, 2019.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sex, lies and ill-fitting swimwear ... Sun Protection Factor 100. Jan Nyman, the ace detective of the covert operations unit of the National Central Police, is sent to a sleepy seaside town to investigate a mysterious death. Nyman arrives in the town dominated by a bizarre holiday village - the ̀hottest beach in Finland'. The suspect: Olivia Koski, who has only recently returned to her old hometown. The mission: find out what happened, by any means...
10) Mother of mine
Series
Film Movement volume 5, film 4
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Finnish
Description
When nine-year-old Eero's father is killed at the beginning of World War II his mother, broken by grief, is unable to care for him. She sends Eero out of Finland to live with a family in Sweden, away from the conflict. Feeling abandoned by his biological Finnish mother, he cannot quite attach to his Swedish surrogate mother. When the war ends, and he returns to his mother in Finland, his confusion intensifies.
Uncle: Biography of a humble man, retold...
Author
Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
"One quirk of fate can send life spiraling in the most unexpected direction... Three lives are changed forever by a series of random events: a young girl loses her mother when a block of ice falls from the sky; a woman wins the jackpot twice; and a man is struck by lightning four times. Selja Ahava weaves together these unique stories in a charming, one-of-a-kind tale about just how far people will go to force life into a logical pattern they can...
12) You, the living
Publisher
Scanbox Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Swedish
Description
Filmmaker Roy Andersson draws the viewer into the world of a woman whose most uplifting moments are always balanced by tragedy, and whose joy is constantly offset by sorrow. In laughing along at the good times and shedding a tear at the bad, the comic tragedy of life manifests itself in a manner that all can surely relate to.
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Finnish
Description
The tale of Koistinen, a handsome, but lonely nightwatchman who becomes entranced and seduced by the ultimate femme fatale, who leads him down the unwitting path of crime and punishment. Koistinen is left to face the consequences.
Series
Criterion collection volume 922
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Finnish
Description
The wry, melancholic comedy from Aki Kaurismaki is a bittersweet tale of human kindness in the face of official indifference. A response to the ongoing global refugee crisis, the film follows two people, a displaced Syrian and a Finnish salesman, searching for a place to call home.
15) The healer
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
It's two days before Christmas and Helsinki is battling a ruthless climate catastrophe: subway tunnels are flooded; abandoned vehicles are left burning in the streets; the authorities have issued warnings for malaria, tuberculosis, Ebola , and the plague. People are fleeing to the far north of Finland and Norway, where conditions are still tolerable. Social order is crumbling and private secruity firms have undermined the police force. Tapani Lehtinen,...
16) Lily the thief
Author
Publisher
First second
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
279 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Lily is a young novice who dreams of being a master thief. That's not easy when the Guildmaster of Thieves only assigns you the lowliest jobs: pick-pocketing, trespassing, and petty theft. But on one of these meager quests, Lily unearths a plot involving a mysterious cult and long-forgotten gods--a secret that could destroy the whole world. Lily must fight to save the same people who have branded her an outcast. Can she use her cunning to put an...
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