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Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"The year is 1911. The young rock blaster Oskar Johansson has been killed in an accident. Or so it says in the local newspaper. In spite of serious injuries, however, Oskar survives. Decades later, Oskar looks back and reflects on his working life as an invalid, his marriage, his dreams, and his hopes. Oskar's life is woven together out of fragments of voices, images, and episodes that, taken together, provide a sharp and precise picture of life in...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the wake their mother's death, three estranged brothers return to the lakeside cottage where, over two decades before, an unspeakable accident forever altered their family. There is Nils, the oldest, who couldn't escape his suffocating home soon enough, and Pierre, the youngest, easily bullied and quick to lash out. And then there is Benjamin, always the family's nerve center, perpetually on the look-out for triggers and trap doors in a volatile...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Eighteen-year-old Stella Sandell stands accused of the brutal murder of a man almost fifteen years her senior. She is an ordinary teenager from an upstanding local family. What reason could she have to know a shady businessman, let alone to kill him? Stella's father, a pastor, and mother, a criminal defense attorney, find their moral compasses tested as they defend their daughter, while struggling to understand why she is a suspect."--
Publisher
MHZ Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (460 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Swedish
Description
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 deeper, he wants to understand. But sometimes solving a mystery...
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 119 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Swedish
Description
An idyllic family skiing vacation takes a stunning turn when an avalanche threatens the ski lodge restaurant, sending people fleeing and demanding quick decisions that change the course of family dynamics and trust.
Author
Publisher
Scout Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Scout Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
436 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Follows a middle aged media consultant, a twenty-something influencer and regretful climate change denier, and a teenager with a personal vendetta as they all struggle to survive in a world lit on fire and full of refugees due to escalating climate crises.
Even when the climate crisis escalates beyond our worst nightmares and people become refugees, the world keeps turning and life carries on as usual: teenaged love stories, marital collapses, identity...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
426 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
"The winner of Sweden's most prestigious literary award makes her American debut with an epic, multigenerational poem about a Sámi family's quest to stay together across a century of migration, violence, and colonial schooling"--
Author
Series
Barbarotti novels volume 1
Publisher
Pan Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
533 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
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