HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN HIS FAIRY TALE LIFE.
Author: Varmer, Hjørdis, Lilian Brøgger translated by Tiina Nunnally
Country: DENMARK
Language: ENGLISH
Year Published: 2005
No. of pages: 111
Illustrations: 106 Color Illustrations. 5 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 9 1/2”x8
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 9780888997982
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 6794
Price: $12.95
An odd little boy with an enormous nose, who was ridiculed by other children and struggled for many years before finding international fame writing fairy tales like "The Ugly Duckling," "The Little Mermaid," and "The Nightingale," Hans Christian Andersen lived a life very much like a fairy tale—particularly as Hjørdis Varmer (himself a leading author of contemporary Danish children's books) tells the story in this book for all ages. Andersen's own paper cuttings and drawings find their way into the book as well, incorporated into Lilian Brøgger's spirited and artistic illustrations of ink, paint, and collage, which won the Danish HC Andersen Award. Brøgger has twice been a finalist for the better-known IBBY Hans Christian Andersen Medal.
Hansen, Erik Fosnes: TALES OF PROTECTION.
Author: Hansen, Erik Fosnes
Country: Orlando
Language: English
Year Published: 2002
No. of pages: 500
Illustrations: 0 Color Illustrations. 0 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 8”x 5 1/2”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 156027941
Biblio/Bio: Index.
Code: 5863
Price: $9.50
As a man lies reflecting on the past and his last experience, collecting incidents from human history to find the underlying pattern that connects them, his reveries lead him to other tales: one of a lighthouse keeper on a lonely island, another of a rivalry among Renaissance artists, and finally, a startling story from his own life. Ingeniously stitched together, these tales form one of the most powerful narratives in recent memory. A feat of storytelling, this is a novel about the power of human connections and an original and searching peek into the nature of luck, chance, and why things happen the way they do, from an author Time has called “a virtuoso.”
Henning Mankell: THE FIFTH WOMAN.
Author: Mankell, Henning
Country: New York
Language: English
Year Published: 2000
No. of pages: 438
Illustrations:
Binding: Softbound
Size: 8”x 5”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 9781400031542
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 6889
Price: $15.00
Fifth in the Kurt Wallander series. In an African convent, four nuns and a unidentified fifth woman are brutally murdered--the death of the unknown woman covered up by the local police. A year later in Sweden, Inspector Kurt Wallander is baffled and appalled by two murders. Holger Eriksson, a retired car dealer and bird watcher, is impaled on sharpened bamboo poles in a ditch behind his secluded home, and the body of a missing florist is discovered--strangled and tied to a tree. The only clues Wallander has to go on are a skull, a diary, and a photo of three men. What ensues is a case that will test Wallander’s strength and patience, because in order to discover the reason behind these murders, he will also need to uncover the elusive connection between these deaths and the earlier unsolved murder in Africa of the fifth woman.
Holberg, Ludvig: PEDER PAARS.
Author: Holberg, Ludvig
Country: New York
Language: English
Year Published: 1962
No. of pages: 195
Illustrations:
Binding: Hardbound
Size: 6”x 8”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN:
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 4042
Price: $16.50
This is a new translation of this Danish mock-heroic poem. Pedar Paars was one of the first internationally acknowldged literary characters of Scandinavia. The comic inspiration, the realism, and the robust humor of the sobriquet “Moliere of the North” are already manifest in this ambitious masterpiece.
Holt, Anne: SCANDINAVIAN PHENOMENON 1222. A Hanne Vilhelmsen Novel. Nominated for the Edgar Award.
Author: Holt, Anne
Country: New York
Language: English
Year Published: 2011
No. of pages: 313
Illustrations: 0 Color Illustrations. 0 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound with Jacket
Size: 9”x 6”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 9781451634716
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 6966
Price: $14.50
Climbing through the northern reaches of Norway during a massive blizzard, 1222 meters above sea level, Hanne Wilhelmsen's train derails, in Anne Holt's eighth mystery featuring the paraplegic former police inspector. The bruised and bloodied passengers abandon the train for an ancient mountain hotel nearby, and think they are saved—until one of them is found dead the next morning. The crusty Hanne has no desire to get involved, but her curiosity about her fellow passengers—particularly when another one is found dead—impel her to investigate in this intriguing and entertaining locked-room puzzle from the celebrated "godmother of modern Norwegian crime fiction" (Jo Nesbø)