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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine, has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins. The sky is clear, the waters calm, and the veneered, select guests jovial as the exclusive cruise ship, the Aurora, begins her voyage in the picturesque North Sea. At first, Lo's stay is nothing but pleasant: the cabins are plush, the dinner parties are sparkling, and the guests are...
Author
Series
Inspector Sejer novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inspector Sejer is investigating the brutal murder of a woman who lived alone in the middle of the woods. The chief suspect is another loner, a schizophrenic recently escaped from a mental institution. The only witness is a twelve-year-old boy, overweight, obsessed with archery, and a resident at a home for delinquents. When a demented man robs a nearby bank and accidentally takes the suspect hostage, the three mistfits are drawn into an uneasy alliance....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
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. When his deadly past comes calling, though, he'll be left with no choice at all. Leaving his favorite Oslo café, Harvath watches as a ghost climbs out of a taxi--a...
4) Slay ride
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Champion jockey Robert Sherman has disappeared - right before his wife was about to give birth ... and right before he was sure to win the National. A coincidence? British investigator David Cleveland doesn't think so. He's convinced someone made Sherman disappear, but with every answer David gets, the body count rises. And if he isn't careful, the next body might just be his own.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Riktor doesn't like the way the policeman storms into his home without even knocking. He doesn't like the arrogant way he walks around the house, taking note of its contents. The policeman doesn't bother to explain why he's there, and Riktor is too afraid to ask. He knows he's guilty of a terrible crime and he's sure the policeman has found him out. But when the policeman finally does confront him, Riktor freezes. The man is arresting him for something...
6) Norway
Author
Series
Publisher
Lonely Planet Global Limited
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
7th edition.
Language
English
Description
Provides information on sights, shopping, restaurants, nightlife, accommodations, and the history and culture of Norway.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Available for the first time in English, the seventh entry in the beloved Inspector Sejer series from Norway's Queen of Crime, Karin Fossum. On a wet, gray night in early November, Charlo Torp, a former gambler who's only recently kicked the habit, makes his way through the slush to Harriet Krohn's apartment, flowers in hand. Certain that paying off his debt is the only path to starting a new life and winning his daughter's forgiveness, Charlo plans...
9) Norway
Author
Series
Publisher
Big Buddy Books, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to Norway--land of Pulpit Rock, the Norwegian Folk Museum, and Akershus Castle! Informative, easy-to-read text and oversize scenic photos draw in readers as they learn about Norway's history, government, major cities, land features, natural resources, culture, and more! Maps, a timeline with photos, and a facts page that includes major statistics complement the text."--Adapted from publisher's website.
10) The redbreast
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 3
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Detective Harry Hole embarrassed the force, and for his sins he's been reassigned to mundane surveillance tasks. But while monitoring neo-Nazi activities in Oslo, Hole is inadvertently drawn into a mystery with deep roots in Norway's dark past, when members of the government willingly collaborated with Nazi Germany. More than sixty years later, this black mark won't wash away--and disgraced old soldiers who once survived a brutal Russian winter are...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Vintage Books edition.
Language
English
Description
"Placing one foot in front of the other, embarking on the journey of discovery, and experiencing the joy of exploration--these activities are intrinsic to our nature. Our ancestors traveled long distances on foot, gaining new experiences and learning from them. But as universal as walking is, each of us will experience it differently. For Erling Kagge, it is the gateway to the questions that fascinate him--Why do we walk? Where do we walk from? What...
13) Almost autumn
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
As autumn approaches Ilse Stern is thinking about her infatuation with Hermann R�d, and whether his determination to be a painter will interfere with their romance--but the reality of being Jewish in occupied Oslo is about to turn her whole world upside down, as the deportation of the Norwegian Jews begins.
14) The leopard
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 8
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Language
English
Description
After two young women are found dead, both drowned in their own blood, Inspector Harry Hole is compelled to return to Norway to see his dying father and to investigate the brutal crime, which may be the work of a serial killer.
15) The kingdom
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A mechanic from a rural mountain village finds the limits of his family loyalties tested when his entrepreneur brother announces plans to revitalize the community through a hotel project that becomes increasingly overshadowed by greed and dangerous secrets.
16) Midnight sun
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
He calls himself Ulf, and the only thing he's looking for is a place where he won't be found by Oslo's most notorious drug lord: the Fisherman. He was once the Fisherman's fixer, but after betraying him, Ulf is now the one his former boss needs fixed. The locals seem to accept Ulf's explanation that he's come to hunt. And a bereaved, taciturn woman and her curious, talkative young son supply him with food, the use of a cabin deep in the woods, a weapon--...
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In Nazi-occupied Norway, fourteen-year-old Espen joins the resistance movement, graduating from deliverer of illegal newspapers to courier and spy. Includes historical note, code-breaking activity, and instructions for making invisible ink.
19) Nemesis
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 4
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
©2008
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Language
English
Description
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.
20) Killing moon
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Harry has gone to Los Angeles to drink himself to death, in the wake of his life back in Oslo falling to pieces. He's nearly managed to, but Harry has been helping an older film actress, Lucille, to get away from the grips of a drug cartel to which she owes one million dollars, and in return she's given him shelter, company and a tailored suit. In Oslo, two girls have disappeared and been found murdered and one of the suspects is a well-known real...
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