Jonas Jonasson
Author
Series
100 year old man novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2019]
Formats
Description
When a hot air balloon ride ends with a sea landing and an unexpected rescue from a North Korean ship, one hundred-year-old Allan Karlsson and his sidekick Julius find themselves in the middle of a diplomatic crisis of epic proportions.
Author
Publisher
Ecco Press
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"In a tiny shack in the largest township in South Africa, Nombeko Mayeki is born. Put to work at five years old and orphaned at ten, she quickly learns that the world expects nothing more from her than to die young, be it from drugs, alcohol, or just plain despair. But Nombeko has grander plans. She learns to read and write, and at just fifteen, using her cunning and fearlessness, she makes it out of Soweto with millions of smuggled diamonds in her...
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
vii, 372 pages : 24 cm.
Description
"Unscrupulous gallerist Victor Alderheim has a lot to answer for. Not only has he heartlessly tricked his young ex-wife, Jenny, out of her art gallery inheritance, but he has also abandoned his son, Kevin, to die in the middle of the Kenyan savanna. It doesn't occur to Victor that Kevin might be rescued by a Maasai medicine man, the happy-go-lucky Ole Mbatian Jr., or that he might be expeted to undergo the rituals expected of all new Maasai warriors--which...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Confined to a nursing home and about to turn one hundred, Allan Karlsson, who has a larger-than-life back story as an explosives expert, embarks on an adventure involving thugs, an elephant, and a hot dog stand operator.