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In 1940, when the Nazi invasion of Norway reaches their village in the far north, twelve-year-old Peter and his friends use their sleds to transport nine million dollars worth of gold bullion past the German soldiers to the secret harbor where Peter's uncle keeps his ship ready to take the gold for safekeeping in the United States.
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Hanne Wilhelmsen novels volume 1
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Scribner
Pub. Date
2012
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343 p. ; 21 cm.
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Small-time drug dealer is found battered to death on the outskirts of Oslo. A young Dutchman, walking aimlessly in Oslo, covered in blood, is taken into custody but refuses to talk.
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Avon Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
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ix, 410 pages ; 20 cm.
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"War rages, and, under cover of darkness, Rumi Orlstad and her fellow resistance fighters smuggle British agents, fugitives and supplies across the North Sea into Nazi-occupied territory. One night, when he braves a storm to complete an ill-fated mission, Rumi's fiancé is lost to the dangerous waters. Broken-hearted, she withdraws from the clandestine group, vowing never to let her loved ones put themselves in the line of fire again. But months later,...
4) Brown
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Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
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With help from his recently-deceased grandfather, new friends and their superhero alter egos, and some paint, Rusty stops the bullies who have been terrorizing their small town.
5) The caller
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2011
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244 pages ; 21 cm.
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Inspector Sejer investigates the delivery of a threatening postcard that coincides with the discovery of a child who was found covered in blood but unharmed in her stroller.
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Aladdin
Pub. Date
c2012
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458 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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New adventures await Doctor Proctor, Lisa, and Nilly as they try to protect Oslo, Norway, from invading aliens, enormous snakes in the sewers, seven-legged Peruvian sucking spiders, and sinister waffle irons.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011
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213 p. ; 24 cm.
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Konrad Sejer must face down his memories and fears as he struggles to determine why the corpses of troubled young men keep surfacing in local lakes. As Sejer begins to feel his age weigh on him, he wonders if he has the strength to pursue the elusive explanations for human evil.
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Hanne Wilhelmsen novels volume 8
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2011
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313 p. ; 24 cm.
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Follows the experiences of travelers who are stranded by a blizzard in a decrepit hotel where one of their number begins killing off the rest.
10) The hike
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2023.
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When she and her three best friends go hiking in the stunning mountains of Norway, Liz, as they venture deeper into the wilderness, discovers this remote place hides secrets darker than they could've ever imagined and, if they aren't careful, not all of them will make it out alive.
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Seis Barral (Editorial Planeta Mexicana)
Pub. Date
2023.
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788 pages. ; 24 cm
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¿C̤mo llegamos a conocernos? ¿Qǔ significan los otros en nuestras vidas? Asle, un pintor viudo que vive solo en un fiordo noruego, observa su vida entera con la mirada fija en el flujo del mar. No se trata de la nostalgia de un recuerdo, se trata de una observaci̤n meticulosa que busca d̤nde ha fallado.Ha sufrido la adicci̤n, la incomprensi̤n de una sociedad cerrada y su propia oscuridad como artista pero es el amor hacia Ales lo que le obliga...
15) Eva's eye
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013
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292 p. ; 24 cm.
16) The devil's star
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Detective Harry Hole volume 5
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2010
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452 p. : map ; 24 cm.
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"When the theft of a purse from a stroller results in an infant's death, two teenagers are in trouble. Unaware of the enormity of their crime, Zipp and Andreas are intent on committing still another. They follow an elderly woman home, and Andreas enters her house with his ever-reliable switchblade. Motionless in the dark, Zipp waits for his friend to come out. Inspector Konrad Sejer and his colleague Jacob Skarre see no connection between the infant's...
18) Phantom
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Detective Harry Hole volume 9
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When Harry left Oslo again for Hong Kong, fleeing the traumas of life as a cop, he thought he was there for good. But then the unthinkable happened. The son of the woman he loved, lost, and still loves is arrested for murder: Oleg, the boy Harry helped raise but couldn't help deserting when he fled. Harry has come back to prove that Oleg is not a killer. Barred from rejoining the police force, he sets out on a solitary, increasingly dangerous investigation...
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"As long as people could remember, the stave church’s bells had rung over the isolated village of Butangen, Norway. Cast in memory of conjoined twins, the bells are said to ring on their own in times of danger. In 1879, young pastor Kai Schweigaard moves to the village, where young Astrid Hekne yearns for a modern life. She sees a way out on the arm of the new pastor, who needs a tie to the community to cull favor for his plan for the old stave...
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2020.
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In the far north of Norway a man lives a peaceful existence. However one day his younger brother, always the more successful and charming of the two, turns up to visit, accompanied by his new wife. It soon turns out that the little brother is not quite as angelic as he seems. Set in a small town filled with secrets, this compellingly dark new thriller from the Sunday Times number-one best seller has a plot as explosive and multi-layered as any of...
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