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Kim Wall was a thirty-year-old Swedish freelance journalist with a rising career. Then, in the summer of 2017, she followed a story that led to an eccentric inventor in Copenhagen. Instead of writing the next days headline, she'd become one. As the bizarre events of Kim's murder unfolded, the world watched in shocked disbelief. For Kim's distraught parents, Ingrid and Joachim, it was a devastating personal struggle. In the ensuing months, day by grueling day, they had to come to terms with their loss, process the global media attention, and endure the investigation and trial.

The Kalevala is a 19th-century work of epic poetry compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Karelian and Finnish oral folklore and mythology. The Kalevala was instrumental in the development of the Finnish national identity and the sense of nationality that led to Finland's independence from Russia in 1917. Beginning with the traditional Finnish creation myth, the Kalevala branches out into stories of the creation of the earth, plants, creatures, and the sky. There are many stories of, romance, kidnapping, seduction, and magical spell casting and singing. 

"Vinter-eventyr" er en samling af Karen Blixens mest berømte fortællinger. Det er historier om kærlighed og ensomhed, barndom og alderdom, krig og ødelæggelse. Alle fortællingerne drejer sig om menneskets sælsomme søgen efter en vej igennem livet og stiller det evige spørgsmål: Kan det enkelte menneske ændre tiden og skæbnen? "Vinter-eventyr" indeholder blandt andet fortællingerne "En historie om en perle", "Heloïse", "Alkmene" og "Sorg-Agre".

Born to a violently dysfunctional home in working-class Denmark, Lisbeth Zornig Andersen and her three older brothers were bounced between foster care and state-run institutions, then back again to their chemically dependent mother and sadistic stepfather. For Lisbeth, it was a childhood without perimeters. It was blighted by poverty, sexual abuse, neglect, betrayal, and further victimization by the broken Danish social services system that forced Lisbeth to live where and how it saw fit.

Après le succès d' "Une histoire des abeilles", le retour de la romancière norvégienne qui fait rimer littérature et écologie. Norvège, 2017. Depuis son plus jeune âge, Signe a fait passer l'écologie avant tout. Ainsi a-t-elle préféré renoncer à Magnus, dont elle ne partageait pas les idées. Aujourd'hui, elle vit sur un bateau amarré dans un fjord, au plus près de l'eau.

1911. Oskar Johansson a 23 ans. Dynamiteur, il participe au percement d'un tunnel ferroviaire et manipule des explosifs pour fragmenter la roche. Mutilé à la suite d'un grave accident du travail, il reprendra pourtant son ancien métier, se mariera, aura trois enfants, adhérera aux idéaux socialistes puis communistes. Au soir de sa vie, il partagera son temps entre la ville et un cabanon de fortune sur une île aux confins de l'archipel suédois. Un mystérieux narrateur recueille la parole de cet homme de peu de mots.

Aquest audiollibre té els contes: “El rossinyol”, “L´aneguet lleig”, “El papalló”, “El cargol i el roser”, “El soldadet de plom”, “La princesa de bo de bo”, “EL vestit nou de l´emperador”, “La doncella de la mar”, “Les cigonyes”, “La vendoreta de mistos”, “Historia d´una mare”.

Hans Christian Andersen op Platt: De lütt Deern mit de Swevelsticken...

Max Anger is a man on the edge. The former fighter in an elite band of special-ops soldiers in Sweden, Anger is haunted by battle scars, a childhood spent in the Stockholm archipelago, and his own mysterious family past. Now behind a desk at Vektor, a think tank conducting research on Russia, he’s met his match - and fallen in love - with fierce fellow operative Pashie Kovalenko. Like all of Vektor, she’s set her sights on the tenuous future of her country. 

Tariq Khan is a Pakistani born and raised in Norway. An outsider in his own country - adrift between two worlds divided by class, race, and culture - he’s always been searching for home. Alongside a flock of other streetwise young men, each looking for direction and each easily susceptible, Tariq finds his cause in the Muslim revival. Idealistic, driven by faith, and empowered with purpose, he’s drawn to radical Islam - his last resort for achieving a sense of belonging. It’s only when he enlists in the war against Assad that Tariq’s eyes are truly opened. 

Indhold: 1. Klods-Hans, 2. Den store søslange, 3. Flyttedagen, 4. Loppen og professoren, 5. Nissen og madammen, 6. Skyggen, 7. Der er forskel, 8. Jødepigen, 9. Et blad fra himlen, 10. Lykkens galocher, 11. I andegården, 12. Hvem var den lykkeligste, 13. Den sidste perle, 14. Solskinshistorier, 15. Sommerfuglen.

Indhold: 1. Den standhaftige Tinsoldat, 2. De vilde svaner, 3. Lille Tuk, 4. Den gamle gadeløgte, 5. Stoppenålen, 6. To jomfruer, 7. Et billede fra Castelvolden, 8. Det gamle hus, 9. Nissen hos spekhøkeren, 10. Fra et vindue i Vartov, 11. Det er ganske vist!, 12. Hvad gamle Johanne fortalte, 13. Hønse-Grethes familie, 14. Portnerens søn.

Indhold: 1. Den Grimme Ælling, 2. Boghveden, 3. Storkene, 4. Den uartige dreng, 5. Engelen, 6. Lykken kan ligge i en pind, 7. Skarnbassen, 8. Sneglen og rosenhækken, og mange mere.

Indhold: 1. Den lille pige med svovlstikkerne, 2. Elverhøj, 3. Kærstefolkene, 4. Rosenalfen, 5. Klokken, 6. Suppe på en pølsepind, 7. Pebersvendens nathue, 8. Sneedronningen, 9. Pengegrisen, 10. Pen og blækhus, 11. Et godt humør, 12. Vænø og Glænø, 13. Hyldemor, 14. Verdens dejligste.

INDHOLD: Track: 1 Fyrtøjet; Track: 2 Gaaseurten; Track: 3 Flipperne; Track: 4 Gartneren og herskabet; Track: 5 Under piletræet; Track: 6 Paradisets have; Track: 7 Billedbog uden billeder.

Indhold: 1. Kejserens nye klæder, 2. Gudfaders billedbog, 3. Danse, danse, dukke min, 4. A.B.C. Bogen, 5. Ugedagene, 6. Folkesangens fugl, 7. Barnet i graven, 8. Oldefader, 9. I børnestuen, 10. En historie fra klitterne, 11. Bispen på Børglum og hans frænde, 12. Det utroligste, 13. Om Aartusinder.

INDHOLD: 1 Prinsessen på ærten; 2 Dryaden; 3 Det nye århundredes musa; 4 Peiter, Peter og Per; 5 Dejlig; 6 Hjertesorg; 7 Marionetspilleren; 8 Moster; 9 Bedstemoder; 10 Dynd-Kongens Datter; 11 På den yderste dag; 12 Ærens tornevej; 13 En rose fra Homers grav; 14 Ved det yderste hav; 15 Hun duede ikke; 16 En Historie; 17 Pigen som trådte på brødet; 18 Den gamle gravsten; 19 Vanddråben.

It’s Midsummer’s Eve, the celebration of the longest day of the year, and on Sandhamn it’s the longest party of the year. But the fun comes to a dead halt when a young reveler is murdered, a teenage girl is found drugged and dazed on the beach, and other young women vanish. So far, what links the victims is a mystery. For Nora Linde and her new boyfriend, Jonas Sköld, the crimes are personal: one of the missing girls is Wilma, Jonas’s daughter. And her disappearance could test Nora and Jonas’s relationship in ways they never expected. 

I 2014 udkom for første gang de 40 islandske sagaer nyoversat til dansk i et fembinds pragtværk på Saga Forlag, "Islændingesagaerne: Samtlige sagaer og niogfyrre totter". Nu udgiver Gyldendal efter aftale med Saga Forlag et udvalg af de nyoversatte sagaer i en serie moderne og prisvenlige bøger. Hvert bind er forsynet med forord, kort og register. Islændingesagaerne er uden sidestykke i verdenslitteraturen og spiller en vigtig rolle som kilde til de gamle nordboers historie.

Noora Nieminen was destined to become a world champion. But when the sixteen-year-old skating sensation is found slain with her own skates, her promising career is unexpectedly cut short. Detective Maria Kallio is seven months pregnant, but that isn't going to stop her from putting everything she has into solving the murder. With a promotion on the line and her arrogant adversary, Pertti Ström, vying for the new job, Maria is determined to make an arrest.