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Embroidery

by Sigrún Pálsdóttir ...

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How do you turn old gold into priceless treasure?At the turn of the twentieth century, Sigurlina finds herself in a hopeless situation. She is the motherless daughter of an eccentric father, who expects her to spend her life helping him catalogue Icelandic archaeological artifacts. But Sigurlina has her own ambitions of education and excitement and after a harrowing experience, takes fate into her ... Read more

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How do you turn old gold into priceless treasure?At the turn of the twentieth century, Sigurlina finds herself in a hopeless situation. She is the motherless daughter of an eccentric father, who expects her to spend her life helping him catalogue Icelandic archaeological artifacts. But Sigurlina has her own ambitions of education and excitement and after a harrowing experience, takes fate into her
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The World Cup, La Grande Bouffe, and the post office drive this journey through Reykjavik and the narrator's mind. ... Read more

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Oraefi

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Austrian toponymist Bernhardt Fingerberg makes his way back to civilization following a solo expedition out on Vatnajokull Glacier, barely alive. While recuperating, Dr. Lassi digs into the scholar's strange trek into the treacherous mountainous wasteland of Iceland: Öræfi. Was he really researching place names out there, or retracing the footsteps of a 20-year-old crime involving someone very ... Read more

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Austrian toponymist Bernhardt Fingerberg makes his way back to civilization following a solo expedition out on Vatnajokull Glacier, barely alive. While recuperating, Dr. Lassi digs into the scholar's strange trek into the treacherous mountainous wasteland of Iceland: Öræfi. Was he really researching place names out there, or retracing the footsteps of a 20-year-old crime involving someone very
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On Time and Water

by Andri Snaer Magnason ...

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Series Book 34 - Biblioasis International Translation Series
**“Eco-lit needs more attention, and devotees will be pleased to discover a new addition from the Icelandic author Andri Snaer Magnason, who writes with a Seussian mix of wonder, wit and gravitas ... immensely satisfying.”—**New York TimesLonglisted for the 2022 National Translation Award • Finalist for the 2021 Nordic Council Literature Prize • A Winnipeg Free Press Top Read of 2021Asked by a ... Read more

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**“Eco-lit needs more attention, and devotees will be pleased to discover a new addition from the Icelandic author Andri Snaer Magnason, who writes with a Seussian mix of wonder, wit and gravitas ... immensely satisfying.”—**New York TimesLonglisted for the 2022 National Translation Award • Finalist for the 2021 Nordic Council Literature Prize • A Winnipeg Free Press Top Read of 2021Asked by a
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Tómas Jónsson, Bestseller

by Guðberger Bergsson ...

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Iceland's first modernist novel is a wild excursion through the mind of a senile man trying to write his memoirs. ... Read more

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History. A Mess.

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An academic lie turns deadly in this novel that questions just how far we'll go to promote what we wish was true. ... Read more

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An academic lie turns deadly in this novel that questions just how far we'll go to promote what we wish was true.
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Refugee Tales: Volume III

by Monica Ali, Bernardine Evaristo, Patrick Gale, Gillian Slovo, Lisa Appignanesi, David Constantine, Ian Sansom, Lytton Smith, Emma Parsons, Jonathan Skinner, Jonathan Wittenberg, Roma Tearne, David Herd ...

Series Book 3 - Refugee Tales
With nationalism and the far right on the rise across Europe and North America, there has never been a more important moment to face up to what we, in Britain, are doing to those who seek sanctuary. Still the UK detains people indefinitely under immigration rules. Bail hearings go unrecorded, people are picked up without notice, individuals feel abandoned in detention centres with no way of ... Read more

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With nationalism and the far right on the rise across Europe and North America, there has never been a more important moment to face up to what we, in Britain, are doing to those who seek sanctuary. Still the UK detains people indefinitely under immigration rules. Bail hearings go unrecorded, people are picked up without notice, individuals feel abandoned in detention centres with no way of
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The Outlaw

by Jón Gnarr ...

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In The Outlaw Jón Gnarr describes the harsh world of his teenage years and wrestles with painful, bleak memories of this troubled stage of his life, physically abused and surrounded by suicides. He uses punk music to cope, but also discovers an interest in girls and ponders philosophical questions of right and wrong and how to be true to himself. ... Read more

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In The Outlaw Jón Gnarr describes the harsh world of his teenage years and wrestles with painful, bleak memories of this troubled stage of his life, physically abused and surrounded by suicides. He uses punk music to cope, but also discovers an interest in girls and ponders philosophical questions of right and wrong and how to be true to himself.
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The Pirate

by Jón Gnarr ...

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"A story that genuinely touches the reader."—Frettabladid"Enormously powerful and particularly heartfelt."—MorgunbladidThe second book in a trilogy chronicling the troubled childhood of international sensation Jón Gnarr, The Pirate revisits his teenage years with sincere compassion and great humor: bullied relentlessly, Jón receives rebellious inner strength through the Sex Pistols and Prince ... Read more

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"A story that genuinely touches the reader."—Frettabladid"Enormously powerful and particularly heartfelt."—MorgunbladidThe second book in a trilogy chronicling the troubled childhood of international sensation Jón Gnarr, The Pirate revisits his teenage years with sincere compassion and great humor: bullied relentlessly, Jón receives rebellious inner strength through the Sex Pistols and Prince
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The Indian

by Jón Gnarr ...

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The author of the headline making GNARR! How I Became the Mayor of a Large City in Iceland and Changed the World (Melville House, 2014), former comedian (and mayor) Jón Gnarr now turns his lens from politics to tell his life story in his literary debut.The Indian is a highly entertaining and bittersweet literary memoir by Jón Gnarr, the world-famous Icelandic comedian and former Mayor of Reykjavik ... Read more

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The author of the headline making GNARR! How I Became the Mayor of a Large City in Iceland and Changed the World (Melville House, 2014), former comedian (and mayor) Jón Gnarr now turns his lens from politics to tell his life story in his literary debut.The Indian is a highly entertaining and bittersweet literary memoir by Jón Gnarr, the world-famous Icelandic comedian and former Mayor of Reykjavik
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Refugee Tales

by Ali Smith, Marina Lewycka, David Herd ...

Two unaccompanied children travel across the Mediterranean in an overcrowded boat that has been designed to only make it halfway across…A 63-year-old man is woken one morning by border officers ‘acting on a tip-off’ and, despite having paid taxes for 28 years, is suddenly cast into the detention system with no obvious means of escape…An orphan whose entire life has been spent in slavery – first on ... Read more

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Two unaccompanied children travel across the Mediterranean in an overcrowded boat that has been designed to only make it halfway across…A 63-year-old man is woken one morning by border officers ‘acting on a tip-off’ and, despite having paid taxes for 28 years, is suddenly cast into the detention system with no obvious means of escape…An orphan whose entire life has been spent in slavery – first on
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American War

A Novel

by Omar El Akkad ...

**Shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction PrizeA Globe and Mail Best BookA New York Times Notable Book of the YearA Quill & Quire Best Book of 2017An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle -- a story that asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons ... Read more

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**Shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction PrizeA Globe and Mail Best BookA New York Times Notable Book of the YearA Quill & Quire Best Book of 2017An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle -- a story that asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons
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