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  • Sophie's World

    A Novel About the History of Philosophy

    Translated by Paulette Møller ...
    Series series FSG Classics
    A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print.One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Solitaire Mystery

    A Novel About Family & Destiny

    Translated by Sarah Jane Hails ...
    The story of a boy and his father on a car trip through Europe, searching for the boy's mother, who left many years ago to find herself. Structured as a deck of cards -- each chapter is one card in the deck -- The Solitaire Mystery subtly weaves together fantasy and reality, fairy tales and family history. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Philosophy Of History

    The original works of foreign classics, including the most representative literary masters and the most influential representative works. ... Read more

    $10.11 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Questions Asked

    Illustrated by Akin Duezakin ...
    A picture book with fundamental philosophical questions, posed in a way only Jostein Gaarder is capable of. The illustrator has made an independent visual narrative that underscores the existential aspect of Jostein Gaarder's philosophical questions. Questions Asked shows confidence in a child's capacity to think deeply and read between the lines. The book follows a little boy traveling alone in ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • An Unreliable Man

    Translated by Nichola Smalley ...
    From the creative genius of Jostein Gaarder, author of modern classic Sophie's World, comes a novel about loneliness and the power of wordsJakop is a lonely man.Divorced from his wife, with no friends apart from his constant companion Pelle, he spends his life attending the funerals of people he doesn't know, obscuring his identity in a web of improbable lies.As his addiction spirals out of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Orange Girl

    From the author of SOPHIE'S WORLD, a modern fairy tale with a philosophical twist.'It should be read by all' VOGUE'My father died eleven years ago. I was only four then. I never thought I'd hear from him again, but now we're writing a book together'To Georg Røed, his father is no more than a shadow, a distant memory. But then one day his grandmother discovers some pages stuffed into the lining of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Christmas Mystery

    A Novel

    Translated by Elizabeth Rokkan ...
    In the corner of a dusty old bookstore, Joachim discovers a magic advent calendar. When he opens the first window on December first, a small piece of paper falls out, containing the story of a little girl named Elisabet.Using his historical insight and beautiful imagination, Jostein Gaarder has created a unique and exciting holiday story for the whole family. Beautifully illustrated, The Christmas ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The World According to Anna

    Translated by Donald Bartlett ...
    When fifteen-year-old Anna begins receiving messages from another time, her parents take her to the doctor. But he can find nothing wrong; in fact he believes there may be some truth to what she is seeing.Anna is haunted by visions of the desolate world of 2082. She sees her great-granddaughter, Nova, roaming through wasteland with a band of survivors, after animals and plants have died out.The ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Castle in the Pyrenees

    Two former lovers are brought back together ... but can they really trust their pasts? The new novel from the bestselling author of SOPHIE'S WORLD.Through five intense years in the 1970s, Steinn and Solrunn had a happy life together. Then they suddenly parted ways, for reasons that are unclear to both. In the summer of 2007 they meet again on a balcony of an old wooden hotel by a fjord in western ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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    Sophie's World

    A Novel About the History of Philosophy

    Narrated by Simon Vance ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 55 min

    A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print.One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    An Unreliable Man

    Narrated by Chris Courtenay ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 9 min

    From the creative genius of Jostein Gaarder comes a beautiful novel about loneliness and the power of words.Jakop is a lonely man.Divorced from his wife, with no friends apart from his constant companion Pelle, he spends his life attending the funerals of people he doesn't know, obscuring his identity in a web of improbable lies.As his addiction to storytelling spirals out of control, he is forced ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The World According to Anna

    Narrated by Penelope Rawlins ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 51 min

    When fifteen-year-old Anna begins receiving messages from another time, her parents take her to the doctor. But he can find nothing wrong with Anna; in fact he believes there may be some truth to what she is seeing.Anna is haunted by visions of the desolate world of 2082. She sees her great-granddaughter, Nova, in a wasteland peopled by ragged survivors, after animals and plants have died out.The ... Read more

    $12.99 USD