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    by Are Kalvø ...
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    Entertaining adventure writing: the author is a comedian and his writing is smart and funny.The hilarious absurdity of the things we do to connect to nature: like climbing a mountain in the pouring rain or buying ridiculously expensive gear just to take a walk.Broad appeal: For fans of Bill Bryson and Karl Pilkington, as well as followers of the wildly popular instagram turned book, Subpar Parks.. ... Read more

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  • Wolverine Tracks

    On the Trail of Memory and Meaning in the Wild

    by Dag O. Hessen ...
    Translated by Lucy Moffatt ...
    **In this “book of great power and tenderness” (Charles Foster), a quest for an elusive animal reveals the comfort of nature in a changing, uncertain world.“Deeply philosophical, addressing the questions that we are all pondering about our place in this world and the degree to which we are part of nature. A book for your bedside table.”—Catherine Raven, author of the New York Times bestseller Fox ... Read more

    $20.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • My Belly

    Exploring Why It’s So Hard for Women to Love Their Bodies

    by Hilde Østby ...
    Translated by Lucy Moffatt ...
    If my hatred of my belly was a person, she would be old enough to have completed a lengthy education and given me grandchildren.An unflinching and feminist portrait of one woman’s obsession with her belly and the cultural and social norms that feed that obsession––for readers of Nora Ephron’s classic memoir I Feel Bad About My Neck.“Hilde Ostby says she's never entered a room without thinking ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Finding the Fox

    Encounters With an Enigmatic Animal

    Translated by Lucy Moffatt ...
    TARGET AUDIENCE: For readers of Catherine Raven’s Fox and I, Sy Montgomery’s The Soul of an Octopus, Helen Macdonald’s H is for Hawk, and other books that profile extraordinarily intelligent animals and our relationship to them.CAPTIVATING PORTRAIT: Finding the Fox is a compelling portrait of an animal that has captured our imaginations for centuries, from the scientific discoveries about them to ... Read more

    $19.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Pig and I

    The Tale of Our Relationship With a Beast We Eat

    Translated by Lucy Moffatt ...
    Explores the ethics of eating pork without passing judgment on the reader—perfect for meat-eaters with a slightly guilty conscienceFor fans of Bill Bryson and Michael Pollan—a quirky and lively read that combines current food issues with popular science, history, and anecdotes.First-hand account of working as a pig farmer: the author convinces a grizzled pig farmer to let him work for him for... ... Read more

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  • Through Three Rooms

    An Asbjørn Krag mystery

    Series series Scandinavian Mystery Classics
    It’s a cold and dark winter afternoon when a doctor knocks on detective Asbjørn Krag’s door. He’s worried about his patient, who has turned overnight from a cheerful, eccentric elderly gentleman into a shivering wreck. Clearly he’s terrified – but can a series of minor incidents at his isolated country house really be the cause? And why won’t he tell anyone what he fears?Krag must go undercover as ... Read more

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  • Kingdom of Frost

    How the Cryosphere Shapes Life on Earth

    Translated by Lucy Moffatt ...
    Vassnes is a leading Norwegian science journalist who grew up among the Sami people in the far north of NorwayThis is a wide-ranging exploration in the vein of Jared Diamond, Elizabeth Kolbert, and Barry LopezVassnes shows readers how the climate "dance" of hot and cold periods, has shaped both the planet and all creatures living on it. But we may be heading toward a "last dance".Clearly ... Read more

    $19.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Mysterious Foe

    An Asbjørn Krag Mystery

    Translated by Lucy Moffatt ...
    Series series Scandinavian Mystery Classics
    After an adventurous life of travel, Captain Ivar Rye has settled down in the Norwegian countryside and found love with the daughter of a neighboring landowner. But his peaceful new existence is shattered when her father is violently attacked, leaving Rye as the prime suspect.Desperate and alone, Rye calls upon his old friend, the renowned detective Asbjørn Krag. As Krag begins his investigation, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Through Three Rooms

    An Asbjørn Krag mystery

    by Sven Elvestad ...
    Translated by Lucy Moffatt ...
    Series series Scandinavian Mystery Classics
    "A vile crime is being planned," he said."And heaven knows, it may even have been executed."When an old schoolfriend whisks private detective Asbjørn Krag away by train to an isolated snow-covered manor house, his curiosity is aroused.John Aakerholm, a wealthy landowner with peculiar tastes, refuses to disclose why he is utterly terrified. Every evening at midnight he retires to bed, locking ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Finding Places: The Search For The Brain's Gps

    Finding Places tells the story of the ground-breaking discovery of the cells that constitute the brain's positioning system — its GPS. The book takes you into the lab of neuroscientists May-Britt and Edvard Moser and lets you experience the work of the many researchers who revealed how certain incredible cells help rats and humans find their way. It details the discovery of the mind-boggling 'grid ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • The Wonder Down Under

    A User's Guide to the Vagina

    Translated by Lucy Moffatt ...
    'The Wonder Down Under is set to do for the vagina what Guilia Enders' Gut did for our digestive system a few years ago.' - Stylist'This new guide should be on every woman's shelf' - Emerald Street'A vital publication - it deserves to be a hit' - The Press Association'Tells you everything you need to know' - FabulousThe Wonder Down Un... ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Some Days: A Memoir

    A Tale of Friendship, Cancer & Margherita Pizza

    by Lucy Moffatt ...
    "If there's anything good that can come out of this horrible situation - if I have to die - at least someday you can write about it and make us both famous." At five years old, the only thing Chelsea had ever said to Lucy was 'I don't want to be your friend, freckle-face!' But then the girls learned a simple, magical thing: they had been born less than 24 hours apart only days before Christmas, at ... Read more

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