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Boudoir

by Sigrún Pálsdóttir ...

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The latest novel from the winner of the 2021 European Union Prize for Literature.In this unlikely coming-of-age novel set against the backdrop of Iceland's unexpected steps into the age of spaceflight, teen protagonist Teddý sets out from her rural farm—spurred on by a chance encounter with an astronaut amid the lava—to try to find her place in a world built for men.We follow her life across five ... Read more

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The latest novel from the winner of the 2021 European Union Prize for Literature.In this unlikely coming-of-age novel set against the backdrop of Iceland's unexpected steps into the age of spaceflight, teen protagonist Teddý sets out from her rural farm—spurred on by a chance encounter with an astronaut amid the lava—to try to find her place in a world built for men.We follow her life across five
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On Time and Water

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The book that will make you understand what our future holds for us, if we don't act immediately. ... Read more

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History. A Mess.

by Sigrún Pálsdottír ...

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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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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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Oraefi

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by Ófeigur Sigurðsson ...

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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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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 Indian

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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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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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Tómas Jónsson, Bestseller

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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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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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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 ...

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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 ... 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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On Time and Water

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A few years ago, Andri Snaer Magnason, one of Iceland's most beloved writers and public intellectuals, was asked by a leading climate scientist why he wasn't writing about the greatest crisis mankind has faced. Magnason demurred: he wasn't a specialist, it wasn't his field. But the scientist persisted: "If you cannot understand our scientific findings and present them in an emotional, ... Read more

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A few years ago, Andri Snaer Magnason, one of Iceland's most beloved writers and public intellectuals, was asked by a leading climate scientist why he wasn't writing about the greatest crisis mankind has faced. Magnason demurred: he wasn't a specialist, it wasn't his field. But the scientist persisted: "If you cannot understand our scientific findings and present them in an emotional,
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