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Author
Series
William Wisting volume 2
Publisher
Sandstone Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Ove Bakkerud, newly separated and extremely disillusioned, is looking forward to a final quiet weekend at his summer home before closing for winter but, when the tourists leave, less welcome visitors arrive. Bakkerud's cottage is ransacked by burglars. Next door he discovers the body of a man who has been beaten to death. Police Inspector William Wisting has witnessed grotesque murders before, but the desperation he sees in this latest murder is...
Author
Series
William Wisting volume 6
Publisher
Sandstone Press Ltd
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Stavern 1983: Christmas is approaching, snow is falling heavily, and a young ambitious policeman named William Wisting has just become the father of twins. After a brutal robbery he is edged off the investigation by more experienced officers, but soon he is on another case that is not only unsolved but has not even been recognised as murder. Forgotten in a dilapidated barn stands a bullet riddled old car, and it looks as if the driver did not get...
3) Ordeal
Author
Series
William Wisting volume 5
Publisher
Sandstone Press Ltd
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The investigation into taxi-driver Jens Hummel's disappearance has been fruitless, but a crucial discovery directs suspicion at Dan Roger 'Danny' Brodin. The problem is, however, that Danny is already in prison, convicted of another murder.--
Author
Series
William Wisting volume 3
Publisher
Sandstone Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen years ago William Wisting led the investigation into one of Norway's most notorious criminal cases, the murder of young Cecilia Linde. When it is discovered that evidence was falsified he is suspended from duty. It looks like a man has been wrongly convicted, and suddenly the media are baying for blood. Wisting, who has spent his life hunting criminals, is now the hunted.
5) The caveman
Author
Series
William Wisting volume 4
Publisher
Sandstone Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Only three houses away from the policeman's home, a man has been sitting dead in front of his television set for four months.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Aaron Slater loves listening to stories and dreams of one day writing them himself. But when it comes to reading, the letters just look like squiggles to him, and it soon becomes clear he struggles more than his peers. When his teacher asks each child in the class to write a story, Aaron can't get a single word down. He is sure his dream of being a storyteller is out of reach ... until inspiration strikes, and Aaron finds a way to spin a tale in a...
7) Barracoon
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation's history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo's firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage fifty years after the Atlantic slave...
Author
Publisher
Chooseco
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"It is circa 400 A.D. and you are a young person living in ancient Greece. You are studying with the powerful philosopher and mathematician, Hypatia. Hypatia's formulas and inventions will change the course of history, but she can't let go of an event from the past. She needs you to travel back in time to the age of Cleopatra in order to change history so the Library of Alexandria can be saved from destruction by fire. Can you do what's needed to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The old salt farmers have always said that the violet scent of the Fleur de Sel at harvest time on the salt marshes of the Gu�erande Peninsula has been known to cause hallucinations. Commissaire Dupin also starts to believe this when he's attacked out of the blue in the salt works. He had actually been looking forward to escaping his endless paperwork and taking a trip to the "white country" between the raging Atlantic Ocean and idyllic rivers....
10) Dregs
Author
Series
William Wisting volume 1
Publisher
Sandstone Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"Meet Chief Inspector William Wisting, an experienced policeman who is familiar with the dark side of human nature. He lives in challenging times for the Norwegian police force, meeting them with integrity and humanity, and a fragile belief that he can play a part in creating a better world"--Publisher's website.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
When cousins Riley, who has a way with people, and Maya, a tech wizard, move in with their activist grandma, they get off to a rocky start until they join forces as superheroes to stop their school culture from being threatened by money, power and lies.
12) Noticing
Author
Publisher
Compendium, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
This is a story about noticing the little things, the grand big things, the imaginary, and sometimes, hidden things. It is about embracing what's possible. And that the incredible is everywhere, and in everything--waiting to be known, discovered, recognized.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
A collection of thirteen traditional tales about dogs from around the world, arranged into six categories including The creation dog, The trickster dog, The enchanted dog, The guardian dog, The super dog, and the treasure dog.
17) If I was a horse
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A child imagines what life would be like as a horse"--
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Avenue
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A novel of coming out, surviving grief, and embracing myth in a Maine lobstering town purportedly founded when a sea captain fell in love with a mermaid 300 years ago. For readers of Madeline Miller, Alix E. Harrow, and Erin Morgenstern"--
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"I'd seen the Senator speak a few times before my life got caught up, however distantly, with his, but the first time I can remember paying real attention was when he delivered the speech announcing his run for the Presidency. When David first hears the Senator from Illinois speak, he feels deep ambivalence. Intrigued by the Senator's idealistic rhetoric, David also wonders how he'll balance the fervent belief and inevitable compromises it will take...
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