Books set in Sweden (110)
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Glaskinder by Kristina Ohlsson DE
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Glück und Glas – wie leicht bricht das! Billie ist nicht begeistert von dem Umzug, den ihre Mutter ihr aufzwingt, schon gar nicht in ein heruntergekommenes Haus im Vorort, vollgestopft mit alten Möbeln ... Und bald merkt Billie, dass in dem Haus unerklärliche Dinge vor sich gehen: Bücher scheinen den Platz zu wechseln, Deckenlampen schwingen hin und her – und Billie erfährt, dass es in dem Haus immer wieder zu schrecklichen Unglücksfällen gekommen ist. Gemeinsam mit Aladdin, dem Nachbarsjungen, findet Billie heraus, dass das Haus einmal ein Kinderheim war, in dem die so genannten »Glaskinder« ... continue
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Haralds mamma by Johanna Frid SV
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Svärdotter och svärmor möts på en flygplats. Under ett dygn inväntar de ett försenat plan och alltefter timmarna går blir konfrontationerna mer obönhörliga. Vad händer när man inser att man plötsligt är tre personer i en parrelation? ”Jag var inte tillfångatagen. Jag satt inte gisslan. Jag var inte i helvetet. Det var inte djävulen som slagit sig ner vid mitt bord för ett kort småprat. Djävulen hade bockfot. Djävulen drack inte päronfestis. Haralds mamma var en helt vanlig kvinna som ville träffa sin son efter att han tillbringat sex veckor på ett behandlingshem i norska fjällen. Den stora frå... continue
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Hunde von Riga : Thriller by Henning Mankell DE
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Die Ermordung eines lettischen Kollegen führt Kommissar Wallander nach Riga. Dort gerät er in den Strudel des Kampfes zwischen Patriotismus, Besatzungsmacht und organisiertem Verbrechen.
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I Am Behind You by John Ajvide Lindqvist EN
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A supernatural superthriller from the author of Let the Right One In Molly wakes her mother to go to the toilet. The campsite is strangely blank. The toilet block has gone. Everything else has gone too. This is a place with no sun. No god. Just four families remain. Each has done something to bring them here - each denies they deserve it. Until they see what's coming over the horizon, moving irrevocably towards them. Their worst mistake. Their darkest fear. And for just one of them, their homecoming. This gripping conceptual horror takes you deep into one of the most macabre and unique imagina... continue
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In the Heat of the Moment by Viveca Sten EN
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What's a lie among friends? It's murder--in this riveting thriller by Viveca Sten, bestselling author of Tonight You're Dead... It's Midsummer's Eve, the celebration of the longest day of the year, and on Sandhamn it's the longest party of the year. But the fun comes to a dead halt when a young reveler is murdered, a teenage girl is found drugged and dazed on the beach, and other young women vanish. So far, what links the victims is a mystery. For Nora Linde and her new boyfriend, Jonas Sköld, the crimes are personal: one of the missing girls is Wilma, Jonas's daughter. And her disappearance c... continue
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Jerusalem by Selma Lagerlöf EN
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JERUSALEM (1901-1902) by Selma Lagerlof, first woman author to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, is a story of Swedish families caught up in desire and divine exultation. Homestead tradition and religious inspiration, love and duty, come in conflict in this inspirational and gently bittersweet period novel that follows a pilgrimage of the idealist human spirit of Ingmar Ingmarsson and his kin.
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A pioneering work of dystopian fiction from one of Sweden's most acclaimed writers Written midway between Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four, as the terrible events of the Second World War were unfolding, Kallocain depicts a totalitarian 'World State' which seeks to crush the individual entirely. In this desolate, paranoid landscape of 'police eyes' and 'police ears', the obedient citizen and middle-ranking scientist Leo Kall discovers a drug that will force anyone who takes it to tell the truth. But can private thought really be obliterated? Karin Boye's chilling novel of creeping alien... continue
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Karlson on the Roof by Astrid Lindgren EN
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Imagine Smidge's delight when, one day, a little man with a propeller on his back appears hovering at the window! It's Karlson and he lives in a house on the roof. Soon Smidge and Karlson are sharing all sorts of adventures, from tackling thieves and playing tricks to looping the loop and running across the rooftops. Fun and chaos burst from these charming, classic stories.