THE #1 SCANDINAVIAN CRIME SERIES: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo meets Sharp Objects in this Danish police procedural mystery for fans of Jo Nesbø and Henning Mankell.“Gripping, endearing, dark, and funny . . . Kaldan and Schafer are my new favorite crime-solving duo. Highly recommended.” —Harlan CobenDanish journalist Heloise Kaldan is in the middle of a nightmare. One of her sources has been caught lying, and she could ...

For fans of Katrine Engberg and Lars Kepler, the second chilling novel in Anne Mette Hancock’s #1 bestselling Danish crime series is a psychological whirlwind that explores the nature of truth and what it means when we can no longer trust what we know to be real.**When 10-year-old Lukas disappears from his Copenhagen school, police investigators discover that the boy had a peculiar obsession with pareidolia—a phenomenon that makes him see faces in random things. A...

He is a prince and heir to a kingdom threatened on all sides, possessor of the forbidden animal magic.She is a princess from a rival kingdom, the daughter her father never wanted, isolated from all except her hound.In this lush and beautifully written fairy-tale romance, a prince, a princess, and two kingdoms are joined in the aftermath of a war. Proud, stubborn, and bound to marry for duty, George and Beatrice will steal your heart—but will they fall in love?

A murdered mistress. An accused mob boss. Can two detectives put their differences aside to find the real killer?Angelina Bonaparte is starting from square one. After a messy divorce, the middle-aged librarian put down her books and picked up a new gig as a private investigator. When a mob boss heads to jail for his mistress' murder, she has no issue with the womanizing scumbag rotting in prison. But when the suspect's pregnant wife swears his innocence, Angelina c...

In the predominantly mormon city of Draper, Utah, some seemingly perfect families have deadly secrets.Linda Wallheim is a devout Mormon, mother of five boys and wife of a bishop. But Linda’s daily routine of church-going, Relief Society meetings, and visiting church ward members is turned upside down as a disturbing situation takes shape in her seemingly idyllic neighborhood. Young wife and mother Carrie Helm has disappeared. Carrie’s husband, Jared, claims that sh...

For fans of Jo Nesbø and Katrine Engberg, international bestselling author Anne Mette Hancock’s third thrilling novel in the series Harlan Coben calls “the best series I’ve read this year,” is a pulse-pounding Scandinavian noir about secrets, buried truths, and what happens when we go digging into the past.When Jan Frischof, a dying elderly man, gives a deathbed confession too unbelievable to be true, journalist Heloise Kaldan immediately knows there’s a deeper sto...

Sweet romance, set in Norway! For fans of Debbie Macomber and Nancy Naigle.Emmelin inherits her childhood home and must decide whether to move back to the small town of Solvik or sell it. With a husband who can't stand the country life, and no jobs available, the decision seems like an easy one - or is it?Confronted with decisions made in her younger days, Emmelin faces deep remorse and indecisiveness. Trying to justify her actions and make things right, she discovers she's...

Join bestselling author Susan Meissner and other "Mimis" in this Christmas-season poem inspired by the traditional holiday traveling song "Over the River and Through the Woods." Modern families find their way to grandmother's house using a variety of vehicles to celebrate with Mimis, Omas, Gigis, and Nanas.This sweet Christmas storyis for boys and girls 4 to 8 years old and grandmothers of all names and types;explores the different modern mo...

With the intensity of The Handmaid's Tale, the drama of Divergent and the political intrigue of The Darkest Minds series, this is a captivating, fast-paced thriller set in a dystopian world not so different from our own.Sixteen-year-old Ally is one of 400 homeless young people who have been promised new and better lives in exchange for their votes.The once homeless children and teenagers are now warm and fed. But they are forced to work for the new adminis...

**Book Band: Purple (**Ideal for ages 6+)A funny family story, ideal for children practising their reading at home or in school, by Ben Bailey Smith, author of World Book Day book The Last Word.It's Monday morning and there's chaos at Maxine's house. Dad's got ketchup on his sleeve and has lost his yellow sock. Mum can't get the car to start. But there's time for a puppet show and maybe even a third piece of marmalade toast, right?...

In recent years, a growing emphasis has been placed on tourism experiences and attractions related to food. In many cases eating out while on holiday includes the 'consumption' of a local heritage, comparable to what is experienced when visiting historical sites and museums.Despite this increasing attention, however, systematic research on the subject has been nearly absent. Tourism and Gastronomy addresses this by drawing together a group of international experts in order ...

This book features research contributions from The Abel Symposium on Statistical Analysis for High Dimensional Data, held in Nyvågar, Lofoten, Norway, in May 2014.The focus of the symposium was on statistical and machine learning methodologies specifically developed for inference in “big data” situations, with particular reference to genomic applications. The contributors, who are among the most prominent researchers on the theory of statistics for high dimensional inference, prese...