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Jar City: A Reykjavik Thriller
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Mr. Arnaldur Indridason, Arnaldur Indriason
A man is found murdered in his Reykjavik flat, and the police have no obvious leads. Delving into the dead man's past, two investigators discover that the city of Reykjavik has one or two secrets of its own, secrets it would rather keep.
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Independent People
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Halldor Laxness
A novel by an Icelandic Nobel Prizewinner, about a sheep farmer who wants only to be an independent man. When his daughter expresses her own needs for independence, the battle of wills that results is both harsh and poignant. Brad Leithauser writes in his introduction: "I finished its last chapters one late afternoon in Rome, seated in an all-but ...
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Voices
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Mr. Arnaldur Indridason
From the Gold Dagger Award-winning author of "Silence of the Grave." As the Christmas rush peaks in a Reykjavk hotel, Inspector Erlendur Sveinsson is called in to investigate the murder of the hotel Santa, who at one time was famous. Sveinsson hopes that the story of his downfall may provide a motive for the crime.
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Poverty in America: A Handbook
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John Iceland
A broad overview of poverty in the US, probing the various ways that it has been measured over time and the evolution of social thinking about poverty. Updated tables and a new preface.
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This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland
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Gretel Ehrlich
Ehrlich tells of her travels in Greenland: the months of unpunctuated days followed by months of endless nights, the chain of hospitality that she followed from north to south, and the ruggedness of solo travel in a cold wilderness. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001.
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Silence of the Grave
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Mr. Arnaldur Indridason
Downtrodden detective Erlendur and his team must once again look into Reykjavik's hidden past to unravel a case of human nastiness. Alive with tension and atmosphere, and disturbingly real, this is an outstanding continuation of the Reykjavik Murder Mysteries.
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Iceland (Signed Edition): Land of the Sagas
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Jon Krakauer
A pictorial classic on one of the last "undiscovered" countries is offered by David Roberts and Jon Krakauer, author of "Into Thin Air". While touring and photographing a landscape of remarkable variety, the authors survive numerous adventures and discover the myths and legends of Iceland's stirring history. Full color.
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Running blind
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Desmond Bagley
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Viking Age Iceland
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Jesse L Byock
The popular image of the Viking Age is of warlords and marauding bands pillaging their way along the shores of Northern Europe. In this fascinating history, Jesse Byock shows that Norse society in Iceland was actually an independent one-almost a republican Free State, without warlords or kings. Combining history with anthropology and archaeology, ...
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Letters from Iceland
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W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice
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Last Rituals: An Icelandic Novel of Secret Symbols, Medieval Witchcraft, and Modern Murder
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Yrsa Sigurdardottir, Bernard Scudder (Translator)
Set in modern-day Iceland--and already an international sensation--"Last Rituals" introduces one of the most compelling and exceptional new characters to appear in years, attorney Thra Guomunddottir, in a tale of medieval witchcraft and modern murder.
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Frost on My Moustache: The Arctic Exploits of a Lord and a Loafer
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Tim Moore
Resolving to follow in the Arctic footsteps of a Victorian gentleman of leisure and adventure, the author provides his own memoir of a shambolic voyage into the Northern wastes, a trip that cost him most of his dignity and nearly his life. Moore writes with scathingly funny self-deprecation about his misadventures in Iceland, Norway, and regions ...
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Destruction of Convoy Pq-17
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David John Cawdell Irving
First published in England, this is the highly controversial book banned in 1967. Detailing the fate of 35 Allied ships destined for the Barents Sea, Irving reveals the blundering that doomed the convoy and caused him to be sued for libel.
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The Far-Farers: A Journey from Viking Iceland to Crusader Jerusalem
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Victoria Clark
Just before they year 1000, a young Viking named Thorvald left Iceland on an epic journey to the heart of all medieval world maps--Jerusalem. A thousand years later, Clark embarked on the same journey to discover to what extent the dramatic changes and conflicts sweeping Western Europe a millennium ago still resonate today.
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The Fish Can Sing
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Halldor Kiljan Laxness, Magnus Magnusson (Translator)
This 1955 novel by Nobel laureate Halldor Laxness takes place in a rural village in Iceland, where a young boy is abandoned by his parents and grows up to become fanatically devoted to an internationally famous singer.
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Gunnar's daughter
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Sigrid Undset, Arthur G. Chater, [from old catalog]
In this epic, semi-autobiographical novel of poverty and despair, Hamsun's narrator is a poor writer who depends upon the sale of articles and stories to the press for his living. He is usually destitute and often hungry, and during the long intervals when he is underfed, his mood swings wildly between euphoria and bleak, self-destructive ...
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Lonely Planet Iceland
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Fran Parnell, Etain O'Carroll
The best-selling guide to the country. Iceland was voted the UK's favorite European destination by readers of the Guardian/Observer newspapers. The Blue Lagoon geothermal spa was rated best in the world by Conde Nast readers. Special season-themed section on outdoor/adventure activities like snowmobiling and biking.
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Letters Home From Iceland
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Summer at Little Lava: A Season at the Edge of the World
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Charles Fergus
The author, his wife, and their young son spent a summer in Iceland to recover from the violent death of Fergus's mother. They spent their time hiking, fishing, and observing the natural world, and grew to love the Icelandic landscape, people, and folklore. In the benign atmosphere, they also found healing.
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Icelander
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Dustin Long
"Icelander" is the debut novel from a brilliant new mind, an intricate, giddy romp steeped equally in Nordic lore and pulpy intrigue. When Shirley MacGuffin is found murdered one day prior to the annual town celebration in remembrance of Our Heroine's mother -- the legendary crime-stopper and evil-thwarter Emily Bean -- everyone expects Our ...
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Iceland's Bell
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Halldor Kiljan Laxness, Halldor
Drawing on the days when Iceland was under the control of Denmark, this novel--set in the late 1700s--is about Jon Hreggvidson, an Icelandic farmer who is imprisoned for insulting the Danish king, and for a murder he did not commit. As he attempts to clear his name, he encounters a woman named Snaefridur Eydalin, who defends him, and an idealistic ...
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Nights of the Pufflings
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Bruce McMillan
The true story of an event on a small island off the coast of Iceland. Every year puffins land on the island to nest, lay eggs, and raise their pufflings. In August, when the pufflings take their first flight all the children stay up to watch them take off. During the night the children also rescue any stranded pufflings and set them free on the ...
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The Windows of Brimnes: An American in Iceland
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Bill Holm
In his most ambitious book to date, poet, musician, wit, and polemicist Bill Holm repairs to his Icelandic cottage to reflect on the United States and what it might learn from the land of his ancestral roots. The book begins with a description of the extraordinary setting of Brimnes, a small fishing village on the Arctic Circle. From his house, ...
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The story of Rolf and the Viking bow
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Allen French
This turn-of-the-century novel by Allen French is in the style and tradition of the great Icelandic sagas and is set in the time just after Iceland had become Christian.
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Iceland fisherman
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Pierre Loti
About a group of French fishermen who leave Brittany to fish in the rough but bountiful waters off the coast of Iceland, this book is as much about the struggles they face in the violent weather of the North Atlantic as it is about the heartbreak faced by those left behind. Full of vivid descriptions of life both at sea and on land, the range of ...
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