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  • The Father

    Made in Sweden, Part I

    by Anton Svensson ...
    Translated by Elizabeth Clark Wessel ...
    How does a child become a criminal? How does a father lose a son?An epic crime novel with the excitement of Jo Nesbo's Headhunters and the narrative depth of We Need to Talk About Kevin, The Father is inspired by the extraordinary true story of three brothers who committed ten audacious bank robberies in Sweden over the course of just two years.None had committed a crime before. All were under ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Home of the Drowned

    A Novel

    by Elin Anna Labba ...
    Translated by Elizabeth Clark Wessel ...
    The haunting, multigenerational saga of a family of Sámi women fighting the devastation of their way of lifeNothing is true, and everything is true; poetry will never hurt more than what has happened. Every summer, Iŋgá, her mother Rávdná, and her Aunt Ánne travel west to their village on the lake. But the summer Iŋgá is thirteen, they arrive to find their home and possessions have disappeared ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature and Culture

    Edited by Claudia Nelson, Elisabeth Wesseling, Andrea Mei-Ying Wu ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Companions
    Focusing on significant and cutting-edge preoccupations within children’s literature scholarship, The Routledge Companion to Children’s Literature and Culture presents a comprehensive overview of print, digital, and electronic texts for children aged zero to thirteen as forms of world literature participating in a panoply of identity formations.Offering five distinct sections, this volume ... Read more

    $95.99 CAD

  • Reinventing Childhood Nostalgia

    Books, Toys, and Contemporary Media Culture

    Edited by Elisabeth Wesseling ...
    Series series Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
    While Romantic-era concepts of childhood nostalgia have been understood as the desire to retrieve the ephemeral mindset of the child, this collection proposes that the emergence of digital media has altered this reflective gesture towards the past. No longer is childhood nostalgia reliant on individual memory. Rather, it is associated through contemporary convergence culture with the commodities ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • The Child Savage, 1890–2010

    From Comics to Games

    Edited by Elisabeth Wesseling ...
    Series series Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
    Taking up the understudied relationship between the cultural history of childhood and media studies, this volume traces twentieth-century migrations of the child-savage analogy from colonial into postcolonial discourse across a wide range of old and new media. Older and newer media such as films, textbooks, children's literature, periodicals, comic strips, children's radio, and toys are deeply ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • The Ice Beneath Her

    A Novel

    by Camilla Grebe ...
    Translated by Elizabeth Clark Wessel ...
    Series Book 1 - Hanne Lagerlind-Schon
    When the prime suspect to a shocking murder vanishes, detectives race to track him down before a vengeful scorned ex finds him first in this “exceptional” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) Nordic noir thriller from the acclaimed Swedish author of After She’s Gone.“Impressive . . . a tour de force.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Winter’s chill has descended on Stockholm as police arrive at the ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Believer

    A Novel

    by Joakim Zander, Elizabeth Clark Wessel ...
    An intricately plotted and brilliantly conceived stand-alone sequel to the international bestseller The Swimmer that turns the hottest political topics of our times into show-stopping fictionYasmine Ajam has fled her past in the rough Stockholm borough Bergort, reinventing herself as a trend spotter in New York City. One day she receives a startling message: there are riots stirring on the streets ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Eighth House

    A mother, a murder, an obsession

    Translated by Elizabeth Clark Wessel ...
    by Linda Segtnan ...
    'This is an extraordinary book. It moves in and around you like a ghost. I feel lucky to have experienced it' -- Daisy Johnson - author of Everything UnderIn the archives of the national library, a researcher named Linda sees a nine year-old girl's face in the pages of a yellowed newspaper, and the seed of an obsession is planted in her mind.Birgitta Sivander was brutally murdered one night in May ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • After She's Gone

    A Novel

    by Camilla Grebe ...
    Translated by Elizabeth Clark Wessel ...
    Series Book 2 - Hanne Lagerlind-Schon
    A psychological profiler who’s lost her memory and a teenage boy with a fiercely guarded secret become unwitting, unlikely partners in this race to stop a killer—a “stellar crime novel [and] scorching thriller” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) from the acclaimed author of The Ice Beneath Her.“Nordic noir at its best.”—Booklist, starred reviewTHE CRIME WRITERS OF SCANDINAVIA’S BEST NORDIC CRIME ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    The Father

    Made in Sweden, Part I

    by Anton Svensson ...
    Narrated by Richard Coyle ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Made in Sweden

    Unabridged

    16 hours 54 min

    A thrilling, unforgettable crime novel about three brothers who became Sweden's most wanted criminals, inspired by the unbelievable true storyHow does a child become a criminal? How does a father lose a son?An epic crime novel with the excitement of Jo Nesbo's Headhunters and the narrative depth of We Need to Talk About Kevin, The Father is inspired by the extraordinary true story of three ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    The Ice Beneath Her

    A Novel

    by Camilla Grebe ...
    Narrated by John Lee, Justine Eyre, Katharine Lee McEwan ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Hanne Lagerlind-Schon

    Unabridged

    12 hours 29 min

    When the prime suspect to a shocking murder vanishes, detectives race to track him down before a vengeful scorned ex finds him first in this “exceptional” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) Nordic noir thriller from the acclaimed Swedish author of After She’s Gone.“Impressive . . . a tour de force.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Winter’s chill has descended on Stockholm as police arrive at the ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    The Believer

    A Novel

    by Joakim Zander, Elizabeth Clark Wessel ...
    Narrated by Assaf Cohen, Hillary Huber ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 48 min

    An intricately plotted and brilliantly conceived stand-alone sequel to the international bestseller The Swimmer that turns the hottest political topics of our times into a complex, resonant thriller in the vein of John LeCarré.Yasmine Ajam has fled her past in the rough Stockholm borough Bergort, reinventing herself as a trendspotter in New York City. One day she receives a startling message: ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook