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Shadow Ticket
5.990 kr.Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation business shifting from labor-management relations to the more domestic kind. Hicks McTaggart, a onetime strikebreaker turned private eye, thinks he’s found job security until he gets sent out on what should be a routine case, locating and bringing back the heiress of a Wisconsin cheese fortune who’s taken a mind to go wandering. Before he knows it, he’s been shanghaied onto a transoceanic liner, ending up eventually in Hungary where there’s no shoreline, a language from some other planet, and enough pastry to see any cop well into retirement—and of course no sign of the runaway heiress he’s supposed to be chasing. By the time Hicks catches up with her he will find himself also entangled with Nazis, Soviet agents, British counterspies, swing musicians, practitioners of the paranormal, outlaw motorcyclists, and the troubles that come with each of them, none of which Hicks is qualified, forget about being paid, to deal with. Surrounded by history he has no grasp on and can’t see his way around in or out of, the only bright side for Hicks is it’s the dawn of the Big Band Era and as it happens he’s a pretty good dancer. Whether this will be enough to allow him somehow to Lindy-hop his way back again to Milwaukee and the normal world, which may no longer exist, is another question.
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Eftirför
4.590 kr.„Þögnin var nánast áþreifanleg. Það eina sem heyrðist í þröngu og skítugu rýminu var hans eigin andardráttur sem hljómaði skyndilega framandi, eins og hann tilheyrði einhverjum öðrum. Svona var þá tilfinningin að vera bjargarlaus.“
Þegar fjölskyldufaðirinn Hallur hverfur sporlaust stendur lögreglan ráðþrota gagnvart kaldri slóð. Það er ekkert sem gefur til kynna að hann hafi verið flæktur í neitt misjafnt og langþráð vetrarfrí fjölskyldunnar breytist skyndilega í martröð. Það er engu líkara en að jörðin hafi gleypt hann. Gæti hvarfið tengst dularfullu skilaboðunum sem Selmu, eiginkonu hans, hafa borist að undanförnu?
Lögfræðingurinn Hrefna er komin í starf hjá lögreglunni og þetta mannshvarf ætlar ekki að reynast auðleyst. Angar þess teygja sig víða og lögreglan þarf að hafa sig alla við í kappi við tímann þar sem hver klukkustund telur.
Eftirför er önnur skáldsaga Önnu Rúnar Frímannsdóttur en sú fyrri, Dauðaþögn, hlaut frábærar viðtökur lesenda.
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Gunnar Hansson: Arkitektinn og verk hans / The Architect and His Works
13.390 kr.Gunnar Hansson (1925 – 1989) var einn af þeim arkitektum sem ruddi nýjum áherslum leið inn í húsbyggingar og hverfisskipulag hérlendis. Pétur H. Ármannsson skrifar um feril og verk Gunnars og skoðar þau í samhengi alþjóðlegs arkitektúrs um leið og hann varpar ljósi á ævi hans og samtíma. Bókin inniheldur myndir af öllum helstu verkum Gunnars, auk fjölda húsateikninga arkitektsins sjálfs. Bókin er á íslensku og ensku. 224 bls.
Gunnar Hansson (1925 – 1989) was one of the architects who paved the way for new approaches in building construction and urban planning in Iceland. Pétur H. Ármannsson writes about Gunnar’s career and works, examining them in the context of international architecture while shedding light on his life and contemporary era.
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Skjóða – Fyrir jólin
4.590 kr.Skjóða er dóttir tröllskessunnar Grýlu sem tannburstar sig bara einu sinni á ári og Leppalúða sem bakar bestu kanilsnúða í heimi. Skjóða á fleiri en 100 systkini og 13 þeirra þekkir þú vel því jólasveinarnir eru bræður Skjóðu. Sagan hefst í Grýluhelli þar sem Skjóða er að undirbúa jólin en þegar jólakötturinn eignast kettlinga fer allt úr skorðum.
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Rækjuvík
6.390 kr.Eftir langan, dimman vetur og vægast sagt glatað vor, er sólin loksins mætt til Reykjavíkur. Tvíburasystkinin Inga og Baldur eru komin í sumarfrí og forvitni þeirra er vakin þegar þau finna dularfullt flöskuskeyti. Þau ákveða að rannsaka málið á sinn einstaka hátt og ævintýri hversdagsins hefjast!
Bókinni fylgja alls konar aukahlutir! Kíktu í vasann aftast til að svala forvitninni!
Rækjuvík er þriðja bókin um tvíburana uppátækjasömu en áður hafa komið Grísafjörður og Héragerði. Fyrri bækurnar voru hlaðnar lofi og hlutu alls konar tilnefningar og verðlaun.
Rækjuvík er bráðskemmtileg, fyndin, litrík og falleg bók um systkini sem eru jafn ólík og dagur og nótt. Hún er sjálfstætt framhald Grísafjarðar og Héragerðis. Lóa Hlín hefur tvívegis hlotið Barnabókaverðlaun Reykjavíkurborgar, verið tilnefnd til Íslensku bókmenntaverðlaunanna, Fjöruverðlaunanna, Barnabókaverðlauna Norðurlandaráðs og Vestnorrænu barnabókaverðlaunanna. Bækur hennar hafa verið valdar bækur ársins af bóksölum landsins og Morgunblaðinu.
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Sense and Sensibility
4.990 kr.Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor’s warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her.
Through their parallel experience of love – and its threatened loss – the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love.
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Emma
4.990 kr.Beautiful, clever, rich – and single – Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives of others.
But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protégée Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have consequences that she never expected. With its imperfect but charming heroine and its witty and subtle exploration of relationships, Emma is often seen as Jane Austen’s most flawless work.
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The Little Prince
4.690 kr.The narrator is a downed pilot in the Sahara Desert, frantically trying to repair his wrecked plane. His efforts are interrupted one day by the apparition of a little prince, who asks him to draw a sheep. “In the face of an overpowering mystery, you don’t dare disobey,” the narrator recalls.
“Absurd as it seemed, a thousand miles from all inhabited regions and in danger of death, I took a scrap of paper and a pen out of my pocket.” And so begins their dialogue, which stretches the narrator’s imagination in all sorts of surprising, childlike directions.
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Animal Farm
4.690 kr.When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master, Mr Jones, and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless elite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control. Soon the other animals discover that they are not all as equal as they thought, and find themselves hopelessly ensnared as one form of tyranny is replaced with another.
Orwell’s chilling ‘fairy story’ is a timeless and devastating satire of idealism betrayed by power and corruption.
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Pride and Prejudice
3.190 kr.No sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she had hardly a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes …’When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows, Jane Austen shows the folly of judging by first impressions and superbly evokes the friendships, gossip and snobberies of provincial middle-class life.
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Árniður að norðan
3.990 kr.Ljóðabókin Árniður að norðan er fyrsta bók Pálma Ragnars Péturssonar. Langflest ljóðanna eru prósar sem sum hver hafa dvalið með höfundi lengi. Hér fléttast saman fegurð, ást, sorg og væntumþykja. Ljóðin venslast hvert við annað á ýmsan hátt í dúr og moll. Það er stutt í húmorinn og höfundur gerir upp þessi 60 ár sem hann hefur bráðum lifað á einstakan hátt.
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