Happiness Forever
4.390 kr.A hilarious and utterly original debut novel following a woman trying to make sense of her life and herself as she falls in love with her therapist. Sylvie is only happy when she is at therapy. This is because Sylvie is in love with her therapist.
She wants to kiss her and roll around on the floor with her. She thinks about her every second they’re not together (roughly 167 hours and 10 minutes per week). She’s aware she has an obsession, but whether it is – as her therapist suggests – a case of extreme ‘erotic transference’, or a lost person’s need to connect, Sylvie isn’t sure.
Beyond therapy, Sylvie has what she considers to be a small life: a job as a veterinary nurse, her little brain-damaged dog, Curtains, and a new friend Chloe who she met on the beach. When the therapist delivers some devastating news, Sylvie has to imagine new and lasting ways of coping (that don’t include being adopted by the therapist). Her world has begun to open up, inching beyond the fear that has confined her until now, and she must decide whether she’s ready for a bravery of feeling.
In this stunning debut novel, Adelaide Faith encapsulates the great vulnerability, difficulty and joy of being alive.
hum it on the phone
3.490 kr.The poems in hum it on the phone are made up of fragments from interdisciplinary artist Audrey Roger’s diary entries, notebooks, descriptions of dreams she has had, as well as from a range of found material clipped from exhibition reviews and press releases, national park guidelines, tarot and palmistry readings, walking guides, song lyrics, lifestyle/relationship web articles, fortune teller machine cards, film scripts, breathing techniques from a yoga manual, occult books, and immigration guidelines.
Saklaust blóð í snjó
3.690 kr.Þessi bók er byggð á sannsögulegum atburðum er gerðust á Reyðarfirði veturinn 1726.
Á fjallveginum milli Reyðarfjarðar og Norðfjarðar, norðan megin við Oddskarðið stendur Höllusteinn. Undir þessum steini fæddi bláfátæk kornung stúlka barn, alein og útskúfuð í blindhríð um hánótt. Henni hafði verið úthýst í Helgustaðahreppi þetta sama kvöld. Enginn vildi láta óskilgetið barn fæðast á sínum bæ. Eftir þetta hefur þessi brekka verið kölluð Blóðbrekka.
Í raun fjallar þessi bók um það hvernig karlmenn á Íslandi fyrr á öldum misnotuðu vald sitt til misnotkunnar á konum og komust upp með það, því þeir einir skráðu söguna.
Things in Nature Merely Grow
4.690 kr.A remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance from acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist Yiyun Li as she considers the loss of her son James. ‘There is no good way to say this,’ Yiyun Li writes at the beginning of this book. ‘There is no good way to state these facts, which must be acknowledged.
My husband and I had two children and lost them both: Vincent in 2017, at sixteen, James in 2024, at nineteen. Both chose suicide, and both died not far from home.’ There is no good way to say this – because words fall short. It takes only an instant for death to become fact, ‘a single point in a timeline’.
Living now on this single point, Li turns to thinking and reasoning and searching for words that might hold a place for James. Li does what she can: including not just writing but gardening, reading Camus and Wittgenstein, learning the piano, and living thinkingly alongside death. This is a book for James, but it is not a book about grieving.
As Li writes, ‘The verb that does not die is to be. Vincent was and is and will always be Vincent. James was and is and will always be James.
History of Violence
3.490 kr.I met Reda on Christmas Eve 2012, at around four in the morning. He approached me in the street, and finally I invited him up to my apartment.
He told me the story of his childhood and how his father had come to France, having fled Algeria. We spent the rest of the night together, talking, laughing. At around 6 o’clock, he pulled out a gun and said he was going to kill me.
He insulted me, strangled and raped me. The next day, the medical and legal proceedings began. History of Violence retraces the story of that night, and looks at immigration, class, racism, desire and the effects of trauma in an attempt to understand a history of violence, its origins, its reasons and its causes.
Who Killed My Father
3.490 kr.In Who Killed My Father, Édouard Louis explores key moments in his father’s life, and the tenderness and disconnects in their relationship.
Told with the fire of a writer determined on social justice, and with the compassion of a loving son, the book urgently and brilliantly engages with issues surrounding masculinity, class, homophobia, shame and social poverty. It unflinchingly takes aim at systems that disadvantage those they seek to exclude – those who have their expectations, hopes and passions crushed by a society which gives them little thought.
Road to October 7 : A Brief History of Palestinian Islamism
4.690 kr.In Road to October 7, Erik Skare argues that Palestinian Islamism is far more complex and dynamic than generally assumed. The phenomenon has continuously developed through disputes between moderates and hardliners. These struggles have largely been settled by external drivers – intra-Palestinian competition, Israeli violence and repression, or shifts in the regional power balance.
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
3.990 kr.Between 1947 and 1949, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, civilians were massacred and around a million men, women, and children were expelled from their homes at gunpoint. Denied for almost six decades, had it happened today it could only have been called ‘ethnic cleansing’. Decisively debunking the myth that the Palestinian population left of their own accord in the course of this war, Ilan Pappe offers impressive archival evidence to demonstrate that, from its very inception, a central plank in Israel’s founding ideology was the forcible removal of the indigenous population.
Vikuspá
4.390 kr.Vikuspá geymir áttatíu og sex sögur á einföldu máli. Í stuttum og aðgengilegum frásögnum eru ólíkar atvinnugreinar kynntar. Hér er leikið með þá íslensku þjóðtrú að það geti haft áhrif á hvað barn taki sér fyrir hendur í framtíðinni á hvaða vikudegi það fæðist. Sögupersónur takast á við þrautir og sigra í leit að hinum gullna meðalveg, milli frama og lukku. Sögurnar varpa ljósi á fegurð mannflórunnar og mikilvægi þess að þroskast og þróast í takt við tímann.
Vikuspá er sjálfstætt framhald af Árstíðum og Dagatali sem hafa notið mikilla vinsælda og verið kenndar víða á Íslandi sem og erlendis. Textarnir eru fjölbreyttir hvað varðar efnistök, form og stíl og flokkaðir eftir getustigi í samráði við sérfræðinga. Þar að auki fylgir viðauki með margskonar fróðleik um land og þjóð. Bókin nýtist jafnt við kennslu sem og til yndislestrar.
Auður
1.290 kr.Auður, dóttir víkingahöfðingjans Ketils flatnefs, vex upp á Suðureyjum, ættstór og skapheit. Allt hennar fólk er heiðið en þegar hún kynnist Gilla munki laðast hún bæði að honum og boðskap hans um Hvítakrist. Fullveðja er Auður gefin Ólafi hvíta, konungi yfir Dyflinni á Írlandi. Samband þeirra er heitt en stormasamt og vináttan við Gilla verður henni dýrkeypt …
Auður djúpúðga er í hópi þekktustu landnema Íslands. Hér er þroskasaga hennar sögð um leið og dregin er upp mynd af þeim róstusömu tímum þegar norrænir menn lögðu undir sig eyjarnar við Skotland og herjuðu í Vesturhafi. Vilborg Davíðsdóttir er þaulkunnug mannlífi sögutímans og Auður rís úr djúpi aldanna, sterk og heillandi kona.
Amelía og Óliver
4.390 kr.Amelía og Óliver er fyrst og fremst hugljúf saga um vináttu og leikgleði. Að auki þjálfar hún orðaforða með orðum sem börn heyra síður í töluðu máli en eru mikilvæg þegar kemur að því að lesa sér til gagns. Systkinin Amelía og Óliver eru úti að leika og hitta tröll. Fyrst verða þau hrædd en sjá svo að tröllið vill bara leika.
Höfundar bókarinnar eru Kristín Björg Sigurvinsdóttir rithöfundur og Sigrún Alda Sigfúsdóttir talmeinafræðingur. Herborg Árnadóttir er myndhöfundur og hönnuður bókar og kápu.
Fremst í bókinni eru leiðbeiningar um hvernig lestur bókarinnar nýtist sem best og á hverri opnu eru tekin fyrir eitt til tvö orð sem eru sérstaklega útskýrð. Aftast í bókinni er svo skemmtilegt verkefni þar sem hægt er að rifja upp orðin og fletta þeim upp í bókinni.
Markmið bókarinnar er fyrst og fremst að gleðja unga lesendur og aðstandendur þeirra en samhliða því að kenna ný orð í gegnum lestur og leik. Bókin hentar fyrir breiðan aldurshóp þar sem hún hentar vel til upplestur en er jafnframt aðgengilegt lesefni fyrir börn sem eru sjálf byrjuð að lesa.
Hægt er að fræðast meira um bókina og höfunda á ordabrunnur.is.
The Red Fish
4.690 kr.Little Simbi feels like he’s the only bright red fish in the deep blue sea. So one day, he sets out on a journey to try to find other fish who look like him. The reader follows Simbi through oceans both cold and warm—sometimes he’s frightened and sometimes he’s excited. But no matter what, he never lets go of the hope that one day soon, he will discover a little, red playmate and find true happiness!
In The Red Fish, Rúna (Sigrún Guðjónsdóttir) effortlessly intertwines playful text and vivid pictures to tell a delightful and exciting story that has stood the test of time. The Red Fish was first published in 1972 and later republished with the current illustrations in 1985. This new edition introduces young readers to a classic gem of Icelandic children’s literature and is sure to enchant readers for generations to come.
The Red Fish
Over the course of an artistic career that has spanned illustration and graphic design, painting, ceramics, and large-scale murals, Rúna has received numerous awards and distinctions. These include the Order of the Falcon, Iceland’s highest honour, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from Iceland Design and Architecture.