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Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: science fiction
Venture into Roz’s wild world in this gorgeously illustrated picture book that brings to full colour the adventures of the #1 New York Times bestselling novel The Wild Robot – now a DreamWorks major motion picture starring Lupita Nyong’o, Pedro Pascal and Kit Connor!
Roz is not where she’s…
’The sheer definition of a page-turner’ Reader review ’A truly original, bittersweet tale of life, loss and enduring love that had me completely hooked. A treasure of a book!’ Sunday Times bestseller, Ruth Hogan ’Stunning, stunning, stunning’ Anstey Harris
Oavsett om du reser första klass eller med liten reskassa, tar guiden dig raka vägen till det bästa som Island har att erbjuda. Upptäck de varma källorna och de rykande gejsrarna, upplev det förtrollande norrskenet eller pulsen i huvudstaden Reykjavik, eller gör en längre utflykt till öns unika naturområden med…
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORK TIMES, NPR • WINNER OF THREE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS • Finalist for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction • A stirring account of how music bears witness to history and carries forward the memory of the wartime past • SUNDAY TIMES OF…
Kategorier: Biografi: allmänt Biografi: konst och underhållning Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc.
Erik Grönwall shot to stardom over night when he won the Swedish edition of Idol. In his autobiography, Power – Music, Death, Life, we follow Erik’s life from his upbringing till today; his struggles to make it as an artist, his devastating leukemia diagnosis at the height of the pandemic, and his…
Kategorier: Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Personliga och sociala frågor barn och ungdom Personliga och sociala frågor barn och ungdom: familjen
An original mystery adventure, colored by magical realism, about a girl whose world is peopled with animals no one else can see, with a mystery, a circus, and family at its heart.
Far away in the middle of the sea there is an island shaped like a giraffe. Nine-year-old Vega lives there with her father and…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: fantasy och magisk realism
”A grown-up gothic fairy tale” – one of The Guardian’s Five Best YA Books 2023
The award-winning, bestselling Frances Hardinge and Emily Gravett unite for the first time to conjure up a thrilling fairy tale of ghosts and magic, highly illustrated throughout with a luscious blue ink.
On the…
An island in the Caribbean. A centuries-old secret. A life adventure awaits. . . Discover the latest tale of friendship, courage and romance from the Sunday Times bestselling romance writer.
’The queen of uplifting, feel good romance.’ AJ Pearce’An immersive, uplifting read that Fforde fans will…
Lonely Planet’s local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime to Hawai’i the Big Island.
Discover popular and off the beaten track experiences from visiting the 44ft ’Akaka Falls surrounded by lush rainforests to snorkelling at Kealakekua Bay State Historical Park,…
Music insinuates itself into our earliest memories; it is intimately connected to our emotional regulation and cognition; its shared rhythms and sounds are essential to our social behaviours. That is why we can remember songs word for word years later, or why certain music has the power to uplift us almost instantly.…
Kategorier: Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Dramatik Fantasy Filosofi och religion Forntida religioner och mytologier Historisk fantasy Historisk romantik Historiska romaner Klassiker Magisk realism Religion och tro Religiösa romaner Romantik Skönlitterära teman Skönlitterära teman: psykologi och känsloliv Skönlitteratur Skönlitteratur: allmänt
“More ambitious than The Alchemist. A thought-provoking tale.” – TIME magazine
In The Fifth Mountain, Paulo Coelho takes us back to the ninth century, to the turbulent Middle East, where the prophet Elijah is struggling to keep his faith alive in a world of constant upheaval, tyrannical royalty, and…
The captivating new novel from the author of Those Hamilton Sisters and The Girls of Lake Evelyn
In the 1960s, a tropical island in the Coral Sea hides dark secrets behind its primordial beauty.
Thalia – Tally – Ramsey has grown up barefoot, wild and free on the island purchased by her maternal grandfather.…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel
Tosh’s upbringing feels close to perfect: best friends, mischief and secondary school, just around the next corner. But when chronic illness strikes, it threatens to derail everything she loves. A heart-rending graphic novel of discovery, adversity, and the overwhelming healing powers of imagination and stories.
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: allmänt
What will two children risk to steal an island? From Costa-winning author of Voyage of the Sparrowhawk.
Though Skylar’s old friends felt sorry for her, they were too afraid to talk to her.
Yakov’s old friends were far away, blown across continents by war . . .
Skylar is longing for the grandfather she had…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: kärlek och relationer
The third book in the irresistible series about chosen family, high stakes thievery, and what it really means to do good. Perfect for fans of M.G. Leonard and Anthony Horowitz.
It’s Gabriel’s third year at Crookhaven School for Thieves. Along with the usual Break-In challenge – this year to…
Kategorier: Familjeromaner Modern och samtida skönlitteratur Narrative theme: Love & relationships Skönlitterära teman Skönlitteratur Skönlitteratur: allmänt
Den efterlängtade fortsättningen på Brooklyn – Colm Tóibíns stora romansuccé som blev Oscarsbelönad film.
Eilis Lacey lämnade som ung Irland för USA. Året är nu 1976 och det har nu gått tjugo år sedan hon gifte sig med rörmokaren Tony Fiorello, vars stora, bullriga och intensiva italiensk-amerikanska familj ständigt…
From the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble comes Long Island Compromise, a darkly exhilarating novel about an American family and its inheritance – the safety and wealth that they fought for, and the precarity of their survival that is their legacy.
In 1980, a wealthy…
What does it mean for music to be considered local in contemporary Christian communities, and who shapes this meaning? Through what musical processes have religious beliefs and practices once ‘foreign’ become ‘indigenous’? How does using indigenous musical practices aid in the growth of local Christian religious…
Through in-depth case studies, Religion and Popular Music explores encounters between music, fans and religion. The book examines several popular music artists – including Bob Dylan, Prince and Katy Perry – and looks at the way religion comes into play in their work and personas. Genres explored by…
In Kwaio Religion, Roger Keesing examines how the Kwaio, challenged by 110 years of European colonialism and now by the militant Christianity of their own rapidly Westernizing nation, have managed to continue their ancestral ways. Drawing on fieldwork carried out over a lost 20 years, Keesing explores the…
Kategorier: Biografi: allmänt Biografi: konst och underhållning Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc. Kompositörer och låtskrivare Konst Musik
Music legend Gary Wright reflects on his professional collaboration, friendship and spiritual journey with “quiet Beatle” George Harrison and releases for the first time a song they wrote together.
Best known for his multiplatinum hits “Dream Weaver” and “Love is Alive,” Gary Wright came to prominence as a singer and…
Beth Szczepanski examines how traditional and modern elements interact in the current practice, reception and functions of wind music, or shengguan, at monasteries in Wutaishan, one of China’s four holy mountains of Buddhism. The book provides an invaluable insight into the political and economic history of…
Whilst Contemporary Worship Music arose out of a desire to relate the music of the church to the music of everyday life, this function can quickly be called into question by the diversity of musical lives present in contemporary society. Mark Porter examines the relationship between individuals’ musical lives away from…
Once you’ve collected every 7” from your favorite label, broken your back in the mosh pit, and become so well-versed in the interpersonal dynamics of every hardcore band that there’s nothing more to learn, what’s a punk to do? Try jazz, recommends Bob Suren. No, really. Suren, who wrote Crate…
Kategorier: Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling Minnesteknik och tanketräning Populärpsykologi och personlig utveckling Självhjälp och praktiska råd
Whether used to jot down your inner most thoughts, reflect on what you’re grateful for, or to simply write down what needs to be remembered at the store, let this beautifullydesigned journal guide you through your day. This lined journal is sprinkled with words of inspiration throughoutand features a ribbon…
Kategorier: Arbetsterapi Kreativ terapi (t.ex. konst-, musik-, och dramaterapi) Medicin och omvårdnad Omvårdnad och medicinska stödfunktioner
Through the ages, music has proven to be one of the few common links that connects humanity despite language barriers or cultural influences. The purpose of music could then be considered a medium of communication that has evolved into an art form where individuals outwardly express an inner rhythm by means of…
Kategorier: Kulturvetenskap Kulturvetenskap och medievetenskap Populärkultur Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
Punk is notorious for its loud music, aggressive attitude and safety pinned style. Less well known is the radical value system that has emerged hand in hand with the sound and aesthetic. Since the 1970s, punks have built their music, fashion and lifestyles around core values of social justice, creative freedom,…
’He’s a poet of such intimate charm, such grace and cunning, and such ordinary comic sadness, that he wins your affection and admiration.’ Hermione Lee, Guardian
Fast Music refers as much to the fast dance music that caused Williams to run round the room on the furniture aged three as to the speed of…
It’s summer, 1984, in blue-collar Swaffham, Massachusetts.
Mel is thirteen, drinking a Slush Puppie at the drugstore, when she hears a voice, ’deep and movie-star dramatic, like Lauren Bacall’: Sylvia.
What follows is a story of transgender awakening. Sylvia’s shameless swagger and tough-girl…
A detective duo with a difference…
Professional medium turned detective Claire, her best friend Sophie (a 17-year-old ghost) and their pals are enjoying a much-needed cheap holiday in an unfinished hotel on Spike Island off the West Coast of Ireland. Claire is flattered to be asked by the local ghost of a pirate…
Kategorier: Biografi: allmänt Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc.
For thirty summers Tove and her partner, the graphic artist, Tuulikki Pietila, retreated to the tiny island of Klovharun, a rocky outcrop in the gulf of Finland, where they would live, paint and write, energised by the shifting seascapes and the island’s austere charms. Notes from an Island, offers both a memoir…
Kategorier: Biografi: allmänt Biografi: konst och underhållning Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc. Fotografi Konst Musik Musiker, sångare och grupper
How can you tell when a new star is born? When does it become clear that the present moment has the power to change the future for ever? When Tim Bergling held his arm in the air in an iconic pose, he did more than get the crowd to dance – he also totally redefined electronic dance music. This book pays tribute to…
The idea that the universe is created out of sound or music (and therefore ismusic) is a very ancient one. In this book, Joscelyn Godwin brings together three contemporary German thinkers who exemplify this tradition in its modern variants: Marius Schneider, Rudolf Haase, and Hans Erhard Lauer. The selections draw on…
This reprint of a classic archaeology book on Easter Island was first published in London in 1919. Heavily illustrated with a wealth of old photos, this treasure trove of information begins with Routledge’s yacht voyage from England across the Atlantic, and around South America to Easter Island. Her account of…
Parents and teachers can enrich their toddlers’ lives by encouraging and playing music with them. Research proves that:
Human communication skills are helped by exposure to music at an early age?even before birth!
Neurologically and anthropologically, infants and young children need music as a way to rhythmically…
Jamesina Ross is long finished with men. But one night a stranger seeking lodgings knocks on the door of her tenement flat. He doesn’t recognise her, but she remembers him at once. Not that she plans to mention it. She has no intention of trusting anyone enough to let herself be vulnerable again.
A lifetime ago…