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Follow the star
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Robert Elmer |
In 1945 in Denmark, thirteen-year-old brother and sister Peter and Elise try to help their Jewish friend Henrik when his mother and a friend of hers are arrested by the Russians and accused of being … |
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Michael Hague's favorite Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales
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Hans Christian Andersen |
A collection of tales including "The Snow Queen," "The Little Mermaid," "The Little Match girl," "Thumbelina," "The Elfin Hill," "Little Ida's Flower," "The Ugly Duckling," "The Wild Swans," and "The… |
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Gertrude and Claudius
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John Updike |
Set before the action begins in Shakespeare's Hamlet, this speculative novel follows the lives of Gertrude and Claudius, King and Queen of Denmark, as they wend their way towards adultery and treache… |
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Number the Stars
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Lois Lowry |
Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend, Ellen Rosen, often think about life before the war. But it's now 1943, and their life in Copenhagen is filled with school, food shortages, and the… |
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Room in the Heart
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Sonia Levitin |
Told from several points of view, this novel reveals how life in Copenhagen was soiled by the Nazi occupation and how the Danes fought back with courage and kindness. Julie lives with the constant, n… |
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Winterfrost
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Michelle Houts |
Christmas has come, and with it a sparkling white winterfrost over the countryside. But twelve-year-old Bettina s parents have been called away unexpectedly, leaving her in charge of the house, the f… |
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The girl in the ice
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Lotte Hammer |
When the body of a girl is discovered in the melting Greenland ice cap, hundreds of miles from any civilization, Detective Chief Superintendent Konrad Simonsen investigates the murder and discovers d… |
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What my body remembers
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Agnete Friis |
"From New York Times bestselling author Agnete Friis comes the chilling story of a young mother who will do whatever it takes to protect her son. Ella Nygaard, 27, has been a ward of the state since … |
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The Elephant Keepers' Children
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Peter Høeg |
Told from the precocious perspective of fourteen-year-old Peter, this book is about three siblings and how they deal with life alongside their eccentric parents. Peter's father is a vicar, his mother… |
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Redemption
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Jussi Adler-Olsen |
Two boys, brothers, wake tied and bound in a boathouse by the sea. Their kidnapper has gone, but soon he will return. Their bonds are inescapable. But there is a bottle and tar to seal it. Paper and … |
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Only one life
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Sara Bl©Œdel |
Inspector Louise Rick is called out to Holbraek Fjord when a young immigrant girl is found drowned, a piece of concrete tied around her waist and two mysterious circular patches on the back of her ne… |
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Ophelia
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Lisa Klein |
lein retells Hamlet, expanding on the romance between its hero and Ophelia, who narrates this version. Keeping true to the framework of the play, the heroine, now 16, reports the tragic events in the… |
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History of Danish Dreams
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Peter Høeg,Barbara Haveland |
A satire on Denmark. The characters include a count who decides to stop time by outlawing clocks on his estate, an old lady who presides over a newspaper dynasty and devotes herself to predicting the… |
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The Copenhagen Connection
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Elizabeth Peters |
A strange twist of fate brings Elizabeth Jones face-to-face with her idol, the brilliant, eccentric historian Margaret Rosenberg, at the Copenhagen Airport. An even stranger accident makes Elizabeth … |
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Til Sibir
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Per Petterson |
In the years before the Nazis arrive, two young people growing up in Danish Jutland have dreams of leaving their frigid coastal town while coping with distant parents, eccentric family members, and t… |
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Beowulf
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Michael Morpurgo,Michael Foreman,Michael Foreman |
Long ago a Scandinavian warrior fought three evils so powerful they threatened whole kingdoms. Standing head and shoulders above his comrades, Beowulf single-handedly saved the land of the Danes from… |
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The Lost Queen
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Norah Lofts |
A novel based on the life of George III's sister, Princess Caroline-Matilda, whose marriage brought her to the throne and whose secret love brought her to disaster. This is a story of high romance an… |
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Viking warrior
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Judson Roberts |
Despite being the son of a chieftain and a princess, fourteen-year-old Halfdan lives as a slave in Denmark in A.D. 845 but through a tragic bargain he gains his freedom and sets out to claim his birt… |
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Sign of the Cross
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Chris Kuzneski |
No secret will keep for ever ... A Vatican priest is found murdered on the shores of Denmark – nailed to a cross in the shadow of Hamlet's castle. He is the first victim in a vicious killing spree th… |
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Into the flames
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Robert Elmer |
Their work delivering newspapers for the Danish underground lands twins Peter and Elise in a Nazi prison where they experience firsthand the importance of faith. |
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