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Twilight child
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Sally Warner |
Taken from eighteenth-century Finland by her father, teenager Eleni eventually finds a home in Scotland, receiving help along the way from brounies, fairies, and other creatures she has the ability t… |
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Your presence is requested at Suvanto
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Maile Chapman |
In a remote, piney wood in Finland stands a convalescent hospital called Suvanto, a curving concrete example of austere Scandinavian design. It is the 1920s, and the patients, all women, seek relief … |
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The Healer
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Antti Tuomainen |
People are fleeing to the far north where conditions are still tolerable. Social order is crumbling. Tapani Lehtinen, a struggling poet, is among the few still willing and able to live in the city. W… |
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Her enemy
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Leena Lehtolainen |
"After solving her first murder and leaving the Helsinki Police Department behind, Maria Kallio thought that a move to the neighboring city of Espoo would signal a fresh start--a chance to not only p… |
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The beggar & the hare
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Tuomas Kyrö |
Follows a Romanian beggar living on the streets of Helsinki. Vatanescu, a young Romanian construction worker, desires two things: a future for himself and a pair of football boots for his son. So off… |
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The hummingbird
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Kati Hiekkapelto |
Anna Fekete, who fled the Yugoslavian wars as a child, has a past. Just beginning her career as a criminal investigator in northern Finnish coastal town, she is thrust into a high-profile, seemingly … |
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Escape from Sunset Grove
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Minna Lindgren |
403 pages ; 20 cm |
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House of Orphans
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Helen Dunmore |
Finland, 1902, and the Russian Empire enforces a brutal policy to destroy Finland's freedom and force its people into submission. Eeva, orphaned daughter of a failed revolutionary, also battles to fi… |
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Tales from a Finnish tupa
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James Cloyd Bowman |
An illustrated collection of folktales from Finland, including the magical tale "Vaino and the Swan Princess," the humorous story "The Pig-headed Wife," and the fable "The Bear Goes Fishing." |
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Wilderness
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Roddy Doyle |
As Irish teenager Grainne anxiously prepares for a reunion with her mother who abandoned the family years before, Grainne's half-brothers and their mother take a dogsledding vacation in Finland. |
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