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  • Suggested in the Stars
    Yoko Tawada
    Paperback: 10/01/2024
     
    On the heels of Scattered All Over the Earth, Yoko Tawada's new and irresistible Suggested in the ...
  • The Night Guest
    Hildur Knútsdóttir
    Hardcover: 09/03/2024
     
    Hildur Knútsdóttir's The Night Guest is an eerie and ensnaring story set in contemporary Reykjav&#...
  • A Death in Denmark
    A Death in Denmark: The First Gabriel Præst Novel
    Amulya Malladi
    Paperback: 03/28/2023
     
    Meet Gabriel Præst, an ex-Copenhagen cop (who dresses with panache), jazz aficionado, and relentless ...
  • The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven
    Nathaniel Ian Miller
    Paperback: 10/04/2022
     
    The "ceaselessly brilliant" story of one man who banishes himself to a solitary life in the Arctic Circle, and...
  • The Bell in the Lake
    The Bell in the Lake: Sister Bells Trilogy #1
    Lars Mytting
    Paperback: 09/06/2022
     
    The engrossing epic novel - a #1 bestseller in Norway - of a young woman whose fate plays out against her ...
  • The Mercies
    Kiran Millwood Hargrave
    Paperback: 02/23/2021
     
    After the men in an Arctic Norwegian town are wiped out, the women must survive a sinister threat in this "...
  • The End of the Ocean
    Maja Lunde
    Paperback: 02/09/2021
     
    From the author of the number-one international bestseller The History of Bees, a captivating story of the ...

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