Icelandic Book Haul (with a side of language acquisition)
Best Novels Set In Iceland on April 2024 Shopping Deals at Bestonio.com
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Arctic Chill: An Inspector Erlendur Novel (An Inspector Erlendur Series)
- ASIN: 0312655304
- ISBN: 9780312655303
- Manufacturer: Picador
INSPECTOR ERLENDUR RETURNS IN THIS ICY, INTENSE REYKJAVIK THRILLEROn an icy January day, the Reykjavik police are called to a block of apartments where a body has been found in the garden: a young, dark-skinned boy is frozen to the ground in a pool of blood. Erlendur and his team embark on their investigation and soon unearth tensions simmering ben... [Read More]
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Voice of the Violin (The Inspector Montalbano Mysteries Book 4)
- ASIN: B001R9DI84
- Manufacturer: Penguin Books
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A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel
- ASIN: 037571894X
- ISBN: 037571894X
- Brand: Vintage
- Manufacturer: Vintage
Quirky and utterly captivating, A Wild Sheep Chase is Murakami at his astounding best.An advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend and casually appropriates the image for an advertisement. What he doesn’t realize is that included in the scene is a mutant sheep with a star on its back, and in using this photo he has unwittingly captu... [Read More]
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The Girl in the Ice (Konrad Simonsen Thriller)
- ASIN: B0179LFYM6
- Manufacturer: Bloomsbury USA
Under the heartless vault of Greenland's arctic sky the body of a girl is discovered. Half-naked and tied up, buried hundreds of miles from any signs of life, she has lain alone, hidden in the ice cap, for twenty-five years. Now an ice melt has revealed her.When Detective Chief Superintendent Konrad Simonsen is flown in to investigate this horrific... [Read More]
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The Murder Bag (DC Max Wolfe)
- ASIN: 0099591057
- ISBN: 0099591057
- Brand: ARROW
- Manufacturer: Century
The gripping first novel in an explosive new crime series by Tony Parsons, bestselling author of Man and Boy. If you like crime novels by Ian Rankin and Peter James, you will love this. Twenty years ago seven rich, privileged students became friends at their exclusive private school, Potter's Field. Now they have started dying in the most... [Read More]
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Sea of Stone (Magnus Iceland Mystery Book 4)
- ASIN: B00MLDE564
- Manufacturer: Corvus
Can Magnus prove he is innocent of murder without implicating his brother? And can both men get to the heart of the twisted secrets that blighted their childhoods?Oli and Magnus Jonson have spent years trying to escape from the shadows of their past. Raised by their grandparents in Bjarnarhöfn, a remote farmstead in Iceland, both brothers had to e... [Read More]
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Deadly Camargue: A Provence Mystery (Roger Blanc Book 2)
- ASIN: B079DWTVYZ
- Manufacturer: Minotaur Books
International Dagger Award shortlisted author Cay Rademacher delivers a captivating follow-up to his atmospheric Murderous Mistral with Deadly Camargue. August: the air over Provence shimmers in suffocating heat. Capitaine Roger Blanc and his colleague Marius Tonon are called to the Camargue. A black fighting bull has escaped from the pasture and h... [Read More]
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Reykjavik Nights: An Inspector Erlendur Novel (An Inspector Erlendur Series)
- ASIN: B00O0FZ7RC
- Manufacturer: Minotaur Books
In this stunning prequel to his critically acclaimed Inspector Erlendur series, Arnaldur Indridason gives devoted fans a glimpse of Erlendur as a young, budding detective.The beat on the streets in Reykjavik is busy: traffic accidents, theft, domestic violence, contraband … And an unexplained death.When a tramp he met regularly on the night shift... [Read More]
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Into Oblivion: An Icelandic Thriller (An Inspector Erlendur Series Book 11)
- ASIN: B011I2MQ1Y
- Manufacturer: Minotaur Books
Loyal readers of Arnaldur Indridason's Erlendur series will be thrilled by Into Oblivion, the mesmerizing follow-up to the gritty prequel Reykjavik Nights. Here devoted fans will get another glimpse of Erlendur in his early days as a young, budding detective, while also absorbing plenty about Iceland and what makes the place tick. It’s 1979. A wo... [Read More]
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Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (Penguin Classics)
- ASIN: 0140447407
- ISBN: 0140447407
- Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Exquisite and amusing miniatures regarded as the pinnacle of classical Chinese fictionWith their elegant prose, witty wordplay and subtle charm, the 104 stories in this selection from The Strange Tales of Pu Songling (1640-1715) reveal a world in which nothing is as it seems. Here a Taoist monk conjures up a magical pear tree, a scholar recounts hi... [Read More]
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Dog Boy: A Novel
- ASIN: B0030CVR8E
- ISBN: 1616648163
- Manufacturer: Viking
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The Story of Grettir the Strong (Classic Reprint)
- ASIN: B008KF6QPA
- Manufacturer: Forgotten Books
Icelandic sagas there are two which, from their human interest and literary perfection, deserve to be classed with world-literature. The first of these is theN jals Saga, the second the Grettir sS aga; both of them have been in English form for about forty years, but because the translations faithfully followed the originals they never became popul... [Read More]
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The Shadow Killer: A Thriller (The Flovent and Thorson Thrillers Book 2)
- ASIN: B076PKVWS5
- Manufacturer: Minotaur Books
The Shadow Killer is the extraordinary second book in the compelling new series from award-winning Icelandic author Arnaldur Indridason, following The Shadow District."Indridason is an international literary phenom." –Harlan Coben "Puts Iceland on the map as a major destination for enthusiasts of Nordic crime fiction." –Marilyn Stasio, The Ne... [Read More]
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The Sea
- ASIN: 1400097029
- ISBN: 1400097029
- Brand: Vintage
- Manufacturer: Vintage International
In this luminous new novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory, John Banville introduces us to Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child to cope with the recent loss of his wife. It is also a return to the place where he met the Graces, the well-heeled ... [Read More]
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The Raj Quartet: The Towers of Silence, A Division of the Spoils (Everyman's Library)
- ASIN: 0307263975
- ISBN: 0307263975
- Brand: Scott, Paul
- Manufacturer: Everyman's Library
The Raj Quartet, Paul Scott's epic study of British India in its final years, has no equal. Tolstoyan in scope and Proustian in detail but completely individual in effect, it records the encounter between East and West through the experiences of a dozen people caught up in the upheavals of the Second World War and the growing campaign for Indi... [Read More]
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After the Quake: Stories
- ASIN: 0375713271
- ISBN: 0375713271
- Brand: Vintage Books
- Manufacturer: Vintage
Set at the time of the catastrophic 1995 Kobe earthquake, the mesmerizing stories in After the Quake are as haunting as dreams and as potent as oracles.An electronics salesman who has been deserted by his wife agrees to deliver an enigmatic package— and is rewarded with a glimpse of his true nature. A man who views himself as the son of God pursu... [Read More]
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Last Rituals: A Novel of Suspense (Thora Gudmundsdottir Book 1)
- ASIN: B000W9161G
- Manufacturer: HarperCollins e-books
At a university in Reykjavík, the body of a young German student is discovered, his eyes cut out and strange symbols carved into his chest. Police waste no time in making an arrest, but the victim's family isn't convinced that the right man is in custody. They ask Thóra Gudmundsdóttir, an attorney and single mother of two, to investigate. It isn... [Read More]
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Ivory Vikings: The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who Made Them
- ASIN: 1137279370
- ISBN: 9781137279378
- Brand: imusti
- Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
In the early 1800's, on a Hebridean beach in Scotland, the sea exposed an ancient treasure cache: 93 chessmen carved from walrus ivory. Norse netsuke, each face individual, each full of quirks, the Lewis Chessmen are probably the most famous chess pieces in the world. Harry played Wizard's Chess with them in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. H... [Read More]
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Kristin Lavransdatter III: The Cross (Penguin Classics)
- ASIN: 0141182350
- ISBN: 0141182350
- Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
“[Sigrid Undset] should be the next Elena Ferrante.” —SlateA Penguin ClassicKristin Lavransdatter interweaves political, social, and religious history with the daily aspects of family life to create a colorful, richly detailed tapestry of Norway during the fourteenth-century. The trilogy, however, is more than a journey into the past. Undset... [Read More]
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Eyrbyggja Saga (Penguin Classics)
- ASIN: 0140445307
- ISBN: 0140445307
- Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
An Icelandic saga which mixes realism with wild gothic imagination and history with eerie tales of hauntings. It dramatizes a 13th century view of the past, from the pagan anarchy of the Viking age to the settlement of Iceland, the coming of Christianity and the beginnings of organized society.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leadi... [Read More]
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